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Some sort of moth I guess? I have never seen the coloration before. It's also pretty big. I struck it with my car at 80 km/h and when I got home (half an hour later) It was lodged in my windshield wiper and still alive. The reason I didn't stop sooner to check it out was that the immense wing size made me suspect that it was a big horse fly and you do not interact with those without brandishing a whip and a chair. This was in Sweden.       I put it in a jar to show to a friend and it stopped moving so I assumed it was dead. The morning after it's still alive but can't fly. What do moths eat?
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I'm pretty sure that's an Elephant Hawk Moth, they eat flower nectar.
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Jun 2, 2017 05:59
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Looks like an elephant Hawk-Moth. They have nectar sucking mouth parts, so I guess some honey might do? I dunno
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Jun 2, 2017 06:00
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I was wandering around the neighborhood with a friend last night drunk as poo poo and I think I saw a fox. I love foxes, and I had the presence of mind to photograph it for my little wildlife picture collection I've recently started. We had a little staredown as I got my phone out and then it scampered away, unfortunately this is the only picture my drunk self got from that little encounter. Definite failure in taking a good photo, but I'd be interested to see if anyone can actually identify it from this picture. 
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Jun 2, 2017 06:23
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Wow, been a minute since I've seen a critterquest thread. I guess I have some critters. Black Rat Snake swimming  Same Black Rat Snake climbing up a tree right next to me, giving no fucks detectable by science  Blue Tailed Skink  Whistling Duck 500 miles out of it's normal range  Likkle baby snapping turtle  Brand new Painted Turtle  Grown-rear end Box Turtle  Six Spotted Tiger Beetle what got Eight Spots 
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Jun 2, 2017 06:25
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tweet my meat posted:I was wandering around the neighborhood with a friend last night drunk as poo poo and I think I saw a fox. I love foxes, and I had the presence of mind to photograph it for my little wildlife picture collection I've recently started. We had a little staredown as I got my phone out and then it scampered away, unfortunately this is the only picture my drunk self got from that little encounter. Looks like it could also be a 'yote? e: Nevermind that -- tail looks too bushy and you did say it looked like a fox. Common things being common, probably just a Grey fox? B. Birdsworth fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Jun 2, 2017 07:19
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Yeah didn't look like a coyote, common gray looks about right.
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Jun 2, 2017 08:20
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El Burbo posted:Looks like an elephant Hawk-Moth. They have nectar sucking mouth parts, so I guess some honey might do? I dunno Sadly it died while I was at work  But looking at those pictures it seems that a few whole pieces of it was missing from the collision.
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Jun 2, 2017 16:03
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What kind of spidey is this? Found in a shed in San Jose, CA
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Jun 2, 2017 16:23
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perhaps Zoropsis spinimana? similar / related to wolf spiders but not actually one of them native to southern Europe, a recent introduction to California vaguely fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Jun 2, 2017 18:41
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holy loving poo poo look at that Katydid. Goddamn that's a pretty critter. This is a video of some of the recently-discovered creatures in the last 18 months. That katydid is one of the most beautiful insects I have ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_Hft12dIw&hd=1 Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Jun 2, 2017 23:31
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http://i.imgur.com/p0kDq8h.gifv
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Jun 3, 2017 02:55
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Is that a color changing spider!?
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Jun 4, 2017 00:12
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it changes the size of the silver patches when it feels threatened, maybe to make itself more difficult to see? probably needs more study tbh there are a few spiders that genuinely do change colour, such as the flower crab spiders Misumena sp. (yellow/white) and Thomisus sp. (yellow/white/pink) which try to camouflage themselves against whatever flower they're sitting on, they're so great 
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Jun 4, 2017 12:50
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It looks like a Hershey's Kiss in fishnets.
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Jun 4, 2017 13:55
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This bird (crow, I think) sure was worked up about something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kxVDhWaBc (Central Arkansas)
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Jun 13, 2017 14:25
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Maybe a juvenile begging for food?
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Jun 13, 2017 15:01
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The mosquitoes are too numerous for much Critterquesting in Edmonton these days, but here are some sightings from earlier this year.     Come on down from there! I just want to be friends!  It makes sense that porcupines would shed their quills as they're just specialized hairs, but I hadn't thought about it until I saw a pile of them outside one of their dens.  I hope this robin was also shedding. I spent quite a lot of time down by the beaver lodge in early May and it was pretty great!      It's quite an ecosystem down there!  Muskrats are well known to live in beaver lodges. Until recently they were thought to be mooches, but it turns out they actually help with maintenance.  Watching these two interact was a real treat.  
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Jun 17, 2017 23:44
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Muskrat love.
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Jun 17, 2017 23:52
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What the heck is this thing? We're in San Antonio, TX.
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Jun 18, 2017 02:37
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hooah posted:What the heck is this thing? We're in San Antonio, TX. Looks Iike an assassin bug of some kind but someone else can probably be more specific. That proboscis is used for piercing other bugs and sucking out their insides.
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Jun 18, 2017 03:04
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Looks Iike an assassin bug of some kind but someone else can probably be more specific. That proboscis is used for piercing other bugs and sucking out their insides. I bet it's a wheel bug, from that midsagittal spine
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Jun 18, 2017 03:06
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It's a kissing bug E: apparently also a vector for chagas disease
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Jun 18, 2017 07:41
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my cat is norris posted:Maybe a juvenile begging for food? Yes! It's that time of year again. I think the parents feed young crows out of annoyance, because sometimes the begging gets so bad even I want to get them something to eat.
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Jun 18, 2017 12:13
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I neglected to post winter bird feeder photos, so here are some highlights: These are beautiful. I need to get myself an actual camera, instead of my crappy phone. MORE BIRDS  Magpie  Coal Tit (or as I like to think of them, European Chickadees) Normally they're very skittish and flitty, but I'm sure this is the same bird that visits me everyday and so has finally agreed to strike a pose.
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Jun 18, 2017 12:44
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In the everglades Gator, of course  Birds     Bugs       And then they hosed 
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Jun 21, 2017 20:15
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gently caress (YEAH), LUBBERS
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Jun 21, 2017 20:28
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Here's a southern alligator lizard I caught in my back yard. Finally something different than the western fence lizards everywhere.
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Jun 21, 2017 20:40
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El Burbo posted:In the everglades FogHelmut posted:Here's a southern alligator lizard I caught in my back yard. such cool pics
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Consider this Part 1 of me going through my backlog of poo poo to share in this thread starting from like two years ago enjoy! Can't remember what story, if any, this bee has. Looks like Bombus vagans. I found her taking a rest just outside the house.   I remember finding this moth scrambling through the grass while mowing the lawn. At first I thought it failed to emerge but I put it on the side of the shed and it inflated its wings and eventually flew away just fine!   Now for a three-part series of photographs I like to call Making the Horse People in This Thread Incredibly Jealous. For those of you that don't know/remember I was working as a field biologist in summer of 2015 where we tracked wild horses and collected their turds to look for parasites! This is a small band of young adults we found somewhere between Rocky Mountain House and Nordegg, Alberta. The lead stallion and mare took a hard look at me for a while. Eventually the stallion considered me uninteresting or nonthreatening enough and walked away but the mare took a shine to me for some reason and came up to say hello. She kept sniffing my face, particularly around my mouth. I don't know what her deal was but I assume she smelled the dried mango I had for a snack shortly before this. I thought it was pretty funny and eventually started to laugh at her, which ruined the magic and scared her away. Horses are dumb.   
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Mak0rz posted:Now for a three-part series of photographs I like to call Making the Horse People in This Thread Incredibly Jealous. For those of you that don't know/remember I was working as a field biologist in summer of 2015 where we tracked wild horses and collected their turds to look for parasites! This is a small band of young adults we found somewhere between Rocky Mountain House and Nordegg, Alberta. Ruddha posted:
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Wild stallions will mark territory with droppings that are laced with pheromones. Once I saw three adolescents fighting and they went back and forth between biting/kicking each other and trying to poo poo the stinkiest turds and poo poo was flying everywhere because they would stomp and kick it around while fighting. They eventually got to the point where their asses were shooting blanks. Their anuses would convulse but nothing would come out. Noble beasts, horses. almost as noble as my job that involved being vigilant of horse anal activity
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I never get to post in the critterquest threads because, A.) I'm too slow to get good shots when I see something cool and, B.) the wildlife around here is pretty mundane to begin with. Oh, look! Raccoons! A possum! Holy poo poo, squirrels! But I was out on my back porch today when this itty bitty little mantis decided to just stroll by.   Hey guy! 
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Jun 26, 2017 02:26
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saw the biggest hornet in the universe yesterday it's actually a moth 
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Jun 26, 2017 13:38
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Jun 26, 2017 17:31
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financially racist posted:saw the biggest hornet in the universe yesterday That would fool me enough that I wouldn't want to get close enough to be sure.
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Dick Trauma posted:That would fool me enough that I wouldn't want to get close enough to be sure. the antennae and wings were a dead giveaway for me before i even got close to it i'm also a nerd with a biology minor focusing on entomology so v  v
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There were at least 7 of these big bastards on this fire ring. Should I have skewered and roasted them?
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I live in Los Angeles so I only see the mundane stuff, but on my way home yesterday I came across this oddly colored pigeon. It was missing it's breast feathers and was almost mesmerized by its reflection in a mirrored door. It let me get much closer than I expected.
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can someone id this weird caterpillar https://youtu.be/kQYzNMlZXJY?t=305
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