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So uh these aren't new pictures but I never got around to posting these anywhere before and so I think people will like these maybe! I was out and about one day and happened to have my camera on me when I saw two bugs having a scuffle on the ground. Looks like a wasp and a dragonfly.  I didn't quite know what was going on at first, just a fight I figured.  But then I realized that the wasp was really making this fight pretty one sided.  I think the dragonfly learned that messing with wasps is no way to get ahead in life.
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Chomplicated Man posted:Snake season started early this year! Caught this guy on a trail north of Columbus OH just a few days ago: That's a brown snake. They're one of the most venomous snakes in the world, and you're incredibly lucky you didn't get bit. Stew Man Chew posted:Yep, that's a green anole. Neat little guys. Er, wrong brown snake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_brown_snake. Your snake is Storeria dekayi, and they're completely harmless.
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Edge Zero posted:
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OneTwentySix posted:
I kept one in a 5 gallon aquarium when I was a kid, she was great. I would walk to the pet store and buy bags of crickets and tubs of mealworms to feed her. I thought it was hilarious that she'd miss a couple pounces on each cricket and come up with a mouthful of sand / dirt from her cage.
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Hi critter watchers. Here's a tettigoniid (?) that I found this morning underneath a styrofoam box. Antennae longer than its body. Very primitive looking and camouflaged for hiding in dark mossy rainforest foliage   
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My Walmart doesn't carry diatomaceous earth. Guess I'll have to look for some in the morning, or order from Amazon.
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Mr. Despair posted:My Walmart doesn't carry diatomaceous earth. Guess I'll have to look for some in the morning, or order from Amazon. Yeah I forgot to say, good luck man  I've heard a bedbug infestation is brutal. Spare no expense / vicious chemical.
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tariq aziz posted:Hi critter watchers. Here's a tettigoniid (?) that I found this morning underneath a styrofoam box. Antennae longer than its body. Very primitive looking and camouflaged for hiding in dark mossy rainforest foliage Oh wow, that's beautiful and those antennae are amazing.
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Mr. Despair posted:My Walmart doesn't carry diatomaceous earth. Guess I'll have to look for some in the morning, or order from Amazon. Pool grade will gently caress your poo poo up.
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Mr. Despair posted:My Walmart doesn't carry diatomaceous earth. Guess I'll have to look for some in the morning, or order from Amazon.  Drama in the Critterquest thread
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^^^^^^^^^^^ I did, but I didn't post about it because I was busy taking a long shower to make sure I got any trace of those chemicals off before I posted this. My local Lowes shows some in stock though. Captain Invictus posted:Make sure it's garden-grade and not pool-grade, I did not know the difference when I purchased mine and now I know. Yeah, I think lowes or some place might carry some. I'm going to hunt tomorrow while stores are open. For now I just picked up a can of raid bed bug stuff, and sprayed the carpet where my sister had her pillows on the ground to the door, and around the vent, so hopefully it'll at least keep em contained until I can stop by Lowes and get some earth in the morning to spread around. I'd rather not have to use that chemical around her entire room, seems like nasty stuff. But screw that, here's something cool I saw today. Pretty sure some of the local (cough cough invasive) Eurasian Collard Doves were trying to find someone to shack up with for the spring, and it was pretty amusing to watch. First, one of the doves would saunter up to someone on the fence.  Lovey Dovey 1 by MrDespair, on Flickr He'd puff up, and go "COOOOO, COOOO" as he bobbed up and down.  Lovey Dovey 2 by MrDespair, on Flickr After 5 or 6 times, the other dove would continue ignoring the up and coming bachelor, to which the bachelor would respond by flying right at them and chasing them around, and then chasing off any other doves that were nearby and saw him get rejected.  Lovey Dovey 3 by MrDespair, on Flickr  Lovey Dovey 4 by MrDespair, on Flickr Then, after about 5 minutes, a new contender would land on the fence, and he's saunter up...  Lovey Dovey 5 by MrDespair, on Flickr Saw some robins that were chasing each other around, and about 5 or 6 sparrows that were all having a spat, but didn't get any good pictures of that.  DSC_0286.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr Mr. Despair fucked around with this message at Mar 25, 2012 around 05:45 |
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Stew Man Chew posted:Yeah I forgot to say, good luck man Yikes, sorry to hear that Mr. Despair. I'm with SMC, good luck & be prepared to pay. There was a show on Animal Planet a few weeks ago called Infested that covered this happening at a camp. They ended up renting industrial heaters to get all the cabins above 140 degrees, since I think they die around 130-135f. It was the only thing that worked for them. They even had a dog that could detect them come by to verify it for peace of mind. It was costly but I'm sure worth it. PREYING MANTITS fucked around with this message at Mar 25, 2012 around 05:54 |
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PREYING MANTITS posted:Yikes, sorry to hear that Mr. Despair. I'm with SMC, good luck & be prepared to pay. If it comes to that I'm probably just going to burn my clothes and move out of my parents house now instead of waiting until I finish grad school next year. 
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From my own bedbug experience, I would recommend taking out a large amount of fire insurance and investing in some gasoline. Then flood the resulting ashes with pure fluorine gas so the they can be re-burned. Then move and let some other poor fool build a new home on the cursed soil. You can try to kill them with heat, steam and the like, but they have this pure-genius response of "moving away from the heat source" that tends to just drive them into new territory. Moto42 fucked around with this message at Mar 25, 2012 around 06:12 |
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Moto42 posted:From my own bedbug experience, I would recommend taking out a large amount of fire insurance and investing in some gasoline. Then flood the resulting ashes with pure fluorine gas so the they can be re-burned. Then move and let some other poor fool build a new home on the cursed soil.
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Stew Man Chew posted:I thought it was hilarious that she'd miss a couple pounces on each cricket and come up with a mouthful of sand / dirt from her cage.
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VendaGoat posted:I request more pictures of fluffy bunnies! The best pet I ever had was a female Rex and I have a den with a small family in my yard. Every year they have kids and they are just starting to come out now.    Where I used to live these guys were absolutely everywhere, you could walk around for an hour and there wouldn't be a place where there wasn't a rabbit or three. I managed to snap that first one right from my balcony. Actually where I live now I already discovered some pretty large warrens in parks and such, too, so I think I'm gonna need to go out and look more. Should be some little ones around pretty soon.
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Every summer our vacation home in Wisconsin is swarmed by lady bugs and these mystery bugs. Can anyone id it? They are fairly large, and sort of terrify me
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Was on a job in Clinton, MD when I came across this little guy chilling on the door frame. Looks like he's eating another spider(?). I only had the work camera with me, a crappy point & shoot with no macro mode, but some of these turned out pretty decent. I took these few shots then shooed him outside.     This one turned out the best. So cute!  
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Slugworth posted:Every summer our vacation home in Wisconsin is swarmed by lady bugs and these mystery bugs. Can anyone id it? They are fairly large, and sort of terrify me Here's a picture of one I found in southwest Germany:  Also, the tiniest jumping spider:   Another Middle European species. Can't have been more than four millimeters head to toe. I have absolutely no idea what that is, but given the intense yellow coloring of the mouth parts it should be easy to figure out.
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Hello again thread. This morning I took a trip to Cors Caron. It was a beautiful sunny day, and although it's still early in the year I was hoping some things might have started to lurk. Turns out there wasn't much, but there was enough. Habitat shot:  There was this dude, walking along the raised wooden boardwalks. It didn't mind a shot from above, but when I got to it's face it started walking fast and waving at me. It's a cacynen! (welsh for Bumble Bee)  This Alarch was all by itself on the river. And had the audacity to hiss at us anyway. Bloody swanny-nomates.  The Red Kite was successfully reintroduced to the U.K. following massive persecution in the 60's when they were seen as pests. Their numbers went right down, but now days they are everywhere:  Some stubby yellow wildflower (Blodyn)  This was the first thing I found, but was the highlight of the trip. He was just sitting on the grass sunning himself. He didn't seem to mind me at all:  I've never seen an orange Broga before, so I have no idea what species he is. He looked far too exotic for a bog in Mid Wales. Stupidly I didn't get an overall full body shot, but he was fairly slim. And had a frog's face, which is the main thing.
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Dalax posted:
They like ponds with lots of vegetation for breeding, but spend the fall on land and winter inside crevices in tree stumps and similar things. Really nice find! e: whoops axolotl farmer fucked around with this message at Mar 26, 2012 around 07:55 |
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axolotl farmer posted:Only two species of salamander in the UK, and that's the smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris. The one you got there is a female, because the males have crazy crests this time of year as it's breeding season. Thank you. I'm a bit confused though. I'm looking at pictures of them for reference, and none seem to be quite as orange. Also, do they have a stage in their development that gives them a more frog like body? She was squat and had no tail, but no 'stump' to suggest she had lost it. I'm such a plum for not getting a top down shot.
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PREYING MANTITS posted:Yikes, sorry to hear that Mr. Despair. I'm with SMC, good luck & be prepared to pay. Yea this happened at the camp I worked at, but instead of doing it to all the cabins they turned one cabin into a giant semi-oven and could load mattresses into it when they were infested with bedbugs. I never saw it used, but apparently it was pretty effective!
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Dalax posted:Hello again thread. This morning I took a trip to Cors Caron. It was a beautiful sunny day, and although it's still early in the year I was hoping some things might have started to lurk. Turns out there wasn't much, but there was enough. That seems like a hell of a lot of trouble to go to just to get over a waist high fence.
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Bad Munki posted:Oh wow, that's beautiful and those antennae are amazing. I'm glad you feel that way. Here's a common jumper round these parts. Its about 4 mm long.   trying to catch one of these flies...  Same length as the spider but it looks like it has a beak. tariq aziz fucked around with this message at Mar 26, 2012 around 01:29 |
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Is... is that spider's rear end end colored to display mimicry of another bug? I might just be entomorphizing but that's pretty amazing. The similarity between the fly with a beak and the spider's abdomen is striking.
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Cardiovorax posted:Sure can! That's a Western Conifer Seed Bug, a variety of true bug. They're native to North America, so depending on where you live, they are an invasive but mostly ecologically harmless species. Their mouthparts serve to suck the juices out of conifer seeds, which will then wither, but since this doesn't harm the tree itself they're only considered something of a minor pest. They're also thoroughly harmless.
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I caught/banded this critter about a week ago: Northern Hawk-owl We also get a lot of these critters around here; I think it's some kind of large spider:   The moose here (AK-Kenai Peninsula) are having a rough winter due to the near-record snowfall.
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axolotl farmer posted:Only two species of salamander in the UK, and that's the smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris. The one you got there is a female, because the males have crazy crests this time of year as it's breeding season. The photo angle is really bad, and it's hard to see the body at all, but I don't think that's a salamander of any kind; I'm guessing it's some sort of color variant of a common frog. I had a bit of trouble at first telling what it was, but newts don't really have the frog-eyes; the head will be more squished in, so to speak, and the eyes don't stick out nearly so much. The body is also way too beefy, and you can see a big frog leg in the background. OneTwentySix fucked around with this message at Mar 26, 2012 around 04:35 |
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Slugworth posted:In any case, thanks a ton for the info. Nice to know what they are. I plan to continue referring to them as demon bugs though. corax posted:I caught/banded this critter about a week ago:
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Cardiovorax posted:That's certainly an appropriate name. Could be either a particularly hawky looking owl or a very fat hawk. Definitely an owl, but they are active during the day and in some ways act more like a hawk than an owl.
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This little guy came to hang out on my hand. The food helped, but this was in Ipswich, MA at the wildlife preserve. Sorry for the crappy cell phone photography
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OneTwentySix posted:The photo angle is really bad, and it's hard to see the body at all, but I don't think that's a salamander of any kind; I'm guessing it's some sort of color variant of a common frog. I had a bit of trouble at first telling what it was, but newts don't really have the frog-eyes; the head will be more squished in, so to speak, and the eyes don't stick out nearly so much. The body is also way too beefy, and you can see a big frog leg in the background.  I really should look at the pictures and read the description. That critter even has the typical face markings of a Rana frog. I should probably stick to insects! 
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Dalax posted:There was this dude, walking along the raised wooden boardwalks. It didn't mind a shot from above, but when I got to it's face it started walking fast and waving at me. It's a cacynen! (welsh for Bumble Bee) Dalax posted:Some stubby yellow wildflower (Blodyn)
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Balaeniceps posted:90% sure this is the Buff-tailed bumblebee - Bombus terrestris It may also be Bombus lucorum. They're pretty hard to tell apart, apparently.
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anotherblownsave posted:This little guy came to hang out on my hand. The food helped, but this was in Ipswich, MA at the wildlife preserve. Sorry for the crappy cell phone photography I'm soooo jealous! Black-capped Chickadees are my favorite bird and I've never had one get that close, let alone land on me. I don't have any pictures to share, but I did save a large(2cm) black jumping spider from my murderous coworkers.
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I used to get BCCs to eat on my hand. Basically, you need a feeder that they normally come to, a handful of birdseed, and a lot of patience. Stand completely still for half an hour or so, and eventually they'll land on you. They do get braver after getting used to you, so it takes less time when you repeat it.
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Today the largest loving bumblebee came buzzing into my office and straight for my face.  I may have screamed. This basement office deal has its unintended aspects. Even as I dove for cover, though, I thought "oh it's just a bumblebee" and got a little disappointed that I didn't have a camera. This thread has taken over the part of my brain that reacts to insects.I may come up with more bunny pics, I took a shortcut through the park shortly before sunset the other day where I had previously found a large warren and thought there had to be a lot, turns out that was entirely correct.
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Some pink moth.  A spider. I had to lie under its web to take the picture. I'm pretty sure it wanted to drop into my eyes and kill me.  Honeybee enjoying a cherry blossom.  I was outside of a hospital having a smoke and this little guy dropped in for a visit. 
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