this was a little bit more brightly colored in real life. i think i saw adults, they looked like box elder bugs kinda
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this has got to be the best camo i have ever taken a picture of, and probably the best i have seen in real life. these things are ghostly, like. i think they are like, non-man dependant "silverfish"
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commie larva. commie larve? yeah, leftist *pinko* commie larva. think this is a glower
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Angry Unidentified Caterpillar hifi
This fuzzy fellow is about 2.5-2.75"/6.5-7cm long. I did not pick it up (though i love playing with bugs) because i was worried that since it might have itching hairs/poison needles and i was all hot and sweaty from walking around in the mountains for the previous 4.5 hours that something bad might be able to happen =P
Also... this was one ANGRY caterpillar! Granted I *was* sort of giving him the the ol' dry grass tickle... but still... ANGRY!
This guy lives in the foothills above Azusa, Califorina, USA.
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we found a big beetle grub under a board in a little chamber it had made for itself. the grub would probably be almost 3"/8cm if it was stretched out.
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CAMEL CRICKET
i am going to research this thing more. i didn't catch it but i did take pictures. if i ever have a full room for just bugs i would like to breed a number of CA crickets that i have not been collecting up to this time. i have seen this species before and another species in the mountains by my house.
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Awesome insects! 98% of my photos of the insects that I photographed with those annoying disposable cameras didn't even come out. I have only a few that came out good. 2 were of me holding a True Katydid at the lake at camp.
Sad though cause alot of those bugs I didn't know about and I wanted to find out what they were. Oh well hopefully I'll get an actual camera someday. Any way nice photos.
digital cameras are becoming more and more affordable and are WELL worth getting, imo. i am in the process of trying to save up for another one since the cam i took all those pics with met it's end on a bug hunting trip. it got super fine river silt/sand in the works cuz i got excited and forgot to put it back into it's cool microfiber bag. *sigh* my computer AND VCR died that same week. for the next month i was scared to touch any of my techstuff!
save your allowance or get a job (yes i know you are not 18... but there are *always* ways to make money if you are industrious enough ) and you can legally work after your next bday. at least in CA you could.
There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
nope. i just happened to be looking at a gallery of hemi's
i think i might make a new thread to differentiate between random pics that scabies took and random pics that are on the web, though _________________
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
Oh DAMN! Those are cool! I really like the scale insect. Is that what they look like with out all the fuzz? That's awesome! Oh and I joined the sight under the same username so you know it's me.
I still can't get over those though. Hemiptera has some of the coolest looking bugs.
bibi, there are tons of scale insects. i think the "starfish" really do look like that normally. there are all kinds of other scale insects that have a more fuzzy look to them. i think they make some kinda waxy filaments to sort of camoflage themselves and make it harder to eat them _________________
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
Did you say you caught the glow worm female in Azusa? I'd love to know where exactly. _________________ Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Extent Of The Law. Love Under Will
well, i never saw the commie worm glow... but i have caught other *tiny* larva that did glow that, iirc, looked quite similar
i will try to remember where the commie worm came from _________________
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
i HAVE THE CO-ORDS AT HOME ON MY GPS. _________________ “Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself.”
it was off the fire road, i believe? after we left the fire road and walked by the stream?
BC, would you consider doing a write up for a place that you have gone hunting? if you do, then can join the SCABIES: Explorers group and gain access to the Locale Color forum ( http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/forum35.php ) which contains 14 (currently) locations with directions and tips and what not.
you can also more fully use the Biota Crossreference ( http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/about282.html ) which will eventually be a quick way to find locations for any inverts of interest
dang, need to do some updating there! _________________
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
Is that Camel Cricket the one that eats other insects?? If you go on YouTube.com , you'll find a bunch of videos where people forced insects to fight eatchother and in some of those fights , there was a type of eighter grasshopper or cricket and that thing was definatly a killer. They made it fight a Camel Spider and a Praying Mantis and he killed both of them as if there was nothing to it.
Of course he only fought one at a time but still. Now even though i don't realy agree with or support the idea of ''FORCING'' bugs to fight, i have to admit that looking at the fight itself is realy cool. I would never force my pets to do it nor make them fight something that would have a chance to kill them but the YouTube videos are there and those fights already hapenned so yeah i find it somewhat entertaining to watch.
Just in case some of you would like to see that Super Cricket in action i'm gonna link the video here . You will see how he litteraly destroys that camel spider.
I find the whole idea of people videotaping animals killing each other and posting it on the internet to be DEEPLY DISTURBING (even if it is "only" bugs). I used to chastise my nephews for wantonly killing bugs for no reason.
-- Celeste _________________ "Tarantulas are friends, not food" (but I bet they taste pretty good with butter and lemon!)
Celeste i hope you're not too mad at me for linking this video here. I simply wanted to show you guys somethingh i had seen on youtube that surprised me alot. To see an insect that normaly plays the role of the feeder killing an arachnid that normaly plays the role of the predator . I also posted it here because Seraph had posted pictures of one of those crickets so i thought that posting this video would give everyone a pretty good idea of what that super cricket is capable of.
There is another question i have to ask you Celeste. I have to be honest with you and i was probably gonna start working on making a compilation video of my spiders on the hunt. I'm gonna film my spiders whenever i put crickets or other types of feeders in there and i was gonna put all the small videos into one big video and add some good music to it. I do enjoy looking at my spiders hunting down their prey. Am i wrong ?? and will that video be deeply disturbing??
I've seen a whole bunch of videos on youtube involving insects fighting eatchother . Some of them realy, basicly and definatly pissed me off ( Disturbed me) but others i found to be more acceptable. Here is an example of what i think is definatly unacceptable.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6euRbd6kOk&NR=1
in that video, the guy puts two large spiders in a small plastic cup. They have no room at all so they don't have a choice but to fight eatchother but then when one of the spiders decide to surrender, the other one stops attacking , then the guy starts shaking the cup to make them fight again. I realy hate that guy for doing that.
When the container is big enough , and the insects are being left alone to decide whether they want to fight it out or not , then i think it's more acceptable because that way, it's almost the same as if it hapenned in the wild. I only find it disturbing when the person making the video starts shaking the container or pushes them around to agravate them. And by the way, i never did anything like that myself. The only thing i did was 2 days ago i put an earwig that was about the same size as my little spider in there . My goal was to feed my spider and not to have them fight eatchother. But it ended up that the earwig defended himself alot better than i had expected. I didn't think they could actualy defend themselves like that.
Anyways , in the end , all was well. My spider handled the earwig beautifully and didn't get hurt at all. It simply gave him a bite , then released to avoid the pincers, then bit him again and repeated the process about 5 times and then draged the earwig to a corner and started feeding on it . Yes i did enjoy looking at the fight and seeing my spider using strategy to take down it's opponent. Does that make me a bad person??
I'm just hoping that i'm not gonna be in some of you guys's black list for enjoying the sight of a predator taking down it's prey.
I would like to have people's opinion about that but you can send me your reply in a pvt message so that we don't mess up this thread .
I have no problem with animals stalking and eating their prey. I have tarantulas, scorpions, mantises, centipedes, and lots of reptiles, after all, and they all have to eat. And I find most of their feeding techniques to be really fascinating, too! But I personally think the idea of people deliberately pitting animals against each other for the sole purpose of watching one kill or maim the other just for entertainment (or to see how many "hits" they can get on their youtube video) is REALLY SICK.
There's a distinction there. Perhaps the distinction is just "intent" or some sort of twisted "gratification".
BTW: I have not clicked on any of the links you have provided, because I have absolutely NO interest in seeing animals (even "just bugs") being tormented, maimed, and killed, and do not want to support or condone the folks who are posting that stuff by increasing their "hit count".
And, no, I am not judging you -- I am voicing disapproval of a *behavior* you described. And others are perfectly free to disagree with me (you included). But I wouldn't want my kid hanging out at those people's houses. I have tried to raise my son to be compassionate toward all living creatures -- even the feeders. But he also understands that animals kill and eat each other in nature, and that a living, breathing animal had to die so he could have a hamburger for dinner. And that's O.K. -- humans are part of nature, too.
But there is a *world* of difference between killing to eat and torturing/maiming/killing for entertainment/pleasure. For example, I kill houseflies in my house, but I don't sit there and tear their wings off slowly for gratification. (Not that I *eat* the houseflies, mind you!) And I kill ants that invade my kitchen, but I don't sit there with a magnifying glass and fry them in the sunlight. I hope for your sake you can see the difference.
And if this post is inappropriate, the mods for this subforum are welcome to delete it. Sorry for hijacking your thread, Andrew.
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I have only a few that came out good. 2 were of me holding a True Katydid at the lake at camp.
) and you can legally work after your next bday. at least in CA you could.
