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Johnny Walker posted:Hm, I don't have as many good pictures of cicadas as I thought, but I did get this video: Video embed isn't working on this for whatever reason. Well worth the time taken to copy/paste the link, though. What a beauty! Edit: Oh, I changed your timg tags to url, and boom, it's working. Today I learned.
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Athanatos posted:I had this visit me on my porch: I am in no way scared of spiny, hairy-ish 'pillars. but they're kind of disturbing looking. too close to the centi-milii-pede for me, maybe. Just not sure i'd let the little fella climb on me, like i would like a 'normal' caterpillar. i hope that doesn't make me racist  And they're gorgeous butterflies .. just that stage, oof.
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There are several spiny, hairy-ish 'pillars in the US with medically significant stings that I am definitely scared of touching.
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In the fall we get about a billion wooly worms crossing the roads. Everyone has their own wives tale version of the colors predicting the harshness of winter. I just wish they'd use the crosswalk.McGavin posted:There are several spiny, hairy-ish 'pillars in the US with medically significant stings that I am definitely scared of touching. "Medically Significant Sting" is a hell of a phrase.
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Spotted this little guy on my way to work today:  I have no idea what this is.
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Oh, right, should proably have included that. Trondheim, Norway.
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Probably a Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui, or a Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta. The caterpillars for both look similar and are quite variable. Both are found in Norway. McGavin fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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 A hoverfly (I think Syrphus ribesii) doing its famous wasp impersonation.
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Spiny softshell turtle in amongst the many, many red eared sliders in a pond in Los Angeles. This was the best picture I could get. I’ve encountered similar turtles in small lakes in Michigan. They look like pancakes, their shells are floppy and leathery and they have pointy snorkel snouts. I love turtles.
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  Almost ran face first into a big ol' web stretched over my back door. Saw this fellow/lady reeling in a snack   It's hard to get a decent up close fancy shot but it's pretty clear (to me anyway) it's a healthy sized spotted orb weaver. It's like 50 cent piece big. I'll see if it's still there in the morning and let it feast tonight. Maybe scoot it over to the corner near the door if it's still there.
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My daughter is a cicada superfan. Every summer she’s out on patrol at night, helping larvae get to trees. And first thing in the morning looking for any cicada larvae that have emerged during the day. They’re vulnerable to wasps while their exoskeleton is hardening. She has a special wasp-proof cage for them to eclose in. They then get released in the evening when it’s safe. Yes, yes, I know we’re reducing natural selection on these guys, but whatever. A little dude eclosing:  Cicadas waiting for release:  I’m happy to say that our house has the largest cicada emergence in the neighborhood 
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Synnr posted:
I had a thing about spiders for the longest time. And still, if they startle me, that may be the end of poor friend's life. I had one build a kinda thin web in my bathroom ceiling's corner, and I just let him chill. But I have two .. evergreen bushes? on either side of my steps going to the sidewalk. I've now learned to wave my arm down in front of my face to avoid the webs. They still get me by putting it like a foot past where it should be, or at chest height. I get that it's a great place to capture flying insects. But. Have some respect! I had one orb spider off the side that looked like it had a Predator skull on it's back. It was gone after a couple weeks. I only have an iPhone 6+, so my pictures always kind of suck. it's cracked and slow as poo poo, but I'm poor. Maybe one day, I can contribute pics!
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Is it possible to acclimate wild lizards to human presence, enough to get them to approach? I found a truly gigantic Western Fence Lizard, far and away the largest I’ve ever seen, scurrying around my backyard the other day. I’d love to see it up close and get a picture for the thread, but of course it’s skittish as hell and won’t let me get near it. My yard has a bunch of lizards now that the neighbors’ murderous cats are finally gone or getting too old to catch them, so it’d be cool to encourage the population and get some lizardfriends
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There were dozens or hundreds of these tiny frogs at the dog park yesterday after a rain.  Dirty shoe for scale. In central Newfoundland.
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Your location makes it easy, because there aren't any frogs native to Newfoundland. Of the four introduced species, that's an American Toad, Anaxyrus americanus. They were introduced near Corner Brook in the 1960s and have since spread across the island.
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St_Ides posted:There were dozens or hundreds of these tiny frogs at the dog park yesterday after a rain. Holy poo poo, that is tiny. It just looks like a little bug. 
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Yeah I'm home visiting the island this year and I'm finding a few too. Nothing beats the summer of 2006 though where my friend and I counted like seven hundred of them on the highway between Deer Lake and Sheppardville thereabouts.McGavin posted:Your location makes it easy, because there aren't any frogs native to Newfoundland. Of the four introduced species, that's an American Toad, Anaxyrus americanus. They were introduced near Corner Brook in the 1960s and have since spread across the island. My conservation bio prof apparently knew the guy that did it. He didn't speak kindly of him in any case. The story goes that he moved there from the mainland and missed the sounds of the singing amphibians at night, so he brought it with him! Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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 This small friend is pretending to be an ant, but she is in fact a spider, Myrmarachne formicaria! I'm not sure whether it's noteworthy to find her in Ohio. E: Apparently this is the least notable place to find her in the US.
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Saw this lizard friend when I was picking up a croissant last week:
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 Saw this cool baby panda today, I think it broke out of the zoo maybe? Careful panda that's not bamboo you're eating!!
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A basketball sized nest of buzzy jerks moved in. I'm not going within 20 feet.
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Well the bad news is that my apartments might be infested with rats. The good news is that they are cute
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There are lots of flowers around my building so there are lots of bees:
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Rexxed posted:A basketball sized nest of buzzy jerks moved in. I'm not going within 20 feet. Well, you know what to do. Fire. Lot's of it, drat the collateral damage
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milkweed tiger moth caterpillar, probably: mystery moth that I was charmed by for some reason:  (northeast ozarks)
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^^^ there is something very delicate about it and almost regal, like a wedding gown or somethingCatastrophe posted:There are lots of flowers around my building so there are lots of bees: ...oh so that's where the cheesy powder comes from...
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Tjadeth posted:mystery moth that I was charmed by for some reason: e: my cat is norris posted:^^^ there is something very delicate about it and almost regal, like a wedding gown or something Like a eu-(good) -chlaena(cloak or mantle)? joat mon fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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joat mon posted:I think it's some species of Euchlaena you're a wizard moth identification specifically has always been weirdly impenetrable to me
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Catastrophe posted:There are lots of flowers around my building so there are lots of bees:  gorgeous picture
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joat mon posted:I think it's some species of Euchlaena yo whaaaaaaaaat i was just posting my gut reaction, that's so cool!
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Enfys posted:
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Found these guys in my yard today: Red firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, an introduced pest from Europe.  And this moth I couldn't identify. I'm in Toronto if someone wants to take a crack at identifying it.
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I'm gonna guess Parectopa of some kind? https://bugguide.net/node/view/166127 Leaf-miner moth -- I guess it comes in some color variance? http://www.toronto-wildlife.com/Insects/Moths/moths_leaf-miner.html
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I tried to help a poor hornet back to life but she wasn't able to bounce back. I don't know what was wrong with her. It seems too early in the year for them to start dying from old age. Seeing her try to weakly grab on to a perch only to fail and fall off left me feeling all wistful, plaintive and contemplaty and such. Human emotion is so weird. All she wanted to do was help out her hive and enjoy a few sweet treats before her end and I hope she got to experience some of it.
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Plant MONSTER. posted:I tried to help a poor hornet back to life but she wasn't able to bounce back. I don't know what was wrong with her. It seems too early in the year for them to start dying from old age. Seeing her try to weakly grab on to a perch only to fail and fall off left me feeling all wistful, plaintive and contemplaty and such. Was it hot out? They have a comparatively low heat tolerance.
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