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---------- PODS --------------------- Wasps  Spiders?  What lives here?? A large wasp? A small bird? It's the size of an orange, made from mud. One small hole on the top and a larger hole lower down.   Wasp galls  More galls   ?  Three leaves stuck together with silk.  A small door is visible in the silk wall.  Whatever made this eats the leaves, sticks them together and puts all those brown lumps there.   The leaf has been bent around in a triangle and held in place with silk.  A long flexible tube hanging from the bark. It has bits of sand/bark stuck to it for camouflage. It was flapping around in the wind. Very strange.  Blowing in the wind.  Eggs  ?? Pink jelly eggs?  Cocoon
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Jun 30, 2020 12:51
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Meat ants are great- when rival colonies are too close, thousands of the workers resolve the situation by carefully lining up along the border and kicking at one another for hours. Eventually one side retreats; neither suffers any losses.
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Jun 30, 2020 13:50
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Tree Bucket posted:Meat ants are great- when rival colonies are too close, thousands of the workers resolve the situation by carefully lining up along the border and kicking at one another for hours. Eventually one side retreats; neither suffers any losses. We could learn a lot from meat ants. Also your thread is chill as gently caress OP.
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Jun 30, 2020 14:03
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Jun 30, 2020 14:19
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Jun 30, 2020 14:20
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Jun 30, 2020 14:23
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---------- FROG -------------- Sleeping under some cow dung. 
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----------- SPIDER --------------- Also under the cow dung with the frog (and the dead assassin bug earlier)    
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Jun 30, 2020 14:30
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-------------- COW IN THE WATER -------------- It is getting very hot and dry so the cows like to get in the water to cool off, have a drink and eat the plants   
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Jun 30, 2020 15:42
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I love cows so much, they seem like real pals.
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Jun 30, 2020 15:49
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I love cows so much, they seem like real pals. Really they're more like landscape features than friendly animals. You have to understand that most of these animals have almost zero contact with humans for their entire lives. There is one that I think was hand reared years ago. It comes right up to you looking for food/scratches like a pet dog. Freaked me out the first time it happened.
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Jun 30, 2020 16:21
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----------------------- BIRDS --------------------- More apostle birds    New bird that has arrived in the last few days. Very cool and unafraid of people.   
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Jun 30, 2020 16:37
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------------ UNPLEASANT CATERPILLAR --------------- A weird caterpillar with tentacles all over its body. There are clusters of small black bugs and sometimes ants living near/on them.  Small bug clusters visible   A nest. They exude strands of a sticky white substance to create their houses. Many of the creatures are seen jammed together inside this structure.                   
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Jun 30, 2020 17:18
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Tree Bucket posted:Meat ants are great- when rival colonies are too close, thousands of the workers resolve the situation by carefully lining up along the border and kicking at one another for hours. Eventually one side retreats; neither suffers any losses. That's very interesting. I will keep an eye out for anything like that happening here.
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Jul 1, 2020 11:20
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munce posted:------------ UNPLEASANT CATERPILLAR --------------- These are mealybugs which are pests for gardeners and the ants are helping protect them in exchange for food.
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Jul 1, 2020 11:56
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 A black cockatoo in a bush
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Jul 1, 2020 13:09
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Nice pics, the pink goo is some kind of scale insect pest. A few of the cocoons seem to have been parasitized by tiny wasps. The gold bum ants with the thorax spines are a polyrhachis species. They are a type of Weaver ant, and can weave bark and leaves together. When I keep them in captivity, a piece of bark on the starter testtube helps them kick off to a good start.
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Jul 1, 2020 23:18
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I have some pics I can post if thats kosher. They aren't from the bush, just the woods.
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Telsa Cola posted:I have some pics I can post if thats kosher. They aren't from the bush, just the woods. Yeah go ahead. Let's see some more creatures.
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Velvet Ant, gorgeous but scary when they crawl under you while you are sitting down.  Big ant boi  We run into a fuckton of turkeys  We accidentally camped on a salt lick so we had many visitors, including two bulls who didn't really give a gently caress.  Tadpoles, lots and lots of tadpoles.  Had this rattler identified but forgot. It cruised through all of our gear and kept on going thankfully. 
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Telsa Cola posted:Velvet Ant, gorgeous but scary when they crawl under you while you are sitting down. Nice ant! And a rattlesnake in your camp. That would keep you on your toes.
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Jul 4, 2020 09:39
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Velvet ants are flower wasps, powerful sting
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 A bat in a cave.
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Jul 16, 2020 03:02
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munce posted:
Would like to see more of this fine specimen, if you're taking requests.
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Jul 16, 2020 03:11
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Jul 16, 2020 03:24
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----------- SMALL GRASSHOPPER -------------------  
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humpthewind posted:Would like to see more of this fine specimen, if you're taking requests. I think have a few more somewhere. I'll see if i can find them.
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Jul 16, 2020 03:43
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 Dung beetle.
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Jul 16, 2020 04:08
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munce posted:----------- KANGAROOS -------------  The Detroit Zoo (US) has a walk through kangaroo exhibit and it was the best day of my life at that time when a kangaroo hopped across the path in front of me. Petting a koala is on my bucket list. They look so soft! This is a great thread. E: what is that bright green plant the wasp is in the shade of. It looks like touching it would result in a slow and painful death. E2: That greyscale wasp looks like something from Tim Burton. Thora fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Jul 16, 2020 |
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Fat Albert in a can posted:
I couldn't tell you what that plant is, but it's not dangerous. The wasp is tiny, only ~5mm, and the plants aren't much bigger. From eye level they just look like little plants, totally unremarkable. You only see the detail with macro photography. Or if you were face down on the ground. If you want a dangerous plant check this out: Gympie Gympie / Stinging Bush / Suicide Plant It grows in the rainforests up here. Not where I work, on the coast.
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humpthewind posted:Would like to see more of this fine specimen, if you're taking requests.    This is a different one.             
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Jul 18, 2020 06:48
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munce posted:
Very metal! No Demi Moore pics though voted 1 misleading title OP
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Thank you! It looks like a wild version of my dog and I love it  
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good dog
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