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CaptainSarcastic posted:I've looked this up in the past, and apparently what is considered to be a "yellow jacket" varies considerably by region. What i have always considered to be a yellowjacket is a type of hornet, while those look like what I would refer to as a wasp. In my area, a wasp has a long thing abdomen, while yellowjackets are stouter and built more bee-like. yes, that type of hornet is generally accepted as a yellowjacket. a lot of folks ask me about my steam name (A Vacuum Full of Bees) and if there's a story behind it, and there is. Though yellowjackets are not bees, I know, but vacuum full of hornets doesn't quite sound or fit right. I had a nest of yellowjackets, hundreds of the bastards, build up inside my wall unbeknownst to me. One day they chewed a hole in the wall and started swarming into my bedroom proper, and so I grabbed my dustbuster and started sucking them all up. Then I banged on the wall a bunch with the dustbuster next to the exit hole and got the rest of them. Then I shook it up a shitload and emptied them all into the toilet, slammed the top down, and flushed the lot of them. yellowjackets suck Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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tweet my meat posted:Saw a cool looking beetle the other day. Click Beetle! If you put them on their back they'll snap their neck, making a loud CLICK and launching them into the air, to either surprise predators or get them right-side-up again. efb
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holy loving poo poo look at that Katydid. Goddamn that's a pretty critter. This is a video of some of the recently-discovered creatures in the last 18 months. That katydid is one of the most beautiful insects I have ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_Hft12dIw&hd=1 Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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gently caress (YEAH), LUBBERS
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Mak0rz posted:Now for a three-part series of photographs I like to call Making the Horse People in This Thread Incredibly Jealous. For those of you that don't know/remember I was working as a field biologist in summer of 2015 where we tracked wild horses and collected their turds to look for parasites! This is a small band of young adults we found somewhere between Rocky Mountain House and Nordegg, Alberta. Ruddha posted:
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Jun 23, 2017 13:39
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Please don't share that you killed the thing you just took a picture of.
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ExecuDork posted:Last week, I discovered this mud-dauber trying to get into my office.
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Dang, those are some nice pictures. How big were those beetles?
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Bismuth posted:Not a picture of mine, but I am really curious if someone can identify what this rodent is. Theres a Washington craigslist ad for a "cute female rat" free to a good home but I've never seen a rodent like this, it looks like something wild. They say "kangaroo rat or pack rat" but it doesn't really look like either of those to me. It looks halfway between a rat and a chinchilla.
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vaguely posted:almost like a... chinchilla rat??
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You should keep it away from the turtle, you never know what kinds of infections are cross-species contaminant.
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Dick Trauma posted:Cicadas are weird and dopey but I love the wing patterns, like lovely leaded glass windows. cicadas are ADORABLY weird and dopey.
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I have concerns, about tiny robot origami ant things
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Aaaaaaaants in your veeeeeeeeins
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I went to visit my aunt in Washington DC when I was younger and it just so happened to be during the generational erupting of billions upon billions of cicadas, not the typical ones, but the ones that hibernate for 17 years or so. The sound was unimaginable. Even in the dead center of the city, even at the Watergate god damned hotel, it bled through the walls. There was no escape, nowhere to flee the eternal drone.
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Those look to be the same exact species, I think? Not sure which, but definitely sphinx moths.
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I loving love the random-rear end ability to glow in the dark under a blacklight that scorpions have, as if they weren't rad enough already
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Congratulations, you've got Armyworms! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jz1TjCphXE
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It's a tortoise beetle! Can't quite tell what kind, but they can be pests, so if it's on a plant you care about, keep an eye on the number of them.
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Sep 23, 2017 23:10
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if you ever wondered what moths had big butts for, the question has been answered: the proportionally biggest, hairiest dicks in the animal kingdom I know they're pheromone thingies and not dicks
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ijii posted:Southern Arizona.
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I mean, I would hope that would be a given. Never wrangle with dangerous wildlife yourself, always hire an expert or notify animal control.
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It is specifically a Brown Marmorated Stinkbug(they can sometimes be darker colors than just "brown", and easily identified by the black and white pattern along the sides of the abdomen), an invasive species from China that often finds its way indoors during the winter. Best to kill them when you can, since they're a serious pest.
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Mr. Fowl posted:I mean, yeah, they do sort of infest, but as far as I know they're more of an annoyance in the household since it's not like they make big farts or something and stink up your house. They just give off chemical smells when you smush them. They're also real dumb and have lousy reflexes so they're easy enough to nab if you want to deal with them.
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Dec 25, 2017 23:12
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sugar ants. lots and lots of sugar ants.
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he's fallen right into your trap, now don't miss
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I've got a reputation at work as some sort of animal whisperer so everyone brings critters to me, usually insects like big moths or the occasional praying mantis. Today someone brought me a baby bird. I took him into an office to see if he can fly and he can almost, but not quite, he can flutter and hover for a few seconds. Seems he probably tried to fly out of the nest and fell, and his nest is a good 20+ feet in the air on some overhangs at work, maintenance wouldn't allow the use of a ladder to put him back. What kind of bird is he, and is there anything I can do for him to get him that last bit to maturity so he can fly away and live a normal life?
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Yeah, unfortunately in this case the nest is in such a location(right above where trailer trucks frequently pass under) with zero cover anywhere that it'd be totally hosed if it's as you suspect. Like it's solid pavement a quarter mile in every direction from there. And it's proven it can't fly well enough to get back up to the overhangs. Both management and maintenance personnel said they will not use equipment to return him to the nest as company policy. Might actually be policy, but is likely just they can't be arsed. It is quite active and vocal, it's going nuts in the box I have it in right now. It might've been kicked out of the nest, who knows. I want to say it's a common sparrow or robin. There's a single wildlife rehabilitator in my town, so I'll give them a call and hopefully they can take it. It seems to be a common sparrow according to the below image, though it does seem to have some skin problems which, if it was kicked out of the nest, may be why.  Also HOLY poo poo my hamsters are not pleased by its chirping, I had no idea it'd bother them that much. They are losing their poo poo in their cages. Guess it's going out in the hallway for now.
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May 1, 2018 11:25
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Will they eat mealworms? If so, I can pop down to the pet store and grab a container. My hamsters will likely enjoy having some too.
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May 1, 2018 11:56
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Perfect. I'll pick some up later today. Hopefully he'll be okay until then.
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It's possible. That said, I put him in the tub to see what he could do and he can really book it on the ground, and get about a foot off the ground when he jumps and flaps his wings. If he's not terminally ill it shouldn't take more than a couple days to get him going I should think, if he's able to get that high up. I put him in an old hamster cage with a little house which he alternates going in and on top of, and some paper towels. I have some sand too. I'll tear up some paper towels into strips for him to use as a nest I suppose. Edit: even if he doesn't make it that's okay. He faced certain death in the UPS parking lot from either hundreds of trucks or the half dozen feral cats that live on the property. No cover, no protection, he would've been toast. So this at least gives him a chance. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 14:35 on May 1, 2018 |
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He died. I think the mother kicked him out of the nest because he was sick, he had feathers missing in multiple spots, and he died in less than 12 hours after rescue. He gobbled up mealworms but I guess he was too far gone. Poor little guy.
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Wow, a Gnomoria avatar. Huh. Haven't thought of that game in.......well, since like 2 months after it came out. I went out to make some dinner and heard some buzzing and banging on the window. Figuring it was a fly or yellowjacket, I readied my trusty swatter. But no, it was a bumblebee! It was weakly bonking against the glass before resting on the sill. I let it crawl on my hand and it tried to drink my fingers with its proboscis. I gently let it out on the outside sill to rest until the rain stopped(after about 5 minutes of it stubbornly clinging to me and crawling in between my fingers so I couldn't easily get it off my hand). A few hours later I looked and it was still there, so I made some sugar water and got it back on my finger. I set it back on the outer sill, again after much protesting since it seemed to like the warmth in the crook of my hand, and after a few seconds of cleaning itself it flew up, hovered back and forth a bit, and took off. Godspeed little guy!  Here's some awkward photos as in most of them I tried to both take pictures and also feed it at the same time. Only one photo had the proboscis visible, without the flash. It drank a surprising amount of the sugar water.    and here's the little cutie cleaning itself   
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Mak0rz posted:
I've mentioned it before but I have a massive bumblebee nest that is underneath my driveway and extends under the basement which has a partial dirt floor (the house is like 170 years old) where they sometimes get in through. Every spring bumblebees occasionally get stuck in the house or basement, sometimes I'm lucky enough to find them before they starve to death.
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despite the stereotype turtles can really book it when they want to
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Crankit posted:A whole load of flies came in when I left a window open earlier https://imgur.com/a/YqBN2uW what are they attracted to, are they laying eggs and if so, how do I make sure all the eggs are destroyed? edit: wait, I'm not sure I recognize the colored legs, I don't think I've ever seen those on carpenter ants. They might not be carpenter ants, not sure where you live.
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Ok. Good that I didn't mess up, but also bad that I didn't mess up.  Carpenter ants disintegrated the foundation of my inground pool, causing it to collapse in on itself, so I have a special hatred of them.
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poverty goat posted:Someday humans will just farm the aphids' sweet, sweet rear end juice ourselves Symbiotic relationships.
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One of the worst memories of my childhood was at my grandma's house in florida, I was smashing a massive stump in her back yard with a hammer to look for bugs like stag beetles and stuff. Then I swung the hammer super hard and it passed right through a rotten section and slammed right into my leg, leaving a dent in my shinbone. But that's not all, that rotten section was also a fire ant nest, sending hundreds of fire ants airborne in my direction so not only did I gently caress up my own leg with a hammer as a seven-year-old, but I also got covered in fire ants and ran around screaming getting bit and stung kids are dumb and don't think things through. Also fire ants are the worst.
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