I managed to coax it onto my hand for a second, but then it hopped away vigorously
I didn't know that mantises could hop, but this one was good at it
I once read that the only animal that can't jump is an elephant (this was in like 3rd grade)
Which makes me wonder how hippos jump
i'm assuming they count a full gallop (where all four feet leave the ground at once) as a jump. i couldn't find any videos of hippos doing that, but they're pretty nimble so i wouldn't be surprised
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heh, I thread I've posted in from last time I was around is still open, that's neato. @BugBoy You always make me feel guilty if I kill a bug, but I'm tired of spiderwebs in my bathroom
heh, I thread I've posted in from last time I was around is still open, that's neato. BugBoy You always make me feel guilty if I kill a bug, but I'm tired of spiderwebs in my bathroom
You could always put them outside I suppose! I actually had an inch+ long scorpion get snagged in some spiderwebs I hadn't cleaned up so I was able to have a massive freakout and then get it out of our house so now I'm much more forgiving of spider webs. Just a southern devil and I know intellectually their sting is about on par with a bee sting but I freak out every time I see one regardless
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heh, I thread I've posted in from last time I was around is still open, that's neato. @BugBoy You always make me feel guilty if I kill a bug, but I'm tired of spiderwebs in my bathroom
That's okay
I think the important thing is being cognizant of what you're doing, rather than not thinking about it at all
Sometimes you bring something outside, and sometimes you don't
I myself have had to kill a few pest insects recently
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Bugboy, do you know what this is? Tumblr could not tell me more.
This is a Devils Flower Mantis with its wings outstretched, which is why it looks so regal and majestic. They are by far my favourite kinds of mantid. The posture it is in with the wings outstretched is a threatening pose telling you "I will attack, so don't eat me! See how huge I am?!"
It's actually not that insane at all. Your risk of being bitten is very low from that spider, at least spontaneously. Most bites from a black widow or red back spider (in the same family) occur when people disturb them under pots or whatever. The spider feels threatened and then bites in self defense.
Handling it the way he is has a very very low risk to himself. I still wouldn't of course, but if you are going to just letting the spider go where it wants is the best way to do it.
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Unfortunately there is not quite the drive for conserving threatened insect species as there is tigers and elephants and such. I suppose it's harder to make an emotional case for protecting the habit of 'tiny grey moth species with no common name.'
Speaking of extinct moths I've recently been working in the entomology department of a British museum in Manchester; the third largest public entomology collection in the country or so I'm told, so there's lots of interesting things in there.
Specifically I've been working with a collection of micro-lepidoptera from the turn of the 20th century which hasn't been touched in decades. It is mostly full of the aforementioned tiny grey moths and is not all that exciting unless you have a particular interest in such things.
It does however contain a single, damaged, specimen of the 'Manchester Moth' (Oechophora woodiella). In and of itself the Manchester Moth is not very exciting; it's a small brown moth barely centimeters across and of no massive scientific value, however it is rather rare.
As far as I can tell there are only three specimens of the species remaining in the world, this damaged one at Manchester, one in the British Museum in London and the type specimen is in Melbourne, Australia. No other preserved specimens are known to exist and the species has not been seen alive since the days of its discovery in the late 1800s. The original collector, an amateur, allegedly preserved a number of boxes of the species, much to the envy of his fellows at the entomological society. Unfortunately he ceased collecting entirely as people began accusing him of presenting a foreign species as a native British one when they could not find sign of the species themselves. Ultimately the collected specimens were left in deposit of his various debts (some accounts say to his landlady, others to the proprietor of a pub) and were ultimately destroyed when he could not pay back what he owed.
Not a particularly interesting story, and I have rather rushed over the details, but whatever.
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Went to the Minnesota Zoo this last week. They have the new Big Bugs exhibit.
It's basically gigantic animatronic insects mixed in with a small display of actual bugs
It was pretty cool.
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Unfortunately there is not quite the drive for conserving threatened insect species as there is tigers and elephants and such. I suppose it's harder to make an emotional case for protecting the habit of 'tiny grey moth species with no common name.'
Speaking of extinct moths I've recently been working in the entomology department of a British museum in Manchester; the third largest public entomology collection in the country or so I'm told, so there's lots of interesting things in there.
Specifically I've been working with a collection of micro-lepidoptera from the turn of the 20th century which hasn't been touched in decades. It is mostly full of the aforementioned tiny grey moths and is not all that exciting unless you have a particular interest in such things.
It does however contain a single, damaged, specimen of the 'Manchester Moth' (Oechophora woodiella). In and of itself the Manchester Moth is not very exciting; it's a small brown moth barely centimeters across and of no massive scientific value, however it is rather rare.
As far as I can tell there are only three specimens of the species remaining in the world, this damaged one at Manchester, one in the British Museum in London and the type specimen is in Melbourne, Australia. No other preserved specimens are known to exist and the species has not been seen alive since the days of its discovery in the late 1800s. The original collector, an amateur, allegedly preserved a number of boxes of the species, much to the envy of his fellows at the entomological society. Unfortunately he ceased collecting entirely as people began accusing him of presenting a foreign species as a native British one when they could not find sign of the species themselves. Ultimately the collected specimens were left in deposit of his various debts (some accounts say to his landlady, others to the proprietor of a pub) and were ultimately destroyed when he could not pay back what he owed.
Not a particularly interesting story, and I have rather rushed over the details, but whatever.
This is 100% an interesting story!
Its things like these that make natural history collections as incredible as they are
Do you know how the type ended up in Australia? I'm a little surprised it isn't in a British collection.
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I am not entirely sure no, although last week I did just find a book about the Australian museum it's held in, so maybe that can shed some light on things. All the papers I've read just say that the Holotype is in Melbourne without going into any detail, which is a little frustrating 'cos I'm interested in why too.
If I had to guess I'd imagine that the collector gave the holotype to a professional for identification and then never got it back when he quit collecting. Then the new holder of the holotype either moved to Australia themselves or their collection ended up being donated or purchased by the museum.
As a vaguely interesting aside the entomolgist who described the species (Curtis), described a female specimen but all three of the surviving specimens are male (well, the Manchester one has a damaged abdomen so it's hard to say there), so it's possible there are still some female specimens floating around in some storage box somewhere who knows?
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Double post I'm afraid but with a bit of extra reading I dug up that this is in fact the case:
If I had to guess I'd imagine that the collector gave the holotype to a professional for identification and then never got it back when he quit collecting. Then the new holder of the holotype either moved to Australia themselves or their collection ended up being donated or purchased by the museum.
The type specimen was given to Curtis to identify, which he did, and then ended up in his collection once the original collector gave up. After his death his widow sold his collection to the Museum Victoria in Melbourne where it remains today as the bulk of their entomology collection.
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Ah, that makes sense
in further bug adventures, I opened the front door to let a beetle outside
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So, we live in Calgary, Alberta and my wife found this moth on our fence while we were doing some yard work. It was very lethargic, and didn't respond much to us trying to get it to spread its wings, so I'm assuming that it had just hatched from its cocoon and was gaining strength. It's gone now, so I'm hoping it flew away and wasn't just eaten by some bird. Anyways, this thing was huge. There's a photo with a beer can beside it for reference.
So, we live in Calgary, Alberta and my wife found this moth on our fence while we were doing some yard work. It was very lethargic, and didn't respond much to us trying to get it to spread its wings, so I'm assuming that it had just hatched from its cocoon and was gaining strength. It's gone now, so I'm hoping it flew away and wasn't just eaten by some bird. Anyways, this thing was huge. There's a photo with a beer can beside it for reference.
That is a sphinx moth (family Sphingidae); they are common in North America. There are a bunch of species that all look nearly the same to my eyes and I have no idea which one that is.
They're easy to mistake for hummingbirds when feeding because the are nearly the same size and they hover outside flowers the same way hummingbirds do.
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New crab spider took up residence in front of the front window like (I assume) his/her mom did last year. Pics when it dries out somewhat outside.
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As promised, here are the pics of the new crab spider. It's a yellow one, this time.
I keep finding these big ass half dollar sized grass spiders in my house so I just scoop them into mason jars and let them outside. Look like this:
They're totally harmless and cool looking but I would rather they play outside.
Is that a Nopenopenope brand soda?
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they might give you a startle but they aren't even physically capable of biting you and they fail at climbing up glass so a mason jar and a few seconds and they're back in your yard annihilating vermin
I saw some fireflies the other night. my face would not stop grinning. Where I grew up, there weren't any, and I saw my first one just a couple years ago after I moved from Colorado to new york. They are amazing.
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I saw some fireflies the other night. my face would not stop grinning. Where I grew up, there weren't any, and I saw my first one just a couple years ago after I moved from Colorado to new york. They are amazing.
I moved from California to Maryland this last year and omg bioluminescence I love it
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i'm assuming they count a full gallop (where all four feet leave the ground at once) as a jump. i couldn't find any videos of hippos doing that, but they're pretty nimble so i wouldn't be surprised
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The ones we get on a more regular basis (not the 13 year cicadas, like the black one) are green also, but not as bright as yours.
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You could always put them outside I suppose! I actually had an inch+ long scorpion get snagged in some spiderwebs I hadn't cleaned up so I was able to have a massive freakout and then get it out of our house so now I'm much more forgiving of spider webs. Just a southern devil and I know intellectually their sting is about on par with a bee sting but I freak out every time I see one regardless
That's okay
I think the important thing is being cognizant of what you're doing, rather than not thinking about it at all
Sometimes you bring something outside, and sometimes you don't
I myself have had to kill a few pest insects recently
This is a Devils Flower Mantis with its wings outstretched, which is why it looks so regal and majestic. They are by far my favourite kinds of mantid. The posture it is in with the wings outstretched is a threatening pose telling you "I will attack, so don't eat me! See how huge I am?!"
It's actually not that insane at all. Your risk of being bitten is very low from that spider, at least spontaneously. Most bites from a black widow or red back spider (in the same family) occur when people disturb them under pots or whatever. The spider feels threatened and then bites in self defense.
Handling it the way he is has a very very low risk to himself. I still wouldn't of course, but if you are going to just letting the spider go where it wants is the best way to do it.
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it is literally a discipline where you run around in the tall grass hunting for rare and unusual creatures to shove into small containers
travelling across the land, searching far and wide is a good idea, but catching them all is out of the question
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if you collect one unique species per minute, you should catch them all in about 57 years
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Speaking of extinct moths I've recently been working in the entomology department of a British museum in Manchester; the third largest public entomology collection in the country or so I'm told, so there's lots of interesting things in there.
Specifically I've been working with a collection of micro-lepidoptera from the turn of the 20th century which hasn't been touched in decades. It is mostly full of the aforementioned tiny grey moths and is not all that exciting unless you have a particular interest in such things.
It does however contain a single, damaged, specimen of the 'Manchester Moth' (Oechophora woodiella). In and of itself the Manchester Moth is not very exciting; it's a small brown moth barely centimeters across and of no massive scientific value, however it is rather rare.
As far as I can tell there are only three specimens of the species remaining in the world, this damaged one at Manchester, one in the British Museum in London and the type specimen is in Melbourne, Australia. No other preserved specimens are known to exist and the species has not been seen alive since the days of its discovery in the late 1800s. The original collector, an amateur, allegedly preserved a number of boxes of the species, much to the envy of his fellows at the entomological society. Unfortunately he ceased collecting entirely as people began accusing him of presenting a foreign species as a native British one when they could not find sign of the species themselves. Ultimately the collected specimens were left in deposit of his various debts (some accounts say to his landlady, others to the proprietor of a pub) and were ultimately destroyed when he could not pay back what he owed.
Not a particularly interesting story, and I have rather rushed over the details, but whatever.
It's basically gigantic animatronic insects mixed in with a small display of actual bugs
It was pretty cool.
This is 100% an interesting story!
Its things like these that make natural history collections as incredible as they are
Do you know how the type ended up in Australia? I'm a little surprised it isn't in a British collection.
If I had to guess I'd imagine that the collector gave the holotype to a professional for identification and then never got it back when he quit collecting. Then the new holder of the holotype either moved to Australia themselves or their collection ended up being donated or purchased by the museum.
As a vaguely interesting aside the entomolgist who described the species (Curtis), described a female specimen but all three of the surviving specimens are male (well, the Manchester one has a damaged abdomen so it's hard to say there), so it's possible there are still some female specimens floating around in some storage box somewhere who knows?
The type specimen was given to Curtis to identify, which he did, and then ended up in his collection once the original collector gave up. After his death his widow sold his collection to the Museum Victoria in Melbourne where it remains today as the bulk of their entomology collection.
in further bug adventures, I opened the front door to let a beetle outside
simultaneously, a different beetle came inside
oh, insects
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They're easy to mistake for hummingbirds when feeding because the are nearly the same size and they hover outside flowers the same way hummingbirds do.
They're totally harmless and cool looking but I would rather they play outside.
http://i.imgur.com/qzSmMss.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Er3RxKw.jpg
Haven't seen one like that before, it lingered on our screen for most of the day.
looks like it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paonias_excaecatus pity I didn't get to see the larvae, the photo on wikipedia is lovely
Is that a Nopenopenope brand soda?
after a while, I noticed that a firefly larvae was crawling around close by
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they might give you a startle but they aren't even physically capable of biting you and they fail at climbing up glass so a mason jar and a few seconds and they're back in your yard annihilating vermin
I moved from California to Maryland this last year and omg bioluminescence I love it