Any other hobby entomologists here?

[BigBlueHen53]

Thanks. I think the name of the thread I am thinking of is "Here be spooders." Spooders = goofy word for Spiders.

 

[TOMTE]

Thanks. I think the name of the thread I am thinking of is "Here be spooders." Spooders = goofy word for Spiders.

I'll search for it
Added the IDs! Most of them, anyway. I'm still working on the dragonfly...

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'll search for it
Added the IDs! Most of them, anyway. I'm still working on the dragonfly...

Wonderful, thanks!

 

[Stravager]

It probably doesn't count but I have a collection of dead beetles I've found in the garden... One of them is a black beetle with metallic pink spots and copper shimmer! The European Ground Beetle I think it's called. They're really pretty.

 

[notabitail]

I do mealworms.

 

[HipMystic]

I love jumping spiders! I want to start doing research to adopt one someday

And here’s a moth I rescued from my workplace earlier this summer

 

[fowltemptress]

I'm not anything serious, but I do LOVE bugs, withspiders being far and away my favorite. I actually kicked a friend out of my house once for smashing a spider - she knew me, and had been warned! As a child mom let me keep a black widow in a critter keeper, and I was always building temporary enclosures for doodlebugs, observing them for a day, and then releasing them. I've had hissing roaches, emperor scorpions, green bottle blue and red knee tarantulas as pets, and I currently have a couple little terrariums, one with bark scorpions and another with a jumping spider. I also have false death heads (which I find easier keepers than dubias) and mealworms, but those are poultry treats and not pets - though the roaches are so cute I always feel guilty feeding them to birds.
I just do  not understand the fear of bugs at all - to me it's as unfathomable as not liking chickens! And to not like spiders seems even less reasonable to me; if you don't like bugs, wouldn't you appreciate a creature that eats so many of them?
I could go on and on, but I have to round up the birds for the night. I may come back with some pictures.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I love jumping spiders! I want to start doing research to adopt one someday

And here’s a moth I rescued from my workplace earlier this summer View attachment 3917145View attachment 3917143

Beautiful! That is a Polyphemus moth. Here's what I found from Wiki:

The eyespots give it its name – from the Greek myth of the cyclops Polyphemus.

 

[HipMystic]

I'm not anything serious, but I do LOVE bugs, withspiders being far and away my favorite. I actually kicked a friend out of my house once for smashing a spider - she knew me, and had been warned! As a child mom let me keep a black widow in a critter keeper, and I was always building temporary enclosures for doodlebugs, observing them for a day, and then releasing them. I've had hissing roaches, emperor scorpions, green bottle blue and red knee tarantulas as pets, and I currently have a couple little terrariums, one with bark scorpions and another with a jumping spider. I also have false death heads (which I find easier keepers than dubias) and mealworms, but those are poultry treats and not pets - though the roaches are so cute I always feel guilty feeding them to birds.
I just do  not understand the fear of bugs at all - to me it's as unfathomable as not liking chickens! And to not like spiders seems even less reasonable to me; if you don't like bugs, wouldn't you appreciate a creature that eats so many of them?
I could go on and on, but I have to round up the birds for the night. I may come back with some pictures.

Oh wow! I can’t imagine keeping a black widow as a pet, that’s so cool!

 

[HipMystic]

Beautiful! That is a Polyphemus moth. Here's what I found from Wiki:

The eyespots give it its name – from the Greek myth of the cyclops Polyphemus.

Yes! I spent quite a while reading up on them after I released it!
From what I read I believe it was a female? And apparently they have a super short lifespan so the adults don’t even have mouths