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I saw a huge caterpillar today - Share your bug pics too!
« on: September 11, 2012, 06:32:59 AM »
Today I saw the biggest caterpillar I've ever seen in Sweden before. I think it was 8-9 cm long and it was really fat. :shocked: When I poked at it it with a pinecone it tried to spit something at me.

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Feel free post bugs that you have photographed. :) I'll post some more of my bug pics later. I actually think most bugs are creepy, but still they're interesting and fun to watch and photograph.
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« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2012, 06:44:03 AM »
Wow, that thing is big. I took a pic of a tiny spider once:

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« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2012, 07:00:30 AM »
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :yikes: omg that caterpillar is monster!!!
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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2012, 07:08:08 AM »
So cool! :lovey:

That will be a Cossus cossus, or Goat Moth caterpillar :)

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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2012, 07:09:29 AM »
Quote from: Pinkamena on September 11, 2012, 07:08:08 AM
So cool! :lovey:

That will be a Cossus cossus, or Goat Moth caterpillar :)

BRB off to find some piccies from my Photobucket...

Do they exist in England? :yikes:
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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2012, 07:22:19 AM »
Okies some pics of mine - (warning - there are some spider pics!)

Native UK creepies -

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And these two aren't native to the UK but they've been here since the late 1800s
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This bug I found when I was in Hamm -
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Some of my tarantulas and other exotic inverts
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And just for fun here are some of my dried bugs, taken a few years back before I moved.

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Yes, I love invertebrates a lot :) :lovey:

And Party yes, but they are very scarce over here. I've never seen one in person.


Edit for a couple more pics of my creepies I just found...

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and finally a pic of me in the paper a few years ago :D
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2012, 07:32:26 AM »
Really cool pics! What species are those black spiders that are not native to the UK?

Even though I think spiders are really creepy and hate when they get in to my house, I still think there are som really beautiful ones. Like the first tarantula you posted.

I love snails! How big is the second one?
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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2012, 07:37:54 AM »
The first ones are Steatoda grossa, these are the false widows that the media whip up a frenzy about sometimes. The second one is Segestria florentina. These things are evil but so beautiful :lovey:

Some of my snails are bigger than my hand! I love snails :lovey: My biggest were huuuuuuuuge (yes that's a normal sized tennis ball!)

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« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2012, 07:43:26 AM »
I would love to have a big snail! Are they hard to take care of?

More bug pics that I have taken:

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« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2012, 07:52:02 AM »
Not a bug, but I have some pics of a teeny snail!
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« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2012, 09:19:37 AM »
Great pics! I've always been such a bug person. :)

For a while, every spring I would buy a praying mantis ootheca from a local gardening company and release them all in the summer. It was always neat when you'd find them a few months later as adults. Sometimes I'd take the females back in and they'd lay even more egg cases. They made fantastic work of the pests in the garden.

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« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2012, 09:25:01 AM »
Awesome bug photos - I love that our members appreciate such a diversity of life forms on our planet! 
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« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2012, 09:30:46 AM »
Oooh that's a biggun.
We had this huge dragonfly in our kitchen a few weeks back, I'll have to see if I can find the photo of him.
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« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2012, 12:17:01 PM »
Green stinkbugs exist?? Cool! I saw one once, it was skinny and green. I assumed it was a one-time mutation, since we only have brown stinkbugs here, and I've never seen another green one. That's pretty neat!

I just counted over 20 Walnut Caterpillars <http://entoplp.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/walnutdatana.htm> going on some sort of exodus across the backyard yesterday. They were so fuzzy!! I caught a few so my Mom could take them to her kindergarten class and do metamorphosis lessons. * :) Smiling at nostalgia*
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« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2012, 12:27:16 PM »
I love taking macro shots of bugs. I've always wanted to find a luna moth. Too bad my photobucket won't work on this computer. The red and black beetle looks like a stage of boxelder bug.
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