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Mak0rz posted:Are you sure that's female? Pretty sure. Males are black, and way antenna-ier. Here is a male  Time will tell, promethea usually scent during the day and attract mates in the late afternoon rather than overnight, so she may have a date lined up in the next day or two. Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at Apr 19, 2012 around 22:02 |
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This guy(?) was stuck between our front screen door and glass door last weekend. My wife found it in the morning and asked me to get it out and here's two photos just before it took off. It left a large smear of bright yellow scales on the screen but didnt appear to be too denuded by the experience. 
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I didn't have my camera with me, but I spent some quality time with my first bumblebee of the year this afternoon. It had a white butt, Bombus lucorum, right? It was hanging out in a flowery bush, and it was determined to visit every single blossom. Every. Single. One. In addition, the wood pigeons are out and about again. I have a ridiculous love for wood pigeons, almost as great as my love for turtles. I can't wait for the males to start doing their puffy displays. 
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tariq aziz posted:This guy(?) was stuck between our front screen door and glass door last weekend. My wife found it in the morning and asked me to get it out and here's two photos just before it took off. It left a large smear of bright yellow scales on the screen but didnt appear to be too denuded by the experience. Whereabouts are you? How big was it? That looks to be a male, on account of bushy antennas, but I don't know the species. Doesn't look like anything I know in North America. If you are in Australia, it might be a light male Syntherata. Maybe a leone or janette. Apparently they have a wide range of color morphs. Not finding a common name for them. Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at Apr 20, 2012 around 00:20 |
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Slo-Tek posted:Whereabouts are you? Near Cairns in tropical north eastern Australia. I am currently unemployed so I have lots of time to take photos, but I also don't want to overwhelm this thread. At the moment there are several Nephila (golden orb spiders) not far from my house and I have taken dozens of close up shots. Very carefully. This spider is the largest in Australia and is a loving beautiful animal. It is also reported to be a spider with the largest size difference between the male and the female. I will post some photos later when I've sorted out some good ones. Slo-Tek posted:How big was it? It was big (about 100 mm wingspan) and one I've never seen before. From my limited research* it could be a Noctuid (eg Ischyja, Phyllodes) or maybe an Anthelid (Anthela connexa). *an old textbook of mine Moths of Australia Bernard D'Arbrera
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 I'm really bad at identifying moths; could this be a Tomato Hornworm moth?
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Cross-posting this at the suggestion of "A/T Stupid/Small Questions" thread: Could someone tell me what this spider is? In the last week I've been killing at least 4 a day, and I'm worried that they're an unholy union of black widows and brown recluses (probably not, but ohgodspider). I got as close as I dared with a camera (read: 6 feet away) and zoooooomed in. I already googled "brown spider NY" but it didn't turn up any useful info.  I'm in New York and they're no bigger than a quarter (including legs) if they really spread themselves out, but normally they're in a dime-sized area. I don't believe the internet that they couldn't possibly be brown recluses that escaped from a nearby lab/crazy person's house. Linked for absolute huuuuuuuuge.   What do they want?! 
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Maybe a Yellow Sac Spider?
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daggerdragon posted:What do they want?! Your soul. Or an eyeball will do in a pinch. Those look like Yellow Sac Spiders (Cheiracanthium inclusum) to me; they are very common in houses. They can bite if you force them to but besides for hurting a bit it isn't a big deal if you are not allergic to such things.
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Augster posted:
yes it looks like a tomato hornworm moth Manduca quinquemaculataone
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A brief day at the park today. A small toad under a small board  A surprisingly cooperative alligator lizard, he didn't even try to bite me and only peed on me a little bit  Stealthy frog  I saw a bunch of these dudes in a puddle, anyone know what they are? My guess was mayfly larvae, but when I GISed that the results looked a lot more terrifying than these guys. That one I scooped up didn't seem to mind being out of the water, and he was perfectly capable of crawling around the net under his own power.  
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Knormal posted:Afrogolypse Now?
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Knormal posted:I saw a bunch of these dudes in a puddle, anyone know what they are? My guess was mayfly larvae, but when I GISed that the results looked a lot more terrifying than these guys. That one I scooped up didn't seem to mind being out of the water, and he was perfectly capable of crawling around the net under his own power. I'm going to say Plecoptera (stonefly) naiads based on the paired cerci sticking out the back, but the apparent lack of antenna is throwing me off. Edit: On second thought, they look more like aquatic Coleoptera (beetle) larva, but I couldn't tell you what kind. MrGreenShirt fucked around with this message at Apr 20, 2012 around 05:56 |
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I accidently ate a bug!!! what should I do!
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Quick, swallow a spider to eat the bug you previously ate. Follow that by a bird, a cat, a dog, a goat, a cow, and finally a horse.
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MrGreenShirt posted:Quick, swallow a spider to eat the bug you previously ate. Follow that by a bird, a cat, a dog, a goat, a cow, and finally a horse. NO WAY! I have goat and horse phobias! A more scientific approach perhaps.
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Knormal posted:
I think that's a diving beetle (Dytiscidae) larva. It's definitely a beetle larva.
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Swallow a tiny pistol, then punch yourself in the gut really hard until the gun goes off and shoots the bug.
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Dudes posted:NO WAY! I have goat and horse phobias! A more scientific approach perhaps. Fine then, eat an arachnid. Follow that by a passeriform, a felid, a canid, a bovid from the subfamily Caprinae, a bovid from the subfamily Bovinae, and finally an equid.
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THOSE ARE ALL TERRIBLE ANSWERS! SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS HAVING KRYBOARD PROBLEMS!
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Have you tried coaxing it out with delicious aphids and/or tasty leaves?
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axolotl farmer posted:I think that's a diving beetle (Dytiscidae) larva. It's definitely a beetle larva. Makes sense, diving beetles are relatively common around here. It never occurred to me aquatic beetles would have aquatic larva, I would have thought they'd have some kind of grub thing like other beetles, but I guess that lines up with other carnivorous beetles like ladybug larvae. I'll have to go back and catch a few to raise, diving beetles are awesome, and clearly they'll eat crickets.
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Chiba City Blues posted:Have you tried coaxing it out with delicious aphids and/or tasty leaves? NO ITS IN MY DIGESTIVE SYSTEM BY NOW THANKS A LOT GOONS! 
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Dudes posted:NO ITS IN MY DIGESTIVE SYSTEM BY NOW THANKS A LOT GOONS! Well, hope you like your stomach exploding with baby spiders! On the plus side, they will eat most of you, so funeral expenses will be low. Plus, circle of life and all that.
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7thBatallion posted:Well, hope you like your stomach exploding with baby spiders! On the plus side, they will eat most of you, so funeral expenses will be low. Plus, circle of life and all that. im pretty sure my stomach acids killed it but will there be any after effects?
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Just make sure none of the dissolved bug juice gets into your bloodstream. You don't want your DNA to get rewritten. Brundlefly sp. MrGreenShirt fucked around with this message at Apr 20, 2012 around 07:05 |
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Knormal posted:That looks right: http://www.waterbugkey.vcsu.edu/php...ptera&ls=larvae I'm nowhere near North Dakota, but it's not like there's a lot of variety in diving beetles. Some of them live as larvae for years, and they pupate in damp moss or mud close to the water, but not in it. They're easy to keep in aquaria, and will eat pretty much anything you put in there including each other.
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DID A BIG POOP AND A NEON BLUE BUG FLEW OUT OF MY TOILET AND INTO THE VENT FAN I'M OK I GUESS!
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THANKS FOR NOTHING YOU PEIECES OF poo poo!!!!!!!!! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Why didn't you take a picture you rear end that's what this thread is for. Go and eat another one and this time take the camera with you when you poo poo.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Why didn't you take a picture you rear end that's what this thread is for. Go and eat another one and this time take the camera with you when you poo poo. IT HAPPEND ACCIDENTLY PLUS MY IPHONE4 IS STILL CHARGING UP!
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I really need to start taking my camera with me when I go out with the dog. I recently planted two small backberry bushes in the yard and one has already started blooming, and there were several species of butterflies hanging out on it this morning.
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I think this might be a Common Sanddragon.  Here's a Painted Lady. This one's faded or something; usually the colors are much bolder and brighter.  And some sort of skipper, tasting mud or something.  Finally, a little wren fledgling!   It was fluttering around with its mom and I think I interrupted their little training session. There was much chirping and flapping.
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Knormal posted:Makes sense, diving beetles are relatively common around here. It never occurred to me aquatic beetles would have aquatic larva, I would have thought they'd have some kind of grub thing like other beetles, but I guess that lines up with other carnivorous beetles like ladybug larvae. I'll have to go back and catch a few to raise, diving beetles are awesome, and clearly they'll eat crickets. I kept a Dytiscid diving beetle in an aquarium as a kid and it was the coolest pet. If memory serves, I dubbed it "Mr. Wiggles". Mr. Wiggles beat the heck out of everything else at 2nd grade show-and-tell. Like axolotl farmer said, they're easy to keep in aquaria and will eat anything from other insects through small fish. Pretty considerable lifespan, too. Mine made it a bit beyond one year, but I've read they can get up to about 3 under ideal circumstances. Augster posted:Finally, a little wren fledgling!  That "hair"!
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I hate to bring a dead insect into this, but can anyone id this for me? It's huge, the biggest moth I've seen. Shame about the whole...being dead thing though. I'd love to see something like this or a polyphemus or luna moth in the flesh (so to speak). I live in Florida.   I need to see if there's any passable contributions to the thread on my phone. Also, I need a better camera for the phone.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I hate to bring a dead insect into this, but can anyone id this for me? It's huge, the biggest moth I've seen. Shame about the whole...being dead thing though. I'd love to see something like this or a polyphemus or luna moth in the flesh (so to speak). I live in Florida. That may be the aptly named Giant Sphinx. Cocytius antaeus. Hard to tell with the wear and tear, but that is a really big for a sphinx or hawk moth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocytius_antaeus If so that is some rotten luck, they are quite rare in the US. They have crazylong proboscises and feed at and pollenate rare orchids. Pardon the tiny image, it was the most illustrative on the first page of GIS. 
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Here are some fairly average shots of a fox hanging outside my garden in Hertfordshire, England. I got a fairly decent video of it too, just strolling round and looking at me, quite un-bothered.  And a spider in my house, eating another spider that it had 'caught'. I have no idea what happened, but maybe someone here could explain how? The area was something of a graveyard for spiders, so did this chap just come across a dead spider and have it for dinner? Apologies for the quality of the pictures, it was in a corner that was too small for my camera.   
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crazyvanman posted:And a spider in my house, eating another spider that it had 'caught'. I have no idea what happened, but maybe someone here could explain how? The area was something of a graveyard for spiders, so did this chap just come across a dead spider and have it for dinner? Apologies for the quality of the pictures, it was in a corner that was too small for my camera. Pholcids are pretty efficient at killing other spiders as well as the usual insect prey. So the spider graveyard you saw was probably her table scraps!
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Balaeniceps posted:That's Pholcus phalangioides, the Cellar Spider (sometimes called "daddy long-legs" but harvestmen and craneflies also get given that name). There's only one other species of spider in the same family in the UK and it's relatively rare and has a blue-ish behind. Please ignore the retarded sound effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-6x9_Pwlk
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Balaeniceps posted:That's Pholcus phalangioides That's really cool, I just assumed they had all died from natural causes. Thanks for identifying too. I always thought that Daddy Long Legs would be a bit larger. This one could easily have sat on a one penny piece without having its legs extend much beyond the edge.
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