Critterquest 2024: the females get kinda thicc

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Enfys: Feb 17, 2013; The ocean is calling and I must go

Catastrophe posted:

There are lots of flowers around my building so there are lots of bees:

gorgeous picture

# ¿ Aug 4, 2021 11:44

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:25

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The Red Queen posted:

Would bugs somehow know which ones are safe to eat and which aren't?

No, that's even one of the rules of mushroom hunting: what's safe to eat for a slug and what's safe to eat for a human (or dog) can be wildly different things, so don't use bugs as a guide for toxicity.

Consider that even with dogs, some things that are safe for us (grapes, garlic) are toxic for dogs, so it can very very species dependent.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2021 08:37

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he's very prompt with the rent

# ¿ Aug 29, 2021 12:55

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poverty goat posted:

Almost all of the birds here have been wiped out by some bird plague since summer. It's apparently a thing on the east coast. Finches, cardinals, grackles, brown thrashers, mockingbirds- gone. I've had healthy year-round populations of all of those forever. There's no birdsong, and I had to pull my feeders. Here and there a lone finch or grackle shows up looking for food, and a significant number of them look unhealthy with patchy feathers particularly on their heads. I'm watching an unhealthy looking one-legged grackle peck around at old sunflower shells right now.

It's all very depressing.

That's both alarming and heartbreaking :smith:

# ¿ Sep 18, 2021 19:20

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CaptainSarcastic posted:

Managed to get some video of the Vaux's swifts coming in to roost in a chimney tonight. They do this twice a year - once when they migrate north in the spring, once when they migrate south in the fall. Lasts for a few days or a week, if memory serves. I forget to check them out some years, but actually got some footage this evening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTF_W_yxg7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89FwaHkbcsc

That's incredible!

# ¿ Sep 26, 2021 13:31

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I have a soft spot for the wren, Troglodytes troglodytes

# ¿ Oct 28, 2021 15:42

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I also feel kinda bad for the wattled crane, Bugeranus carunculatus

# ¿ Oct 28, 2021 15:58

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Inspector Hound posted:

Ah, got a Greek guy over here

Bugeranus is Greek

"ox-crane"

# ¿ Oct 29, 2021 00:28

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Dia de Pikachutos posted:

This wagtail was very aggressively defending his territory from the local currawongs.

so fierce

# ¿ Jan 1, 2022 13:49

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Dia de Pikachutos posted:

Ran into this small lace monitor while I was dropping some stuff off at a friend's place. (S)he was not pleased to see me.

That is the smugest looking lizard I've ever seen

# ¿ Jan 5, 2022 12:23

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Dia de Pikachutos posted:

Yeah I should have been clearer that it was the actual name as opposed to my personal assessment of that particular owl.

It wouldn't have been an incorrect assessment though

# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 14:25

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NTRabbit posted:

These birds know how to party

# ¿ Jan 24, 2022 23:03

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The Bloop posted:

I saw this freaking Pokemon on my car today

You surprised him just out of the shower

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 10:07

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BetterLekNextTime posted:

Found some wild honeybees the other day (Bay Area)

Wildcat wild bees-6072 on Flickr

That's amazing :swoon:

# ¿ Apr 8, 2022 09:40

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my cat is norris posted:

found and loving your deep sea thread

thanks

# ¿ Apr 12, 2022 12:18

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my cat is norris posted:

Beautiful little pics, at least!

A dream bird showed up at my feeders.

I love pileated woodpeckers so dang much.

such a great bird

# ¿ May 9, 2022 10:55

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Leperflesh posted:

The missing link between the treehog and the groundhog is obviously the hedgehog, it all makes sense

I only know of groundhogs through groundhog day media and the movie, so they don't seem like real creatures that actually exist but have some kind of quasi-mythical status in my brain

# ¿ May 14, 2022 01:17

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-Zydeco- posted:

Found this guy walking down the hallway at work. I let them go in my office so they wouldn't get squished.
https://i.imgur.com/lZYTLC8.mp4

legs!

# ¿ May 19, 2022 10:05

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Neon Noodle posted:

it is frog time

that's a great frog right there

# ¿ May 24, 2022 23:22

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BaronVonVaderham posted:

Found this little dude just living his best life when visiting a graveyard in Cambridge earlier today.

oh dang he has attained nirvana

# ¿ May 28, 2022 23:16

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Sorbus posted:

Visiting Tuscany, saw this strange hedgehog this morning

https://imgur.com/961ObZs.mp4

That is the greatest noise I have ever heard :kimchi:

# ¿ Jun 9, 2022 11:44

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They're porcumancers

# ¿ Jun 9, 2022 18:41

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I was wondering where that fly went after tormenting me into madness for most of the day

I'm almost positive that's a false widow, which aren't as scary as local media like to make out with scarebait articles but are unfortunately invasive and are eating native spiders

However, this one did me a solid so :cheersdoge:

# ¿ Jun 15, 2022 19:45

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Silver Falcon posted:

I need some help with an ID! We found this fuzzy little guy on our walk today (Central Connecticut). He had a beautiful song:

https://i.imgur.com/pAI6dfR.mp4

Any idea what he is?

hermit thrush

# ¿ Jun 19, 2022 23:18

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El Burbo posted:

A butterfly I�m not good at identifying!

Pearl Crescent? Northern Crescent? Dunno

I don't know what it is other than so so pretty and such a great picture :swoon:

# ¿ Jun 25, 2022 12:32

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Sorbus posted:

Saw this raft spider few days ago at a swamp

a great pic of a handsome lad

# ¿ Jun 26, 2022 23:39

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Slo-Tek posted:

I just keep coming back to this picture and getting lost in how beautiful it is

# ¿ Jul 20, 2022 12:03

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plants just ditching that chlorophyll grind, living it up on another plant's dime

Megabound posted:

We have a macro thread in the photography forum that'd be up your alley. Those guys take some stunning critter photos.

Holy moly what a thread rec, thank you! :vince:

# ¿ Jul 22, 2022 11:41

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it took me a bit to spot the actual lizard there :eyepop:

# ¿ Jul 25, 2022 11:59

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Bula Vinaka posted:

Is the road runner still on that guy's table? Does he still love him?

I hope so

# ¿ Aug 17, 2022 00:04

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I've increasingly seen those when buying mealworms for chickens, so it probably escaped from a pet store shipment or the like.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2022 08:47

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hooah posted:

It turned out to be the bird seed. Thanks for the help, all.

I've learned the hard way to be very careful with birdseed I buy :negative:

# ¿ Nov 20, 2022 13:38

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YeahTubaMike posted:

They get red AFTER they've been eaten?

After they eat you

# ¿ May 19, 2023 15:46

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Bored posted:

Yeah. The person who lets me live in her basement is mad that I talked her into treating her dogs for ticks since a couple have obviously laid eggs (the ticks, not the dogs) in the house and I can�t sit anywhere upstairs without at least one tick climbing on me.

nbd just a house full of ticks

:psyduck:

# ¿ May 25, 2023 10:43

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Those are incredible to watch :3:

# ¿ Jun 11, 2023 12:20

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I get so excited when I see a frog

# ¿ Jun 17, 2023 19:13

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:25

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poverty goat posted:

Last night as I was going to sleep I felt an itch on my arm and scratched it and I felt my hand knock something off and I almost just rolled over and kept going to sleep. But in the back of my head I thought what if it was a tick??? So I got up and turned the lights on and sure loving enough there was a tick. I have no idea how I got to sleep in that bed after that but I do know that it followed a long period of having to check every little itch for ticks. I assume it rode one of the dogs in. gently caress off ticks ugh

bed ticks, a new nightmare :stonk:

# ¿ Jul 1, 2023 16:16

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