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megami_maxwell

Three New Things From the Bay Area!

Aug 30, 2009 04:03

Crossposted from whats_that_bug because I want it on the record here too. :|The past forty-eight hours have been filled with bugs and spiders at my house, everybody! Including The Biggest Spider I've seen in a while, who narrowly avoided getting unceremoniously killed in my bathroom by deciding to be cute and drink the water off the sides of the glass we were ( Read more... )

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starherd August 31 2009, 08:49:19 UTC

...I wouldn't mind hearing the verdict on what those are...
a liiiiittle freaked out though -_-; had no clue that spider would cross that threshold... maybe it's the time of night

megami_maxwell August 31 2009, 09:06:02 UTC

Yellow Douglas Fir Borer is the decision on the beetle--which works, really. The spider is rumored to be a Wolf Spider of some kind, which are unfortunately practically impossible to ID without a microscope, because the alternative is convenient. :|

...Honestly I think the spider got in when it was smaller and sustained itself on the smaller bugs in my house. XD;;

(I don't know what kind of moth. ;_; )

mishib August 31 2009, 17:15:19 UTC

very cool pics. at any rate, moths are so pretty, but I hate what they do to fabric! And yeah, that spider looks like either some form of wolf spider, or the other that looks very much like it I think is called a fiddle back spider or something and they are poisonous. So it's better just to get them out of the house. this one the legs are long enough it's not like my wolf spiders which have shorter legs. The two types look very much like each other. What I was told by one person, longer legs and shinier body, don't take your chances. Look up wolf spider on wikipedia

thecicadanoise September 1 2009, 09:09:42 UTC

Spider - Some flavor of common house/garden spider. (Don't worry, it's definitely not a fiddleback - as implied by the name, those have a marking on their backs that can resemble a fiddle). I kept spiders of this general type as pets in highschool. 8D

Moth - The injury looks like maybe a deformity that occurred while it was developing... It might even be that this moth recently emerged from its cocoon and wasn't entirely dry yet. Either way, if it was flying it should do okay.

Beetle - Definitely not a roach; their heads connect to their bodies differently. It's cute!

Heading off to bed ASAP, but bug photos = yay. XD I'm trying to get myself up early to do some errands tomorrow and check in with places I've left applications at. Ffffff, work.

megami_maxwell September 1 2009, 09:31:45 UTC

NIISAMAAAAA! -CLING-

The overwhelming majority over on whats_that_bug keep saying, "Oh that's totally a wolf spider" of some kind, but I was thinking grass spider the more I looked. Unfortunately they look ridiculously similar and Wolf Spiders come in like fifty flavors, damn life.

Beetle looks cute, but it's apparently the evil kill-your-trees kind. :| I think it might be the kind that killed the trees we used to have lining our driveway, which is balls, and I refuse to have to take out more big trees.

I think the moth got damaged during the cocoon stage, which makes me sad, but since it could fly I guess it should be okay. It was cute! The people on whats_that_bug said something about it being a geometric-something moth, which is vague and applies to all moths that feature symmetry ( ... )