Tom's Wondrous Found Creaturepalooza

[FuzzHugger]

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to post this one. I was outside playing with my son about a week ago, and he found this guy clinging to his beach ball. He was about 3" long including legs.

Looks similar to one of Tom's spiders on the first page.

^That's totally the same spider!
I forget what kind it is, but I remember reading that they're virtually harmless.

[bigchiefbc]

I posted it on a Spiders message board and someone ID'd it for me in like 20 minutes. It's apparently a Nursery Web Spider, and yes, it's totally harmless.

[jrmy]

My friend found these two fukkers in her garden, eating all her tuhmaters:

We put 'em in a jar with airholes, dropped in some green tomatoes in there and watched them eat huge furrows in the 'maters in seconds. Crazy!

Edit: then we watched them poop, which was CRAZY! Seriously. Big knobby green pellets the size of pencil erasers. OOGY!

[Jero]

Jrmy, those are called Hornworms. They turn into big moths, similar to the one I posted a few days ago.

[kaboom]

this story reminded me of this thread. http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/08/11/158570034/a-new-species-discovered-on-flickr

[Chankgeez]

That's a cool link, kaboom, thanks.

[phantasmagorovich]

That's a cool link, kaboom, thanks.

[FuzzHugger]

This was on our car's windshield...some kind of larval calamari insect.

From the top, it looked more like a fuzzy leaf. Equally as weird.

Fuzzy and spikey thing.

Pale mantis...pre-molting?

Newtsplosion.

[Gearmond]

RED EFTS!

<3 those lil bastards.


they dont give a fuck because they're poisonous as hell

[Chankgeez]

Where is the Pollinator95 to tell us more about this:

[McSpunckle]

I don't have any unusual bugs, but here's a picture of a dragonfly and a bee.


Bugs are neat! by McSpunckle, on Flickr


Bees are messy eaters. by McSpunckle, on Flickr

[Gearmond]

Where is the Pollinator95 to tell us more about this:

that appears to be a springtail

[Chankgeez]

Where is the Pollinator95 to tell us more about this:

that appears to be a springtail

Yeah, springtail, newly discovered.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49998160/ns ... Lgfw47d3BI

[sonidero]

Look at this Caterpillar I just saw outside... We get them every spring... The cats eat em...

[Chankgeez]

Sure, sonidero, rub it in. (TWSS)

Just because Spring comes early to Texas, doesn't mean you have to make the rest of us jealous.