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I'm not going to keep liking this every time you say it!Yikes
I'm not going to keep liking this every time you say it!Yikes
YikesI'm not going to keep liking this every time you say it!
Also I don't know when Yikes'ing became a thing for me but it just feels so right and is sometimes the only adequate way to express my feelings on a subject.I'm not going to keep liking this every time you say it!
And I still read it in Frank Ocean's voice every timeAlso I don't know when Yikes'ing became a thing for me but it just feels so right and is sometimes the only adequate way to express my feelings on a subject.
There's a disheartening lack of spiders and/or insect pictures in this thread. I am disappoint.
GO CATCH BUGS AND TAKE PICTURES OF THEM TO MAKE ME HAPPY GAIS
Me, when I saw you weren't greyscale
You're clearly greyscale blind. It's okay I'm not shaming you about it just had to break it to you
Agreed. Mosquitos should never be anywhere near the words good, like, any positive word in any language ever written or hieroglyphiced.you said pretty and mosquito in the same sentence. I like basically everything else, but mosquitoes are the line for me.
Agreed. Mosquitos should never be anywhere near the words good, like, any positive word in any language ever written or hieroglyphiced.
Needs to be recategorized then, and it can live in happy words and praise.Skeeter haters.
Some mosquitoes are horrible creatures that cause a great deal of suffering, but most species don't vector diseases and don't bother humans. Some don't even consume blood, like this little beauty.
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The Elephant Mosquito (Toxorhynchites rutilus) - it eats plant nectar and its larvae are predatory and eat the larvae of other mosquitoes that do vector diseases.... and it's totes gorgeous under the scope - dark metallic blue and purplish scales and lots of large golden scales
that's so it can make you itch before you itchMOSQUITOS ARE CUTE. They have plumous antennae! Have you all ever seen plumous antennae?!
MOSQUITOS ARE CUTE.
We can't be friends. Don't come to Michigan.
Come to Michigan, we still want you
ILL COME AND IM BRINGING MY BUGS WITH ME
Well it's only cold for like 2 months out of the whole year here so they're out more often so yes..Dude, we have our own bugs. If you're gonna come here you should embrace our bugs. You think your bugs are better? So rude.
Well it's only cold for like 2 months out of the whole year here so they're out more often so yes..
"Cold"
Oh how you sufferLos Angeles "cold" is what I meant
It's cold enough for insects to go away and that does make me sufferOh how you suffer
Well it's only cold for like 2 months out of the whole year here so they're out more often so yes..
Good.It's cold enough for insects to go away and that does make me suffer
I'm going to freeze regardless of where I go lolCome to Michigan so I can watch you freeze.
I'm going to freeze regardless of where I go lol
Do I spy a brown marmonated stink bug?! I really don't like them (and I actually do like bugs).Here's that collection I promised, before and after presentation...it wasn't very flashy, but I was proud of my pretty labels and using the leftover small bugs as decor
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Also, I'd never heard of a tarantula hawk before, but I was in Louisiana and we had cicada hawks, which I was also totally unfamiliar with. They look pretty terrifying, but don't really mess with humans. Unfortunately didn't manage to grab one for my collection, since I never carried my net.
Here's that collection I promised, before and after presentation...it wasn't very flashy, but I was proud of my pretty labels and using the leftover small bugs as decor
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Also, I'd never heard of a tarantula hawk before, but I was in Louisiana and we had cicada hawks, which I was also totally unfamiliar with. They look pretty terrifying, but don't really mess with humans. Unfortunately didn't manage to grab one for my collection, since I never carried my net.
I also didn't catch a single phasmid during class, but during a summer herp collection trip I found two!
Probably--I don't remember what all was in my collection though, since it was so long ago now (fall of 2011...woah ). I actually still have all these pinned bugs put away in a box somewhere though! (no way I was going to throw them away after all that work) Hopefully they haven't gotten crushed in storage.Do I spy a brown marmonated stink bug?! I really don't like them (and I actually do like bugs).
Yep, we were required to label the orders! For the collection I think we were required to have representatives for a number of specified orders (like hemiptera, coleoptera, blattodea), plus a minimum number of species for those orders? And then whatever miscellaneous things from other orders...something like that.Rather impressive collection! Just looked up cicada hawks and they look awesome! I wanted a velvet ant female (the wasp, not the lame tree ants lol) but the only time I Saab one I didn't have my jars with me lol. I like the way your collection is organized by order! We had to line them up all straight and nice by order but without the labels, and i was too lazy to change it up after. Also terrified of destroying my insects, lol.
What area was the stink bug collected from? If you don't mind me asking.Probably--I don't remember what all was in my collection though, since it was so long ago now (fall of 2011...woah ). I actually still have all these pinned bugs put away in a box somewhere though! (no way I was going to throw them away after all that work) Hopefully they haven't gotten crushed in storage.
I find it funny looking back, but whenever I was starting up the collection, I asked my parents to please catch & date any interesting bugs they happened to find so I could pick them up whenever I went back home for thanksgiving (because who else in my class would have specimens from South Texas?) One insect my mom labeled simply as "weird bug"...was a triatominae/kissing bug, now infamous down here for Chagas Disease
Yep, we were required to label the orders! For the collection I think we were required to have representatives for a number of specified orders (like hemiptera, coleoptera, blattodea), plus a minimum number of species for those orders? And then whatever miscellaneous things from other orders...something like that.
Your next post..."don't touch my sticks" what is it with only finding the really cool bugs AFTER the class is over--once I finished that semester, I came across so many things where I was like "UGGH, why couldn't I have found this back when I could've used it for collection?" ('sticks being some of them; I find them often around my house, but of course never while in the class...) I also took it in the fall though, so that may've had a lot to do with it
It's only "cold" for like 2 weeks in Florida. Bug heaven.Well it's only cold for like 2 months out of the whole year here so they're out more often so yes..
It could've been either from where I live (south TX) or from around the school (Baton Rouge), I think that one was probably BR.What area was the stink bug collected from? If you don't mind me asking.
My undergrad started an entomology class right after I graduated. I was so sad I didn't get to take it. I continued on for a masters at that school, but the entomology course was a 300 level class and I couldn't take those for credit. Killing the bugs would make me sad, so maybe it's good I didn't take it.
Probably not a brown marmonated then. They are an invasive species from China that started in Allentown, PA, and I don't think they have made it to Texas yet. Lucky you!It could've been either from where I live (south TX) or from around the school (Baton Rouge), I think that one was probably BR.
I feel you on the bug killing...I felt a bit guilty about it at first. Beats squashing or bug spray, though--still don't like when people squish harmless things just for the sake of it being an insect/arachnid.
Also, I love that the poster above me made their first post here just to show us a spider captioned "Cute". Thank you Bjornar, that post is giving me life
That is adorable and beautiful. I love the iridescence!Spider mite from my indoor plant... before I sprayed it down last summer with dish soap water and killed most of them.
In my lab we had a contraption that dropped them into a bag of ethanol. I upset my lab instructor by casually wondering how pleasant of a death that would be.Probably not a brown marmonated then. They are an invasive species from China that started in Allentown, PA, and I don't think they have made it to Texas yet. Lucky you!
How do you kill insects for collections?
How big was it? It looks like a jumping spider to me, but those are really nice-quality images if the spider is that small.Cool spider found outside the lab where I work:
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SO CUTECool spider found outside the lab where I work:
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How big was it? It looks like a jumping spider to me, but those are really nice-quality images if the spider is that small.