Here you go people. Can you put your photos in here so they aren’t clogging up Chat please? I have to onclick when I see a photo starting to load if I am skimming.

And Thankyou to those who messaged me overnight warning me not to go back through chat :-)

Divine Angel said:

And Thankyou to those who messaged me overnight warning me not to go back through chat :-)

:)

Divine Angel said:

And Thankyou to those who messaged me overnight warning me not to go back through chat :-)

It’s the least we could do, DA. Can’t have the new mumma freaking out all over the place. :P

buffy said:

Here you go people. Can you put your photos in here so they aren’t clogging up Chat please? I have to onclick when I see a photo starting to load if I am skimming.

Have you considered getting broadband ?

Divine Angel said:

And Thankyou to those who messaged me overnight warning me not to go back through chat :-)

Hey I was drunk and the camera was handy

Dropbear said:

buffy said:

Here you go people. Can you put your photos in here so they aren’t clogging up Chat please? I have to onclick when I see a photo starting to load if I am skimming.

Have you considered getting broadband ?

Got ADSL at home. Is that broadband? Our exchange can’t do any better than that.

buffy said:

Here you go people. Can you put your photos in here so they aren’t clogging up Chat please? I have to onclick when I see a photo starting to load if I am skimming.

Will do. I have some interesting ladybirds to post.

Some ladybirds. First, two different species from Bowral. The black and yellow one is tiny, and I’m sure I’ve never seen before.

Now a puzzle, the following three snaps show four animals from Melbourne that look very different from one another, but are they all different growth stages of the same animal species, the Common Spotted Ladybird: Harmonia conformis?

Micro macropod sighted.

OCDC said:

Micro macropod sighted.

it’s not level.

Preview was upright.

Thanks daz, much appreciated.

dv said:

LOLOL

:)

dv said:

cleverdick. :)

OMG I have only just been made aware of the existence on long-eared hedgehogs.

You really dropped the ball in not bringing this to my attention in a timely manner.

dv said:

OMG I have only just been made aware of the existence on long-eared hedgehogs.

You really dropped the ball in not bringing this to my attention in a timely manner.

Heh. I hadn’t heard of them either.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

OMG I have only just been made aware of the existence on long-eared hedgehogs.

You really dropped the ball in not bringing this to my attention in a timely manner.

Heh. I hadn’t heard of them either.

dv said:

OMG I have only just been made aware of the existence on long-eared hedgehogs.

You really dropped the ball in not bringing this to my attention in a timely manner.

Are you OK now.

Does DV know about the pink fairy armadillo?

kii said:

Does DV know about the pink fairy armadillo?

Thank you for bringing this before my eyes.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

OMG I have only just been made aware of the existence on long-eared hedgehogs.

You really dropped the ball in not bringing this to my attention in a timely manner.

Heh. I hadn’t heard of them either.

Awwww.

kii said:

Does DV know about the pink fairy armadillo?

Awwww.

kii said:

Does DV know about the pink fairy armadillo?

Yes I’m aware

The Saiga Antelope is the only antelope found anywhere in Europe these days. It is found in southern Russia and also Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Its horns are used in Chinese medicine, and it is now critically endangered.

dv said:

The Saiga Antelope is the only antelope found anywhere in Europe these days. It is found in southern Russia and also Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Its horns are used in Chinese medicine superstition, and it is now critically endangered.

fixed

dv said:

The Saiga Antelope is the only antelope found anywhere in Europe these days. It is found in southern Russia and also Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Its horns are used in Chinese medicine, and it is now critically endangered.

Cute critter.

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

The Saiga Antelope is the only antelope found anywhere in Europe these days. It is found in southern Russia and also Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Its horns are used in Chinese medicine, and it is now critically endangered.

Cute critter.

Great pity the Chinese can’t look at it the same way.

Horseshoe crab photo by Larent Ballesta, who is Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023.

dv said:

Horseshoe crab photo by Larent Ballesta, who is Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023.

Pleasing metallic green.

dv said:

Horseshoe crab photo by Larent Ballesta, who is Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023.

You mean it’s not an AI generated image of an alien spacecraft?

Amazing

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Horseshoe crab photo by Larent Ballesta, who is Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023.

You mean it’s not an AI generated image of an alien spacecraft?

Amazing

:)

dv said:

Horseshoe crab photo by Larent Ballesta, who is Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023.

Lovely.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyGaWPVNU5Z/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==

Stunning video of a giant cuttlefish

dv said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyGaWPVNU5Z/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==

Stunning video of a giant cuttlefish

Looks big but it needs something for scale, a tennis court maybe.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyGaWPVNU5Z/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==

Stunning video of a giant cuttlefish

Looks big but it needs something for scale, a tennis court maybe.

They’re smaller than I thought.

The Giant Cuttlefish is a cephalopod which is the same group
name as for squid and octopus. Males can grow up to 60 cm
long and weigh up to five kg. They have 10 tentacles; this
includes eight regular ones and a pair of specialised hunting
tentacles. The light, white cuttle-bone often found washed up
on beaches is an internal structure used by cuttlefish to control
buoyancy. They also have the ability to move backwards using
jet propulsion. Giant cuttlefish live for one to two years and are
usually solitary when they are not spawning.

https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/landscape/docs/hf/giant-cuttlefish-bio-region-fact.pdf

Got some from around my place…

From a couple of days ago… one of a breeding couple…

There’s three regulars- drink from the dogs waterbowl, thats ok- but when they start eating his dry dogfood- thats NOT ok LOL

And the kackleburras…

Had a neighbours pet pig turned up one day after it got out of its pen a while back (that was when it last rained- months ago lol)- the dog was wanting to go it- told the dog to sit…

And- they both did…

Yes- apparently you CAN train pigs to do things on command- as I found out from the owners when they came to pick it up- it sits, rolls over and lays down on command- never knew you could train pigs to obey commands…

:-O

boppa said:

Got some from around my place…

From a couple of days ago… one of a breeding couple…

There’s three regulars- drink from the dogs waterbowl, thats ok- but when they start eating his dry dogfood- thats NOT ok LOL

And the kackleburras…

Had a neighbours pet pig turned up one day after it got out of its pen a while back (that was when it last rained- months ago lol)- the dog was wanting to go it- told the dog to sit…

And- they both did…

Yes- apparently you CAN train pigs to do things on command- as I found out from the owners when they came to pick it up- it sits, rolls over and lays down on command- never knew you could train pigs to obey commands…

:-O

:)

boppa said:

Got some from around my place…

From a couple of days ago… one of a breeding couple…

There’s three regulars- drink from the dogs waterbowl, thats ok- but when they start eating his dry dogfood- thats NOT ok LOL

And the kackleburras…

Had a neighbours pet pig turned up one day after it got out of its pen a while back (that was when it last rained- months ago lol)- the dog was wanting to go it- told the dog to sit…

And- they both did…

Yes- apparently you CAN train pigs to do things on command- as I found out from the owners when they came to pick it up- it sits, rolls over and lays down on command- never knew you could train pigs to obey commands…

:-O

Pigs are pretty bright critters. Someone here in Penshurst used to walk their pig like you walk a dog. I suspect it grew too big ultimately. They do that.

Copepod has a nematode problem

dv said:

Copepod has a nematode problem

Bugger.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwuHd70SNSw/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==

Consider these Kagu

dv said:

Not quite as bad as the croc but I was just bitten by one of these:

Tamb said:

dv said:

Not quite as bad as the croc but I was just bitten by one of these:

Little bastard.

Tamb said:

dv said:

Not quite as bad as the croc but I was just bitten by one of these:

and their bite is worse than their bark.

dv said:

:)

dv said:

The first time I’ve seen a blackfella to come out of top.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

The first time I’ve seen a blackfella to come out of top.

He only got up there because he’s standing on the shoulders of giants.

(Newton quote)

roughbarked said:

dv said:

The first time I’ve seen a blackfella to come out of top.

Being an apex predator can also be a death sentence. Hope they had a good reason to knock it off.

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

The first time I’ve seen a blackfella to come out of top.

He only got up there because he’s standing on the shoulders of giants.

(Newton quote)

:) Science always wins.

PermeateFree said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

The first time I’ve seen a blackfella to come out of top.

Being an apex predator can also be a death sentence. Hope they had a good reason to knock it off.

Well, they didn’t tell us that part.

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

roughbarked said:

The first time I’ve seen a blackfella to come out of top.

Being an apex predator can also be a death sentence. Hope they had a good reason to knock it off.

Well, they didn’t tell us that part.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pictured-monster-crocodile-size-three-8254378

Link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzgiYfXN1Hb/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Giant cuttlefish

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2402215-stunning-photo-of-rare-malayan-tiger-snapped-by-camera-trap/#Echobox=1700284351

Stunning photo of rare Malayan tiger snapped by camera trap
With fewer than 150 left in the wild, the Malayan tiger is rarely seen – but images from camera traps provide hope that conservation efforts are paying off

A circle of bear cubs in Finland

https://www.beautyofplanet.com/teacher-photographed-baby-bears-dancing-in-finland-forest-thinks-hes-imagining-it/

dv said:

A circle of bear cubs in Finland

https://www.beautyofplanet.com/teacher-photographed-baby-bears-dancing-in-finland-forest-thinks-hes-imagining-it/

Dancing? Fightin’ more like.

dv said:

A circle of bear cubs in Finland

https://www.beautyofplanet.com/teacher-photographed-baby-bears-dancing-in-finland-forest-thinks-hes-imagining-it/

Dancing? Fightin’ more like.

dv said:

A circle of bear cubs in Finland

https://www.beautyofplanet.com/teacher-photographed-baby-bears-dancing-in-finland-forest-thinks-hes-imagining-it/

Cute at that age but still capable of harming a human. Particularly in a gang like the above.

dv said:

A circle of bear cubs in Finland

https://www.beautyofplanet.com/teacher-photographed-baby-bears-dancing-in-finland-forest-thinks-hes-imagining-it/

It’s and old but successful ruse.
The kiddies need to be taught if they go down to the woods they could be in for a big surprise, a surprise that could have fatal consequences.

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

A circle of bear cubs in Finland

https://www.beautyofplanet.com/teacher-photographed-baby-bears-dancing-in-finland-forest-thinks-hes-imagining-it/

It’s and old but successful ruse.
The kiddies need to be taught if they go down to the woods they could be in for a big surprise, a surprise that could have fatal consequences.

Today’s the day the ursids eat your ennnnnnntrails

dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

A circle of bear cubs in Finland

https://www.beautyofplanet.com/teacher-photographed-baby-bears-dancing-in-finland-forest-thinks-hes-imagining-it/

It’s and old but successful ruse.
The kiddies need to be taught if they go down to the woods they could be in for a big surprise, a surprise that could have fatal consequences.

Today’s the day the ursids eat your ennnnnnntrails

:)

Michael V said:

dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

It’s and old but successful ruse.
The kiddies need to be taught if they go down to the woods they could be in for a big surprise, a surprise that could have fatal consequences.

Today’s the day the ursids eat your ennnnnnntrails

:)

The man’s a ppoet and he doesn’t know it.

Michael V said:

dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

It’s and old but successful ruse.
The kiddies need to be taught if they go down to the woods they could be in for a big surprise, a surprise that could have fatal consequences.

Today’s the day the ursids eat your ennnnnnntrails

:)

They’re from Finland. Prolly vegans.

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

dv said:

Today’s the day the ursids eat your ennnnnnntrails

:)

They’re from Finland. Prolly vegans.

They eat a lotta deer there.

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

:)

They’re from Finland. Prolly vegans.

They eat a lotta deer there.

Specialty meats from native Finnish species such as reindeer, elk, and bear are served on special occasions such as weddings and holidays in Finland. Moose, deer, and bear are considered delicacies and are hunted by nearly 300,000 Finns with a hunting license. Reindeer meat, called poronkäristys, is also a Finnish delicacy.

I’ve never thought of Finns as vegans… I think of them as eating horse, deer, bears…

https://youtube.com/shorts/lfhB8yOVjmo?si=yWEIEgcb4MHpzoAC

Deer

yak

dv said:

yak

What a cool looking beastie

dv said:

yak

What’s the other animal?

dv said:

yak

Impressive. Can I pet dat dawg?

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

yak

Impressive. Can I pet dat dawg?

Looks like if you grab its ring it will follow you anywhere.

dv said:

yak

I think I could get on with a yak. Never seen a white one before.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

yak

I think I could get on with a yak. Never seen a white one before.

Have a bit of a chat.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

yak

What’s the other animal?

The white one on the right?

Don’t know.

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

yak

What’s the other animal?

The white one on the right?

Don’t know.

:)

Nature’s snowshoes

dv said:

Nature’s snowshoes

They make great pets, better than a dog.

kii said:

dv said:

Nature’s snowshoes

They make great pets, better than a dog.

I’m not a cat person.

kii said:

dv said:

Nature’s snowshoes

They make great pets, better than a dog.

Who says!!

(That photo is now 10 years old)

Hmm…I hope PWM isn’t looking at this thread. I forgot to put up a warning post first…

buffy said:

Hmm…I hope PWM isn’t looking at this thread. I forgot to put up a warning post first…

for everyone… good lord

dv said:

kii said:

dv said:

Nature’s snowshoes

They make great pets, better than a dog.

I’m not a cat person.

You know what they say about men who don’t like cats?

buffy said:

kii said:

dv said:

Nature’s snowshoes

They make great pets, better than a dog.

Who says!!

(That photo is now 10 years old)

Good grief that’s awkward 😳

dv said:

Can I pet dat cat?

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Can I pet dat cat?

First you have to meet on the ledge.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Can I pet dat cat?

First you have to meet on the ledge.

fixed

dv said:

I see you.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Can I pet dat cat?

A ledge dly

dv said:

dv said:

Those bloody things are all the way over there too?

roughbarked said:

dv said:

Those bloody things are all the way over there too?

This isn’t my pic and I don’t know where it was taken

From the Facebook page of the National Butterfly Center in Texas.

“Absolutely amazing photos by NBC member Peggy Rudman of a male Queen with its pheromone excreting coremata and hair-pencils extended during courtship behavior. The pheromones act as aphrodisiacs and even tranquilizers to females. They may also act as repellents to rival males.”

kii said:

From the Facebook page of the National Butterfly Center in Texas.

“Absolutely amazing photos by NBC member Peggy Rudman of a male Queen with its pheromone excreting coremata and hair-pencils extended during courtship behavior. The pheromones act as aphrodisiacs and even tranquilizers to females. They may also act as repellents to rival males.”

That’s pretty impressive photography there.

buffy said:

kii said:

From the Facebook page of the National Butterfly Center in Texas.

“Absolutely amazing photos by NBC member Peggy Rudman of a male Queen with its pheromone excreting coremata and hair-pencils extended during courtship behavior. The pheromones act as aphrodisiacs and even tranquilizers to females. They may also act as repellents to rival males.”

That’s pretty impressive photography there.

It sure is.

buffy said:

kii said:

From the Facebook page of the National Butterfly Center in Texas.

“Absolutely amazing photos by NBC member Peggy Rudman of a male Queen with its pheromone excreting coremata and hair-pencils extended during courtship behavior. The pheromones act as aphrodisiacs and even tranquilizers to females. They may also act as repellents to rival males.”

That’s pretty impressive photography there.

Amazing. A new world opens with that kind of camera.

Ant

dv said:

Ant

Scary, but a bit misleading. What appear to be the eyes there are the bases of the antennae stalks.

When including the actual eyes, the effect is a little less aggressive. Nonetheless, you wouldn’t expect to share an agreeable nightcap with such company.

Yapok

This semiaquatic creature is found in and near freshwater streams and lakes from Mexico through Central and South America to Argentina and is the most aquatic living marsupial (the lutrine opossum also has semiaquatic habits). It is also the only living marsupial in which both sexes have a pouch. The thylacine, commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger, also exhibited this trait, but it is now extinct.

dv said:

Yapok

This semiaquatic creature is found in and near freshwater streams and lakes from Mexico through Central and South America to Argentina and is the most aquatic living marsupial (the lutrine opossum also has semiaquatic habits). It is also the only living marsupial in which both sexes have a pouch. The thylacine, commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger, also exhibited this trait, but it is now extinct.

I love it.

If you scan his eyes with your smart phone, you’ll get directed to a website that landscapes your front yard.

Kingy said:

If you scan his eyes with your smart phone, you’ll get directed to a website that landscapes your front yard.

Heh

Jaguars in Arizona.

kii said:

Jaguars in Arizona.

Cool. So there are at least three.

ID?

dv said:

ID?

Concretosaurus Rex

utilitarianarchitecture Leftover of a building in Szopienice (Katowice)

dv said:

ID?

Concretadon?

But srsly folks my daughter sent me this photo

dv said:

But srsly folks my daughter sent me this photo

Hi Ena.

dv said:

ID?

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/jc433x/a_concretesaurus_eating_rebars/

I like it.

dv said:

But srsly folks my daughter sent me this photo

She’s in Africa?

roughbarked said:

dv said:

But srsly folks my daughter sent me this photo

She’s in Africa?

Yes

Armadillo gathering nesting materials.

kii said:

Armadillo gathering nesting materials.

She’s getting away!

dv said:

kii said:

Armadillo gathering nesting materials.

She’s getting away!

Sleeping.

I went out to prune my unruly lilly pillies, but had to stop when I found a jolly nice stick insect. I picked one of my unripe bananas to use for scale, but think the ruler is better….

ruby said:

I went out to prune my unruly lilly pillies, but had to stop when I found a jolly nice stick insect. I picked one of my unripe bananas to use for scale, but think the ruler is better….

That’s a bumper one indeed, good find.

ruby said:

I went out to prune my unruly lilly pillies, but had to stop when I found a jolly nice stick insect. I picked one of my unripe bananas to use for scale, but think the ruler is better….

Cool.

ruby said:

I went out to prune my unruly lilly pillies, but had to stop when I found a jolly nice stick insect. I picked one of my unripe bananas to use for scale, but think the ruler is better….

It’s easy to get distracted, isn’t it. I was weeding and pruning back in the garden next door this morning and I had an accompanying jennywren. I must have been stirring things up for her.

buffy said:

ruby said:

I went out to prune my unruly lilly pillies, but had to stop when I found a jolly nice stick insect. I picked one of my unripe bananas to use for scale, but think the ruler is better….

It’s easy to get distracted, isn’t it. I was weeding and pruning back in the garden next door this morning and I had an accompanying jennywren. I must have been stirring things up for her.

I had a bright blue butterfly that I couldn’t catch.

buffy said:

ruby said:

I went out to prune my unruly lilly pillies, but had to stop when I found a jolly nice stick insect. I picked one of my unripe bananas to use for scale, but think the ruler is better….

It’s easy to get distracted, isn’t it. I was weeding and pruning back in the garden next door this morning and I had an accompanying jennywren. I must have been stirring things up for her.

Oh, all too easy for me to be distracted I’m afraid. I did manage to get most of the lilly pillies pruned though. And Mr (or hopefully Mrs) Big Stick Insect is still there in the same place.

Clown faced tiger moth

dv said:

Clown faced tiger moth

Your photo?

Citizen Scientists of Tasmania
Jonkelthan Famofan · 11 h ·
ANASPIDES TASMANIAE !!!
from a small puddle at Mount Wellington (organ pipes track)

sarahs mum said:

Citizen Scientists of Tasmania
Jonkelthan Famofan · 11 h ·
ANASPIDES TASMANIAE !!!
from a small puddle at Mount Wellington (organ pipes track)

a bit of a shrimp.

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

Citizen Scientists of Tasmania
Jonkelthan Famofan · 11 h ·
ANASPIDES TASMANIAE !!!
from a small puddle at Mount Wellington (organ pipes track)

a bit of a shrimp.

mountain prawn.

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

Citizen Scientists of Tasmania
Jonkelthan Famofan · 11 h ·
ANASPIDES TASMANIAE !!!
from a small puddle at Mount Wellington (organ pipes track)

a bit of a shrimp.

mountain prawn.

My fam used to go to the Dandenongs in winter and wear gum boots and go exploring. Once when my brother was about eight he was stomping in the creek. Mum said “watch out for mountain sharks”. I have never seen brother move so quickly.

OCDC said:

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

a bit of a shrimp.

mountain prawn.

My fam used to go to the Dandenongs in winter and wear gum boots and go exploring. Once when my brother was about eight he was stomping in the creek. Mum said “watch out for mountain sharks”. I have never seen brother move so quickly.

it’s the air sharks that are a real worry.

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

Citizen Scientists of Tasmania
Jonkelthan Famofan · 11 h ·
ANASPIDES TASMANIAE !!!
from a small puddle at Mount Wellington (organ pipes track)

a bit of a shrimp.

mountain prawn.

Ah. A raw prawn at that.

sarahs mum said:

OCDC said:

sarahs mum said:

mountain prawn.

My fam used to go to the Dandenongs in winter and wear gum boots and go exploring. Once when my brother was about eight he was stomping in the creek. Mum said “watch out for mountain sharks”. I have never seen brother move so quickly.

it’s the air sharks that are a real worry.

:-)

OCDC said:

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

a bit of a shrimp.

mountain prawn.

My fam used to go to the Dandenongs in winter and wear gum boots and go exploring. Once when my brother was about eight he was stomping in the creek. Mum said “watch out for mountain sharks”. I have never seen brother move so quickly.

Nah, the mountain crocodiles ate the mountain sharks out.

kii said:

dv said:

Clown faced tiger moth

Your photo?

No

dv said:

kii said:

dv said:

Clown faced tiger moth

Your photo?

No

Okay.

dv said:

kii said:

dv said:

Clown faced tiger moth

Your photo?

No

The Clown Face Tiger Moth (Idalus herois) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1889. It is found in Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idalus_herois

Michael V said:

dv said:

kii said:

Your photo?

No

The Clown Face Tiger Moth (Idalus herois) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1889. It is found in Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idalus_herois

It looks like the ones we call tiger moths in Victoria are a different genus.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7830&taxon_id=354659

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

Citizen Scientists of Tasmania
Jonkelthan Famofan · 11 h ·
ANASPIDES TASMANIAE !!!
from a small puddle at Mount Wellington (organ pipes track)

a bit of a shrimp.

mountain prawn.

Anaspides tasmaniae is a species of fresh water crustacean of the family Anaspididae found in Tasmania. It is also known by the common names “mountain shrimp” or “chris’ pseudo-mantis”. It has been described as a “living fossil”. A. tasmaniae lives in tarns and creeks over 300 metres above sea level, and is found in Lake St Clair and Clarence Lagoon. Wiki

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

It looks to be a spider.

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/net-casting-spiders/

Michael V said:

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

It looks to be a spider.

Well yeah but what kind of spider has an abdomen like 3 times longer than its longest leg?

dv said:

Michael V said:

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

It looks to be a spider.

Well yeah but what kind of spider has an abdomen like 3 times longer than its longest leg?

That one ?

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/net-casting-spiders/

Cheers… this individual seems out-of-spec but maybe it’s a freak

dv said:

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/net-casting-spiders/

Cheers… this individual seems out-of-spec but maybe it’s a freak

It is a male.

http://esperancewildlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/net-casting-spider-deinopis-unicolor.html

I love anteaters.

kii said:

I love anteaters.

So are there ants in there or what?

Speaking of anteaters, as a child I played a game where I pretended that I had an anteater.
You get one thin curved branch, shaped like the arc of the creature’s head/ back/tail, and you run it along the flat concrete, holding the thicker end. The stick needs to be supple. It tick tick ticks along the ground eating imaginary ants. Kept me amused for ages.

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

Consensus seems to be that it is a whip spider.

dv said:

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

Consensus seems to be that it is a whip spider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariamnes_colubrinus

dv said:

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

Consensus seems to be that it is a whip spider.

Observations at iNaturalist for Victoria, whip spiders.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7830&taxon_id=250005

buffy said:

dv said:

dv said:

Friend of mine in Victoria seeks to identify this. Abdomen is 3 cm long.

Consensus seems to be that it is a whip spider.

Observations at iNaturalist for Victoria, whip spiders.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7830&taxon_id=250005

Interesting, that’s it for sure, I have never seen one but we don’t get them in WA.

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Several dozen snails, not to put too fine a point on it, fuckin’

“Our National Wildlife Refuge System offers some of the most stunning wildlife photography opportunities in the country. This scene of sandhill crane silhouettes at sunset, was captured at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.”

Photo by Audrey Huffman Reser

An anteater in China. Playing with its caretaker. I love anteaters.

kii said:

“Our National Wildlife Refuge System offers some of the most stunning wildlife photography opportunities in the country. This scene of sandhill crane silhouettes at sunset, was captured at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.”

Photo by Audrey Huffman Reser

Witches.

kii said:

An anteater in China. Playing with its caretaker. I love anteaters.

That’s a fun one.

:)

OCDC said:

kii said:

“Our National Wildlife Refuge System offers some of the most stunning wildlife photography opportunities in the country. This scene of sandhill crane silhouettes at sunset, was captured at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.”

Photo by Audrey Huffman Reser

Witches.

That was mentioned.

BTW kiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, as you well know according to our constitution, no imagery of THE COVEN is to be shared. I have informed the others and we will deal with the matter at an emergency meeting to be held in fifty-seven minutes. Please have your scrying mirror at the ready.

OCDC said:

BTW kiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, as you well know according to our constitution, no imagery of THE COVEN is to be shared. I have informed the others and we will deal with the matter at an emergency meeting to be held in fifty-seven minutes. Please have your scrying mirror at the ready.

Oh dear…

kii said:

OCDC said:

BTW kiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, as you well know according to our constitution, no imagery of THE COVEN is to be shared. I have informed the others and we will deal with the matter at an emergency meeting to be held in fifty-seven minutes. Please have your scrying mirror at the ready.

Oh dear…

“We will not apologize for our witchy ways.” – spooky cranes

kii said:

“Our National Wildlife Refuge System offers some of the most stunning wildlife photography opportunities in the country. This scene of sandhill crane silhouettes at sunset, was captured at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.”

Photo by Audrey Huffman Reser

looks like they’re being raptured.

kii said:

An anteater in China. Playing with its caretaker. I love anteaters.

I showed these on a photography forum and the first answer was, “I can see an anteater”.

OCDC said:

kii said:

“Our National Wildlife Refuge System offers some of the most stunning wildlife photography opportunities in the country. This scene of sandhill crane silhouettes at sunset, was captured at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.”

Photo by Audrey Huffman Reser

Witches.

Now I see them, since you mentioned it.

I can see an anvil.

kii said:

“Our National Wildlife Refuge System offers some of the most stunning wildlife photography opportunities in the country. This scene of sandhill crane silhouettes at sunset, was captured at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.”

Photo by Audrey Huffman Reser

Terrific shot, so typical of the bird but rarely captured.

Peak Warming Man said:

I can see an anvil.

Nods. That’s what I thought too.

Peak Warming Man said:

I can see an anvil.

Huh?

kii said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I can see an anvil.

Huh?

Clouds.

roughbarked said:

kii said:

An anteater in China. Playing with its caretaker. I love anteaters.

I showed these on a photography forum and the first answer was, “I can see an anteater”.

Ah,anvil.

OCDC said:

kii said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I can see an anvil.

Huh?

Clouds.

It is either an anteater or an anvil, according to the opinions of Pareidolia observers.

kii said:

roughbarked said:

kii said:

An anteater in China. Playing with its caretaker. I love anteaters.

I showed these on a photography forum and the first answer was, “I can see an anteater”.

Ah,anvil.

An-vil, an-teater; what’s the difference?

The Rev Dodgson said:

kii said:

roughbarked said:

I showed these on a photography forum and the first answer was, “I can see an anteater”.

Ah,anvil.

An-vil, an-teater; what’s the difference?

Heh.
I’ve had the photo since 1973 and never remember thinking it was an anteater or anvil. Until yesterday when someone in America said it looked like an anteater.
I took this other photo about a week either way of the previous on the same farm and I always saw the elephant.

Pregnant stingray.

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Balletic octopus

https://youtu.be/93oz36zFuiA?si=GRwkGjc0MMQ9BbN8

Brinicle freezes a bunch of starfish

https://youtu.be/toKXB9eXMeQ?si=Q55iOitVc9gmo2Jc

Boxer mantis dance

dv said:

https://youtu.be/toKXB9eXMeQ?si=Q55iOitVc9gmo2Jc

Boxer mantis dance

Huh!

dv said:

https://youtu.be/toKXB9eXMeQ?si=Q55iOitVc9gmo2Jc

Boxer mantis dance

The natural world never ceases to surprise….

New Zealand sea lions move inland, into grasslands and forests, during breeding season to protect the pups from various threats.

dv said:

New Zealand sea lions move inland, into grasslands and forests, during breeding season to protect the pups from various threats.

Pretty animals. They look strangely at home in the forest.

dv said:

LOL

The Lamington Spiny Crayfish

dv said:

The Lamington Spiny Crayfish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euastacus_sulcatus

What a cutie. I loved Mount Lamington NP when I camped there. Except for the loud tourist family that talked REALLY LOUDLY!!

dv said:

The Lamington Spiny Crayfish

Nice one.

Michael V said:

dv said:

The Lamington Spiny Crayfish

Nice one.

No comment:

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The stealth of the Large Blue

dv said:

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The stealth of the Large Blue

That was worth watching, thanks dv

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Bear

The flaw is larva

Citheronia regalis

OMG!! I just saw a Northern Flicker out the window. It looked just like this as it flew off from the bare pecan tree. Amazing sight. They are woodpeckers.

kii said:

OMG!! I just saw a Northern Flicker out the window. It looked just like this as it flew off from the bare pecan tree. Amazing sight. They are woodpeckers.

Totally amazing.

kii said:

OMG!! I just saw a Northern Flicker out the window. It looked just like this as it flew off from the bare pecan tree. Amazing sight. They are woodpeckers.

How gorgeous.

Mrs V’s friend from the USA gave her a tea towel with a lovely, dominantly dark blue design that includes her state’s (Minnesota’s) emblem bird: a Common Loon.

It is now hanging on the kitchen wall, supported by a thin piece of yellow bamboo and a dark blue, flat string.

I looked up the Common Loon – it’s a BIG bird, with a pretty pattern also.

Michael V said:

kii said:

OMG!! I just saw a Northern Flicker out the window. It looked just like this as it flew off from the bare pecan tree. Amazing sight. They are woodpeckers.

How gorgeous.

Mrs V’s friend from the USA gave her a tea towel with a lovely, dominantly dark blue design that includes her state’s (Minnesota’s) emblem bird: a Common Loon.

It is now hanging on the kitchen wall, supported by a thin piece of yellow bamboo and a dark blue, flat string.

I looked up the Common Loon – it’s a BIG bird, with a pretty pattern also.

One of our natives:

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

kii said:

OMG!! I just saw a Northern Flicker out the window. It looked just like this as it flew off from the bare pecan tree. Amazing sight. They are woodpeckers.

How gorgeous.

Mrs V’s friend from the USA gave her a tea towel with a lovely, dominantly dark blue design that includes her state’s (Minnesota’s) emblem bird: a Common Loon.

It is now hanging on the kitchen wall, supported by a thin piece of yellow bamboo and a dark blue, flat string.

I looked up the Common Loon – it’s a BIG bird, with a pretty pattern also.

One of our natives:

We had a Baza Hawk (Pacific Baza) living near us in Brisbane. I haven’t seen any here.

kii said:

OMG!! I just saw a Northern Flicker out the window. It looked just like this as it flew off from the bare pecan tree. Amazing sight. They are woodpeckers.

That’s pretty damn spectacular.

OCDC said:

kii said:

OMG!! I just saw a Northern Flicker out the window. It looked just like this as it flew off from the bare pecan tree. Amazing sight. They are woodpeckers.

That’s pretty damn spectacular.

Not my photo, but almost exactly how I saw it from the bathroom window.

CONGRATULATIONS…

…It’s A BOY!

starts as a mere fly speck which took a week before he showed up
big enough to pose with a shiny coin from my collection for scale…

gah,,, you can’t believe how much they eat…
…or how often it’s cage needs cleaning!


…lil bugger took to exploring whilst I attend to his housework…

If ya’ raise ‘em right they grow up to be Apple Lovers.


…then comes the day…

Touching Farewell…

…and it’s Out To Launch…………….

Nice!

Ogmog said:

starts as a mere fly speck which took a week before he showed up
big enough to pose with a shiny coin from my collection for scale…

gah,,, you can’t believe how much they eat…
…or how often it’s cage needs cleaning!


…lil bugger took to exploring whilst I attend to his housework…

If ya’ raise ‘em right they grow up to be Apple Lovers.


…then comes the day…

Touching Farewell…

…and it’s Out To Launch…………….

Very similar to raising silk worms. Which was an annual activity in this house up until recently.

roughbarked said:

Ogmog said:

starts as a mere fly speck which took a week before he showed up
big enough to pose with a shiny coin from my collection for scale…

gah,,, you can’t believe how much they eat…
…or how often it’s cage needs cleaning!


…lil bugger took to exploring whilst I attend to his housework…

If ya’ raise ‘em right they grow up to be Apple Lovers.


…then comes the day…

Touching Farewell…

…and it’s Out To Launch…………….

Bon Voyage

Very similar to raising silk worms. Which was an annual activity in this house up until recently.

Do/Did you give them their freedom?
or keep the cocoons to harvest the silk?

Ogmog said:

roughbarked said:

Ogmog said:

starts as a mere fly speck which took a week before he showed up
big enough to pose with a shiny coin from my collection for scale…

gah,,, you can’t believe how much they eat…
…or how often it’s cage needs cleaning!


…lil bugger took to exploring whilst I attend to his housework…

If ya’ raise ‘em right they grow up to be Apple Lovers.


…then comes the day…

Touching Farewell…

…and it’s Out To Launch…………….

Bon Voyage

Very similar to raising silk worms. Which was an annual activity in this house up until recently.

Do/Did you give them their freedom?
or keep the cocoons to harvest the silk?

AFAIK silkworms don’t exist in the wild. Fully domesticated.

Ogmog said:

roughbarked said:

Ogmog said:

starts as a mere fly speck which took a week before he showed up
big enough to pose with a shiny coin from my collection for scale…

gah,,, you can’t believe how much they eat…
…or how often it’s cage needs cleaning!


…lil bugger took to exploring whilst I attend to his housework…

If ya’ raise ‘em right they grow up to be Apple Lovers.


…then comes the day…

Touching Farewell…

…and it’s Out To Launch…………….

Bon Voyage

Very similar to raising silk worms. Which was an annual activity in this house up until recently.

Do/Did you give them their freedom?
or keep the cocoons to harvest the silk?

Every cocoon was chewed open by a moth that laid eggs for next season. They were purely for education.

kii said:

Ogmog said:

roughbarked said:

Very similar to raising silk worms. Which was an annual activity in this house up until recently.

Do/Did you give them their freedom?
or keep the cocoons to harvest the silk?

AFAIK silkworms don’t exist in the wild. Fully domesticated.

Indeed. One year Mrs rb said, I’m not doing this any more and wanted to toss the eggs. I hung them in the weeping mulberry which is a sport from the white mulberry. The hatched and started eating but within the first week, the paper wasps had taken them all to feed their babies with.

roughbarked said:

kii said:

Ogmog said:

Do/Did you give them their freedom?
or keep the cocoons to harvest the silk?

AFAIK silkworms don’t exist in the wild. Fully domesticated.

Indeed. One year Mrs rb said, I’m not doing this any more and wanted to toss the eggs. I hung them in the weeping mulberry which is a sport from the white mulberry. The hatched and started eating but within the first week, the paper wasps had taken them all to feed their babies with.

Same here: the point is taking them into “Protective Custody” until they can shift for themselves
otherwise, as you said, they’re preyed upon from egg on by every voracious predatory species
…but fair’s fair… that’s just nature.

what sux is when nature gets trodden underfoot in response to the almighty buck…
…harvesting trees for lumber & too much pesticide for blemish free pretty peaches

Ogmog said:

roughbarked said:

kii said:

AFAIK silkworms don’t exist in the wild. Fully domesticated.

Indeed. One year Mrs rb said, I’m not doing this any more and wanted to toss the eggs. I hung them in the weeping mulberry which is a sport from the white mulberry. The hatched and started eating but within the first week, the paper wasps had taken them all to feed their babies with.

Same here: the point is taking them into “Protective Custody” until they can shift for themselves
otherwise, as you said, they’re preyed upon from egg on by every voracious predatory species
…but fair’s fair… that’s just nature.

what sux is when nature gets trodden underfoot in response to the almighty buck…
…harvesting trees for lumber & too much pesticide for blemish free pretty peaches

I had to take Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Birtle, KCB, RN (retd), late Rear-Admiral of the Blue (also known as ‘the budgie’) into protective custody.

He had escaped from quarters unknown, and, as a bright blue budgie on his own, it would have been a matter of minutes before the butcher birds or magpies in the area had taken him home for dinner, and not in a friendly way.

Ogmog said:

CONGRATULATIONS…

…It’s A BOY!

And a very handsome one too.

Ogmog said:

starts as a mere fly speck which took a week before he showed up
big enough to pose with a shiny coin from my collection for scale…

gah,,, you can’t believe how much they eat…
…or how often it’s cage needs cleaning!


…lil bugger took to exploring whilst I attend to his housework…

If ya’ raise ‘em right they grow up to be Apple Lovers.


…then comes the day…

Touching Farewell…

…and it’s Out To Launch…………….

Nice set of photos.

Although pink grasshoppers aren’t commonly seen, they aren’t as rare as people might think, said Hojun Song, an entomology professor at Texas A&M University.

People in Pennsylvania and Texas made headlines last year for seeing one.

“What is rare is these pink insects surviving to adulthood, because they are more conspicuous to predators compared to normal green or brown which are more cryptic,” Song said.

The pink hoppers have a condition called erythrism — a genetic mutation that causes overproduction of red pigment, he said, noting that because the insects aren’t well camouflaged, they’re more likely to be eaten.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/03/23/pink-grasshopper-arkansas-madeline-landecker/?

Australonuphis, commonly called Australian beach worms

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dv said:

Australonuphis, commonly called Australian beach worms

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:)

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

A circle of bear cubs in Finland

https://www.beautyofplanet.com/teacher-photographed-baby-bears-dancing-in-finland-forest-thinks-hes-imagining-it/

It’s and old but successful ruse.
The kiddies need to be taught if they go down to the woods they could be in for a big surprise, a surprise that could have fatal consequences.

TeddyBear’s Picnic

Anteater

Pangolin birth.

kii said:

Pangolin birth.

Kind of nice

https://youtu.be/SxQLKBYNG5U?si=kTGz5Gb7-DFGpu5S

Owl swimming

Unexpected guests at a Cocos or Keeling Island barbecue

dv said:

Unexpected guests at a Cocos or Keeling Island barbecue

Um and here is the image

dv said:

dv said:

Unexpected guests at a Cocos or Keeling Island barbecue

Um and here is the image

I don’t believe they are unexpected for learned people.

dv said:

dv said:

Unexpected guests at a Cocos or Keeling Island barbecue

Um and here is the image

A bit unsettling.

yeah yeah yeah
I get WHY people living in
sensitive areas that never evolved
natural predators to instinctively HATE CATS
but have you ever asked yourself WHY They’re
THE Apex Predators in just about any given situation?

BadAssCats

Ogmog said:

yeah yeah yeah
I get WHY people living in
sensitive areas that never evolved
natural predators to instinctively HATE CATS
but have you ever asked yourself WHY They’re
THE Apex Predators in just about any given situation?

BadAssCats

dv said:

Ogmog said:

yeah yeah yeah
I get WHY people living in
sensitive areas that never evolved
natural predators to instinctively HATE CATS
but have you ever asked yourself WHY They’re
THE Apex Predators in just about any given situation?

BadAssCats

wota buncha pussies

Ogmog said:

yeah yeah yeah
I get WHY people living in
sensitive areas that never evolved
natural predators to instinctively HATE CATS
but have you ever asked yourself WHY They’re
THE Apex Predators in just about any given situation?

BadAssCats

We watched Mikey, the neighbourhood gangster cat, jump out of the bushes, attack a bull terrier and chase it down the street.

King Cat breaks up fight.

One of my favourites.

ABC Great Southern
4 d ·
Fair to say this eagle wasn’t keen on a drone flying around his neighbourhood!😮 🦅

Captured near Mount Barker by Scott Hatto who sent his drone up to track some missing sheep only to draw the ire of this local

sarahs mum said:

ABC Great Southern
4 d ·
Fair to say this eagle wasn’t keen on a drone flying around his neighbourhood!😮 🦅

Captured near Mount Barker by Scott Hatto who sent his drone up to track some missing sheep only to draw the ire of this local

Eagles are inclined to kill drones. I understand it’s not uncommon.

buffy said:

sarahs mum said:

ABC Great Southern
4 d ·
Fair to say this eagle wasn’t keen on a drone flying around his neighbourhood!😮 🦅

Captured near Mount Barker by Scott Hatto who sent his drone up to track some missing sheep only to draw the ire of this local

Eagles are inclined to kill drones. I understand it’s not uncommon.

Heaps of videos of drones being knocked down. Here’s one

Ogmog said:

yeah yeah yeah
I get WHY people living in
sensitive areas that never evolved
natural predators to instinctively HATE CATS
but have you ever asked yourself WHY They’re
THE Apex Predators in just about any given situation?

BadAssCats

on the other hand…paw…hand… WotEvah!

Deformed Dog Breeds That Should Go Extinct

dv said:

So in fact most each of

those is a plant.

Ogmog said:

starts as a mere fly speck which took a week before he showed up
big enough to pose with a shiny coin from my collection for scale…

gah,,, you can’t believe how much they eat…
…or how often it’s cage needs cleaning!


…lil bugger took to exploring whilst I attend to his housework…

If ya’ raise ‘em right they grow up to be Apple Lovers.


…then comes the day…

Touching Farewell…

…and it’s Out To Launch…………….

DEEP LOOK

Why Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar So Dang Hungry?

captain_spalding said:

Ogmog said:

roughbarked said:

Indeed. One year Mrs rb said, I’m not doing this any more and wanted to toss the eggs. I hung them in the weeping mulberry which is a sport from the white mulberry. The hatched and started eating but within the first week, the paper wasps had taken them all to feed their babies with.

Same here: the point is taking them into “Protective Custody” until they can shift for themselves
otherwise, as you said, they’re preyed upon from egg on by every voracious predatory species
…but fair’s fair… that’s just nature.

what sux is when nature gets trodden underfoot in response to the almighty buck…
…harvesting trees for lumber & too much pesticide for blemish free pretty peaches

I had to take Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Birtle, KCB, RN (retd), late Rear-Admiral of the Blue (also known as ‘the budgie’) into protective custody.

He had escaped from quarters unknown, and, as a bright blue budgie on his own, it would have been a matter of minutes before the butcher birds or magpies in the area had taken him home for dinner, and not in a friendly way.

…short-story-long….

I’m looking out my window overlooking a neighbour’s grape arbor
at a flock of flighty little birds apparently feeding on dropped fruit and/or
insects feeding upon said dropped fruit…
There were perhaps 25 of the lil buggers briefly landing and taking off again
almost as one so quickly as to make an actual head count nearly impossible…
Just as the words “FLIGHTY” formed in my brain I spied a single individual that
landed but didn’t instantly rise again to take refuge among the dangling grape leaves
Again, just as a thought was forming “BRAVE LITTLE GUY” brought a smile to my face
a hawk landed and put an end to the “BRAVE LIL INDIVIDUAL” in a single blink of my eye

AH! OK… “FLIGHTY”
…lesson learnt…

the brave lil individual didn’t live long enough to produce off-spring

evolutionary lesson learnt

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/may/10/2024-comedy-pet-photo-awards-in-pictures

sarahs mum said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/may/10/2024-comedy-pet-photo-awards-in-pictures

In 2009 we went to Montana. A trip to the bison range was planned. We went in mr kii’s brother’s sedan. I sat in the back seat. A bison this big came up to the window and looked in. It’s an open range so the bison just wander around everywhere. The car was surrounded by them. I was overwhelmed by the creature’s size. To this day I don’t know why we didn’t take our pickup, it was higher off the ground.

That is huge. I’ve never seen one close up. I’m pretty sure we saw some when we did a helicopter flight over the grand canyon -

Brindabellas said:

That is huge. I’ve never seen one close up. I’m pretty sure we saw some when we did a helicopter flight over the grand canyon –

It was huge….so huge…..it blocked out the sun it was so huge.

Forbidden popsicle

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The Bungle bungles

dv said:

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The Bungle bungles

Heh.

dv said:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/QnK1kVbojSezJ7aA/?mibextid=D5vuiz

The Bungle bungles

:)

Ogmog said:

yeah yeah yeah
I get WHY people living in
sensitive areas that never evolved
natural predators to instinctively HATE CATS
but have you ever asked yourself WHY They’re
THE Apex Predators in just about any given situation?

BadAssCats

Follow the leader

Takes Practice

Consider Atergatis integerrimus, wot looks summat like a pikelet.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6YyKWPrCz-/?igsh=N3l4aTRiOWpraXox

Bear cube

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Ribbon worm proboscis

dv said:

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Ribbon worm proboscis

Jaysus feck!
I’ve seen that before, but it always scares me.

dv said:

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Ribbon worm proboscis

Absolutely amazing, thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrL2A7my1fc

Slime rope attack from a velvet worm

dv said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrL2A7my1fc

Slime rope attack from a velvet worm

I’ll have a peep but I suspect I’ll regret it.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrL2A7my1fc

Slime rope attack from a velvet worm

I’ll have a peep but I suspect I’ll regret it.

All things bright & beautiful.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrL2A7my1fc

Slime rope attack from a velvet worm

I’ll have a peep but I suspect I’ll regret it.

All things bright & beautiful.

Mind you, wildlife cameramen let loose in an abattoir would likely record far worse horrors.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrL2A7my1fc

Slime rope attack from a velvet worm

I’ll have a peep but I suspect I’ll regret it.

All things bright & beautiful.

Emphatic performance with 482,000 views but no comments.

ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPMA5I3-0Jw

Eastern quoll

Gatsby The Galaxy Cat. Vitiligo tuxedo kitteh.

dv said:

Now they’re searching for a pig that has a particular look about it.

dv said:

Shopped.

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

Shopped.

Yeah, there’s no way that one on the right is a real frog.

dv said:

:)

Señor Sanchez

I love him ❤

Someone get him a cushion

dv said:

Someone get him a cushion

His story is on the Instagram page. He removes any bedding given to him and loves sleeping in his drawer.

Not judging Chlorophthalmus but surely there are more effective places to store your light source.

dv said:

Not judging Chlorophthalmus but surely there are more effective places to store your light source.

Probably a useful bit of evolution.

In the dim, dark depths, the predator focusses its attack on the little gleam of light.

But, the most it’ll achieve is a passing swipe at your tail-fins.

Moschops were endearingly clumsy-looking critters. Lower picture shows their size compared with one of Charlie’s Angels.

>Moschops (Greek for “calf face”) is an extinct genus of therapsids that lived in the Guadalupian epoch, around 265–260 million years ago. They were heavily built plant eaters, and they may have lived partly in water, as hippopotamuses do. They had short, thick heads and might have competed by head-butting each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moschops

Some kind of sphinx or hawk moth

dv said:

Some kind of sphinx or hawk moth

In particular this bit which looks like Ming the Merciless

dv said:

Some kind of sphinx or hawk moth

Pantomime devil face.

Bubblecar said:

Shopped

Bubblecar said:

Ah. The very rare Pussus Bullshittus moth.

Hickory Horned Devil caterpillars.

15 second video here

dv said:

Some kind of sphinx or hawk moth

The internet tells me that it is a male mournful sphinx moth – Enyo lugubris.

I know a few people like this.

dv said:

What manner of critters are those?

How did you get that photo of me??

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

What manner of critters are those?

arctic hare BTL

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

What manner of critters are those?

Harctic ares

OCDC said:

How did you get that photo of me??

You’re the snow

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

What manner of critters are those?

Dark Orange said:

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

What manner of critters are those?

Thought so.

Dark Orange said:

OK gurus, what is that skull from?

JudgeMental said:

Dark Orange said:

OK gurus, what is that skull from?

Piltdown Man Homo Sapiens Boris

Witty Rejoinder said:

JudgeMental said:

Dark Orange said:

OK gurus, what is that skull from?

Piltdown Man Homo Sapiens Boris

you’ve hurt my feelings.

Ogmog said:

Pretty. On Box Elder Maple?

Luna or Moon Moth

Ogmog said:

Luna or Moon Moth

wish the heck
i knew how to rotate and enlarge the images

Ogmog said:

Cheerful green life forms.

Bubblecar said:

Ogmog said:

Cheerful green life forms.

And their big rellie the Atlas moth

this image is life size
not particularly large
but a delicate beauty

Ogmog said:

this image is life size
not particularly large
but a delicate beauty

It is very graceful. Look like it has some reinforcement on the leading edge there.

“This image is life size”

That’s kind of meaningless in this context. We could be seeing it 3 cm wide, we could be seeing it 30 cm wide.

Bubblecar said:

Ogmog said:

this image is life size
not particularly large
but a delicate beauty

It is very graceful. Look like it has some reinforcement on the leading edge there.

It is a very graceful design.

dv said:

“This image is life size”

That’s kind of meaningless in this context. We could be seeing it 3 cm wide, we could be seeing it 30 cm wide.

Its typical wingspan is roughly 114 mm (4.5 in), but wingspans can exceed 178 mm (7.0 in), ranking the species as one of the larger moths in North America.

Video…
Smac McCreanor

kii said:

Video…
Smac McCreanor

:)

Larva of some limacocid moth

dv said:

Larva of some limacocid moth

stinging nettle moth larva, can be nasty. apparently.

https://www.threads.net/@dapperdondharshi/post/C8lPNtlp596/?xmt=AQGzPh6hE3E8zM2REns5FHDwSjpct3vMxFnZD99eN2CGVg

Infant ferrets

dv said:

Larva of some limacocid moth

Beautiful.

https://www.facebook.com/share/dNr3xpyy1YXXG1no/?mibextid=xfxF2i

A ‘monstrous’ discovery on Porthcressa yesterday – a female Phronima sedentaria (aka ‘the monster in a barrel’), a rarely seen marine amphipod crustacean which l’ve been in search of for years!!

The females parasitise salps, cutting in to them from one end before devouring their host from the inside. They then cut down what remains of the gelatinous tunic to construct a barrel-like vessel, where she will eventually give birth to, and raise, up to 600 young!

Some sources suggest that the appearance and ecology of P. sedentaria was the inspiration behind the title creature in Ridley Scott’s 1979 film ‘Alien’, or possibly the ‘mother alien’ in the 1986 sequel ‘Aliens’!

Squirrel…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9svqck0xMD0

Mother chimp reunites with newborn

dv said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9svqck0xMD0

Mother chimp reunites with newborn

My heart just feels this so much.

Bison.

I’ve been in a car and seen this at the window.

kii said:

Bison.

I’ve been in a car and seen this at the window.

Nice.

Michael V said:

kii said:

Bison.

I’ve been in a car and seen this at the window.

Nice.

It was HUGE!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/FPkbr4Xr57U9gTx5/?mibextid=D5vuiz

Not sure what this chelonian is doing but it is doing it

dv said:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/FPkbr4Xr57U9gTx5/?mibextid=D5vuiz

Not sure what this chelonian is doing but it is doing it

Leedle smacka da face.

dv said:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/FPkbr4Xr57U9gTx5/?mibextid=D5vuiz

Not sure what this chelonian is doing but it is doing it

:)

dv said:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/FPkbr4Xr57U9gTx5/?mibextid=D5vuiz

Not sure what this chelonian is doing but it is doing it

looks like a reiki massage.

The junk bug, a voracious predator in the insect world, earns its name by finding a creative use for plant matter as well as the exoskeletons of past victims. It wears these on its back as part of an intricate camouflage to deceive those who would prey on it. This photo was specially commended in this year’s Royal Entomological Society Insect Week photography competition.

Witty Rejoinder said:

The junk bug, a voracious predator in the insect world, earns its name by finding a creative use for plant matter as well as the exoskeletons of past victims. It wears these on its back as part of an intricate camouflage to deceive those who would prey on it. This photo was specially commended in this year’s Royal Entomological Society Insect Week photography competition.

It is a great capture. Likely a tabetop though.

Consider this shell boi

dv said:

Consider this shell boi

Must have been a fast pan shot with the camera. No speed blurring evident.

An ocean sunfish in Nordsøen Oceanarium, Hirtshals, Denmark.

Bubblecar said:

An ocean sunfish in Nordsøen Oceanarium, Hirtshals, Denmark.

It looks like it’s arse is asploding.

Bubblecar said:

An ocean sunfish in Nordsøen Oceanarium, Hirtshals, Denmark.

Sunfish skeleton, showing the structure of the fins

Kingy said:

Bubblecar said:

An ocean sunfish in Nordsøen Oceanarium, Hirtshals, Denmark.

It looks like it’s arse is asploding.

Reminds me of patty pan squash.

Although the sunfish, though squashed, is enormous.

A sunfish fry, which still possesses spines that will later disappear.

This critter was out sun-baking yesterday afternoon.

fsm said:

This critter was out sun-baking yesterday afternoon.

Nice.

Michael V said:

fsm said:

This critter was out sun-baking yesterday afternoon.

Nice.

Have to drive more than 600km in any direction to get a view of the coastline, sea lion or not.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9FQdaCRAZr/?igsh=MXgzcHh0MWFwN2N3cA==

Dogs

dv said:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9FQdaCRAZr/?igsh=MXgzcHh0MWFwN2N3cA==

Dogs

seems just wrong.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9FQdaCRAZr/?igsh=MXgzcHh0MWFwN2N3cA==

Dogs

seems just wrong.

I am not going to judge them

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1926400004447397

Dark Orange said:

Oh no, DO has been taken by a dropbear. :(

Press Alt F4 to pay respects.

Kingy said:

Dark Orange said:

Oh no, DO has been taken by a dropbear. :(

Press Alt F4 to pay respects.

I am sure Dropbear would have something to say about that…