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Saw a Monarch laying eggs so I snapped a pic once she was done: I'll come back in a week to see if I can spot some caterpillars. I'm in Ontario, so these are the ones that will fly all the way back to Mexico once they hatch.
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Also spotted an adult Dog-day Cicada, Neotibicen canicularis, in keeping with the theme of this thread.
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Jul 28, 2021 20:02
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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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Jul 29, 2021 02:48
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Jul 29, 2021 19:32
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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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Jul 29, 2021 21:44
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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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Aug 2, 2021 02:32
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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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my cat is norris posted:I'm gonna guess Parectopa of some kind? Thanks! That's about where I got, before realizing there were roughly a billion almost identical Parectopa that looked kind of like this one, but not quite and gave up. This morning I was doing some gardening and found a freshly eclosed ladybug on my sock, but I didn't realize what it was in time and kind of mushed it when I picked it up. Sorry little guy, I didn't realize how squishy you were going to be! Hopefully you can sort yourself out before you harden up. 
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Aug 5, 2021 14:04
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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. Worker wasps only live for around 2 to 3 weeks. They die of old age all the time.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:37
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Japanese Beetles. An invasive pest.
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Aug 6, 2021 01:42
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It's an ichneumon wasp. Good luck with the ID because there's over 5,000 species in North America, with an estimated 3,000 undescribed species and most of the time you need a ridiculously close up picture of their wings or genitals to get a good ID.
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Aug 6, 2021 03:46
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Probably a Red Slug, Arion rufus, introduced into the PNW from Europe.
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Aug 9, 2021 05:10
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A little too friendly if you ask me.
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Aug 10, 2021 03:03
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Yeah, that's a Polyphemus caterpillar.
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Aug 16, 2021 12:13
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its all nice on rice posted:Something was up with this chipmunk. This was the closest I was able to get. Some sort of fatty looking growth on its side. That's a warble. Inside is the larva of a bot fly.
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Aug 16, 2021 22:45
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How many times do we have to tell people to keep the tastefully shot black-and-white mollusk erotica out of the Critterquest threads? 
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Aug 17, 2021 03:44
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 Found this guy on my patio table this morning. Probably a Telamona decorata, but I have no interest in wading through the morass of treehopper taxonomy any further than I already have. Toronto, Ontario if anyone else wants to take a shot at an ID.
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Aug 20, 2021 14:32
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Literally A Person posted:Sorry for crappo picture but can someone tell me what this beetle is? I found it in my garden and have never seen it in my part of Oregon before. You can't tell from the picture but it was also infested with some kind of mite making it act seriously cray. Looks like a carrion or burying beetle of some kind. Probably a Nicrophorus species. Tough to give an exact ID without a better picture. Edit: Maybe Nicrophorus defodiens. McGavin fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Aug 21, 2021 |
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Gunshow Poophole posted:
Those white spots on it near its head look like parasitic wasp eggs or cocoons. I would have left it alone and enjoyed the bounty of wasps. Synnr posted:
I think that one's a Question Mark. They're named that because they have markings on the underside of their wings that look sort of like a comma and a question mark. Here's a picture that shows it and how to ID them: 
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Aug 21, 2021 18:48
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Neat! I'm planting some dill next year in the hopes that I'll get some, but I'm at the extreme north of their range, so it's probably fairly unlikely.
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Aug 27, 2021 19:22
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Not to mention your penmanship.
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Aug 30, 2021 18:23
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EorayMel posted:Found this dragonfly when I was outside this morning after a heavy downpour S'up dragonfly bro. 
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Aug 30, 2021 20:41
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Falukorv posted:Dead-ringers for Aeshna grandis those dragonflies. Europe? No, but Aeshna is a widespread genus with a Holarctic distribution, and many of them look quite similar. Mine is probably a female Shadow Darner, Aeshna umbrosa.
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Aug 30, 2021 22:28
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 I look up everything.I do have a biology degree, but I'm amateur naturalist good, not entomologist good.
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Aug 30, 2021 23:28
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Phyzzle posted:A giant ant(?) found in East Texas. That looks like a Texas Leafcutter Ant, Atta texana. But, yeah, I wouldn't go picking up any large ants that I couldn't identify in Texas. They aren't called cow killers for nothing.
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Sep 5, 2021 22:03
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If you want an ID we're going to need a location more specific than "my apartment door".
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Sep 7, 2021 02:02
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I'm going to say it's a Vine Sphinx, Eumorpha vitis. It lacks the brown bands along the leading edges of the wings that are indicative of a Banded Sphinx. For reference:  Vine Sphinx  Banded Sphinx
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Sep 7, 2021 05:41
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Crop, not craw.
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Sep 20, 2021 02:40
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 A Mourning Cloak, Nymphalis antiopa, that has seen better days landed in my yard. It's missing a leg on this side.
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Sep 20, 2021 19:30
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There's no such thing as a ring-necked gull. I'm pretty sure those are killdeers.
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Sep 23, 2021 16:42
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Gulls don't have the dark parts of their plumage extending onto their breast like the birds in your picture. I'm 100% sure it's a plover of some kind.
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Sep 24, 2021 00:13
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Watching Vaux's Swifts roost in the Chapman School chimney is a thing in Portland, apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHgEAIK8P18
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Sep 26, 2021 13:42
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The lizard's a Mediterranean House Gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus. It's an invasive species in Arkansas.
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Sep 27, 2021 06:22
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 Some kind of stinkhorn growing in my garden. Really lives up to its name.
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Sep 27, 2021 20:49
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That's Squirrel Nutkin after his escape from Old Brown.
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Sep 28, 2021 01:58
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Literally A Person posted:A new garden friend showed up today. Not a common visitor here: She pragnet.
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It's evidence of the critter in the second pic's crime spree.
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She pragnet.
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If you're in the US I'd say it was a Pale Green Assassin Bug nymph, Zelus luridus.
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