Attention Down Under!

It's spring down there and the bugs are starting to become active and
reproduce.

It's your time to find interesting bugs and post their photos here on
the seti bug thread.

Get busy!!

I'm Suzie-Q and I approved this message.

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~Sue~

This freaked me out just a little bit and then made me laugh.

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~Sue~

This freaked me out just a little bit and then made me laugh.

<shudder>

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

This freaked me out just a little bit and then made me laugh.

I can hear Homer screaming in my head.

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My argiope spider went missing yesterday and I figured she was gone
for good. But today she's back, and thinner. She must have gone off
and laid some more eggs. It's interesting to watch her get fat and
then thin again.

I discovered yet another argiope spider and web just outside my computer
room window, so I can sit and watch her do nothing as long as I'm here.

The first spider sits on the "outside" of her web - the side of the web
that is away from the house. The new spider sits on the "inside" of her
web - between the web and the house. I guess it doesn't matter. It's
just interesting. (Well, to me.)

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~Sue~

I found the third egg sack!

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~Sue~

Giant spider carries full-grown mouse up Australian man's fridge

Click on the photo to go to the original Facebook post, where the photo is larger.

Okay you folks down under: You should be posting things like this to this
thread now. Let's get busy down there!

<3

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~Sue~

Ms Argiope number 1 has gone but left behind three egg sacks.

Ms Argiope number 2 is still around and I see one egg sack.

We've had the warmest October on record here in central Texas and I hate it!
But it's good for the bugs and the animals.

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~Sue~

A new bug for me. It's the common pink and yellow inchworm known as the
Chickweed Moth, Haematopis grataria.

I should have used a macro lens but only had my phone handy, so this is
a little blurry.

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~Sue~

'Tis the season of the ladybugs. This happens every fall in my house.


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~Sue~

'Tis the season of the ladybugs. This happens every fall in my house.

Ladybugs love to eat plant lice.
Do you have many flowers at your home?

'Tis the season of the ladybugs. This happens every fall in my house.

Ladybugs love to eat plant lice.
Do you have many flowers at your home?

No, actually, I don't. But there must be a food source around somewhere. I do have a big
rosebush, but that's all, really. (Except for weeds.)

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~Sue~

'Tis the season of the ladybugs. This happens every fall in my house.

Ladybugs love to eat plant lice.
Do you have many flowers at your home?

No, actually, I don't. But there must be a food source around somewhere. I do have a big
rosebush, but that's all, really. (Except for weeds.)

I found this explanation.

Just like bears and many other animals Ladybugs hibernate during the winter. Normally the ladybug stick for themself, but for the winter, then their body will switch to sleep mode, and they keep happy together.

10 facts you probably did not know about ladybugs.
http://www.10fakta.se/nyckelpigor/

But there must be a food source around somewhere.

A cute little ladybug can quickly turn into a cannibal ! If there is a shortage of food, the older and slower Ladybugs become food for the rather younger and healthier Ladybugs. However, they prefer aphids , and cannibalism is generally only a last resort .

We had ladybugs around here in October. Those orange ones bite.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

We had ladybugs around here in October. Those orange ones bite.

It makes meteorological sense that they would show up there earlier than here.

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~Sue~

At these restaurants you can dine on delicious bugs
http://nypost.com/2015/12/18/at-these-restaurants-you-can-dine-on-delicious-bugs/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuXwsFXfASA

Researchers find 3.5 TRILLION migrating insects weighing 3,200 tons pass above us each year

The most abundant day-flying insects in the study included cereal aphids and the tiny parasitoid
wasps that attack them, while the most abundant medium-sized day-flying insects included hoverflies
and ladybirds.

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~Sue~

New species of moth with ‘yellowish-white scales’ on its head named for Donald Trump.

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~Sue~