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Perfect. Great find, I didn't even know where to start searching. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for the adults!
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There was a male ogre-face spider hanging out on the back screen door this morning. Ogre Spider on back door 01 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Ogre Spider on back door 02 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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Whoa. Have never seen or heard of those!
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They're wild. A unique hunting behavior and the best night vision of any animal because they regrow special cells in their eyes every night.
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extremely leggy boi!
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my cat is norris posted:Whoa. Have never seen or heard of those!  Also, these extremely leggy bois make it into the Good Spider Club, apparently having much more legs than body is a good way to avoid triggering the 'phobia.
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my cat is norris posted:Whoa. Have never seen or heard of those! Zefrank’s video about ogre faces spiders: (Linking in case of arachnophobia) https://youtu.be/CNrF0JbDVc8?si=dfPfdMmEic5O-8Mz Sorry if you have arachnophobia and are browsing on the iPhone app.
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 Lmao this is an actual tsetse fly haha good thing I smooshed him later Gunshow Poophole fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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This is a mostly uninformed guess but the giant facial stiletto and longish legs make me think it may be some sort of robber fly? There's a lot of different species and while most of them have pretty thin bodies I know there are bumblebee mimics and other species with fatter abdomens like your little guy here. Robber flies are cool as gently caress and imo the ultimate badasses of the insect world.
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Laphriinae subfamily maybe Ooh or a Stichopogon which is fun to say Lol it's a tsetse fly. I was certain they had been eliminated from that area! This feels like something I should report to somebody... Had a bunch of regular identifiable robber flies around this whole trip. And a nice mob of dragonflies following me around in the bush near a dry river delta that was absolutely stunning Gunshow Poophole fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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 3 inch long grasshopper  blister beetles that I got entirely too close with before realizing what they were
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Little guy hiding in my package bin:
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Gunshow Poophole posted:
I looked up tsetse flies, and they're basically marsupials*. The female hatches one larva at a time, feeds it from something very similar to milk glands, and then gives live birth. That's kinda neat, even if they're blood sucking disease spreaders. * in the same way that platypuses are birds, obviously.
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 I didn't see the edit until now  It also made me realize that I don't remember seeing a picture of a tsetse fly before. I'm reminded of them all the time because they come up in crossword puzzles a lot, but I always picture more of a fat, biting housefly.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Little guy hiding in my package bin: 
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Can someone identify these rodents? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSp-PKbJIiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbflJaxBGcg Title/descriptions call them "mice" but they're not mice. Something in Meriones I would tend to think. I don't think they're Mongolian gerbils ("pet gerbils")... I was thinking they could be juveniles, but their tails seem way too long to be standard garden variety pet gerbils. Bula Vinaka fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Feb 18, 2024 03:23
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Jirds of some sort.
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McGavin posted:Jirds of some sort. legit the first time I've ever heard this term, learn somethin every day
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McGavin posted:Jirds of some sort. But what kind?
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I dunno. Aside from the bushy-tailed jird, which those are not, they all look pretty similar.
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McGavin posted:They're wild. A unique hunting behavior and the best night vision of any animal because they regrow special cells in their eyes every night. If the thread would forgive one not-my-picture, I feel their hunting method must be seen:  They cast nets!
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Blue Footed Booby posted:If the thread would forgive one not-my-picture, I feel their hunting method must be seen: Not even sticky nets, according to the zefrank video. Electrostatic nets.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:learn somethin every day Blue Footed Booby posted:If the thread would forgive one not-my-picture, I feel their hunting method must be seen: nature is so fukkin cool and great
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Found on a houseplant in central Kentucky, any ideas? It's had mealybugs before, could this be a molt?
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 Oh hey, cool thread. Any ideas on this bird? Seen in September and October around Cincinnati. I'm thinking maybe a juvenile Cooper's Hawk, but I honestly have no idea. Album: https://imgur.com/a/7kwFo2A e: adding a second picture because yikes, those talons: 
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BAD AT STUFF posted:
That's awesome, lots of cool pictures in there. Looks close enough to other Cooper's Hawk photos I looked up that I'd believe it.
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Sharp-shinned hawk? Looks like a nice backdrop of marijuana crop (I know it ain't)
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Captain Hygiene posted:That's awesome, lots of cool pictures in there. Looks close enough to other Cooper's Hawk photos I looked up that I'd believe it. Thanks! It was so close for that first picture, just a few yards away from the house. It's perched on the fence that keeps the deer out of the tomatoes (  )PainterofCrap posted:Sharp-shinned hawk? Looks like a nice backdrop of marijuana crop (I know it ain't) Yeah, maybe. A relative who birdwatches thought it was a Merlin, but I think they're pretty rare in the Midwest unless they're migrating. If I had gotten a picture of it flying that might have helped, but I set my phone down for a second right before it took off. Also, you didn't see nothin.
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I’m not getting an accipiter vibe, so I’d go red-shouldered. I think you can even see a hint of red on the wing.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:I’m not getting an accipiter vibe, so I’d go red-shouldered. I think you can even see a hint of red on the wing. I think that strong white mottling is characteristic for juvies too.
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Bored posted:Not even sticky nets, according to the zefrank video. Electrostatic nets. More specifically, Van der Waals force nets.
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Apologies to any thread arachnophobes... but I just discovered that facehuggers are real and they live in the grassy shrubs out the back of my workplace. Here is video proof: https://imgur.com/ybvuliT
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Dia de Pikachutos posted:Apologies to any thread arachnophobes... but I just discovered that facehuggers are real and they live in the grassy shrubs out the back of my workplace. What the heck is that, besides cool as hell?
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Is that a parasitized spider??
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my cat is norris posted:Is that a parasitized spider?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnura Several species of orb weaver have freaky long abdomens.
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omg so gross I like spiders but the long body is so so so weird.
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Yeah I thought it was a spider backed into a flower or something until I saw it take a poop... and then I noticed it had a number of sisters in the same shrub. I've never noticed them before, but apparently they're common as muck! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnura_higginsi Their web is quite distinctive - it's like a typical orb web but is only filled in from about 2 o'clock - 10 o'clock. I didn't think to take a photo of that. Dia de Pikachutos fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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Dia de Pikachutos posted:Yeah I thought it was a spider backed into a flower or something until I saw it take a poop... and then I noticed it had a number of sisters in the same shrub. I've never noticed them before, but apparently they're common as muck! Oh. Australia. So I don’t have to worry about running into that spider.
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They have recently earned their pilot's license, and are coming for you
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