Found near home....Oregon

[Webeviction]

You would be supprized what you will find if you look hard enough...

 

[angelofdeathzz]

Holy cow Batman! We have like squirrels and stuff over here? Wow!!!

I really need to take a couple of days off and head out to the woods with my bad camera skills, lol.

 

[Webeviction]

Bad pic but still cool

 

[lancaster1313]

I look pretty darn hard. lol

When I was in the mountains in TN, I found all kinds of cool stuff on my property.

Here however, most of the time I have to drive out to a protected area or large park if I want to be rewarded with more good finds. It is very developed.

 

[Webeviction]

Haha ya I live on 5 acres out in nowhere land 30 years and still finding new stuff!!

My colony

 

[lancaster1313]

I love nowhere land, it is my favorite place to be, when I can.

When I look very hard here, there is always at least one person around looking at me like I am nuts.

I still look though, to heck with them. :lol:

 

[CoolMantid]

Nice Woolly Bear caterpillar! What kind of moth is that?

 

[Webeviction]

Ya I get a lot of strange looks as I'm always watching for cool creatures everywhere I go lol found a bunch of assasin bugs today but there to small for my phone to focus on

 

[Webeviction]

Nice Woolly Bear caterpillar! What kind of moth is that?

Not sure I only see them about once every other year havnt looked into them much...

 

[lancaster1313]

Beetle larvae of some kind not sure I found them under bark while splitting fire wood

Now I remember finding similar larvae. My daughter and I were in the woods and were hunting for insects by sound. When we finally tracked down one of the sounds that we were listening for, similar larvae were found burrowing through the wood of some recently downed trees. I was surprised that those soft looking larvae could make such a racket! I may not have found if they weren't throwing out pieces of freshly shaved wood from their burrows in the trees, leaving little piles of it.

 

[Webeviction]

Haha these ones didn't make noise not that I heard any way then again I'm partially def in my right ear do to fireworks... We found the beetles to dunno why I didn't get pics to go with the larvae....

 

[lancaster1313]

It was just the sound of them shaving the wood. Lol

I actually was looking for some beetle that may have been stridulating softly(what it kind of sounded like to me), until I found the shavings and decided to dig into the wood with my knife.

Thanks for sharing and keep the pics coming if you can. I enjoy looking at all of the creatures even if I don't find the temperate ones down here.

 

[Webeviction]

Haha I will as long as I find stuff to take pics of

 

[MandellaMandy123]

Oh, I am so envious. I'm moving to Oregon RIGHT NOW!!!!!! Any of your neighbors selling their house?

 

[Webeviction]

Haha I got a couple neighbors is like to see move away

 

[Webeviction]

Must be gravid time for these girls I've seen ten the last 3 mornings and there all extremely PLUMP!

 

[Precarious]

Nice pics! See, this is why I need to move to OR. Been wanting to forever...

 

[hierodula]

Nice wolfie! Caught a mom with slings on her back.

 

[Webeviction]

Haha as much as I miss AZ Oregon is great it's home! Couldn't imagine being anywhere else!

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

I you ever want to send some of those awesome spiders my way, just let me know

Is the blueish looking spider actually blue? Or just the lighting?

Bad pic but still cool

I am very jealous of you, i can only find basic orb weavers and wolf spiders here. and the occasional black widow.