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Keith Roragen@keithroragen.bsky.social |
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Couldn't get a great picture with my cellphone but I found this absolute unit of a spider covered in spiderlings at my work today. #Spiders #Nebraska 🕷️
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Some other orders #insect #Nebraska
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Some tiny Click Beetles 🪲 #insects
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I spent the last couple of evenings blacklighting in my backyard with a $10.53 blacklight flashlight and the results weren't too bad #insects #Nebraska🪲 Here are a few of the moths
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but imagine the possible rare events that could possibly occur with a month. It would be a rare event that a rare event did NOT occur in a given month.
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Exactly.
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Saw this Pigeon Horntail sawfly on the golf course today. My playing partner let it stay on his shirt long enough to get a picture. #insect #Nebraska 🐝
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So... I feel like you're telling me I should definitely eat this mushroom.
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It may be an artifact of the flash but I think the gold fringe on this Emerald is stunning. #moth #insect #Nebraska 🦋
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This seems to be based on a story from 2019 that links to an Energy Star page that no longer exiats Energy Star is administered by the EPA, not the dept of energy www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/h...
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Some #butterflies from my walk today. Little Yellow, Mourning Cloak and American Lady. I also saw one Regal Fritillary, but it never landed before flying away. #insects #Nebraska 🦋
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The New York Times is garbage. The sooner we all realize that the better off we will be.
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Ladybug. Probably Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle. There were a bunch of them at the Cup Plant today.
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Seems pretty safe over here.
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Gunfight at the Pre-K Corral.
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Looks like a wee Assassin Bug
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Beautiful.
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I found this gem while weeding the garden. white-lined Sphinx Moth. It was on Wild Four O’clock, though I’m not sure it was feeding there. 🐛
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Does anyone know what kind of hummingbird this is? 😉 🪶
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Also, you are pretty good at it.
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Could be. We have a ton of those in our house. We manage them by putting most of our houseplants outside when we can, and we have one of those blacklight traps that vacuum them up
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Looks like a parasitic wasp of some type
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Terrible picture, I know, but this False Map Turtle (I think) floating on a log caught in a vortex on an offshoot of the Missouri River is a new species for me. 🐢
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Regal Fritillaries are listed as a species of concern primarily due to fragmented and vanishing habitat throughout their historical range.
Regal Fritillary | Missouri Department of Conservation (mo.gov)
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After coming up empty the last two weeks looking for Regal Fritillaries at my primary site, I tried a different site today and it paid off. Not only did I see almost a dozen Regals but one actually landed, and the wind died down enough to get some decent pics. 🦋
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Beautiful syrphid fly on wild rose. 🪰
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As an entomology student in the 1980s, it seemed odd that cockroaches were lumped in the same order as grasshoppers, crickets and mantises
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Maybe rename the prison he is sentenced to after him.
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I was at a customer’s house today and this pair of Mallards absolutely owned their backyard swimming pool. 🪶
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Lubbers are so beautiful. Here's a couple I took a few years ago in Arizona.
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Found this gorgeous Dimorphic Jumping Spider in my house today. 🕷️
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Black Giant Ichneumonid Wasp. Beautiful and harmless.
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Nice!
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Calligrapha sp.
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Black Swallowtail
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These things are all over my Lance-leaf Coreopsis, but I have never been able to capture their beauty like this. Very nice.
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I didn't see any Regal Fritillaries but here are a few cool butterflies from my walk today. 🦋
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I could do without the mulberries. They are spread by birds and volunteer everywhere.
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Probably Common Buckeye, American Lady and Gulf Fritillary.
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I don't see a lot of those around here. Always a treat when I do. Today I'll go out looking for my favorite butterfly, The Regal Fritillary. They are only found in a few locations for just a few weeks a year. Haven't seen one in 2 years.
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I have been unsuccessful growing bee balm so far
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They are sometimes called Hummingbird Moths
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Yes, it is a moth. A clear-winged Sphinx moth. They fly during the days and mimic bees.
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Stunning
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Find the grasshopper. 🦗
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That moth is found in Europe, and I am in North America. Similar shape, though. Probably in the same family. My best guess is Platytes vobisne. Waiting for confirmation on iNat.
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This tiny moth reveals a lot of detail when zoomed in. 🦋
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Beautiful
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