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Mak0rz posted:axolotl farmer forgot to mention that only generic epithets get capitalized. Specific (or lower) epithets are all lower case. Additionally, subgenera are written in parentheses. News media does this all the time, even in the science section of newspapers and it makes my spergbergers flare up something fierce.
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Subgenera are capitalized, as well. The genera I deal with are sometimes very speciose, so when I'm talking or writing about them I will usually just say the subgenera and the specific name. Pterostichus, one close to my heart, has 87 different subgenera.
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axolotl farmer posted:News media does this all the time, even in the science section of newspapers and it makes my spergbergers flare up something fierce. See also: bath product ingredients.
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May 13, 2014 22:27
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axolotl farmer posted:News media does this all the time, even in the science section of newspapers and it makes my spergbergers flare up something fierce. edit: bad photo 
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May 13, 2014 23:13
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Hazo posted:I bought a deck of sea life-themed playing cards from one of those lovely beachside tourist trap stores this weekend that had the species names capitalized and I found myself rustled pretty hard. They also italicized "Cubozoa" 
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May 13, 2014 23:16
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stubblyhead posted:You can see the demon in this one already. You know what you must do. The parents only looked mildly concerned when their creche came very close to me. 
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May 14, 2014 01:42
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Hazo posted:I bought a deck of sea life-themed playing cards from one of those lovely beachside tourist trap stores this weekend that had the species names capitalized and I found myself rustled pretty hard. That's clearly a Melanocetus johnsonii and not a Lophius piscatorius. You should get your money back.
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May 14, 2014 02:07
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I still don't know why they used a picture of a juvenile rainbow trout instead of the adult everybody recognizes.
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May 14, 2014 02:13
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Public domain images or something? Scan the whole deck, man. haha
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May 14, 2014 02:24
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enziarro posted:Public domain images or something? ITT goons spellcheck and properly label Hazo's deck of 52 animal cards. You're welcome. 
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May 14, 2014 03:13
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54.  Not much wrong with them though. The clownfish even has the species name in lowercase! As a sidenote, all my photos seem to have that weird lack of focus around the edges. Is there some kind of mechanical or sensor issue at work? It's a five-year-old point & shoot after all. I've severely tempted to actually take them to the office and scan them. edit  the marlin photo is from the wiki article
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May 14, 2014 03:57
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Anybody on the Atlantic Coast tonight? Should be Horseshoe Crab spawning the first full moon of May and June. Tens of thousands of hat-sized devonian sea-bugs getting they thang on all over beaches from Maine down through Florida. A thing to see.
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May 14, 2014 18:33
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Slo-Tek posted:Anybody on the Atlantic Coast tonight? Should be Horseshoe Crab spawning the first full moon of May and June. Tens of thousands of hat-sized devonian sea-bugs getting they thang on all over beaches from Maine down through Florida. Awesome. I'm just south of Boston so I'll definitely take a trip to the beach tonight.
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May 14, 2014 18:38
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Slo-Tek posted:Tens of thousands of hat-sized devonian sea-bugs getting they thang on all over beaches from Maine down through Florida. The exact phrase I was looking for to fill out the "long walks on a beach with..." section of my online dating profile. Will they be on the Chesapeake, or only the ocean proper? I'm wondering if there's anywhere within about an hour drive from DC where I could see this. Can't really swing the three hours to Ocean City.
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kedo posted:The exact phrase I was looking for to fill out the "long walks on a beach with..." section of my online dating profile. http://www.chesapeakebay.net/fieldguide/critter/horseshoe_crab says probably. You'll want a sandy beach, and like all natural processes, it might be awesome, or it might be not much.
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Hazo posted:As a sidenote, all my photos seem to have that weird lack of focus around the edges. Is there some kind of mechanical or sensor issue at work? It's a five-year-old point & shoot after all. I've severely tempted to actually take them to the office and scan them.  Also your camera has an optical issue, probably that its lens is Tricerapowerbottom posted:we also expect sens. str. and sens. lat. to be used correctly, or you have to post your dick with your username written on it Pah, s. str. and s. lat. are quite sufficient, it's not like anyone could possibly be confused about what they mean 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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 Here is my cat (Felis catus) sniffing one of his catmint (Nepeta curviflora) plants this morning
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blowfish posted:Also your camera has an optical issue, probably that its lens is
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A few things from the past couple months! I only have a little Nikon point-and-shoot so no amazing macros, but still passable quality I think. Took these in southeast Massachusetts and Rhode Island between late March to late April/early May Ladybug!  Mute swan!  Honey bee of some sort!  Unfortunately couldn't get a clear shot of this guy. All I know is that it's some kind of heron or cormorant-type dude.
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May 15, 2014 00:20
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Hazo posted:It didn't used to be like this. It's a medium-high-end Canon. It's just five years old so maybe it's deteriorated. Hmmm... in that case some lens element must have shifted in a really weird way.
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May 15, 2014 00:51
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One week in and we have visitors at the feeder! A thief.  And a cardinal.  Off topic: New flickr is annoying. I'm still bad at lightroom. I need to "borrow" my roommate's 70-200L to see how much better it is than my cheapo 28-135 and 55-250 (probably a lot).
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I have posted some of these in the chicken thread before, but I thought other people might like to see them too! Here is a sleepy bearded dragon:  From my chicken paddock, SE/Central Queensland. Here is the same bearded dragon after I got too close to him   Here is a flock of happy jacks (apostlebirds), eating some grain I put out for them. In the middle is the current baby happy jack, squeaking and hoping for some food:  Here is the baby happy jack having food put into its mouth.  Fun fact: happy jacks, like willy wagtails, are in the "core corvid" group and are thus full of brains. I can confirm that happy jacks are very smart. They also love humans and are great fun to watch. Here is a baby magpie, sitting on a chicken roost that I cleaned up right after this photo:  Here is the baby magpie's twin, sitting at the chook pen door:  Here is Mum or Dad magpie:  The two twin baby magpies were being taught by Mum and Dad magpie, as well as a mostly grown-up helper sibling, to catch witchetty grubs on the lawn. It involves staring at/listening to the ground then digging up the witchetty grub with their beaks. Mum and Dad magpie demonstrated it to the babies and, instead of giving the witchetty grubs to them, made them look for their own. However, with the Easter holidays, and longer chook pen opening hours, they decided it was easier to eat the ready supply of layer pellets. The babies are getting good at finding their own witchetty grubs now that I have shooed them away from the chook pen. Finally, for any American viewers: a dread huntsman spider! (And my poorly nail-polished hand)  This is from my aunt's place around the Maleny/Montville region in the Hinterlands, but we get them everywhere in Queensland. This one isn't actually very big for a huntsman, just close enough to include my hand for reference. CROWS EVERYWHERE fucked around with this message at 05:25 on May 15, 2014 |
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Slo-Tek posted:Anybody on the Atlantic Coast tonight? Should be Horseshoe Crab spawning the first full moon of May and June. Tens of thousands of hat-sized devonian sea-bugs getting they thang on all over beaches from Maine down through Florida.  blowfish posted:Hmmm... in that case some lens element must have shifted in a really weird way. CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:I have posted some of these in the chicken thread before, but I thought other people might like to see them too! 
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I love how bearded dragon spines seem so soft when they're chill and then they turn into land-blowfish when they're pissed.
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So I've been at my friends cabin and found some cool critters to take pictures of! Like this Ribbed Pine Borer:  Rhagium inquisitor 4 by Alexahes, on Flickr  Rhagium inquisitor by Alexahes, on Flickr and what I guess is a larva of the same species:  Longhorn Larvae by Alexahes, on Flickr I also found a lot lily beetles, Lilioceris merdigera, that laid their eggs on some chives:  Lilioceris merdigera by Alexahes, on Flickr  Egg by Alexahes, on Flickr Actually, really few of the eggs hatched. Does anybody know if that's something to do with the substrate the egg were laid on or something else? Or is it normal with beetle eggs? Lay a lot of them and hope enough hatches and matures, kinda thing? They had some really cute larvae, though!  Larver by Alexahes, on Flickr  Larva1 by Alexahes, on Flickr Until they got a day or two older and started to cover them selves up in slime and excrements:  Bladbillelarve by Alexahes, on Flickr  LarvaUgh by Alexahes, on Flickr How about a click beetle to look at something nicer?  Click by Alexahes, on Flickr Or a hoverfly?  Syrphidae by Alexahes, on Flickr Also, am I right in thinking that this is a Cantharis rustica?  Cantharis rustica by Alexahes, on Flickr  Cantharis rustica 3 by Alexahes, on Flickr  Cantharis rustica 2 by Alexahes, on Flickr E: Bad gramma Zakka fucked around with this message at 16:37 on May 15, 2014 |
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Spotted a totally awesome looking spider in my garden yesterday, he had his forearms up like "come at me bro"
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I haven't been doing nearly as much collecting as I normally would this year, but got out headlamping last night, finding a few carabids, and what I think is Harpaphe haydeniana, which is so common in Pacific Northwest fog belt forests you trip over them.
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Critters appear on the windows of my building here in Los Angeles and I try to get decent pictures through the glass with my phone. I haven't seen one of these before and was wondering if anyone could identify it even though it's mostly a silhouette.
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Tricerapowerbottom posted:I haven't been doing nearly as much collecting as I normally would this year, but got out headlamping last night, finding a few carabids, and what I think is Harpaphe haydeniana, which is so common in Pacific Northwest fog belt forests you trip over them. That 'running light' pattern is so nifty.
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Zakka posted:Also, am I right in thinking that this is a Cantharis rustica? Ayup. Dark tibiae, femora lighter proximally (near the body) and a red pronotum with black mark.
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Dick Trauma posted:Critters appear on the windows of my building here in Los Angeles and I try to get decent pictures through the glass with my phone. I haven't seen one of these before and was wondering if anyone could identify it even though it's mostly a silhouette. Hmm, maybe a Cantharidae, or solider beetle? I'm seeing a lot of them fly around this time of year, them and Coccinellidae (ladybugs) are probably the only two kinds of beetles I don't pick up, coming from a lack of my own interest in them and not knowing anyone who's into them. Most things I find I just put in my pocket vial and set aside for other beetle people I know as gift packages, usually accruing them in little piles and sending them out every year or two in big bunches.
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With those fat thighs it looks more like a longhorn beetle. A count of feet segments could clear that up since soldier beetles have 5-5-5 and longhorn beetles appear to have 4-4-4 (even if it's technically 5-5-5). Is there a more hi-res pic available?
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The image link zooms in a fair bit if you click on it.
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The Salt Lake City peregrines Suicide Sam E. posted a while back; their eggs are hatching!   http://wildlife.utah.gov/learn-more/peregrine-cam.html Mom's currently sitting on them, but when they readjust themselves or the parents switch out, you might catch a glimpse of the chipped eggshell or hear them chirping.
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axolotl farmer might be right, I'm not too familiar with femural structure of cerambycids. The internet says about cantharids: "Mesotarsus with 5 distinct tarsomeres (pentamerous). Tarsomeres on hind leg at least as many as on mid leg.".
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The ability of people to identify bugs amazes me. There's so many and they sport such fine distinctions among them.
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kinmik posted:The Salt Lake City peregrines Suicide Sam E. posted a while back; their eggs are hatching! This is pretty drat cool. I've always thought peregrine falcons were spiffy, but now they're way more awesome in my estimation. Nest? What nest? These goddamn chicks will grow up on rocks and they will loving like it. 
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Dick Trauma posted:The ability of people to identify bugs amazes me. There's so many and they sport such fine distinctions among them. Generally I've found that outside of actual blow you away amazing ID'ers, most entomologists or any other biologist can give a good idea of the general order of a given organism, a good idea about common organisms to family or genus (depending on access to the internet, I don't remember off the top of my head what a german cockroach or a green darner dragonfly are really called, for instance), and can ID to species their group of interest. Some groups, like some girls, are bigger than others, which makes things harder. The subfamily of ground beetles I'm really interested in right now has 1,939 described species at last count, but I only know of one other person in this hemisphere who is actively working on them, doing revisions and reviews. Worldwide, I only know of six total people who publish a lot about them. So, its a combination of experience, learning, and some intuition to get you started on the right track. I myself frequently just google "spiders of washington" if I'm looking for a name for something someone brought me, which they always think is a hobo spider.
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Dick Trauma posted:The ability of people to identify bugs amazes me. There's so many and they sport such fine distinctions among them. Count the little hairs around its butthole. If it has 436 of them it's the longhorn, and if there's 435 it's the soldier.
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