Procrastinationarium plus ID help needed!
Jun. 11th, 2007 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanOh, sure, it's really my only day off, and I have stuff to do, but now I would like to continue putting it off, this time with my traditional Monday picspam. The theme is yet more interesting wildlife I found at work, a lot of which I don't know what it is.
These are American toad tadpoles, in the Deer Enclosure pond at Drumlin Farm. I have seen toads singing, toads in amplexus and toad eggs--strings of black pearls--in this pond before, but never the tadpoles. I assumed that the bluegills and catfish ate all the eggs before they had a chance.
Last week this fly (or two individuals of the same species) hung around my office window. I don't know what it is. The marks on the wings suggest a deer fly, but it was a little too big, and the posture seems distinctive. It was a little bigger than a deer fly (about the size of a horse fly--slightly bigger than a honey bee, say).
This moth was on the screen door of my building all morning long. It would barely move as we opened and closed the door. From behind it looks like a white letter T. Any idea what it is?
Pretty sure that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rockbalancer identified this caterpillar she found, but I don't remember what it is. Cute little monster, though!
These are American toad tadpoles, in the Deer Enclosure pond at Drumlin Farm. I have seen toads singing, toads in amplexus and toad eggs--strings of black pearls--in this pond before, but never the tadpoles. I assumed that the bluegills and catfish ate all the eggs before they had a chance.
Last week this fly (or two individuals of the same species) hung around my office window. I don't know what it is. The marks on the wings suggest a deer fly, but it was a little too big, and the posture seems distinctive. It was a little bigger than a deer fly (about the size of a horse fly--slightly bigger than a honey bee, say).
This moth was on the screen door of my building all morning long. It would barely move as we opened and closed the door. From behind it looks like a white letter T. Any idea what it is?
Pretty sure that
rockbalancer identified this caterpillar she found, but I don't remember what it is. Cute little monster, though!Tags:
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Date: 2007-06-11 04:52 pm (UTC)Might help you better ID that moth.
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Date: 2007-06-11 05:32 pm (UTC)p.s. resend me your mailing address and I'll send your t-shirt, and I'll slip in an inflatable Lactrodectus.
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Date: 2007-06-11 05:52 pm (UTC)And for a hat trick, I'm pretty sure that caterpillar is either Polygonia comma or Polygonia interrogationis. Both have the correct distribution, though I think the black & yellow coloration is more common in the Easter Comma than in the Question Mark.
I'm really surprised it didn't sting you or< lj user="rockbalancer">.
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Date: 2007-06-11 06:11 pm (UTC)