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Re: Bug-Lover's Club - Current Mascot: Rainbow Grasshopper!

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Hello, I'm new here and bug crazy. It's winter here right now, so the only bugs I have are the Blaptica Dubia I am breeding for my Bearded Dragon. I love raising and keeping bugs. Or should I say, insects, arachnids and true bugs. :) Can't wait to have buggy chatter with other bugs lovers like me.
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Re: Bug-Lover's Club - Current Mascot: Rainbow Grasshopper!

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Welcome all. I know I've been inactive, apologies to that. I'll see if I can't dust this off sometime.

For now, have an article about ant pupae communicating via sound.

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Anyone alive out there?

If there's someone there, a cool new paper popped up recently. Researchers actually tagged all the workers in an ant colony and had a program track them to see what jobs they had, etc. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early ... ce.1234316

A video can be found here: http://myrmecos.net/2013/04/18/ant-scie ... orwellian/
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That's absolutely fascinating. Thanks for posting, yunior!
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Re: Bug-Lover's Club

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So who likes golden tortoise beetles?
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These guys are native to North America. I have encountered one in a forest by a swamp before. When agitated, they can change color- usually from their pretty gold to a dull brown.

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Re: Bug-Lover's Club

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DoomedDaphnia wrote:So who likes golden tortoise beetles?
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Re: Bug-Lover's Club

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DoomedDaphnia wrote:So who likes golden tortoise beetles?
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These guys are native to North America. I have encountered one in a forest by a swamp before. When agitated, they can change color- usually from their pretty gold to a dull brown.

yeehaw
I saw one of those a few days ago. Tiny little bugger, but adorable nonetheless. Although it wasn't gold, it may have been brown but I forgot the exact color of it. First one I have ever seen actually. Sadly the little guy flew away before I was able to get my camera. I do hope to see more of those later on. Very pretty beetles. :D
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Re: Bug-Lover's Club

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I never knew about these and never seen them :srsly:
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Hi guys, sorry for my in-activeness, I've had a lot going on, but I have a question, a very buggy one.
A while back, my dad lived in a house that had a huge (And I mean huge) koi pond in the backyard. To filter it, there was a special system set up, so that it would run up through the waterfall, come out clean, and run back into the water. That water fall sloped down at a very gentle angle, so water ran, but not very fast, and it dipped into a huge pool before it left the waterfall.
After a while I noticed long white strands, that in a few weeks time, coated almost every inch of the wet part of the waterfall. They seemed almost fuzzy, and I can't tell if it was the water itself, or the strands, but something smelled bad. I managed to slip some into a cup (Wearing gloves of course, and not touching the water, I didn't want to be stupid, and get some kind of disease) and while most of it just floated, or sunk, some of them actually broke away and swam!
They were probably about a quarter inch, if not smaller, they almost seemed like they had three tiny tail like appendages coming off the back of them, and they swam in a lurchy manner, similar to mosquito larvae, only they went forwards, and didn't completely flip around. Does anybody know what these creatures are?
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Re: Bug-Lover's Club

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What you saw were likely mayflies, Order Ephemeroptera. I can't ID them to species, unfortunately. They're famous for their mass emergences, which can even cause traffic accidents (their bodies, squished on the roads, make them slick).
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