Thread 4971178

Paradox edition

This is the invertebrate general. If you have any questions about invertebrates, want to look into owning one or more, or want to simply discuss them, this is the thread to do so, whether it's
>Tarantulas and other spiders
>Myriapods
>Mollusks
>Crustaceans
>Insects
>Or anything without a backbone

Feel free to post it.

Resources/help and information
>ID/General Info
https://bugguide.net
https://www.keepinginsects.com/
>Tarantulas
https://tomsbigspiders.wordpress.com/beginner-guides/
http://www.theraphosidae.be/en
>Ants
https://www.antwiki.org
>Mantids
http://www.mantisonline.eu/index.php?lan=en
>Phasmids
http://www.phasmatodea.com/
>Triops
https://mytriops.com/

Found this feller while finishing up yardwork

>>4971181
Excellent feller

Has anybody ever tried breeding flightless soldier flies? They seem like they’d be more convenient than BSFL

>>4971178 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84iJl3fbuk
Was nobody going to tell me water centipedes exist?

>Bought Dinomyrmex gigas Queen from some dude on ebay for 300 Eurobucks
>Of course get ripped off since these are being sold for 100-150 Eurobucks on Insta/Telegram right now
>Came with no eggs
>After 2 days started to hide in her cork bark tube and laid eggs again
>Still no guarantee she is fertilized
>Check up on her everyday expecting her to be dead

Man this shit is nerve wracking.

>>4971891
Is checking on her every day likely to stress her out

>>4971904
Not really I can look under the cork bark from outside so there is zero interaction.

>>4971178 (OP)
Normally I just take these guys out, but randomly decided to befriend one last night. Was timid at first, but always feels nice when you get one to trust you.

I have kind of wanted to get a large pet jumping spider, but am generally put off by the short lifespan since I know I'll grow attached.

i like spoodr :)

If I make my room moist enough, will I molt out of this pink flesh and emerge as the giant bug I was always meant to be?

>>4972169
In a manner of speaking, yes.

>>4971968
I admit I anthropomorphise them a bit, but remain convinced they can recognise faces and have some capacity for context, which if nothing else gives them the ability to satisfy their curiosity by engaging with their owner.

any spiderbros know what this is? found it chilling on a wall in south florida. image quality sucks but i zoomed in because thats as close as i was willing to get to it

>>4972593
I went doing callisthenics in the park and caught one of these and we played for a while and he was very colorful and chill but then i went hiking the same day and caught another one in the forest and we got along very well as well. I love them.

>>4972627
yeah most spiders are pretty chill ive noticed over the years

>>4972634
I vaccuumed a fucking spiders nest behind my bed and the next morning woke up with a bitten and swollen heel that mf let me know and he's still there im like bro do you even get anything behind my bed there's nobody there no flies nothing.

>>4972412
They’re definitely smarter than most bugs

>>4972593
Whatever he is, he’s a male

>>4972593
Those pedipalps look pretty inflated for spermatophore transfer? So as >>4975594
yeah
I don’t know what type of spider that is tho, he is beautiful.

>unrelated Mantid video
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/sn1_T6wFMyw

>>4972647
You had it coming

Isopods are based.

For the last 3 days I have been meeting this little fella when I get up for my late night pissing, it's on its way to the kitchen but when it sees me it just sits there watching.
I know nothing about bugs or arachnids, no idea if it's poisonous, I don't think it is but I still try to keep some distance just in case, my cats don't care about it.
Never seen a spider like this before, it's pretty big compared to the local suburban spiders, I think it's neat.

>>4978672
Looks like some kind of mygalomorph. Think trapdoor/tarantula group

>>4971957
Awesome. I caught a little one once to relocate it and had my hands clasped to keep him from launching himself onto the carpet, he was jumping around so much and I could feel him jumping up and hitting the “ceiling” of my hands. Cutest shit ever.
>>4978410
True. One of my zebras had 50+ babies last week, and there’s another pregnant lady walking around in there right now.
>>4978672
Where do you live that a tarantula has wandered into your home

>>4978976
Holy hell that's a lot of zebra babies. My zebras are in a big (18x24x24) jungle-level planted enclosure so I rarely see babies. Probably my favorite coloration I've seen, though.

Picrel is a very old Pic of my (still going) arid succulent + A. Klugii enclosure, which I'm a big fan of as well. They haven't bred very much, but population seems stable. The "Buddha's Temple" plant at the front has fucking exploded in the time since this Pic, it's like 5x as thick with pups everywhere, I should really move a few to other pots.

>>4971957
There is a range on this spider colors that grey black and white makes them very hard to identify

Am clueless at how much exactly they can live in captivity, not all species have the same life span and extromophiles tend to live abnormally long years, look around try different spiders, I have weird experiences with some and I have seen a range from a year for males and 4 years for females give or take, this with small fast reproducing jungle like spiders

But I have also seen jumping spiders in the large range and they look like years of dust

In ideal conditions, food and low humidity they can live extremely fulfilling lives

WE’RE BACK!
Well since >>4978976 the zebras have had a metric shit ton of babies. I counted 200. Multiple females released mancae in the same corner so it’s a baby bonanza in this little spot. They’ve been mostly eating substrate but I keep tearing leaves into smaller pieces for them and they love it.
>>4979046
I remember you posting this, glad to hear they’re doing well. Are your klugii decent breeders? I’ve only got 9 but they haven’t bred once for me in 7 months.

I think I saw one of these at work yesterday. Probably the first one I've ever seen. Noticed something crawling on the floor at other side of the shed, so of course I had to go look at it. Seemed like it kept trying to bite me after coaxing it onto my hand, though couldn't do anything. They can definitely push with some force though.

>>4979168
Not particularly good breeders, but it does happen. They're very shy in general so it's hard to get a good count, but I have a more than I put in.

I don't feed them very often, which probably doesn't help.

>be child
>go on vacation
>cousin house sitting
>lets my hermit crabs all die
>years later
>teen with divorced parents
>dad lets my fucking hermit crabs all die when i'm staying with mom
>can no longer trust anyone to take care of my animals while i'm away
i just need to vent about this once in a while

Post bug pics! Even crappy ones!
>>4979503
That sucks, sorry that happened anon.

i'm so glad most animals reject the rigid conformity of spines; vertebrates are so boring
let the squid and the spider and the jellyfish and the mantis each show off their unique beauty, and keep your dogs and cats away away AWAY!

Spraying my dairy cow isopods tonight and one of the big ones takes a flying leap out and onto my desk. Seemed to be fine falling about 24", but then led me on a 3 minute chase before I could scoop it up without killing it.

Stupid bastard.

>>4971891
Post updates

>>4980997
Here's an older pic of one of my scorpions.
On a related note, is anyone else finding it harder to find scorpions for sale now? I used to buy from Tarantula Canada, but there scorpion selection has been minimal for months now/years now.

there is a spider in my room who is a little too big for my taste (about as big as your thumbnail). he is too spooky to be a bro and i am too scared to squash him, not that i want to. so i trapped him in a cup and put him out of the house. i wish he wasn't so big and dark. we could've been bros

I plan on building a desert terrarium similar to this pic, probably something like 30x150cm ground and 50cm high

Any ideas for inverts to keep here? I'm thinking Armadillium Isopods, maybe a millipede

>>4984407
my mom told me to put it back in the hole but it went under the wood instead. i ate pita bread after touching it and am scared that the larvae or worm or whatever it was had poison and im scared because i touched the pita bread and ate it and forgot to wash my hands or maybe i did wash my hands i dont remember. I didnt tell my mom about the pita bread. Im also scared that while im sleeping it will crawl into my mouth and ill eat it by mistake since my mom told me to put it back. I dont remember if I only touched it with the tweezers or if i actually touched it either

Who in the world gets to keep large snails like GALs or marine worms or slugs or nudibranchs? I never find any internet posters who do own these creatures and it seems GALS are like globally banned from existence. My cousin saw a wild Giant African Land Snail in the north east of the United States as it went through his friends yard

>>4984599
GALS are legal and easy to get in yurop

>>4984599
>Who in the world gets to keep xyz
Europeans and Asians

The isopods have landed
White Cubaris, they're so cute
Also, shockingly small... like insane.

I got a ton of leaves and some dried shrimp for them, hoping they multiply and really fill out this bin

how do I get rid of these mystery niggas? they are eating my pl/an/ts.

here's a close up, I don't want them death, I just want them gone, they are kinda cute.

and this is their final perfect form, I have seen some almost the size of my hand

they kinda look like a christmas tree

last pic, I caught this one transitioning, you can see she's kinda pinkish because of it.

>>4985134
>>4985133
>>4985131
>>4985130
>>4985128
Those are some sick looking grasshoppers. You in the southeast US?

Not a lot to do to address them that doesn't kill them. Put up some bird feeders nearby, and the birds might do the dirty work for you.

Can anyone identify this? Couldn't get a better pic, other than a profile one ill add
Picture insect app guesses philodromus cespitum or aureolus

>>4985834
The profile one

>>4985128
They’re big so you could just move them if you don’t want to kill them

Anyone here ever keep velvet ants, how long did they live? Online it sounds like they can live a year or even two with proper but I'm skeptical.

any of these creatures is fun to observe on the daily?

>>4986355
Depends on how much you expect from them. For me, just seeing isopods skitter around is enough to put a smile on my face. If you want something with a lot happening then starting an ant colony could be interesting to watch their daily progress.

Found this thing in my garden under an ivy leaf. 4-5CM long, one opening at the front and the thing looks like it's made out of individual strands of fur, really bizarre. There's definitely something black inside that has a shine to it but can't even make out a basic shape.
Found in the UK. Anyone have any idea what it could be?

Saw something unusual while I was scouring the creek for interesting rocks today. I was on the edge of a gravel bar when some movement caught my eye, looked down and there was some sort of larva type thing squirming around. Looked closer and it's spinning around like it's doing a mini death roll. I noticed there was what looked like a tiny pink worm attached to the back of it. It kept rollin, rollin, rollin, till it finally dislodged the worm. I think it was getting rid of something that was trying to parasitize it.

>>4987282
>larva type thing
Should say it looked somewhat like a leatherjacket but not quite.

>>4971178 (OP)
What kind of tick is this? I was thinking it is a brown dog tick. But could it be an engorged deer tick? The black spot behind its head is relatively small compared to the length of its legs and mouth part and scutum/shell? and it was very easy to remove as you can see it still has its mouth parts, so I don’t think it had been feeding for long enough to get that engorged.

But I’m a bit worried that it is an engorged deer tick which means I now have a disease!

>>4987147
Some kind of caterpillar eating its way out of the cocoon. I bet it’s a type of moth. Why don’t you cut it open and see?

>>4987550
FUCK DAY 3?!?!
IM DONEZO

Snapped this guy a couple months back. Photo taken in Brisbane, Australia.

>>4987550
lyme disease has distinct mark, if youre on the west coast, its less likely youre going to get it

>>4985128
>>4985133
>>4985134
>>4985142
those are some kind of "eastern lubbers" not sure what
>>4985130
>>4985131
are as i haven't seen ones with a pronotum like that.

>>4987986
I fucking love phasmids

Spiders are weird. Grabbed a random jumping spider from my room as a pet rather than diving straight into a tarantula and even this small thing throws me. For something that lives a year at best it loves to hide making me think its dead. I did not see it for a month. I really thought this sort of behaviour was more on larger types of spiders, not a tiny boy. Good lesson to learn before committing to a longer lived tarantula

>>4971181
Underrated feller! Really wish more people would understand their importance and harmlessness.

>>4990021
That's strange, mine loves coming out to see me and he's wild. Maybe try bonding with your jumper more? They can be very friendly unlike most tarantulas.

>>4984544
Aw, don't worry anon, even if it did eat a poisoned bug an that small wont do anything. It'll also stay FARRR away from your mouth, trust me that's the last place it wants to be near.

I got this pic of a (Paper Wasp?) with my DSLR. I thought it was a queen ant but the stripes make me think its a wasp, and the calendar season is in line with their hives scattering.
It was very skittish, much more than moths. I freaked it out when trying to take it outside after the photoshoot.

sorry arthropod spergs, the real GOAT invertebrate is coming through

>>4991274
looks delicious

>>4972412
Wow that is a cool spider. Must be much more intersting to own and watch than a tarantula

I like centipedes and scorpions but IDK if I could keep them, I feel too bad letting anything suffer and a cuta dubia having it's insides melted as it squirms on the ground or having it's face slowly eaten sounds fucking awful.

>>4992702
You can just kill the roach first if you want it to die quick

>>4971184
As far as I know it's been done but not much use was gotten out of it.

butterfly flutter by

sorry for the shit quality and for being /an/ tourist

What am I looking at? Found this lil nigga on the floor, crawls or moves a bit faster by folding and lifting its front (pretty decent at keeping front lifted when startled), about half my index finger long if that. Front is up. Kinda seemed like a mostly dry not too hard mini-turd moving around IRL. Just worried because I've seen some weird shit in my room and I fear I might have some rampant bug hive hidden away somewhere.
Have another pic with barely better quality but with flash so fuckier colors.

>crushed the head of one of the thousands of grasshoppers in my yard and threw it in my resident spider Agatha's web
>immediately wraps it up and sucks out it's juices
:) she was hungry

>>4993219
That's an alien bro you're already infected.

>>4987550
fuck ticks, why hasn't humanity killed all those fuckers yet?

>AZ Blonde hasn't eaten in weeks
>Sluggish
>Always just staring at me sadly
>FFW to this morning
>Look at her enclosure
>See Lump of fur crumpled up
>Oh fuck please be a molt
>Take enclsoure down and open the top
>Spider is curled up into a weird ball on it's side, doesn't look like a molt and is just out in the middle of the enclosure not in her burrow
>FUCK FUCK FUCK
>Use tongs to flip it over
>It's a molt
>Thank fuck
>See burgundy red little legs stick out of the hide from all the comm otion
>use straw to tease her out
>Feel her slap the straw with the force of a abusive drunk
>Oh yeah BBG
>Throw a roach in hoping she'll eat
>It runs under her and she just sits there staring at me
Well at least she's alive but she's still retarded.

Look at this dumb fuck that fell on his back and couldn't get back up. (I helped flip him over either a piece of paper)

Trying to keep snails on a whim. Hopefully they'll still lay eggs this season, but this is mostly for fun.
Cleaning them and their enclosure seems to make them happier. I'm not sure about direct sun exposure because most resources tell me dark is fine, but they're definitely more active in sunlight.

Do they need a specific environment to breed? Sources say more heat would be better.

>>4995847
Cute

>>4996059
Thanks. I have six of them. All some type of Burgundy snail.
Four large ones and two smaller ones. I guess the smaller ones are 1-2 years old. I've started naming them. The smallest one is Zoe, who has been taking a bath in the drinking bowl and munching on a carrot stick for the past two hours. The second-smallest is Buckley. He's more active and finally decided to get a snack.
The largest one, Magnus, who has a bend in the border of his shell, binged half a carrot stick and went to sleep. Other than that, there's Pearl (for his even light shell) and Stripe (for the stripe he has).
I hope Buckley and Zoe get it on sometime this summer. I'm not sure the oldest ones are still fit for reproduction, but then I'm new to this so we'll see.

>>4996087
>half a carrot stick
What a fat ass. Please post more pics/vids. Not enough OC in these threads.

>>4996830
Well, sad news. Magnus is dead. He just dropped dead yesterday morning. I wasn't sure at first but I guess he was pretty old. I counted at least 3 growth rings which is pushing it in the wild. The others are doing fine. Stripe has burrowed and I hope it's to lay eggs. I'll see what the deal is next week.

>>4996834
nooo he had his last meal :(
Also I have no idea what that pic is.
>DD0D0

>>4996837
It's the top of the shell hiding behind a rock. His head is burrowed.

>>4996834
Is it actually dead or just dormant

>>4996846
Dead dead. Limp and stiff and drying turning to ammonia. Besides, it's too hot for them to fully hybernate.

Found this Acilius sulcatus in my pond. Since diving beetles are rare visitors in it compared to the countless backswimmers, dragonflies, and water striders I wanted to keep it inside at least for a few days to get a good look at it and try for better footage later. I put it in a large plastic tub with lots of floating plants and a log. Really fun how active and hungry it is. When I offered a piece of fish with tongs to it, it grabbed it without any hesitation.

Kinda makes me wanna start searching some local ponds for Dytiscus marginalis and properly keep those for a longer time.

Buge

>>4996956
>frodo

>>4997279
Looks like he's choking on this person's perfume.

why do redditors love arthropods so much?

>>4971178 (OP)
I didn’t prepare substrate for my stag beetles to breed in this season so let’s hope the store bought stuff is to their liking

Any of you actually involved with entomology on a career level? I want to break into it but don't know how.

>>4990021
i saw a jumping spider try to make a jump maybe like 3 times its size, like a 1cm distance, he missed 3 times before finally making it, which is kinda strange he since couldve gone little to the left where the distance was short enough to make that jump, but nope he had to make the jump at that spot

>>4998200
Do you have a degree or intend to do a thesis? Forensics is always interested in research on how invertebrates act on corpses

>>4998200
Look at fish & game and ecological consultancies. Most entomology jobs will be agricultural, ecology focused or as said above forensics

>>4984536
I always liked these silly little fuckers.

>>4971957
Found one of these spankers today

>>4999352
Do not spank the jumper

Found this piece of shit staring at me

>>4999360
>o00o
Why are they like this?

Not sure if it's the right gen but I will give it a shot.

I have a 3 foot vivarium with pillow moss and cork bark everywhere. The substrate is a 1:1 mix of choir for gecko setups and tarantula sedge peat. Moisture levels can drop at the lowest to 65% but average around 75% to 87%. Temperature remains stable at 21°c on the cool UV end of the tank with a dryier peak of 28°c on the other end (although 25-26°c is the average). The only denizen in the tank is a juvenile african bullfrog who is getting on comfortably for the most part. With these conditions could I support porcellionides pruinosus along with springtails if I include daily food and occasional calcium and if so could leaving fruit/veg pose a risk to my bullfrog? Can I just sprinkle calcium powder onto the fruit/veg instead of leaving cuttle bone? I had the option early on to go with a bioactive substrate but chose not to as I thought I wouldn't need vegetation or CuCs, but the idea of having grubs that could eat droppings, loose hopper legs or keep mold down is sounding more appealing to me (and some of these isopods look really neat).

>>4999444
They should do fine. Substrate doesn’t need to be bioactive, just add a layer of leaf litter on the substrate which the frog would probably also like. Just make sure that the isopods aren’t bothering the frog or chewing on it. Powders should be fine but don’t get anything like P. laevis because they’re pretty aggressive. Springtails are a non issue

>>4999452
Gotcha, thanks

drinking my coffee and noticed this guy

>>4996929
The big ones are amazing pets but they're hard to find.
btw a good food for predaceous diving beetles are frozen midge bloodworm cubes

Snails make a lot of noise when they bite their carapace. They might not have had much calcium in the wild. It's good to see they're doing well and growing.

I found this dumbass wasp in my bathroom. Tried putting him into a cup then he base jumped off the wall (like a badass) and disappeared. Wasps normally find their way out.

I find Tarantula Cribs enclosures so fucking ugly, I don't like how blurry the acrylic glass is. For the same prize of $50 you can get a 12x12x12 Exoterra.

>>5000305
>acrylic glass
t. Retard

I have several acrylic isopod enclosures and other than one place I scratched it with rocks, it's as clear as my high iron glass aquariums.

>>5000305
You have to modify an exo terra to make it tarantula safe though

Who this? Im assuming an insects nest? There are a lot of these on my orchard currently

>>5000977
Who makes this*

>>4999459
I cant believe he's so nice and friendly, holding his drunk friend up like that until he sobers up. What a guy!

Found this in our papaya box, been in the fridge for a little over a week.
Is it possible he'll wake up?
If not, how would I, a layperson go about preserving the body somehow?

>>5001019
It occurs to me that fridges do not have much oxygen

This is my boi Rosencrantz. He's a rosy wolfsnail. They get a bad wrap all over, but they're native to where I live.

What are these things? I have a wall covered in them. They're like the cocoons of some small white/silver-and-black crawling insect, but I don't know the name. Do you guys know?
https://files.catbox.moe/n6f1h7.jpeg
https://files.catbox.moe/ijtdp5.jpeg

>>5001065
he so long

>>5001065
The borzoi of snails

AYO THESE MOTHS FUCKIN

Too bad I couldn't get better focus

>>5003256
>>5003258
Perv

>>5001857
>>5001900
He's an his boy. His diet is other snails and slugs. Which is incidentally why everyone hates him.

Lets say I want to be a retard and over engineer a setup for springtails beyond a simple dirt pot, how would I go about it?

>>5003496
look at some fancy bioactive herp enclosures and do a miniature version of it

>>5003524
or make a mossarium

>come in from outside
>feel something walking n my arm
>it's the world's tiniest inchworm, like 2 mm. at most

>>5003496
Paludarium. Make it like those charcoal cultures, but with a filter and floating plants.

>Isopods I got died a while back
>Decide to start up a colony again
>I'll just use Isopods from my backyard ,I mean I use to see them in the 100s and that way there's no temp or humidity problems
>Go outside and poke around the last few days
>Not a single fucking one anywhere in my whole yard, under any brick, stone or dead grass pile
I caught one in my bathroom last night and put it into the enclosure I have prepared for them. Everyone once and a while they pop up in my bathroom but the idea that that's my new strat to catch them sucks.

>>5003826
Try the cup strat and embed one into a shady semi-damp space outside near leaves or logs. Put some cork or decaying wood with a little bit of fruit/veg of your choice like cucumber inside the cup and leave it for a week. There is no gurantee it will work but it is a good way of attracting any isos near by if there is any. You will attract some other buggos too but it shouldn't pose too much of a problem. Another thing you can try is potato traps. You either cut an end off and hollow it out and treat them like cup traps or you cut them half before hollowing them out. Unlike cup strat though you don't embed them into the ground and just lay the hollowed end/side against the soil.

>>5003826
>>5003844
Also if there is a consistent series of appearences in your bathroom you could just do a similar thing to cup strat and have an accessible container near the source of their emergence and passively direct them through food and cork. Have an entire colony of bath strain isos lmao

>>5003496
I use these and and isopods to keep my leopard gecko's habitat clean. They work surprisingly well. I bought the springtails, the isopods came from my wood pile. I can't justify spending a whole lot on bugs I have at home. I'm going to get more to put in my snail's habitat.

How do you explain this in lame man's terms? I'm not a spider owner.

>>5006104
It's a spider caught in a dust bunny? What's the confusion?

>>4995847
I want pomatia in my area so badly but they're rare. Someday I'll find a perfect long term calcium source stone and introduce them to my tiny backyard. Meanwhile I'll try to breed my favourite cepaea morphs.
>>5001065
He looks neurotic in a cute way.

He small but long.

>>5003524
>>5003525
>>5003598
>>5005217
Springtail fag here. I am planning on doing something like paludarium or a moss setup with isopods and springtails. At the moment though I am just building up my culture so there will be enough when I come round to the project, but I have found out that temps seem to make a difference with the springtail culture I currently have. I have had them for about a month and they are starting to fully eat the nutrional yeast I chuck in there, but they have done so in high temps due to the past week having a heat wave. Before then they were slower and I had to keep removing mold that developed overnight from the yeast. This has started to make me think about whether I should start temp regulating them around their native range of just below 27°C. I have a lab temp controlled imcubator which I used to use for mycology that I am thinking of using by putting the culture inside it to temp regulate. Is this a good idea as long as I on a daily basis remove the culture and open the lid to replenish oxygen levels?

>>5006813
Also btw could an isopod anon identify these? They don't look like any of the common IDs for gardens in my area.

I found out we have Eastern Hecrules Beetles where I live.
Anyone have advice on the best way to find one in the wild?
I don't want to take it home. Just want to look at it.

>>5006978
From what I have heard your best bet is to look at night with a UV light source. Apparently they are really drawn to UV and will hang out around fallen leaf piles or logs. Ash Trees in particular are hotspots as the Eastern uses them as part of their larvae lifecycle

Bees grasping for water in a hot climate. The PVC pipe is leaky. Or maybe they have a hive in there.

do they have souls?

>>5007185
Yeh.

>>4985834
>>4985835
it's a spider

>>5000977
Could be mold? IDK
>>5006530
long fella
>>5007661
scientists BTFO

>>4985834
Careful, they can get really big.

>>5003826
>>5003844
Wow I thought isopods were just a super old ancient insect, not common bugs.
>>5007185
Yes. Brown people and Jews still don't though.
>>5001019
>>5001022
did he die?

Pot mold or springtail eggs? They are about the size of a fully mature springtail

What's this little fuzzy and friendly critter?

>>5009237
tussock moth caterpillar

>>4999459
those ones are cool to feed, you can break the back legs of grasshoppers to protect the spider from injury and toss them in their orb webs. They like moths too, but their dusty wings let them escape from the web half the time.

Dragonflies are so cool
>>5009430
I have like hundreds in the garden so I don't think they need to be fed lol, also when the dragonflies get out of larvae stage they fly into spider webs half the time, it's kinda sad

>>5007185
you get one soul for every two legs you have, therefore spiders have four souls

What has my spine ever done for me? I want it removed, I want to become an invertebrate!

Moth thread died so here's a moth I just found. Biggest and fluffiest I've seen. So relaxed I even poked his nose and pet him, then moved him off the door with a credit card.

>>5010675
You'll have to get it reinstalled on your skin.

>invertebrate thread
>entire thread is just arthropods
fuck you, this is now a cnidarian thread

Moth thread died so here's a moth I just found. Biggest and fluffiest I've seen. So relaxed I even poked his nose and pet him, then moved him off the door with a credit card.
>hopefully it's rotated properly now

>>5010675
You'll have to get it reinstalled on your skin.

>>5011170
MODS!

>>5003586
Whenever this happens to me I adopt them and release them once they turn into moths. If you land in my hair, I legally own you
>>5006813
My orange springtails love fish flakes, I only ever add as much as they’ll finish in 24 hours though so I don’t have to deal with mold. picrel is atrocious but I didn’t wanna bother them with direct light in the middle of the night too much kek
>>5006817
Looks like porcellio scaber
>>5007078
This is why I put a water dish with small rocks in it outside all summer. I rarely see bees though, but it’s fun watching the yellowjackets stop by. And I can provide to the squirrels, birds and chipmunks without having to clean our dead ants all the time
>>5011171
Beautiful picture!

>>5011173
Never got this joke
Are cnidarians lewd?

Anyone know what these motherfuckers are? I have been finding them in my pool and now they camp on my screen. They look like biting sort but idk anything else.

>>5013347
robberflies, they're based and won't attack you

>>5013368
Oh damn I already killed 2, wish I knew that sooner. Pity. Thx anon.

>>5011780
In the whole scene he is enjoying watching it, Gary walks in, he yells, and changes it to sports. The joke is he was watching porn.

currently situated in england and this little bastard is on my wall
she’s a mozzie right

>>5013737
that's an israeli

>>4971181
Ahh, one of the most bro tier arthropods out there. Doesn’t bite or sting you. Doesn’t carry disease. Doesn’t damage your property. It DOES eat all the things that do though!

>>4985838
Is this like the mother was about to molt so when the kids ate through her exoskeleton her underdeveloped form started to break out?

>>4996956
does that spider suck or is the maggot special?

Invertebrate wallpaper for thread relevance.

>>4997279
a dung beetle overwhelmed, but excited, by this monumental piece of shit

>>4999360
>art student framing
>motion blur?
>foreground artifacts (fuzzball, blank spot, "growing" fuzziness)
>linoleum adhesive where stone(?) meets carpet
>4mm spider, thus 1cm skirting?
>skirting pattern becomes less busy around spider
>spider is perfect and looks at you lovingly

Now, perhaps I'm just a small town Wisconsin farmboy, but after inspection, this image is true and she's mine, boys.

>>5006104
to explain: a human with a camera assigned human thoughts and desires to something without thought or desire

>>4978976
Cute guys. Where did you catch her?

>>4978410
What isopods do you have?

I just got a 27 gallon bin for my hoffmanseggi the other day, they are much work but I love them

>5006817

Are these some wild type porcellio scaber?

The jewel orchid isn't looking so hot these days, but these dairy cows are fecund and active. Love the isopods.

>>5006813
It looks like the gay grub from Elio

Found this big spider today right outside of my apartment building entrance. What species is this? Is it venomous? To help narrow down the search, I live in Volzhskiy, Russia.

>>5013847
If they want to get it they'll get it, he's probably not hungry for some various reason and just telling whatevers in his hide to get the fuck out.

Not the best picture but this thing crawled out of the chair I was sitting in and up my arm, then froze there. I gave him a chance to climb down and he just stared at me until I left. Any idea what it is? Will it kill the earwig rapefugees that keep sneaking into my house? I live in Central Ohio, but I didn't see him in the ODNR's field guide.

>>5015785
Another slightly shittier one just because he's pretty cool looking.

>>5014584
Furrow orbweaver based on the pattern on its abdomen. It is venomous but it only makes the bite hurt a bit more than it should. He's probably not hurting anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larinioides_cornutus

>>5015797
Yep, checks out. Thank you.

>>5015785
>>5015789
Tan jumping spider, probably an immature female. They'll kill basically anything smaller than them including others of their own species but won't bite unless you fuck with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycryptus_undatus

>>5015801
Sure thing

>>5014165
>gay grub
What

>>5015828
>modern disney
The movie is apparently dogshit because they tore out the "protagonist is 11 y/o gay boy" wholesale, and left the faggotry to the supporting chars.

fuck your stupid bugs

why do redditors love arthropods so much?

>spend 2 years bulking
>have 6 month cut
>emerge as an armoured forklift helicopter creature that does nothing but fight and fuck

>>5015789
Cool spider. Too bad you couldn't get a macro pic.
>>5015911
>tfw you will never live this good

>>4986263
I've caught them before to photograph but never really had the urge to keep one long term.
>>4978672
Like other anons said, its probably a mygalomorph but I would have guessed a trapdoor spider.

Didn't bring my macro setup, but heres some critters from a recent hike.
Cicindela sexguttata

>>5017385
Narceus americanus

Found this spooder in a mountainous region of Northern Italy. Roughly 1-2 cm in length. What is it?
>inb4 brown recluse
fuck off

>>5017988
Other angle

A hornet flew inside (species: Vespa crabro)

Found this beetle fella.

This moth was friendly enough for a photoshoot. Even let me "hold" his antennae with my fingers. I swear they dug into my skin or something.

>>5017988
Great focus!

>>5018704
what a slut!
>>5019091
You got to hold a hornet?!

>>4986263
>called an ant
>is a wasp
Why the fuck can't people keep things straight?
>>5013737
>>5013764
skeeters, ants, israelis, sorry bros

>>5019664
>You got to hold a hornet?!
Well yeah, I put sugar water on my fingers, so she was licking it up

>>5019091
Cutie

I check my pool a couple times a day for green June bugs because its mating season. They seem to be able to float for a couple hours before drowning. I get about 20 a day and only had 1 dead one in the last month. Even had one crawling along a piece of rope underwater, was weird.
Found this guy mixed in with them today. Glad I could save him so he can go and make more babies for future generations to find in their pools.

>>5021619
This morning (+ another half dozen)

I've been taking slo-mo videos with a macro lens of everything pollinating my garden. Here's a compilation https://youtu.be/B0uG1m_QVSw?si=zjhsnEenN55AnoxB&t=49

>>5021619
Based bug guardian
>>5021801
Nice, the sweat bees and bumblebees are my favourites

Got this bee in a flower
>>5019790
Smart. I should try that.
>>5021619
Based. What if you put a piece of rope staked out in the dirt then let it float in the pool? As a ramp for them
>>5021801
Very nice shot

Got this bee in a flower
>>5019790
Smart. I should try that.
>>5021619
Based. What if you put a piece of rope staked out in the dirt then let it float in the pool? As a ramp for them
>>5021801
Very nice shot

>>5021796
i saw a fat naked guy from behind with a colossal beetle crawling on its back

>Mexican groundkeepers "trimmed" bushes again by cutting all the flowers off
AAAAAA

who is dis ?

>>5023537
webspinner (Embioptera)

>>5023538
polyneoptera the best of album in the insect world. Well at least in that genre the other ones being large beetles and moths.

Went to Cincinnati zoo recently, they have a fucking sick "insect house". Bunch of massive stick bugs, Hercules beetles, various rare roaches and water bugs and such, plus a naked mole rag colony, but the crown jewel is a massive leaf cutter ant colony running through the whole building, where you can see the entire process of them cutting leaves and letting them grow fungus, then eating the fungus, along with all the other shit that goes on in the hive. The plaques and such said they had 3-5 million ants in the colony.

Picrel is one of several feeding enclosures, all connected to the main hive by long plastic pipes that ran along the walls or ceilings.

apartment guest. it is high up on the wall, difficult to get a nice pic

wasp are the most based insect
but you aren't ready for that conversation yet

>>4971178 (OP)
I see these locusts here all the time, pretty funny fellas with their long head.

>>5006978
heres one i tried to keep
for a few weeks
was outside the welding shop i was subbing work from

>>5024442
he was STRONG and gorgeous

>>5024442
>>5024449
cool beet

>>5022720
>What if you put a piece of rope staked out in the dirt then let it float in the pool? As a ramp for them
I tried some floating fake Lilly pads and they might have helped some escape but others got stuck under (1 june bug plus lots of other smaller beetles) and drowned so it seems like frequent checks has the highest survival rate.
Found a dead walking stick under a Lilly pad today so took them out. There's a praying mantis I keep finding around the pool (not in the water) and I dont want to let lose her.

What's this thing?

>>5025425
Underside. Some orb weaver, pretty big.

>>5025425
some species of wasp spider, genus Argiope

>>5025429
Thanks anon, have another unknown bug.

>>5025440
Dobsonfly

>>4971178 (OP)
Why is he blue?

>>5025616
Mint flavour

Sometimes they are difficult for photoshoot. I should try sugar water for a wasp photoshoot like other Anon.

>>5025440
They are wearing sequins!

This a Nursery Web Spider? Found it in my house in Houston, Texas

>>5026036
Thats an "oh hell naw"

Found this assassin bug on my dudeweed trim today.

I think this is a mud dauber wasp.

we've got black widows around our property. Considering trying to capture a juvenile and keep it as a pet. Won't be handling it but I always thought they have a cool look and a little vertically oriented terrarium on my home office desk would be nice.

Can anyone recommend a small glass or acrylic enclosure that would be good for a widow? Don't want one with a roof on the top since they like to build webs up high and I wouldn't want to destroy her home every time I opened the enclosure to feed her.

>>5027565
I looked on Amazon and there are some acrylic ones with side opening doors.

>>5027570
Yeah. Ended up buying this one. There's a terrarium store nearby that has all kinds of neat plants, I'll go there this weekend and get it set up real nice.

For the anon who was always trying to find a mantis.

Ive lost count of how many I've found this year. I walked by my garage and just happened to catch this guy out of the corner of my eye.
I hope you finally found one.

>>5027565
I always find them in dark places.
Under steps, behind a board left leaning up against the barn etc.
Just something to keep in mind when setting up a tank.

Anyone know what this guy is? In my backyard near salt lake city

>Found 2 bug bites on my foot
>week and a half goes by
>find 3 on my back
>Can't find any evidence of bed bugs, no poop or bugs, anywhere on my mattress or bedding
Literally days after I had calmed down about the foot bites being random bug bites everyone gets I get more. What can I do that's not going to be absurdly expensive when its not even confirmed I have bed bugs? I can't go through having them again.

>>5024442
>>5024449
Looks like a female, hence the tiny horn.

>>5028585
Females don’t have horns. Its an eastern Hercules beetle, they have much smaller horns than the South American ones

Went widow hunting at the local park, found a flagpole surrounded by cinderblocks that had like 6 adults living around it. Grabbed two, heading home now, I'll post pics once I get home and set up their enclosures

>>5029844
Lady in the back already starting to set herself up with a nice home. Gotta get some nylon or netting to put on the inside of the cap since she's got an egg sac with her.

Had some sort of large black and yellow Ichneumon buzzing around while I was working on something outside the other day.

A bunch of moths were flying around eating nectar. This was just after last night when one flew into my steamy shower and was licking the steam off his arms.

A bunch of moths were flying around eating nectar. This was just after last night when one flew into my steamy shower and was licking the steam off his arms.

>>5029929
Got a fly in there. He's been pretty lucky so far, walking all over her eggs and not getting stuck. I'm sure his luck is gonna run out soon though.

Mantis in the garden!

>>5030390
Hell yeah! Please posts updates.

>>5030419
Lefty caught her dinner. Righty doesn't seem to be spinning enough web to get hers stuck yet.

I also removed the egg sac and put them in a more secure container. Made a small cut with an xacto knife and yup, it's full of eggs alright. Don't see any black/brown in them yet so probably still a couple weeks away from hatching but hopefully they do. Excited to see the whole life cycle.

Got kissed by a moth. Heh, see ya later virgins. (There was a super small amount of chocolate residue on my finger)

Can anyone id the inhabitant of this? I couldn't snap a picture of it but its a big, fast, dark brown spider, legspan around the width of my palm. I thought it was a wolf spider but they don't really build webs like this do they? There's also three smaller spiders hanging around, maybe the males?

>>5031472
I live in north carolina btw

>>5031472
>>5031473
the web looks more widowish, but big, brown, fast, and in dixie probably means kukulcania hibernalis, southern house spider

>>5031649
Having checked on google it seems like that's what it is. Pretty big one though. I've snapped a better pic so you can compare them. You can still only barely see the big one but the one on the left looks like the same species

>>5031678
This guy has an autistic special interest in SHS. You can get a special home for it if you want a new pet.

https://cobwebcastle.com/

Saw this red beetle thing.

>>5031678
I read southern homes paint the inside ceiling of their decks blue, because it's a trick to keep flies away.

What the fuck is wrong with this guy on my stairs? His wings look like they're melting. Anyone got a clue? He's been sitting there for a while.

Lil fella. I gotta say used flagship Samsung phones are great for their camera. ~$200 tops. Just add paper behind the display connector if you get black screen of death.

>>5032143
He looks fucked up IDK. Do you have poison or open containers of gasoline around?

>>5032316
None that I know of. It may have gotten fucked up somewhere close-by and dragged its way onto my stairs.

>>5031247
Lucky. I’m always waiting for sweat bees to come land on me but all I get are yellowjackets nibbling my palms

Do these jumpers eat other spiders? I have an endless supply of them on my balcony and always have to kick em back out. They are always way slimmer than jumpers I see on pics.. no idea what they are.
I just know they love building ziplines across my entire balcony. Just single strands they slide down. I watch em slide around sometimes.

>>4979503
yea sorry anon
get urself a small portable tank and take ur pets on road trips

Feeding time. These ladies have been pretty lazy with their webs. Haven't seen any gumfoot lines really. I have some tarantula cribs on the way to replace these deli containers so maybe if I set those up a little nicer they will do a better job with the webs.

>>5033206
Video?
>>5033398
I just think they are confused on where to build.

>>5033404
That's not easy to do. I tend to wreck their web lines with my fat ass and they are very shy.

>>5033206
that looks like a california flattened jumping spider. different genus to the ones that most people keep as pets

>>5033408
That actually does look very similar when looking at pics.. but ofc I live in switzerland. How did something named california get all the way over here? and in such huge amounts.

Tho she doesn't have that bright white mark on her ass.. from all the ones I've seen they are more like.. dotted or tigered.
I wish my phone cam wasn't so fucking awful.

>>5033411
>>5033413
Oh, switzerland. Probably marpissa muscosa then

>>5033414
>marpissa muscosa
>
YES
That's exactly how they look. Lil spotted and tigered jumpies.
So.. do they also hunt other spiders like most jumpers?

>>5033413
My pics are with a Samsung s21 FE. They are only $100 on ebay. >>5032316
(Fix the black screen of death issue by opening it and putting paper on the back of the display connectors to force them to seat.)

>>5033421
Well I'm sadly poor af.. all I have is an old, used iphone xr from my family. I can't really afford phone equip, heh. Tho I did wanna get a cheapo macro lense from china to take pics of the tiny worms in my aquarium. That's like 20 bucks..

>>5033416
Yes, they're opportunistic cannibals. Will generally eat anything smaller than them they can ambush.

>>5033429
Excellent. So I've been doing well in preserving them and rescuing em whenever they get into my room. I live in a roof flat and the roof tiles harbor huge, disgusting motherfuckers. I'll try picking those jumpers up and bringing em to other spiders. Got lots of uglies that web up my window constantly.
Biological warfare via spiders.
They are the only spider I'm not afraid of for some reason. Sadly they don't wanna hop on my hand. Sometimes they raise their legs at my finger but then jump away. It's really hard catching em.

>>5031247
I don't know about Europe, Asia or Africa but in Australia every edible moth is some shade of brown or black.
All the moths that cause some kind of diarrhea are bright red, orange etc.
Aboriginal retards used to grow fat on bogong moths.
>>5015880
Box Jellyfish are interesting but overall Cnidarians are a pathetic dead evolutionary end.
Echinoderms and tunicates are what led to humans.
And personally I consider Echinoderms to be closer to humans than the disgusting tunicates.
and fucking cnidarian scum.

Found this, but I'm unfortunately not a spider expert. It was in the middle of a large well-built circular web with an 'orb' at the center. The web is near an outdoor light. It's located in the upper Midwest, USA.
My guess is a female orbweaver? Or maybe a bridge-spider/gray cross-spider?

Any idea what kind of spider made this web? I'm in Utah. Has a pretty clear hole through it that goes under the decking. Might try dropping a mealworm on it once it gets a bit darker to see if she'll come out to say hi.

Here a spider for you anon

>>5034097
This should be Argiope lobata btw

new thread
>>5034181
>>5034181
>>5034181