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Greetings, and welcome to the Critterquest thread for (the remainder of) 2014. This is pretty much a straight-up continuation of last year's thread and only being moved to a new thread for cleanliness, so I'm just going to blatantly steal the old OP! Thanks to Mak0rz and Mr. Despair for writing up the thread guidelines so I don't have to!Mak0rz posted:Welcome to Critterquest: 2013/2014 edition! This is actually the 7th thread in the series, I think, but if you're new here we'll just go through a few guidelines, many of which I am shamelessly just going to quote from last year's OP, Mr. Despair: Updated list of past/related threads: Critterquest 2013: It's venomous, not poisonous. Critterquest 2012: Let's talk about bugs and stuff. Wildlife Photography: Zooming with your feet may get you mauled The Dorkroom's wildlife thread for people who know what all those weird numbers on lenses mean. The Reptile and Amphibian Thread vol.2: how to deal with the cricket stink Pet Island's thread on pet herps (stop giggling). Also sometimes includes some wild photographs too. Ant Farm Learn how to raise your own ants to unleash on your adversaries. One Stop Invert Spot mkII Ants not cutting it? Sic some spiders or scorpions on them. Alright, lets see some bugs and stuff.
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This little dickwad brown anole was in a pipe in Leesburg, FL Also reposting this from the end of the 2013 thread a couple weeks ago since this is the first post
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I don't have any good pics at the moment, but I've got a big post in mind as soon as lots of other priorities get out of the way. I do have a question! Can anyone recommend any good plant guide books (or, insect guides) for Austria? I'm going there tomorrow (from Canada) and I'd love to know more about the plants especially, as well as other critters. Something that describes the flora of the Alps, or the Danube, or central Europe, would be fantastic. Thanks, new thread! Also, here's a teaser for my upcoming (in like 2 months, don't hold your breath) big post about the critters of the Canadian High Arctic: Fuckin' Ducks! Duck Courtship in a Pond 10 by Execudork, on Flickr
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These are from last summer, but I'm getting geared up for tomorrow - no class and it's supposed to be a beautiful day here in northeast Kansas, so hopefully I'll nab a few new things. I'm positive a couple are re-posts, but a few are new to Critterquest. Click for big! What I'm pretty positive is a female Carolina Mantis - Stagmomantis carolina carolina mantis by h. meadors, on Flickr A teeny tiny Common House Spider - Parasteatoda tepidariorum tiny spider by h. meadors, on Flickr He was about the size of a pencil eraser. The background in this is the trunk of a tree - his tangled web was in the V created by a couple large branches. tiny spider by h. meadors, on Flickr What I'm pretty sure is a brand-new Robin! robin nest by h. meadors, on Flickr Widow Skimmer - Libellula luctuosa widow skimmer by h. meadors, on Flickr
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ExecuDork posted:I do have a question! Can anyone recommend any good plant guide books (or, insect guides) for Austria? I'm going there tomorrow (from Canada) and I'd love to know more about the plants especially, as well as other critters. Something that describes the flora of the Alps, or the Danube, or central Europe, would be fantastic.
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Knormal posted:Alright, lets see some bugs and stuff. Over my cold, dead body.
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net cafe scandal posted:Over my cold, dead body.
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Captain Invictus posted:That is where you'd generally find a wide variety of them, yes. We should probably remove the beetles and maggots from his cold dead body before taking pictures, right? No dead things rule applies to people, correct?
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Leaf-tailed Gecko, Australia Massivus Grasshopperus?, Australia nimh fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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Yay Critterquest! Let's start this year's thread off with some loving bees! Colletes cunicularius, a solitary bee. Stockholm, Sweden.
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I had no idea what this gorgeous dead blue finchy looking bird was, but it was even bluer than it was dead - spotted it from like 100 feet. Looking into it, I think this is an indigo bunting. Pretty sure it broke its neck flying into a mirrored window. Mount Dora, FL
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enziarro posted:I had no idea what this gorgeous dead blue finchy looking bird was, but it was even bluer than it was dead - spotted it from like 100 feet. Looking into it, I think this is an indigo bunting. Pretty sure it broke its neck flying into a mirrored window. That's exactly what it is. Gorgeous bird, shame about the accident.
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I rescued a coworker from this absolutely savage pink-spotted hawkmoth last fall. She ran out from the back room and told me that something was divebombing her and she couldn't tell what it was and was afraid it was some kind of enormous wasp. I naturally took this as a challenge and managed to catch it in an empty cardboard box and let it go in a display of potted mums out in front of the store. http://imgur.com/p4R7C1x e: Cedar Falls, Iowa double edit: drat it all why isn't my picture working. Changed it to just a link. Zeth fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Apr 19, 2014 |
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Is this the thread where people identify the disgusting insects I run into? These guys turn up in my bathroom sink every couple of weeks. http://i.imgur.com/6bSZLuK.jpg I usually just flush them through the drain, but the idea of these bugs turning up over and over again isn't really hygienic. I don't really remember whether they have three 'hairs' on the end, or that may just be a badly positioned nose hairs. What are these things and what can I do to make sure they stay away. For reference, I live in the Netherlands, in the middle of a city.
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EricBauman posted:Is this the thread where people identify the disgusting insects I run into? That looks like your common, everyday silverfish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish
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the wildest rear end posted:That looks like your common, everyday silverfish. Hmm, looks like it. I figured those would be bigger. Or maybe I'm just killing them early enough.
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EricBauman posted:Hmm, looks like it. I figured those would be bigger. Or maybe I'm just killing them early enough. I don't think silverfish ever get very large, but a quantity living in your household can be damaging to certain items. Silverfish like to go nomming after books, for example, so although I think they're cute and hard to smush, I always murder them when I see them. Except for one lucky bugger earlier this year because I was just excited to see a living insect after the POLAR VORTEX kept everything so cold.
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I'm moving into a house in a few weeks and it has its own private garden out back, full of bees, butterflies, other bugs, and most importantly, wood pigeons! The portliest of all garden birds! I love wood pigeons so much, and I'm even taking the smaller bedroom upstairs rather than the nicer, bigger one because it looks out on the garden. Once we get settled, I'm going to try to set up a nice feeder and a birdbath. I'm told that wood pigeons muck up birdbaths by being fat and oily, but I'm looking forward to their fat butts being everywhere. I plan on taking loads of pictures.
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i dont know what this thread is but here is a chipmunk i saw in my back yard, i named him nigga charlie Somebody fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Sid Delicious posted:i dont know what this thread is but here is a chipmunk i saw in my back yard, i named him nigga charlie ooo chippy
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my cat is norris posted:I don't think silverfish ever get very large, but a quantity living in your household can be damaging to certain items. Silverfish like to go nomming after books, for example, so although I think they're cute and hard to smush, I always murder them when I see them. Except for one lucky bugger earlier this year because I was just excited to see a living insect after the POLAR VORTEX kept everything so cold. Still, if you're worried, there is a large selection of baited traps you should be able to buy at any drugstore. Just put them where you usually see the most of the little guys and the problem should recede quickly.
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# ? Apr 19, 2014 15:36 |
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Hi new thread! I went out for a walk at Fort Pickens park near Penacola, Florida again the other day. There is a footbridge over a stream that runs through a marsh that's always a great spot to see some critters. As I was scanning for birds, this Florida Snapping Turtle popped up and swam directly under where I was standing. When I moved a little further down the bridge to get a better pic, it followed me right over, always looking at me like this. I guess someone has fed it from the bridge so it's waiting for food. Stupid humans! It's actually a "Common" snapping turtle, as the Florida subspecies was eliminated at some point, but I saw it's a Florida resident. The shell was about 30cm from front to back. After I got enough of it's hungry eyes, I went to the other side of the bridge. The turtle soon followed and I noticed a much larger one was swimming below. The reddish color is from the water, not an accurate color for the turtle. The big one never surfaced but kept sticking its nose into the first ones "egg laying area" so I suspect it was wanting to fertilize some eggs. She wasn't having it and chased him off. Eventually she gave up on getting a snack from me or eating me if I fell in.
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op, i was reading through this thread of Epic Catte Photographie when i saw a Wild animal ON MY VERY SCREEN...... i managed to take a picture of it, and let me jus tsay, gently caress the ocean... i thinkk this picutre is of a wild rear end.... can an epic goon sire help me identifie it, m80s??
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Freak Futanari posted:op, i was reading through this thread of Epic Catte Photographie when i saw a Wild animal ON MY VERY SCREEN...... i managed to take a picture of it, and let me jus tsay, gently caress the ocean... hol fcuk!
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Never seen something like that before. Maybe one of the taxonomists in the thread can help.
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RustedChrome posted:
Probably for the best that she chased him off. Snapping turtle sex is basically Game of Thrones: Turtles.
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i wasse going outside to purchase ye epic mountain dewe and chettos, as i am wont to do, when suddenly a strange beaste appeared b4 me...... i managed to take a picture before runnin g away and i hope someone here can help me identify it... mayhaps it is a Catte.......??
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# ? Apr 19, 2014 16:10 |
freak futanari, pls stop trolling the critterquest 2k14 thread thx
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# ? Apr 19, 2014 16:27 |
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Have some pictures from my vacation about half a year ago to Zion National {ark. Unfortunately I don't own a DSLR, so all of these are phone pictures, which leave a bit to be desired and meant I missed out on lots of cool little buggies. An awesome Moth, that I had previously identified, but cannot for the life of me remember what it was. It was huge, though. A pretty damselfly that had these gorgeous bright red spots on its wings. I might have a picture of just the wings somewhere on my phone. (I found a whole bunch of disembodied wings in the water.) Tadpoles Pretty Baby A rather sizable fly A lep And then a ground squirrel if for some reason you like mammals. everythingWasBees fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Apr 19, 2014 |
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EDIT: ^^^^^^ Harvestmen aren't actually spiders But that's a neat picture - they're so goofy and clumsy when they run around. EDIT2: ^^^^^ Your moth kind of looks like a Sphinx moth to me, but it's hard to tell exactly with the markings washed out like that. Do you have a picture that shows the colors/markings a little better? RustedChrome posted:
I go fishing with a buddy of mine several times each spring and summer, and last spring we were fishing for catfish off a small boat in a little muddy cove. My buddy got a bite which we assumed was an enormous fish, since it was practically folding his fishing rod in half. He fought with it for easily ten minutes before he finally got it near the boat. I grabbed the biggest net we had, and scooped at the shadow just under the water's surface: snapper by h. meadors, on Flickr He sat there on the seat of the boat while we drew straws to decide who got to try to take the hook out of his mouth. In the end, after he'd swallowed the chicken liver, he spit the hook out on his own and climbed up and out of the boat by himself. Snapping turtles are Goddamn sea monsters. Jadz fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Apr 19, 2014 |
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everythingWasBees posted:Pretty spider That's a harvestman, not a spider.
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Azurrat posted:That's a harvestman, not a spider. If I believe hard enough it'll be a spider. But now I know about tropical harvestmen and those are amazing.
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Went out to my favorite spot yesterday. It seems like it's still a little too early in the season, since most of the fun stuff I usually find out there just wasn't around yet, but I still managed to get a few new pictures. Everything is from Manhattan, Kansas. Click for huge: I didn't even see this Canadian Goose guarding her nest until I was almost on top of her. Snapped a couple pictures and left her alone. She was watching me like a hawk ( ) Canadian Goose by h. meadors, on Flickr I'm not entirely sure what this little guy is. At first, I thought he might be a Corn Flea Beetle, but after looking at him a little more, I don't think so. Ideas? beetle (unknown) by h. meadors, on Flickr This area (like any pond-type area in Kansas) is just filled with Cricket Frogs. You seriously can't step anywhere out here without a dozen of them hopping away from you. cricket frog by h. meadors, on Flickr Some sort of ootheca. Is it from a mantid? I'm terrible at identifying big sticky globs of egg sack. ootheca by h. meadors, on Flickr ootheca by h. meadors, on Flickr
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Spring has come and I've gotten a camera with a sort-of macro lens! That means backyard crittering! Here, have a jumping spider: Hello! by Alexahes, on Flickr Also managed to get this picture with three (3!) critters in one shot: 3i1 by Alexahes, on Flickr And if molluscs, arachnidas or myriapods aren't your cup of tea, how about a crustacean? Woodlouse by Alexahes, on Flickr Zakka fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Apr 19, 2014 |
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Sid Delicious posted:i dont know what this thread is but here is a chipmunk i saw in my back yard, i named him nigga charlie TOTES FUCKIN ADORBS edit: also a really good picture u should b in the photographer business
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Jadz posted:Went out to my favorite spot yesterday. It seems like it's still a little too early in the season, since most of the fun stuff I usually find out there just wasn't around yet, but I still managed to get a few new pictures. Everything is from Manhattan, Kansas. Click for huge: This could be the cocoon of some sort of moth. I've seen a few disguised by leaf litter in similar fashion. From the photo it appears to be about the size of your thumb. Any other details about it?
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Suicide Sam E. posted:This could be the cocoon of some sort of moth. I've seen a few disguised by leaf litter in similar fashion. From the photo it appears to be about the size of your thumb. Any other details about it? That's pretty much an accurate description. It was about the length of my thumb, maybe twice as big around, and seemed made up at least partially of leaf matter. The area is mostly populated by aquatic and semi-aquatic critters (frogs, turtles, lizards, dragonflies, etc) - this was on some woody vegetation (not a plant guy, couldn't tell you what type of plant) about fifteen feet or so from a pond made out of dam run-off, and surrounded mostly by shale and flint rocks. The surrounding area is heavy with reeds and cattails. EDIT: This area here, off to the right of this image: tuttle runoff by h. meadors, on Flickr Jadz fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Oooh! Critterquest! I'm so glad it made a resurgance!
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# ? Apr 20, 2014 00:09 |
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so its just a bunch of people taking pics of bugs uh, okay
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forbidden lesbian posted:so its just a bunch of people taking pics of bugs plz take a picture of a bug 4 me
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