Nature
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@HoraceZontal Cicada Killers sounds like the name of a rock band.
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Another casualty yesterday. Girls saw Hattie snag one of the lizards.
Today's photo is of an Ironclad Beetle. They are found in the central portion of Texas and south into Mexico; not known to damage live plants and is medically harmless. True ironclad beetle species occur in California. The striking adult beetle is 5/8 to 1 3/16 inch long and the body is adorned by a black and creamy white blotchy color pattern. Its exoskeleton (integument) is extremely hard. Other species of the genus Zopherus, which contains 19 species, are known from western Texas. This beetle family (Zopheridae) is closely related to Tenebrionidae. Adult beetles are thought to feed on lichens growing on trunks of trees. This beetle can be found clinging onto the trunks of trees or outer walls of homes in wooded areas. They are extremely difficult to kill in a killing jar and several hours may be needed for success.
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said in Nature:
Just discovered this awesome thread of pictures. Although I'm not much on flowers and bugs, I get fascinated by my location along lake Michigan. I'll try to upload a few of my favs if I can figure it out.
When I try to upload my pictures it says too large. Trying to figure out how to make them smaller.
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@wissox83 me too. I tried to bump the max size in config. Is it still failing?
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@approxinfinity Rookies!!!!
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 ummm thats a moth!
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Let me know if you can upload big pics now @wissox83
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@approxinfinity I thought it was too but he swore it was a wolf spider.
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Trying large size video of my hummingbirds. It worked!
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Nice!
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@rockchalkintexas-0 if you put an exclamation mark before the link it embeds in the convo ^
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Errr. It should. Thought it worked for a sec
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Thats so many hummingbirds!
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View from the beach a 5 minute walk from home.
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Great Salt Lake where our son lives.
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@HoraceZontal Yes, but actually a mile from the city line in Indiana where we live.
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This guy earned the name of Lenny when I discovered him hanging out with me in the she shed during winter several years ago. I left water for him and he took care of all the creepy spiders and occassional red wasps that would get in. I got him a black beetle one morning. He would often show up around me when I would be outside. When I was in the garden digging up old soil, I would find a grub and I could put it on the rock wall and Lenny would come and eat it. He learned to be near me when I was working in the garden. He would crunch them and make some funny faces getting them down. I was devasted to find him drowned in a bucket of water after a torrential rain. His descendandts live on though. We have chameleons, sand lizards and these, which are rustic lizards. You see them in the trees and scampering around in my garden. They run along the top of my flower bed railing taking care of gnats, flies and mosquitoes. That's what Lenny was probably doing on the bucket. We found him one time in the underground pipe of the condensation line from the air conditioner during the hottest part of the day. He was chilling
. Lenny comes from a Stevie Ray Vaughan song, Lenny. https://youtu.be/dmxLND2czNk?si=ka2FEwwdAEdppoKf
