tomthetreeman
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Wow. That was a wild guess based on a bad pic from a bug book and a little help from the 'net. I have no bug pics right now, so the floor is open.
-Tom
-Tom
What is this lil bugger?
- Thread starter treedimensional
- Start date
- Location
- Canada
Tom ARE WE turning this into a "Trees from a Distance" with bugs? LOL I hope NO ONE has a bunch of NEW Critters in their trees.
I am trusting Canada/USA Border Services OR Immigration can keep EAB from entering Canada!!!! Oh, My MISTAKE, that would take people, money and will to make happen!!!!
I am trusting Canada/USA Border Services OR Immigration can keep EAB from entering Canada!!!! Oh, My MISTAKE, that would take people, money and will to make happen!!!!
Oh yeah!
Lets turn it into that!
I should be able to tear you guys up on this stuff!
Well, especially on large caterpillars, large moths, beetles, bees, and weird interesting stuff.
I'll post a picture, I take lots of pictures of cool insects. Maybe some time tonight.
I've always collected since a kid.
Lets turn it into that!
I should be able to tear you guys up on this stuff!
Well, especially on large caterpillars, large moths, beetles, bees, and weird interesting stuff.
I'll post a picture, I take lots of pictures of cool insects. Maybe some time tonight.
I've always collected since a kid.
- Location
- Canada
Ok. As long as you promise to keep all the NASTY live ones on the US side of the line!
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Oh yeah!
Lets turn it into that!
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I'm in.
My brothers did all the bug collecting and pinning them down on a board (yuck) when we were growing up.
But I saw a lot.
I preferred to watch the insects moving around alive.
It certainly was more interesting than just seeing them stuck to a board
Actually, I don't think pinning live insects is allowed (for school projects,etc.) any more, is it?
-Diane-
Oh yeah!
Lets turn it into that!
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I'm in.
My brothers did all the bug collecting and pinning them down on a board (yuck) when we were growing up.
But I saw a lot.
I preferred to watch the insects moving around alive.
It certainly was more interesting than just seeing them stuck to a board
Actually, I don't think pinning live insects is allowed (for school projects,etc.) any more, is it?
-Diane-
- Location
- NJ
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Actually, I don't think pinning live insects is allowed (for school projects,etc.) any more, is it?
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It's a damn shame what being polictically correct is doing to this counrty. We are truly rasiing just utter sissys now adays.
I love the can't play a game with a winner rule. Poor loser Jonny doesn't find out that he is a true loser till he has his first job and the Boss says "your fired cause your a damn loser"
Actually, I don't think pinning live insects is allowed (for school projects,etc.) any more, is it?
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It's a damn shame what being polictically correct is doing to this counrty. We are truly rasiing just utter sissys now adays.
I love the can't play a game with a winner rule. Poor loser Jonny doesn't find out that he is a true loser till he has his first job and the Boss says "your fired cause your a damn loser"
Cool.
Lets go with EXTREMELY EASY at first and get harder as we go.
Here is EXTREMELY EASY #1, that even a city kid should know.
taken, this past weekend. female with eggs inside no doubt.
Easy ones to get people interested.
I just catch and release most insects by the way Diane. But the interesting ones, I try to collect one male and female of each. But I wouldn't if it was rare or endangered.
I will just stick with my local insects for now. East of the Mississippi.
Lets go with EXTREMELY EASY at first and get harder as we go.
Here is EXTREMELY EASY #1, that even a city kid should know.
taken, this past weekend. female with eggs inside no doubt.
Easy ones to get people interested.
I just catch and release most insects by the way Diane. But the interesting ones, I try to collect one male and female of each. But I wouldn't if it was rare or endangered.
I will just stick with my local insects for now. East of the Mississippi.
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- NJ
Kung fu style?
We will keep the same rules as trees from a distance:
post one specie at a time for the most part. could be more than one picture of the same critter.
All insects and spiders allowed. Do you want to throw in occasional snake, lizard and stuff like flying squirel, minks and other little critters too? Or should it be just insects/spiders?
it isn't your turn to post until you get one right, unless you pass.
(if the winner of my previous picture passes, i will show another easy one, but harder than that first give away).
post one specie at a time for the most part. could be more than one picture of the same critter.
All insects and spiders allowed. Do you want to throw in occasional snake, lizard and stuff like flying squirel, minks and other little critters too? Or should it be just insects/spiders?
it isn't your turn to post until you get one right, unless you pass.
(if the winner of my previous picture passes, i will show another easy one, but harder than that first give away).
alright, Hollen doesn't want to say because it's too easy i guess.
i'm going to bed early for a change, so here is #2 easy one. (i won't post two in a row for now on)
if you think you know the common name, you can say it, but there are SO many common names for this one, to clarify you should look up the latin if you don't know it.
this is one insect i've memorized the latin name for.
I actaully raise these guys from time to time....
female and male pictured here.
pinned to their death.
i'm going to bed early for a change, so here is #2 easy one. (i won't post two in a row for now on)
if you think you know the common name, you can say it, but there are SO many common names for this one, to clarify you should look up the latin if you don't know it.
this is one insect i've memorized the latin name for.
I actaully raise these guys from time to time....
female and male pictured here.
pinned to their death.
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Well, the first one is a Praying mantis.
And the second one...jeez Xman...my brothers never pinned bugs with THAT many pins!
I'm working on the latin - but maybe a Toebiter?
-Diane-
And the second one...jeez Xman...my brothers never pinned bugs with THAT many pins!
I'm working on the latin - but maybe a Toebiter?
-Diane-
- Location
- Canada
It appears "X" is into bondage! I have never seen anything like the second 2 BUT WOW you guess grow 'em BIG on the right coast!
Okay, I'll go with rhino beetle (Dynastes tityus)
And I'm not even on the right coast!
Thank goodness
-Diane-
And I'm not even on the right coast!
Thank goodness
-Diane-
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All insects and spiders allowed. Do you want to throw in occasional snake, lizard and stuff like flying squirel, minks and other little critters too? Or should it be just insects/spiders?
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I say let's go for it all!
We could also include visual damage to a tree and have to guess what creature/insect caused it.
We have mountain lions out here and they mark trees very distinctly.
-Diane-
All insects and spiders allowed. Do you want to throw in occasional snake, lizard and stuff like flying squirel, minks and other little critters too? Or should it be just insects/spiders?
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I say let's go for it all!
We could also include visual damage to a tree and have to guess what creature/insect caused it.
We have mountain lions out here and they mark trees very distinctly.
-Diane-
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Okay, I'll go with rhino beetle (Dynastes tityus)
And I'm not even on the right coast!
Thank goodness
-Diane-
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Dynastes tityus is right. Rhinocerous beetle, unicorn beetle, hercules beetle, etc...
If that horn pinched someones nipple it would give them, "nasty titties". Just my way of remembering Dynastes tityus.
Wide range in the US, East Coast mainly, but sometimes over to Texas too.
The grub is huge! About the length of my middle finger, and at least that fat.
Eat rotting wood. Sometimes find them in the middle of a stump that is rotten when we fell a tree. Once every two years I'd say.
About the pins, they will all come out when I get time, only one goes through the body, all the others were just to put the beetle in its pose.
This is the largest beetle on the East Coast.
there is a relative; Dynastes granti, that is a little bigger, little longer top horn. Southwestern United States: Arizona, western New Mexico, southern Utah and northern Mexico (Chihuahua).
You are up Diane!
Okay, I'll go with rhino beetle (Dynastes tityus)
And I'm not even on the right coast!
Thank goodness
-Diane-
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Dynastes tityus is right. Rhinocerous beetle, unicorn beetle, hercules beetle, etc...
If that horn pinched someones nipple it would give them, "nasty titties". Just my way of remembering Dynastes tityus.
Wide range in the US, East Coast mainly, but sometimes over to Texas too.
The grub is huge! About the length of my middle finger, and at least that fat.
Eat rotting wood. Sometimes find them in the middle of a stump that is rotten when we fell a tree. Once every two years I'd say.
About the pins, they will all come out when I get time, only one goes through the body, all the others were just to put the beetle in its pose.
This is the largest beetle on the East Coast.
there is a relative; Dynastes granti, that is a little bigger, little longer top horn. Southwestern United States: Arizona, western New Mexico, southern Utah and northern Mexico (Chihuahua).
You are up Diane!
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Remember: Any living parasitized caterpillars should not be destroyed since you will end up destroying the beneficial parasitic wasps eggs as well.
The caterpillar will be dying shortly anyway so let Nature take its course.
-Diane-
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I'm always sad when i see these parasite wasp eggs on the large caterpillars. Many of these larger species don't have a chance, I think they are more easily discovered with their huge size.
but i do let nature take it's coarse. there are parsitic flys too
A lot of these sphinx mothes do pollinate flowers in the evening, they hover like a humming bird and have a drinking part like a butterfly. sometimes it's hard to decide what is beneficial and what is harmful, so best to let stuff live unless they get way out of hand.
Remember: Any living parasitized caterpillars should not be destroyed since you will end up destroying the beneficial parasitic wasps eggs as well.
The caterpillar will be dying shortly anyway so let Nature take its course.
-Diane-
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I'm always sad when i see these parasite wasp eggs on the large caterpillars. Many of these larger species don't have a chance, I think they are more easily discovered with their huge size.
but i do let nature take it's coarse. there are parsitic flys too
A lot of these sphinx mothes do pollinate flowers in the evening, they hover like a humming bird and have a drinking part like a butterfly. sometimes it's hard to decide what is beneficial and what is harmful, so best to let stuff live unless they get way out of hand.
All right!
They are nasty looking but supposedly very friendly.
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Eat rotting wood. Sometimes find them in the middle of a stump that is rotten when we fell a tree.
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They are a beneficial beetle and wherever they live they improve the soil 100% !
Is it true they only live 3 to 6 months, Xman?
Here's my first entry.
He's a friendly guy who hangs out near my redwood trees and blueberry bushes.
Remember this is the west(left) coast.
-Diane-
They are nasty looking but supposedly very friendly.
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Eat rotting wood. Sometimes find them in the middle of a stump that is rotten when we fell a tree.
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They are a beneficial beetle and wherever they live they improve the soil 100% !
Is it true they only live 3 to 6 months, Xman?
Here's my first entry.
He's a friendly guy who hangs out near my redwood trees and blueberry bushes.
Remember this is the west(left) coast.
-Diane-
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Taco?
tomthetreeman
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- Rhode Island
Looks like it's related to a horned lizard, but I have no idea.
-Tom
-Tom
Yes, Tom, it is in the same family as the horned lizards - Phrynosomatidae.
This is a lizard that would be very beneficial in the New England states.
A protein in this particular lizard's blood kills the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
Ticks are often found on this lizard.
If the tick is carrying the bacterium the lizard's blood, which it is feeding on, will destroy the bacterium and thus the tick is no longer a Lyme carrier.
I'll wait a little longer before I give its name.
-Diane-
This is a lizard that would be very beneficial in the New England states.
A protein in this particular lizard's blood kills the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
Ticks are often found on this lizard.
If the tick is carrying the bacterium the lizard's blood, which it is feeding on, will destroy the bacterium and thus the tick is no longer a Lyme carrier.
I'll wait a little longer before I give its name.
-Diane-
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