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I caught this in my bedroom. USA, northern VA.

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I'm getting REAAAAAL'tired of finding Brown Recluses in my bed. I'm getting desensitized to them being so close to me, as long as they aren't ON me. I got a few inches away from the one today, watching it crawl across my blanket, trying to get a good look at the marking on its head ( Read more... )

My husband noticed a whole bunch of these guys while he was repairing a customer's boat hoist along the New Jersey Shore. Are they some kind of caterpillar, or another type of larva perhaps?

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Friend was retrieving tennis balls, and said this one was covered in Nope.
It doesn't look like nope... so, what is it? Is it a type of Hummingbird Moth?


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Originally posted by kmaal at Наша зима / Our winter

For some days a butterfly used to perch on our neighbour's mango tree. Isn't it this butterfly that (with its brethren) recently ate the young shoots on another mango tree in front of my window, which now started growing again and shows tender fresh leaves? And in other neighbour's garden small ( Read more... )

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I have an acquaintance on facebook who has been trying to identify this bug. He lives in PA and says it's about two inches long (it really looks more between like an inch and an inch and a half). Though not 100%, I told him what I thought it was and he scoffed at me... (though he believed someone else who said it was an asian giant hornet -_-;) ( Read more... )

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