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I'm back east for a quick visit and today Brood XIX is representing well. Saying this as a Californian who doesn't have to live with this all summer, this is cool as hell. IMG_5383  IMG_5394  IMG_5384
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BetterLekNextTime posted:I'm back east for a quick visit and today Brood XIX is representing well. Saying this as a Californian who doesn't have to live with this all summer, this is cool as hell. Freaking gorgeous
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I like their red death eyes, they look much more intimidating than the ones we had back home in the Midwest.
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In case you're all wondering what they sound like when you pick them up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdTr4uWJVHY The sound recording was pretty low though so you'll have to turn up the volume.
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May 3, 2024 16:57
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OneEightHundred posted:FWIW both this one and the last one I found were coming out at night, I dunno if that's just coincidence though. I speculate that they mostly come out at night to avoid wasp/bird predation. The unlucky ones who come out during the day here are often eaten.
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That reminds me of one of the crazier bug things I've seen. Back at home, I found an adult cicada somehow on the inside of my folks' screen porch. I picked it up and tossed it out the door to fly away. But a half second later, a cicada killer wasp blasted straight out of the nearby flower bed and power bombed it right out of the air. I felt bad for the cicada's future, but that was quite a sight to see. Just a perfect high speed takedown coming out of nowhere, that wasp knew what it was doing.
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Speaking of predation I found a cluster of them late last night (where I shot that video) and a bunch came out right in the middle of an ant mound. Whoops.
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Captain Hygiene posted:cicada killer I was once on lunch break in an area I knew cicada killers liked to nest and heard from a nearby tree: ‘REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-….thunk….rustle’ and one of those big girls started hauling her prey out of a bush, it was neat to watch her work.
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OneEightHundred posted:In case you're all wondering what they sound like when you pick them up: I think cicada brood 17 was what came up in Tennessee when I lived there. Those fuckers enjoyed flying into my hair in the grocery store parking lot. And their drone turned into a painfully loud clicking as I brushed them out. They were also more wiry than the big, meaty bros than were had in Kansas. Here’s a picture of a cicada in Kansas moulting:  I couldn’t figure out what it was at first since I didn’t see its previous exoskeleton from where I was. Just a weird, pretty colored growth on the tree. Was it a new fungus? No, it is a cicada.
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That looks like a dog-day cicada, not a periodical cicada.
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Murdstone posted:Hm, I don't have as many good pictures of cicadas as I thought, but I did get this video:
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It just rained and it's early summer which means it's time for the Cope's gray treefrogs to come out of hiding and have their daily choir and orgy in my water lily container. Not pictured: 3 of them climbing the nearby wall, so up to 7 at a time now.
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I shooed this spider back outside when I noticed it by the door so that my cats would not play with it to death. I figured it was going to be another grass weaver, since all I saw was a large fuzzy thing in the shadows. I went outside and found it on the door frame, with another spider in its arms. No clue if that’s its paramour or meal, but probably both. I gotta do a web search, but I don’t think it’s a grass weaver or rabid wolf spider. Linking because it is a very large spidery spider. But if you like spiders, she is huge and lovely and you can kind of see her paramour’s legs sticking out from the front. https://ibb.co/vd7D6Kf https://ibb.co/0jj0TRg Edit: I keep forgetting that my phone has decent image search built in, now. It is a wolf spider. Just not the one they usually comes in during rain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrosa_helluo Edit 2: might not be a T. helluo, since it has clear dark brown and gold bands around its legs. But it’s totally a wolf spider in the Tigrosa genus. Sound like a mad max name. Bored fucked around with this message at 09:26 on May 6, 2024 |
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OneEightHundred posted:It just rained and it's early summer which means it's time for the Cope's gray treefrogs to come out of hiding and have their daily choir and orgy in my water lily container. Nice frog gently caress-bowl imo. I have a Cuban tree frog that lives in one of our hanging plants right outside my back door. I get a little croak from him every time I go out and ruin his hunting at night. 
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Unknown spider that has a mother loving death wish and will not stay away from the bench I'm taking apart. Moved this dummy like twelve times:  Any ideas who this is? Central Coast of Oregon.
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Almost definitely a False Widow, Steatoda grossa.
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 The presumed merlins are still very active (and noisy) in my neighbourhood. I've caught a couple of mating attempts or possibly successes, but no dirty pictures yet. Hopefully the female lays eggs soon so they can stop screaming all the time.  Spotted a cute throuple in the creek yesterday.
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Alex Jones voice: THEY'RE TURNING THE @#$%(ING DUCKS GAY and poly
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 My ex found a ghost squirrel. emSparkly fucked around with this message at 09:19 on May 15, 2024 |
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Backyard Arizona Bark Scorpion:
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Karl Hungus posted:Backyard Arizona Bark Scorpion:
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Really good content lately, appreciate the extremely good posts!
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This is from last month, but the blue herons in my favorite city park are setting up their gigantic nests in the same tree again this year. Sometimes I'll take binoculars to try to spot the chicks.
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It has been hella windy all season, so birds are struggling to fly, flowers are getting blasted off our shrubs, even the cows lay down to wait it out most days... Somehow the butterflies don't seem troubled by it? Just fluttering along like nothing is happening, almost more coordinated than usual lol e: Saw a Mourning Cloak, but lol at trying to get a pic of those flittery bastards
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More Tucson backyard critters What I think is a Broad-tailed Hawk. It was really irritated that it couldn't find a perch on a tree and didn't like the terra cotta wall:  We've got 2 dove nests going. Dove 1:   Dove 2:   
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Karl Hungus posted:More Tucson backyard critters Congrats on your dove dummies. The hawk is a Cooper's... too long and leggy for Broad-winged.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Congrats on your dove dummies. Thank you for the identification. Yes, the doves are too stupid to live. The nest by the patio tables has at least 2 pairs of doves that are fighting for the nest.
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Is anyone good at ducks? I'm in Edmonton, Alberta and I can't find a good match for this one. Because it apparently matters, it was a diving duck. Maybe a ring-necked? My cats are slacking so I took matters into my own hands.  This bold critter was out in broad daylight next to a busy street. I also saw one that morning around the same area!  I love these rusty little bees. And all the other bees too. 
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Is anyone good at ducks? I'm in Edmonton, Alberta and I can't find a good match for this one. Because it apparently matters, it was a diving duck. Maybe a ring-necked? Female Common Goldeneye
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This afternoon I was visited by a pretty grasshopper. Maybe a Giant Red-wing nymph? (Costa Rica)  Sometimes when I got close it would stop and wave its back legs at me, as if to say "Hey idiot, can't you see these warning colours?"  Also spotted some sort of ant mimic spider  the mimicry is more convincing in motion, it pretends it's front pair of legs are antennae and scurries around like an ant https://b.l3n.co/i/lsnDUK.mp4
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Squatch Ambassador posted:This afternoon I was visited by a pretty grasshopper. Maybe a Giant Red-wing nymph? (Costa Rica) That grasshopper is stylin’! It probably just wanted you to compliment its style.
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I'm in Wyoming and found a weird fuzzy yellow fly.    Also there is a magpie, I love magpies.
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We have a cardinal nesting in the camellia outside of our laundry room window! She laid 2-eggs...  Which hatched - not sure how long ago, we've been in & out of town a lot the past few weeks  Mom & Dad were getting freaked out whenever the hairy apes got too close (to the dryer). So I bought a couple of cheap auto sun-shades to try & give everyone a little privacy.  Dad visited but didn't get any closer. Dill was chittering away on his stool https://i.imgur.com/MrKLK2r.mp4 The little ones are very active, struggling to be fed whenever a breeze blows a leaf. Go Mom!
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