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Weird insects!
This guy has been hanging around on my garage siding for a couple days now.
What do they eat to survive? And how do they stay so thin? :) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1663187247.jpg |
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http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/locke...lt_on_hand.jpg http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/locke..._fingertip.jpg They bicycle daily, eat like they did when they were in HS, and chill with turtles. On a related note, crane flies (mosquito hawk or sometimes daddy long legs). https://bugguide.net/images/cache/QR...VLIZBLIZSH.jpg They look like giant, gangly mosquitos that fly/move pretty slowly. There's a rumor going around that they eat mosquitos. I heard it growing up, and I've heard folks repeat it recently. Quote:
We get these, dobsonfly, here. https://bugguide.net/images/cache/8Z...GLLRMLUZWH.jpg I used to find them on our outdoor light pole with the mercury vapor bulb in the mornings (as well as Luna moths and a bunch of other big bugs). I stopped leaving the light on so I wouldn't impact the migration of birds, so I don't see them any more. |
^^^ that last pic is the size of a small bird!
We have lots of bats at night...no bugs that size though. |
That is a phasmid or stick bug. Their diet is mostly leaves.
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^^^ We always called them 'walking sticks'
Why would one stay on my garage door for a couple days? No leaves there. |
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I've lived many places that had bats that would fly around at night. I've always thought they were cool to watch. When we lived in an apt near Houston, we lived ~1/3 mile from a bridge that was home to a colony of ~300k bats. The flooding from Harvey knocked that back a bit. Several years ago, they said it was ~200k. The 6.5 years that we lived there, I think I saw mosquitos about 5 times. Also, there was a time before I lived there, but I worked on the 9th floor of a building downtown that was ~3 miles from the bridge, and I would frequently see the bats stream past the 9th floor windows just about the time it was fully dark. It was pretty cool, and also reminiscent of something out of a horror flick with thousands of bats streaming past the window for 10-15 mins. |
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(Or so I've heard and seen pics of) I've only seen in once next to the big water near Detwaah..but it was remarkable. Daddy long legs are the spider found in MI basements. They are actually poisonous technically but their fangs are too short to worry humans. |
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I've seen lots of crane flies before, but nothing like you describe. Wow! DLL spiders are odd. They look like a tiny bean with legs. You don't see the usual spider body parts. https://www.cincynature.org/media/bl...%20Size-17.png |
I wish some sort of natural predator would start harvesting those durn lantern flies.
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I hear they are tasty when sauteed with a little garlic. |
mosquito burgers
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Found a few of these at our house. The smaller, wimpier North American cousin to the larger Camel Spider of the Middle East. When in Oman, my brother found one under his tent. It was dead and it’s legs were folded under itself. When he took the pic of it, he used a one dollar bill as scale. With its legs curled under its dead cold body, the first joint from front leg to front leg was at the far corners of the bill. Ahhh no thanks!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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http://entomology.rutgers.edu/images...hemibattle.jpg Wheel bugs are crazy looking. We've got them here. https://www.whatsthatbug.com/wp-cont...l_bug_rick.jpg What triggered this post is that I saw the following on FB, which made me think of your post. Quote:
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Praying Mantis is a cool insect!
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What about these??? [emoji23]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...546c13b1a3.jpg
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