Critters

[kcc123]

 

[Cadillac Kid]

'Ice Cream', the Nigerian Dwarf goat.

 

[danj]

 

[Danddd]

My Guys sitting at the top of the stairs. Cropped from a Panny GX7 Oly 12-40, 2.8 lens. ISO 3200

 

[Eywadude]

I found this on one of my tomato plants a couple of weeks ago. It's a tomato hornworm. I relocated it elsewhere.

 

[mfrench]

 

[Eywadude]

^Cool! A Jerusalem cricket! I saw those out in California when I was there in the summer of 2014. I'm sure you know already, but be careful! They can inflict a really painful bite!

 

[mfrench]

I always knew them as Potato Bugs, way back to being a wee one. It was only a few years ago that I learned the title of Jerusalem Cricket.

My severed finger after trying to get the picture (... the wife is convinced that it could happen. These things freak her out!).

This is a pirated internet image of the front end of a Potato Bug:

 

[Cadillac Kid]

More bugs. This Mantis was hiding in the San Marzano tomato plant.

 

[Cadillac Kid]

More bugs. This Mantis was hiding in the San Marzano tomato plant.

 

[Eywadude]

I always knew them as Potato Bugs, way back to being a wee one. It was only a few years ago that I learned the title of Jerusalem Cricket.

My severed finger after trying to get the picture (... the wife is convinced that it could happen. These things freak her out!).

This is a pirated internet image of the front end of a Potato Bug:

Yeah, they are colloquially and more commonly known as potato bugs, but I was introduced to them as Jerusalem crickets mostly because of my biology friend who was on the California trip with me who referred to them that way. Begrudgingly so though. lol He's a real biology wonk, and he prefers the latin name for everything. So he prefers to refer to them as "the genus Stenopelmatus from the family Stenopelmatidae." lol No need to fear them or kill them though. They are cool insects that have their place in the ecosystem, and are a part of the balance of life. Just don't pick them up. lol Nice pics though! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Eywadude]

A Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax) I saw at the top of my tomato cage as I was paring them back for the year.

 

[kcc123]

Panasonic GX7 with Olympus 45 mm F1.8 lens

 

[chicks]

 

[Eywadude]

Here's a picture of a green sweat bee on an echinacea flower in my backyard from about 10 years ago.

 

[2011etec]

Sat with him for 1/2 hour and shared my hunting lunch.

 

[old_tv_nut]

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Sat with him for 1/2 hour and shared my hunting lunch.

 

[old_tv_nut]

From a visit to Butterfly Wonderland in Scottsdale, AZ

more at https://www.flickr.com/photos/42002845@N02/albums/72157676849636880

 

[tazman3276]

Turkey Dinner anyone. This was on my front lawn on Christmas Day. There was over 30 of them.

 

[MaxxVolume]

Doe, bedded down in my yard....