Any other hobby entomologists here?

[TOMTE]

I like when parasitic wasps lay their eggs on em! Punishment for eating my tomato plants!

It is so cool to see! A few years ago there was a huge boom in the hornworm population here so naturally the next couple years after that, I was seeing parasitized caterpillars everywhere. This year I've only found 5 or 6 hornworms on the tomato plants.

Nature has a balance!

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

Not where I found this guy and I should've taken his photo first, no idea how I saw him but I was trying to save him. And I sorta wish I had a critter container in the truck and I'd be able to save him more as our temperatures drop and his days are numbered.

 

[TOMTE]

Not where I found this guy and I should've taken his photo first, no idea how I saw him but I was trying to save him. And I sorta wish I had a critter container in the truck and I'd be able to save him more as our temperatures drop and his days are numbered.

That's ok, he would probably only live another couple months at most anyway, even if you brought him indoors. They don't live long at all as adults!

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

That's ok, he would probably only live another couple months at most anyway, even if you brought him indoors. They don't live long at all as adults!

Yup that we know.

 

[Littlefoxhat]

We kept stick bugs and Madagascar Hissing roaches as pets when we were kids, we also had the odd scorpion and praying mantis. No bugs as pets currently but I am always on the lookout for my "garden friends" mostly jumping spiders and mantids. We get a lot of butterflies and big jade beetles and a few dragonflies too. Always great to watch the buggies hanging out in the yard.

 

[PimsGarden]

We've been watching a couple Green Lynx Spider nests this fall and they both hatched, so many babies! Surprised she is still alive and watching them, often they will die soon as they hatch because she has been guarding without food for weeks.

 

[TOMTE]

This little antlion went scooting by while I sat in the driveway earlier today

 

[PimsGarden]

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This little antlion went scooting by while I sat in the driveway earlier today

How do you know he isn't telling the truth? Buh duh tishhhh

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

Saved this lil dude this morning. Have to give the girls props, they went around him and didn't squish him. When I realized what it was I went after a container to save him. Yes, it's a water bucket but it was clean and all I have close by lol even gave him a drink

 

[TOMTE]

Surprise in the garage just now!

Female dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)