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sexy tiger boobs posted:That's more likely the work of your neighborhood Cooper's Hawk. Or just an rear end in a top hat cat. No, it's definitely the crows.  I'm friends with a pair of crows who've nested in the trees by my house and had 3 kids this year. We hang out every day, they come when I whistle and even when they're not eating my treats they like to bring back food from around the neighborhood to play with and drop in the water dish before they eat it on their rail there. Which is the crow zone. There is a coopers hawk and whenever he comes around the crows kick his rear end. I think this probably has something to do w/ a big clump of tail feather Mr Crow is missing. poverty goat fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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Hey Critterquesters! It's time for this thread to get goodmined and a new OP to take it's place. Let's give it a week to wrap it up and someone can start us back up again!
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Oops, I guess that means I should post some friends from work before the thread closes. Most of these will be birds since that's what I work with, but there are a few exceptions. An Acorn Woodpecker  Western Bluebird  California Quail  Greater Roadrunner  An understandably irate tri-colored blackbird. (He was released safely)  I think this is a San Diego Gopher Snake, but it may be Pacific instead.  A soft digfriend  A western toad (who was placed back into the mud immediately after the pictures)  A black-headed grosbeak with strong opinions  A wild red-eared slider that was successfully rehomed out of our wilderness.  And a handsome yellow-headed blackbird, who was released.
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Jun 27, 2021 01:22
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  Critterquest 2020.
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Jun 27, 2021 01:30
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Maybe the next thread will solve the mystery of the sad doot
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for the first time in my life I have a patio worth spending time on and now I am all in on questing for critters so far I've just seen some bunnies and some robins but I think I'm gonna go get a birdfeeder this week godspeed, critters. til our next meeting.
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who's going to OP the new thread
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Enfys posted:Maybe the next thread will solve the mystery of the sad doot I saw a sad doot irl a year or two ago and I have some bad news: it's just some hair from the beauty salon stuck to some other trash on the side of the dumpster
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 Any ideas on what these are? I was upstate in NY over the weekend and saw thousands of these on the shady side of trees, mostly birch. The trees looked dead with little to no leaves. There were also caterpillars(?) everywhere on the property, mostly dead--unsure what is going on but it seems like the biome is out of wack in some way. This one was pretty, though! 
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Jun 28, 2021 01:23
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Them's gypsy moths, so yeah I bet the trees did look rough.
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Jun 28, 2021 01:39
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Jun 28, 2021 01:42
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the yeti posted:Them's gypsy moths, so yeah I bet the trees did look rough. Apparently this year is the worst infestation in decades, thanks for helping with the ID. We're going to let the property owner know, but it doesn't sound like much can be done at this point. https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/gypsy-moth-infestation-is-worst-in-decades
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Leon Sumbitches posted:
Ugh, that reminds me of the couple years I lived in Connecticut as a kid. Nothing like climbing a tree and putting your hand into a clump of that poo poo.
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Critters from Belize: Cicada carapace  Think this might be a juvenile red winged grasshopper, but it was only about 1.5-2" in length  A moth  Some Googling leads me to believe this is a Polistes Carnifex. Our guide told us to stay TF away.   The remains of a rhinoceros beetle  Iguana. Green? Black? You deice  
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I don't know if this counts as a gift or not but the crows found their own bread and apple and brought it back to the water dish to make this soup for me today Yesterday Mr and Mrs crow were trying to teach one of their children how to make the soup but instead he jumped in and splashed around. Seems like a good kid. 
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Found a golden tortoise beetle on my morning glory this afternoon. I was out on my balcony and I saw a very bright flying thing and then there was this extremely golden beetle sitting on my plant. Apparently Ipomoea (morning glory, sweet potato, moonflower, etc) and other Convolvulaceae are host plants to that beetle, and I noticed it's got holes on some leaves so it's probably been nibbling on it. This is about the brightest beetle I've ever seen, it literally looked like jewelry.
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We just got back from an unpleasantly hot trip to Jasper. We saw a couple deer and elk, but as usual I was more excited about the smaller things. Encountered this hardy and large (for Alberta) spider near the top of a mountain.   Rescued this better-than-OK moth (gallium sphynx) from a hotel lobby.  Trail frog.  Lots of damselflies about (but not enough to deal with the clouds of mosquitoes).  Interesting beetle.  So many dragonflies out this morning! My mom sent me the next two:  
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Eeyo posted:Found a golden tortoise beetle on my morning glory this afternoon. I was out on my balcony and I saw a very bright flying thing and then there was this extremely golden beetle sitting on my plant. Apparently Ipomoea (morning glory, sweet potato, moonflower, etc) and other Convolvulaceae are host plants to that beetle, and I noticed it's got holes on some leaves so it's probably been nibbling on it. This is about the brightest beetle I've ever seen, it literally looked like jewelry. I really like iridescent beetles too. This is a jewel beetle of some kind I saw in south western Australia, near Albany.  Landed on my hiking partner's back.
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Jul 1, 2021 21:21
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I don’t know what fly this is but it had a bright red butt
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Jul 5, 2021 05:37
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Anyone know what this caterpillar I found in the garden is? I'm in south UK. I tried google lens but all it helpfully told me is that it is some kind of caterpillar!
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Jul 5, 2021 10:55
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 This dragonfly was sitting still on the sidewalk so I picked it up and left it on a bush. Hopefully it was okay!  Love them bees.  Leafhoppers are strange little creatures.
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Jul 5, 2021 15:01
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I have a small area in my back yard that I let grow wild with native plants, and I caught this bee(?) hanging out on the black-eyed susans. After looking at the picture I'm not sure it's a bee. Central Arkansas USA 
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Jul 5, 2021 23:43
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this bee was either making love to this cricket-type bug, eating it, or both (the bug was still alive)
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Jul 8, 2021 00:41
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Mozi posted:this bee was either making love to this cricket-type bug, eating it, or both (the bug was still alive) it was laying an egg inside it which will hatch and then eat it from the inside out. you can even see that in action; look close at the back end of both insects.
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vortmax posted:I have a small area in my back yard that I let grow wild with native plants, and I caught this bee(?) hanging out on the black-eyed susans. After looking at the picture I'm not sure it's a bee. Central Arkansas USA It's a bee! Dunno what it is for sure but I think it's a longhorn, on account of its long "horns." Mozi posted:this bee was either making love to this cricket-type bug, eating it, or both (the bug was still alive) DEEP STATE PLOT posted:it was laying an egg inside it which will hatch and then eat it from the inside out. you can even see that in action; look close at the back end of both insects. Not a bee and there's no parasitism here. This is an asilid, a species of predatory fly. Many of them are bee mimics. The other insect is indeed lunch! In any case, there are no bees that parasitize other insects in the way that parasitoid wasps do (as you describe). Bees and their larvae are strictly herbivorous. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Jul 8, 2021 03:56
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to sully the name of the noble bee... how horrible
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Mak0rz posted:It's a bee! Dunno what it is for sure but I think it's a longhorn, on account of its long "horns." Awesome info! To me, you can dig the shape of the eyes on this guy to get a quick idea that it’s deffo not a bee. The... stalky? Kinda distinct shape of the eyes is a handy discriminant Gunshow Poophole fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Mak0rz posted:It's a bee! Dunno what it is for sure but I think it's a longhorn, on account of its long "horns."
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Mak0rz posted:Not a bee and there's no parasitism here. This is an asilid, a species of predatory fly. Many of them are bee mimics. The other insect is indeed lunch! i glanced at it quickly and thought it was a wasp, especially with what i thought was an ovipositor at its back end which must just be random debris. guess i should stick to hemipterans lmao.
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Some more critters from the back garden Some kind of hover fly? This is the only shot I got of it before it buggered off but the back was light and darker grey stripes.  More of a caterpillar, think this might be a more mature version of the one I posted recently. Pretty certain this one is a yellow-tail moth caterpillar.   
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AlongsideWild/status/1413276077577969669
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I had to do that to my mom once, that was fun
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Jul 9, 2021 16:42
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Actually, it's a hummingbird MOTH you absolute ignoramus. Holy poo poo you're dumb. Have you ever been outside before, or is this your first time?
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Jul 9, 2021 17:30
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counterpoint: the moth is just as cool and exciting and cute as the bird so either way it's a win and we learn a thing!
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vaguely posted:counterpoint: the moth is just as cool and exciting and cute as the bird so either way it's a win and we learn a thing! Objectively true yet hard to sell to someone who's iffy on bugs (or very invested in attracting hummingbirds)
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It's just a hummingbird moth, who's acting like a bird that thinks it's a bee. Is it us or it that's messed up?
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hovering is powerful and nectar is a good source of food. Unsurprising convergent evolution imo
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my cat is norris posted:Also here is a spoder trying to be skinny: I think I found its Finnish cousin!  Also a jumping spider!  A tiny greenish beetle.  Celastrina argiolus, perhaps.  A Formica ant with some aphids.  A pseudoscorpion.  A flying bugge.  A basic fly.  I dunno, a hammerhead fly? 
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Constantly forget that pseudoscorpions exist...they're so weird.
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