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The thread of Creepy Crawlies

Hybrid Mode 01 said:
     I ran into this guy when I was out picking berries today. I turned the branch over to get a shot of him. But the way he's holding those two legs is the perfect camouflage for him when he's on the underside of a twig. Those two legs look just like a leaf petiole or axil. Pretty neat trick.
 
Here he is just chillin' I see these guys all the time, just never seen one try to hide like that. They're almost impossible to see if you're not looking for them.
 
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Great captures of a crab spider!
They stay motionless in those poses 'til an unsuspecting insect strolls by then ... BAM.
 
I finally caught up with this little guy.
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Not a real bee, do not approach if it is.
 
Geonerd said:
Suspicious eggs on my peppers!  :shocked:
 
Any idea what these will hatch into?
The leaf is about an inch long.
 
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I was gonna say stink bugs, then I saw that it was the top of the leaf. Now I'm just confused.
 
Here's some baby hissing cockroaches the guy who runs the local nature center gave me yesterday. The big one I have now was very happy to have friends again.
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Geonerd said:
Suspicious eggs on my peppers!  :shocked:
 
Any idea what these will hatch into?
The leaf is about an inch long.
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I reckon cruzzfish got it right with the stinkbug eggs.
They generally lay eggs on the underside of leaves but not always.
Might of got confused 'cause the eggs are on new growth leaves which can change orientation as it grows.
 
I'd be checking the undersides of your pepper leaves to see if there are more imo.
But yer, thinking foe not friend!
 
The eggs do have faint circular hatches or lids which suggest a Bug of some flavor.  Pentatomidae was suggested on F.B.
I'll try to find and photograph the newly hatched critters.  Maybe I can even catch them in the act.
 
Although I can't compete with the quality of any of the photos in this thread, but here are two pics I took earlier while out herping (looking for reptiles). This poor little pregnant female Paruroctonus boreus scorpion was being attacked by ants. Not sure what the exact species of ant these are, but let me tell you, they are MEAN!!! I got these two quick photos before I was swarming with these biting, stinging bastiges! Within maybe 10-15 seconds of these pics being taken that poor scorpion was completely covered in ants and being drug down into the mound. I couldn't help but feel a little bad for the scorpion, but nature is cruel.
 
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I love how you can clearly see the ant in the scorpion's claws in this photo as well as another ant biting the scorpion's stinger.
 
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TrueNorthReptiles said:
Although I can't compete with the quality of any of the photos in this thread, but here are two pics I took earlier while out herping (looking for reptiles). This poor little pregnant female Paruroctonus boreus scorpion was being attacked by ants. Not sure what the exact species of ant these are, but let me tell you, they are MEAN!!! I got these two quick photos before I was swarming with these biting, stinging bastiges! Within maybe 10-15 seconds of these pics being taken that poor scorpion was completely covered in ants and being drug down into the mound. I couldn't help but feel a little bad for the scorpion, but nature is cruel.
 
I love how you can clearly see the ant in the scorpion's claws in this photo as well as another ant biting the scorpion's stinger.
 
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The Universe is a cold, brutal place.
I really hope we DON'T find any Little Green Men out there, lest we become dinner...
 
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TrueNorthReptiles said:
Although I can't compete with the quality of any of the photos in this thread,
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Pfft ... these photos are awesome!!!
You've captured the brutality of nature really well.
I think they are a stunning sequence.
 
Plus, this thread is not a competition, it's for sharing our critter shots.
 
One of the baby bugs just molted, so it;s ghost white and there's still as shell there. The big one is rather protective of her "kids" however, so I can't take them out for a good photo. I do have a few bad ones through the terrarium. Also, this dragonfly was stuck in my watering can, so I took it in and let it dry off. Got a good photo, then it regained flight in the house and I had to catch it before letting it out.
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JoynersHotPeppers said:
So finally think I have found what is causing curled leaves on the peppers. After checking about 30 leaves more than 1/2 had this type of spider and the rest had the web. Clearly the spider folds them and hunts from the location.
 
 
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They do that to mine also.
 
Here go quite a few. If any pictures are sideways, my apologies. I didn't take them to be like that.
Ants fighting: http://i.imgur.com/DcOZWe3.jpg
And now the victor the other back to be disposed of(eaten?): http://i.imgur.com/9DfiMr0.jpg
Baby hopper that eats flower buds for me, so that the plants grow: http://i.imgur.com/ieftlA6.jpg
Big caterpillar: http://i.imgur.com/26ilyjo.jpg
Shed skin of him: http://i.imgur.com/kco6agA.jpg
Another shed skin of him: http://i.imgur.com/UPvUdSA.jpg
Molted hissing roach(Shitty quality. Don't open it if you wanted something good.): http://i.imgur.com/Ox64iEI.jpg
 
Water strider in the rain collection barrel. No idea where it came from, and ten minutes after I took the picture it jumped the edge and ran off somewhere.
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Sorry for bad quality, it was fast and I couldn't focus on it long enough.
 
Swimming beetle on my dad's finger. It showed up on the edge of a water barrel a few days ago, then it was in the other one, then it flew away, then today it was back, but in the one it had landed on the first time. It likes to sleep underwater on the bottom of a sunken leaf, but sometimes it floats up. Poking it results in quite a funny overreaction.
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