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Post by Pat on May 24, 2017 17:29:42 GMT -5
Jean, I thought it was a berry vine ! Lol
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Post by rockpickerforever on May 24, 2017 18:44:23 GMT -5
It is a boysenberry vine. One that a katydid laid two columns of eggs on!
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Post by Pat on May 24, 2017 18:47:16 GMT -5
Hope they don't like Marionberries!
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Post by Pat on May 24, 2017 19:18:11 GMT -5
She is darling!! @shotgunner
Several years ago, I found an odd little hive. Baby preying mantises!! So small they could sit on a fingernail.
They kept me company on my work bench until I needed to solder. Had to toss them in a bush.
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Post by coloradocliff on May 24, 2017 22:51:13 GMT -5
Pat - Nope, not scale. Mel Sabre52 guessed it correctly in the post immediately following mine.
They are katydid eggs! To refresh your memory. (Each time it gets quoted, the pic gets smaller) 
coloradocliff - They certainly do look alien!
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Post by coloradocliff on May 24, 2017 22:56:54 GMT -5
  Minutes old mantid Like finding the sponge-looking mantid egg cases and moving them where they do me good when they hatch in the spring. One day in the greenhouses, late summer a huge female mantid was mating right in the middle of the main greenhouse sales area. She drew a crowd of employees and customers because she was about 4 inches long. When she turned on her babies daddy and started eating his head off, alive, still copulating, the people turned away then turned back. We all seemed to have a strange fascination with the whole scene. Macabre
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Post by Sabre52 on May 25, 2017 7:59:16 GMT -5
We have a ton of mantids here. Love the babies cause they like to eat aphids until they get large enough for big prey. Don't like it when the adults of the larger species eat hummingbirds but that's the way nature goes....Mel
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Post by jamesp on May 25, 2017 10:08:35 GMT -5
Wasp + katydid dancing. Wasp apparently catching next meal. Valiant defense on part of katydid.   |
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Post by jamesp on May 25, 2017 10:15:13 GMT -5
Sabel Palm full of these borers. Has to be a male chasing a female, and relentlessly.   |
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Post by jamesp on May 25, 2017 10:18:56 GMT -5
Harvester ant w/out buttocks ? The worst of stings. Doubt this one can sting, his apparatus is gone.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 20:13:07 GMT -5
Thanks.
Sea Slater's and potaters. Sounds like lunch. Lol
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Post by Sabre52 on May 25, 2017 21:12:13 GMT -5
James, you are dead on on the harvester ant stings. A lot of them just make you want to sit down and cry and the pain is persistent too. Fortunately, they don't seem to be super aggressive like the dang "Far Ants " are. Was cutting horse trails Monday and Tuesday and had on DEET for the dang chiggers. DEET really seems to piss fire ants off big time. Three feet upwind of a mound and them boogers come for ya....Mel
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jul 25, 2017 0:55:14 GMT -5
Assassin bug goes down.
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Post by jamesp on Jul 25, 2017 7:07:07 GMT -5
James, you are dead on on the harvester ant stings. A lot of them just make you want to sit down and cry and the pain is persistent too. Fortunately, they don't seem to be super aggressive like the dang "Far Ants " are. Was cutting horse trails Monday and Tuesday and had on DEET for the dang chiggers. DEET really seems to piss fire ants off big time. Three feet upwind of a mound and them boogers come for ya....Mel Imagine harvesters as aggressive as fire ants. People's lives would be at risk. Not sure if there is any insect as quick to bite as a fire ant. In unison at that. Harvesters quite uncommon around Atlanta, but Florida their little mounds are everywhere. Apparently 22 Harvesters in US. The one in Florida is simply 'The Florida Harvester'. 'Radius' Not sure if they all sting so nasty. |
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Post by txrockhunter on Jul 25, 2017 16:31:07 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 25, 2017 17:03:37 GMT -5
Cool pictures, Jeremy! Will need some more time to come up with an ID on #13. Guessing a larval stage of some plant-juice-sucking insect?
I took this photo last month in my garden. Got lucky and caught the little grasshopper-lings just as they were emerging from the ground. Yep, I squished 'em! I'm sure a few escaped my clutches.
I hate bugs that eat my plants!
ETA - Got it! That wasn't so hard.
Jagged Ambush Bug (Nymph) - most likely Phymata americana
Bizarre looking critter, these are beneficial bugs to have around. They do not suck plant juices as I first thought, but instead -
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Post by txrockhunter on Jul 25, 2017 17:37:56 GMT -5
Cool pictures, Jeremy! Will need some more time to come up with an ID on #13. Guessing a larval stage of some plant-juice-sucking insect?
I took this photo last month in my garden. Got lucky and caught the little grasshopper-lings just as they were emerging from the ground. Yep, I squished 'em! I'm sure a few escaped my clutches.
ETA - Got it! That wasn't so hard.
Jagged Ambush Bug (Nymph) - most likely Phymata americana
Bizarre looking critter, these are beneficial bugs to have around. They do not suck plant juices as I first thought, but instead -
Cousin to the assassin bug. Nice Work, Jean! On the Grasshoppers & the ID! Been able to ID just about everything with some descriptive google search, but that one eluded me. Thanks for taking a look! |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jul 25, 2017 20:13:00 GMT -5
Beautiful photos, Jeremy txrockhunter! You've been slaying it with that new gear. Love the caterpillar pics and the long legged fly here. Lots of great pics in your Flickr album too. Keep on shooting and sharing! |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 26, 2017 3:55:28 GMT -5
Beautiful photos, Jeremy txrockhunter! You've been slaying it with that new gear. Love the caterpillar pics and the long legged fly here. Lots of great pics in your Flickr album too. Keep on shooting and sharing! Jeremy working for National Geographic. Looks like he may have mastered stacking software. Very motivational photos Sir. And what a collection of bugs ! Only a mother could love this guy  |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jul 26, 2017 7:53:21 GMT -5
Beautiful photos, Jeremy txrockhunter ! You've been slaying it with that new gear. Love the caterpillar pics and the long legged fly here. Lots of great pics in your Flickr album too. Keep on shooting and sharing! Jeremy working for National Geographic. Looks like he may have mastered stacking software. Very motivational photos Sir. And what a collection of bugs ! Only a mother could love this guy Jeremy is holding back on you James. He has a whole line of insect boudoir photography he isn't sharing. Apparently a lot of tomfoolery going on in his back yard. txrockhunter
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