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Post Your Garden Insect Pics Here (Cuation Iggy - Contains Spider Pics)

AlabamaJack

AlabamaJack

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I was just thinking...I know we have had a lot of threads talking about different insects we find in our gardens and thought it would be good to have a thread discussing what insects/pests we find in our gardens that we all could contribute to and maybe use this thread as a Bug Identifier for the forum. Soooo....I will post a couple of pics....

NOTE: Please identify insect if you can...

This evidently is called simply a "Brown Butterfly"

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Assassin Bug With Meal (good bug)

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Fly - (meal for Assassin Bug)

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Spider

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Those assassin bugs are real killers. They hung around my plants until mid July or thereabouts and then one day were gone. Shortly after that, evil hornworms infiltrated the perimeter. Had to call in an airstrike of Sevin to wipe out the VC.

Salute', TB.
 
Man, i gotta get a digital camera. We've got female golden orb weavers here the size of my hand, and they're everywhere.
 
thanks Patrick...

good shot Micca...

keep them coming...
 
Well, no shots on leavesbut saw these while lurkin in the yard at night. Chillin below and above a hose bib that I use to water the garden. The second's a big'un!

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Quality's kinda low. Hard to focus in the dark. Nice pics from you guys though- that greenums spider is a eally nice shot AJ.
 
Wasp
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Skipper
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Big Garden Spider(you could even see her epigynum) There's some spider porn for you! I saw her eating her mate a few night ago!
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Big Garden Spider eating her lunch
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Here's a garden orb weaver that was hanging around a bush in front of the house.

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This was up north on our cottage. It's called a dock spider.
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Cool thread. I better keep my camera batteries charged. The above resembles a Huntsman here in Oz, big and flat. I have a couple of size of a big hand spread Huntsman in my garage and every now and then if I go in there at night I see one on top of a cockroach having tea. Fascinating when they feed they look like a different spider.
 
boutros said:
Well, no shots on leavesbut saw these while lurkin in the yard at night. Chillin below and above a hose bib that I use to water the garden. The second's a big'un!

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Quality's kinda low. Hard to focus in the dark. Nice pics from you guys though- that greenums spider is a eally nice shot AJ.
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ooo. pretty widow!:)
 
scarpetti said:
Poor sunflower! Stupid crab spider for not wanting to eat the plant killing inchworm!
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caterpillars very often taste yucky or are actually poisonous to eat. Spiders have what amounts to "taste buds" in their feet- so if they touch something that doesnt feel/taste right, they back off.

Many species of wasps, however, specialize in one species of insect- and there are some that favor caterpillars- so, welcome the wasps! -or,watch the pretty purple caterpillar, and see what species of butterfly or moth it turns into. You might decide that the sunflower loss is worth the butterfly-or the flowers are worth tolerating the wasps.....:mouthonfire:
 
Very Cool photos!!! I really need to get a better camera, that's for sure. My out dated camera would never take pics that good.

Now...I just have to get all of the spiders out of my head. Those pics were so good they gave me the creepy crawlies. :lol: I think I need a shower now.
 
Watermen aka Daddy Longlegs
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That looks heaps different from what we call daddy long legs here. The abdomen is totally different!
 
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