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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2009 19:57:01 GMT
I've come across some of the weirdest looking insects around here. Here's one I took earlier on today, it was a big 'ol spider, with very interesting markings. I looked it up and apparently it is poisonous but only to other insects or small animals. Please post some pictures of insects and crawly things that you may have come across.
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Post by imec on Aug 21, 2009 20:28:43 GMT
I took this while on a field trip with my daughter's class a few years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2009 20:30:13 GMT
That one reminds me of the ones I saw at the insectarium in Montreal. The hugest things ever, all from the more tropical or hotter countries.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2009 20:32:12 GMT
imec, any idea what kind of spider that is? It looks like it could be poisonous, and is that it's food or an egg sack on the right side of it?
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Post by imec on Aug 21, 2009 20:51:55 GMT
I think it was just something else in the pail unrelated to the spider. Here's another shot:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2009 20:57:26 GMT
I like the color of the pail.
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 27, 2009 8:57:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2009 15:06:59 GMT
Eeeek! hwinpp, just the photo of that scorpian makes me want to run! Do you come across many of them over there?
I've never come across one, but I have seen a few of these when living in British Columbia: Black Widow spider
They were enough to give me nightmares.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 27, 2009 15:07:27 GMT
Ohh...that scorpion is interesting. I've never seen one in real life.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2009 15:15:33 GMT
Would you really want to see one though, spindrift? I think the only way I could face looking at a scorpion in real life would be if it was caged up.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 27, 2009 22:20:48 GMT
I don't mind horrendous insect life or anything really. I just wouldn't want to put my foot on it or pick up a log if it was lurking on the bark.
* a little story - my ex sister-in-law fell out with me ......because my hubby, myself, my SIL and her hubby went on a safari of a lifetime to Botswana. She suffered horribly because I never warned her about African insect life and small creatures such as mice. (Previously I had lived in Kenya). She never forgave me. As for me, I don't think twice about such matters in fact I like to see them all! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 18:30:52 GMT
These from the insectarium in Montreal, just as you enter. They had a few dozen different kinds of insects and butterflys displayed like this, I was fascinated.
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 31, 2009 9:46:03 GMT
Ooops... have posted them.
I've found out that this one is actually not that harmful.
Apparently the bigger the claws the less dangerous the poison. Reasoning being that big claws can hold onto prey better and it doesn't have to be immobilised by a lot of poison.
It was damn fast though, I couldn't get a clear shot of it.
I've never seen a black widow in my life!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2009 12:46:48 GMT
The house I moved from in April had quite a few black widows that liked to take up residence on the porch. The trick is to learn to recognize them from the back. Telling people to recognize them from the red mark on the abdomen doesn't make a lot of sense unless everyone were willing to pick up spiders and turn them over.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2009 14:21:31 GMT
I agree bixa, picking them up to examine them is hardly the thing to do!
I've never seen a black widow in my life!
hwinpp, you wouldn't want to either, they are totally grrosss!
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 3, 2009 11:03:20 GMT
About a year ago I came across this thing. It was huge and I would love to know what it developped into.
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 3, 2009 11:07:09 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 16, 2009 16:55:16 GMT
This monster moth is perched on the picture frame on the wall above the computer. These moths are seasonal and can be fairly alarming when you go into a dark room and put your hand on the light switch where one is resting. I measured, and this one is 6 1/2" from wingtip to wingtip.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2009 20:37:58 GMT
Wow, nice moth. Was it alive when you took that picture?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 16, 2009 22:31:12 GMT
It's still alive and it's still in exactly the same spot. It (or its twin) spent all day yesterday on a ceiling light fixture.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 17, 2009 16:35:30 GMT
That is a beautiful moth and I love its blue markings.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 17, 2009 17:40:26 GMT
The markings remind me of marbled end papers.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2009 6:53:54 GMT
This was scuttling across my kitchen floor this evening. It was smaller than the picture -- maybe an inch long. I snapped, then stomped.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 24, 2009 8:24:25 GMT
The poor bastard! But he might have been pretty poisonous. Small claws- big poison, big claws- small poison.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2009 5:04:02 GMT
I don't think I have ever seen a live scorpion not in captivity.
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Post by imec on Oct 24, 2009 0:42:27 GMT
He (she)'s a beauty! Nice pic!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2009 0:55:05 GMT
I, you don't know how to sex a grasshopper? Don't they have a Boy Scouts or 4H Club in Manitoba?
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Post by imec on Oct 24, 2009 0:57:02 GMT
Never felt the urge to sex a grasshopper.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2009 1:00:51 GMT
grasshopper I moved him because I forgot to resize,whoops!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 11:02:24 GMT
Newly emerged from the chrysalis,Anise swallowtail,yesterday morning outside my gate,early a.m. (the larvae feeds on my bronze fennel,a few feet away).
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