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Tunicate posted:Wow a zebra swallowtail! Those are rare! Not in early spring in Southern Illinois. Hundreds of them flying in big awesome 5-way helixes down the trails. Go where there are pawpaws, and you'll see them aplenty. They are tougher to catch with a butterfly net than a lot of other swallowtails though, tend to like to be high and fast, by comparison.
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finally making more progress on my south africa pics bonus fellow hymenopteran  e: just noticed fellow hymenopteran in both pics lol
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Captain Invictus posted:I have a history of being chewed upon by normally docile insects. I had a grasshopper take a bite out of my thumb at work once. Mealworm account spotted
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A wolf spider accidentally came in earlier today. I spotted it on a box. While I was staring at it, it dipped over to the other side of the box, ‘cause that’s smart when a massive, possible predator seems too interested. But I saw it was still hanging out on the box, looking skinny, a few minutes ago. So I grabbed an empty box to see if I could talk it into that, to take it back outside. I did not have to do any spider wrangling. It just stepped onto the new box like it understood that I was trying to get it back home. It is now in the little courtyard it likely came from. Linking crappy photo, ‘cause it is a very spidery-looking spider. But 1 of its eyes is reflecting the flash. https://ibb.co/F6ytNkC
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Bored posted:A wolf spider accidentally came in earlier today. I spotted it on a box. While I was staring at it, it dipped over to the other side of the box, ‘cause that’s smart when a massive, possible predator seems too interested. I love it when they do stuff like that. I've had spiders sit on my hand or arm while I escort them out, like they completely understood what was going on. And for the ones that don't, I grab even pretty good-sized spiders with my bare hand and have yet to ever get bitten. At this point I'll do the cup-and-piece-of-cardboard thing with really big ones, but that's more out of not wanting to accidentally hurt them by grabbing them than it is fear of getting bitten.
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not critter, but a lifeform. this stump in my yard has become encrusted in lichen and I really like how it looks
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Captain Invictus posted:not critter, but a lifeform. this stump in my yard has become encrusted in lichen and I really like how it looks We do have a thread for fungi  (lichens count)
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I love that stump. Just spotted the first house centipede of the year, and she was a chunky two or so inches long. I believe she ran down a vent while I held the cats back, but I can't be sure.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I love it when they do stuff like that. I've had spiders sit on my hand or arm while I escort them out, like they completely understood what was going on. And for the ones that don't, I grab even pretty good-sized spiders with my bare hand and have yet to ever get bitten. At this point I'll do the cup-and-piece-of-cardboard thing with really big ones, but that's more out of not wanting to accidentally hurt them by grabbing them than it is fear of getting bitten. That's a big thing I learned with spiders: they only attack or get mean when they feel threatened. As long as you're calm & chill, they'll hang out or even crawl around on you out of curiosity. Like you, I have yet to be bit by a spider, just takes patience & understanding to know their behaviors.
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Captain Invictus posted:not critter, but a lifeform. this stump in my yard has become encrusted in lichen and I really like how it looks That's not lichen, it's some kind of conk / polypore / shelf mushroom, probably Turkey Tail. It's extremely healthy and anti-cancer. It's sold as a supplement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZVqJJGYqI Bula Vinaka fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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We are pretty sure we have a bunch of turkey tails growing on our property but ehhhhhhh
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Skink at work! I think the red face at this time is year may mean that’s a male? There are at least 2, since one is much larger and growing back its tail. They usually don’t hold still long enough to take a picture. This one is probably very interested in the horde of mayflies that have been congregating around the light to the back door every night, though. So since I stopped as soon as I came out of the door, he decided to stop as well. Bored fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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Bored posted:Skink at work! Do you know if it's a five lined skink? I think I've talked about it in here before, but I spent way too many years seeing the juveniles:  and just assuming they were full grown. It was only when their range expanded to where my folks live and my mom started seeing them more frequently that I learned there was a different adult coloring.  The new wrinkle is that I just now learned that it's only the adult males that have that red coloring, the females retain the stripey coloring. Neat either way, whether or not that one's the same species.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Do you know if it's a five lined skink? I think I've talked about it in here before, but I spent way too many years seeing the juveniles: I think 2 are 5 lined skinks at work. I couldn’t actually see the lines on the one in the picture, which could just mean it’s fully grown and the lines have faded. The other ones I’ve seen at work have been in the process of hiding from me as I walk by, but their 5 lines are clear. I don’t know if this is a third, or the first one I saw, but in crappier light. There were tons of juveniles here, where I live, last year. I think I even got pictures of the adults that created several of those juveniles while they were preparing for  “A little privacy, please?”
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Weird little lizard guy time? Sure: This is the first time I've lived in a place where lizard dudes are common. First chance I've had to say hi and get a picture!
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We have some birds of prey in the neighbourhood...I initially thought peregrines as those are fairly common around here, but now I'm not so sure. Here's video with a call. Unrelated, but here's a terrible video of a northern flicker trying to eat a building.
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Neat! Looks redder on its front than I remember from Peregrines. Maybe a Cooper's or Sharp-Shinned Hawk? Looking at some bird ID photos, they have more red coloring along with a similar darker cap.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Neat! Looks redder on its front than I remember from Peregrines. Maybe a Cooper's or Sharp-Shinned Hawk? Looking at some bird ID photos, they have more red coloring along with a similar darker cap. Come to think of it I did spot a Cooper's a couple weeks ago. I guess it's also possible that there are multiple birds of prey around - I think I saw a larger one with a darker back the other day too.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:We have some birds of prey in the neighbourhood...I initially thought peregrines as those are fairly common around here, but now I'm not so sure. That is a squooshy raptor so it's very hard to tell, but if those are in fact russet chevrons on the chest, and tail has horizontal stripes, then I vote Sharp-Shinned Hawk also
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 I think a bunch of ladybugs have been overwintering in the gaps around pipes or something on my balcony, because this is the third one I've let out the windows this weekend. The one on friday was black with 2 red dots, never seen one like that before. (Southwest Norway.)
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Apr 21, 2024 15:23
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I have decided that my noisy neighbour raptor is a merlin.  He has the requisite moustache, they're not uncommon in the area, and the calls are dead on.
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I do love a bird with a good mustache.
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my cat is norris posted:I do love a bird with a good mustache.  Gyuto Titmouse with fluff mustache for card-does this qualify? This Oak Titmouse was gathering nest material in my neighborhood a few weeks ago. Also late on the skink bandwagon (Western Skink). Almost everything around here is a fence lizard so it's cool to find one.  Briones Res Skink-9133 and a Clark's Sphinx, I think the first one I've seen out here.  sphinx moth for inat-8898
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I think this is an ogre-faced spider that has wandered into the house because of rain? Linking, ‘cause it’s a spider: https://ibb.co/CwvzjQC It’s seriously that blurry in real life. I could not see its eyes in the current light and it is fuzzy all over. Also, I spotted this huge house centipede(?) at work.   The second image is just for size reference, since most people know how big the wheels on office chairs are.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:
They like to use animal fur, even from animals that predate on them. Ornithologists originally thought they pulled it from dead predator carcasses, but they were wrong.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqjidqAmWpE
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Bored posted:I think this is an ogre-faced spider that has wandered into the house because of rain? To me that looks more like a Philodromidae type spider thing? (Not an expert) (Also dumb)
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Bula Vinaka posted:They like to use animal fur, even from animals that predate on them. Ornithologists originally thought they pulled it from dead predator carcasses, but they were wrong. Growing up, I noticed this about some bird nests in my neighborhood. Specifically, there were nests featuring hair the color of my dog, the fluffiest on the street.
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I learned this year that you shouldn’t leave dog hair brushings outside for birds as long hairs kills chicks if they tangle to it.
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SubNat posted:
Adalia bipunctata, two-spotted ladybug. The black one with red dots i a color morph of the same species.
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Went for a stroll along the river and encountered a baby birb: http://i.imgur.com/KIikKBK.mp4
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Tarquinn posted:Went for a stroll along the river and encountered a baby birb: It's very cute, but I'm confused as to how you came within visual distance of parental Canada Geese without them going apeshit and attempting to destroy every human in sight 
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One of the parents snarled at me once. I then told them I’m a nice person and they calmed down. Also, I think they are used to a human presence, nesting in/close to a residential area.
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Ground floor of the first few of several billion. I found one turning into an adult and it looks like Groucho Marx   
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omg I love cicada time AND THAT GOSLING, so cute ugh
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Huh, for all the years I lived around cicadas, and all the empty shells I've found, I don't think I've ever seen one before it was fully adult. Tarquinn posted:Also, I think they are used to a human presence, nesting in/close to a residential area. That's still wild, my experience of them on human property has always consisted of them setting up near where people go by, then existing in a rage 24/7 that people are going by there.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Huh, for all the years I lived around cicadas, and all the empty shells I've found, I don't think I've ever seen one before it was fully adult.
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Captain Hygiene posted:It's very cute, but I'm confused as to how you came within visual distance of parental Canada Geese without them going apeshit and attempting to destroy every human in sight I think the ones that give up on migrating and just live somewhere temperate year-round turn more chill.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I think the ones that give up on migrating and just live somewhere temperate year-round turn more chill. 
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