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Wow, been a minute since I've seen a critterquest thread. I guess I have some critters. Black Rat Snake swimming  Same Black Rat Snake climbing up a tree right next to me, giving no fucks detectable by science  Blue Tailed Skink  Whistling Duck 500 miles out of it's normal range  Likkle baby snapping turtle  Brand new Painted Turtle  Grown-rear end Box Turtle  Six Spotted Tiger Beetle what got Eight Spots 
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A couple of my Eacles imperialis eclosed today. Think these are both males, as they are on the small side, and have a lot of purple on them.    Here is the whole life-cycle from eggs last summer till today: https://imgur.com/a/QDp76
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Jul 30, 2017 03:12
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Imperial eggs fixin' to hatch today, also a 10 day old egg next to a fresh this morning egg. 
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Aug 10, 2017 20:15
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Over There posted:what are these? Eacles imperialis Imperial Moth eggs. Here is the whole shootin' match from last year https://imgur.com/a/QDp76
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Aug 10, 2017 22:01
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my cat is norris posted:I've read that some people eat them. Are they tasty? They aren't bad. Texture is rubbery, and they taste like mollusc and ocean.
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Aug 16, 2017 15:46
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:What type of caterpillar is this? I'm in southeastern US, eastern Alabama to be specific. Polyphemus caterpillar. That one is done eating and looking for an out of the way spot with some leaf litter and twigs to spin it's cocoon. Will emerge in the spring as an owl-eyed moth the size of your hand. http://bugguide.net/node/view/427
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Sep 18, 2017 22:37
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Found a bunch of early-instar Snowberry Clearwing cats out in October yesterday. They have about 3 weeks of growing yet to do, so I brought them in incase there are cold snaps.  
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Oct 6, 2017 19:07
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Saw a bird. https://imgur.com/a/taL5W
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Dec 4, 2017 22:45
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Well, this was kind of a gross/interesting thing. I thought I had 4 Cecropia moth cocoons. Turns out, I had about 40 Chalcid wasps chest-burstering out for Mother's Day. Nice Legs.   Can't remember if I posted these... Also saw a whale and had a barred owl in an instant pot box.  
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May 14, 2018 01:20
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Buncha critters out on the bike trails this morning. A Red Tail that I expect bounced off a windshield, and a medium sized momma common snapping turtle.    
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May 28, 2018 16:21
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Got bit by a really pretty blue snake today. More of a nibble, really. The imaginatively named Blue Racer is in fact quite quick.
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Jun 11, 2018 00:10
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Was walking in the woods today, when this Eight Spotted Forester landed on me. Dunno why they are called that.
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Jun 12, 2018 04:44
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cool Ant Lion in my kitchen tonight.
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Jun 18, 2018 06:59
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Turns out Box Turtles glow under UV light, and lay eggs in July. Hatch is between 70 and 120 days from now, so probably won't catch that. Also, snowberry clearwing cats glow under UV, but you knew that. 
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Jul 2, 2018 04:21
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So, a few weeks ago a critter got into my outdoor nesting box and ate a couple dozen of my pupas. The sole survivor just emerged today, big pretty female Eacles imperialis.  
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Aug 1, 2018 19:53
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Out at the art museum yesterday, and found a big momma Polyphemus chilling out on an art. 
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Aug 12, 2018 02:15
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Pyromaniac Ida posted:What's with this thing I found? It looks like a bee except it's the size of a pebble. I could barely see it. Long Horned Bee. 200 species in 14 genuses, so may need a bee-person to get much past that. https://bugguide.net/node/view/8019
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Aug 17, 2018 06:00
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Really small crab spider lurking in a zinnia. Zinnia petals are not large.
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Aug 19, 2018 23:22
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Had a good caterpillar day. Turns out, Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillars are not particularly fluorescent under LED blacklight. Still slightly easier to find since the leaves turn red, and the cat stays green, but not glow-y like Snowberry Clearwing cats are. Spicebush Swallowtail:    
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Aug 21, 2018 03:00
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Anne Whateley posted:If spicebush swallowtail caterpillars are kinda UV duds, I assume other swallowtail species' caterpillars would be too, but have you tried any others? Interesting hypothesis. Have UV pestered both Black Swallowtails and Monarchs, and they are both not that bright compared to Lunas and Snowberrys. Maybe a butterfly vs. moth situation? Dunno. Will test more. Speaking of, freshly eclosed this morning Snowberry Clearwing Moth. They have black scales on their wings when they emerge that shed once they take flight leaving the clear substrate. Love these whimsy space-shrimps.    and here is a caterpillar and an action shot from years previous.  
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Aug 21, 2018 17:04
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Nother one emerged today, took a five second buzz around the bug box, shook her wing scales off.
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Aug 21, 2018 21:56
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New Pupa, who dis? Found a good sized pupa on a bike trail through tall grass on an industrial brownfield. Assuming it is a Sphinx moth, but it doesn't have the separated jug-handle sheath for its proboscis like a Manduca sp. Be cool if it was not roasted by the pavement, and also if it were a Pandorus sphinx. https://imgur.com/a/yLI0QF8
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Oct 8, 2018 02:12
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Had a female Callosamia promethea emerge today from a cocoon I found wild the other week. I like big butts, and I cannot lie.   They have a ton of sexual dimorphism, the males are shiny blue-black with tan highlights. 
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Apr 17, 2019 18:09
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Aug 31, 2019 00:29
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the yeti posted:The color fits, and I believe I make out the huge chompers of the wood louse hunter, Dysdera crocata I'd go with a Broad Faced Sac Spider. https://bugguide.net/node/view/1409515
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Sep 18, 2019 00:48
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An ok Callosamia promethea hatched from a wild cocoon and was released today.  
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Apr 28, 2020 02:23
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few more critters I've run across lately: Northern Water Snake.  Wee likkle Northern Water Snake  And a female Callosamia promethea. Same species as the black and tan fellow above  
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Apr 28, 2020 19:50
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Hyalophora cecropia caterpillars, Day 1, Hour 1.
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May 1, 2020 01:30
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Aw yeah. The male she called in was way smaller than the one that hatched the other day, but putting in the work.
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May 2, 2020 00:55
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Freshly molted 3rd instar Callosamia promethea. The first two instars are zebra striped communal feeders, 3rd instar they get new colors, new horns, and new behaviors, and strike out on their own.
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May 26, 2020 02:22
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Mak0rz posted:Are you still doing that thing where you're trying to breed silk moth super giants by raising them in a hyperoxic environment? Not at the moment, still have the rig up for it, but have been busy on other projects for the last couple years. Did see a good 15% increase in maximum size over 3 generations though. (and a really unfortunate rise in mortality, oxygen is hard on a body).
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May 26, 2020 02:27
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its all nice on rice posted:Not sure what kind of spider this is, but I mistook it for a berry hanging from a bush at first. This is in Western Washington. https://bugguide.net/node/view/6751 Goldenrod Crab Spider. They change from yellow to white over the course of a few days when they move to a different background color. A selection of bugs in the STL metro this week: A pair of Snowberry Clearwings gettin' it on.  A 5th instar Cecropia, still growing  some 4th and 5th instar Promethea  Harvestman with lotsa mites 
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Jun 24, 2020 05:00
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Chinston Wurchill posted:My butterfly emerged! Comma butterfly. https://bugguide.net/node/view/297/bgpage There are a few to choose from.
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Jul 15, 2020 18:09
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 As I understand it, Narceas sp. is a Cryptic Species Complex, with something around a dozen different species, all of which look identical to millipedologists, but the millipedes can tell the difference. One of the early stages of speciation, when species genetically/breeding distinct, but still look the same.
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Oct 4, 2020 03:10
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Carpet beetles eat pretty much any protein. They like pet hair, pet food, leather, etc. The larvae are little hairy tan grub dudes.
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Feb 5, 2021 07:12
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vortmax posted:Friends I need help identifying this feather. I've never seen one of these in central Arkansas until now. I thought to myself "man, those shafts are yellow, wonder what a yellow shafted flicker feather looks like". Turns out, that is a yellow shafted flicker feather, I think.
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Mar 19, 2021 02:17
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bij posted:Spotted this handsome gentleman when I walked into work this morning. He's out and about pretty early! Yup, also, fun thing about Actias luna. The diapausing brood, the one that sits in their cocoons over the winter has much more saturated color, and maroon coloration on the wing edges. The ones that live their entire life cycle over the summer are much lighter colored, with nearly translucent light green wings, and brown or yellow or no color on the wing edges. Think I saw a Tri-colored bat stuck to a tree today.  
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Apr 3, 2021 23:56
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Hihohe posted:I found some bugs that were sitting on the floor of my work Eight Spotted Forester. https://bugguide.net/node/view/485
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Apr 4, 2021 02:54
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I'm planning a honeymoon to Belize in 5 months and am very excited about the number of critters we'll be seeing. Apparently, 26-40% of the country is natural preserves. If anyone has any critter-scoping guides for this part of Central America, pass 'em my way! I had a blast...er...18 years ago, touring Actun tunicil mucnal near San Ignacio. Mayan sacrifice caves full of dead mayans and live spiders. Pretty good jungle trek to get in...again, a long time ago, with a generous plenty of critters to see.
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Cecropia hatched today, unusually small/red eyespots on this one. Odd color generally. 
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May 7, 2021 07:15
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