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Bugs thread. I'm gonna post pictures of bugs I've seen or interacted with. Feel free to join if you want or make a similar thread. Starting with a c... a co... A maybug from yesterday but I'll post older bugs as well.
A huge hornet who got inside the house. He was big like a coin. In the second picture, he's dead (frozen to death). The stinger is a few millimeters long.
A bloated tick I removed from our cat's back. It's a good cm long. It didn't oppose much resistance. It was so heavy it couldn't walk.
Some nice worms I found at the beginning of the confinement. Unfortunately, it hasn't rained in 7 weeks now, and with the wind the earth is cracked dry. No worms around anymore.
A deal fly from work.
If I remember right she had spent a few days flying around my desk feeding on remains of coffee and sugar.
If I remember right she had spent a few days flying around my desk feeding on remains of coffee and sugar.
More pictures of the friendly fly.
A small cockroach I found in the toilets of a brand new "Students' building" in a campus near where I work. I've got a university staff keycard so I could sneak inside. I don't look like staff though. I don't think.
This guy was hanging out in the mud on the campus because of some necessary pipe fixing under the grass: machines and people tore the earth open and exposed old pipes to change.
A wild baguette.
A cricket from last summer. The grass trick, where you gently scratch a blade of grass in front of a cricket's hole to encourage him to go out, works like a charm.
Will I ever see him again?
Will I ever see him again?
Winter spider.
The cat caught a dragonfly last summer. I shoo'd him away and picked up the insect. It was fine after some rest and flew away.
