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I was doing some cleaning around the house and I started turning up some intresting creatures that I took some pictures of, here are the findings.


This beetle was walking around my kitchen floor, hiding behind the dog's water bowl...

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Jeez, that thing looks like a tank.

Cool find.

Also in the kitchen, on the counter top this time, under the knife rack, I found this little gecko about an inch long. Did I mention I was cleaning?

Note: Thanks go out to Mez for providing identification of the critters.

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Hemidactylus maboui

This Anole lizard has taken up residency on one of the plants in the laundry room...

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Anole

This guy was under a rug in one of the bedrooms, it tried to get away from me by hiding inside a crack. I had to take him out since Ive heard they pack a mean punch!

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Scolopendra polymotph

Those forcipules deserve a closer look!

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When I was all done cleaning, I reached into the coffee mug cuppard to pour some fresh brewed and relax and I found this:

Hope you guys enjoy the little tour of critters around my house...Feel free to post your own!

James

P.S. All insects were relocated and released back into the wild and left unharmed.

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Flat Rock Scorpion

Joe!

You only caught part of it, didnt even get me a chance to finish the thread! Dont miss out on the rest of the pics now.

James

What can I say? I'm a quickdraw with posting.

LOL! Sure beat me to it, didn't even gave me a chance to blink!Chem master and quickdraw poster! Whats next Joe? The world?

the second pic of the centipede makes me think of one of those old time movie villains with the curly mustache. like it's going to start twirling those things and laughing evilly or something...

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

For the love of God......

As you can see, our good friend Red Phantom lives right smack in the middle of the jungle....

I found a cool fungus today.



Plastic spoon for scale.







Close up of gills. The macro mode on my camera sucks.

I'm pretty sure it is part of the phylum Basidiomycota, just based on morphology. I tried looking at it under a microscope, but I couldn't find any basidia or, for that matter, any type of sexual or asexual spores or spore structures, which means that I've really lost my touch with microscopy.

There were five or six of these big masses in about a 10 foot square area, so I can't imagine the hyphae network that must be beneath the tanbark.

I love fungi. I wish they had a mycology course at my uni.

* Peeks at assorted insect and other invertebrate photos *

First off ... beetle looks like a member of the Scarabeidae - these are found worldwide and are known for disposing of corpses and dung. Several species are highly iridescent, whilst others are enormous in size by usual beetle standards.

The centipede very DEFINITELY looks dangerous. It looks as if it is a Scolopendra species (this Genus is found throughout South America, and several species are also present in the Central American fauna as far north as southern Mexico) and ALL Scolopendra species are venomous. Indeed, they are potentially dangerous to Man, with the biggest of them all, Scolopendra gigantea, which is a 12-inch monster of a centipede, being capable of putting an adult human being in intensive care in hospital with its venomous bite.

The scorpion I can't identify at this stage. However, one general rule of thumb I've been told about scorpions from people in the know (including some professional invertebrate zoologists at my Entomology Society) is this. If the pincers are large (as they are on the Emperor Scorpion) then the venom from the sting is likely to pose relatively little danger to humans. Small pincers, on the other hand, usually implies a fairly potent venom. The claws on that specimen are fairly dainty, tweezer like affairs, so I'd hazard a guess that it was potentially dangerous to Man.

Hope you exercised due care and attention when removing those creatures!


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

that centepede would have sent me running for the hills. they are one of the rare things that totally freak me out!

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Wow red.......we're lucky you've lived this long! I hope you wear shoes & continue to look before you reach.

I see you get cool centipedes in CR. Here, we get those creepy nasty house centipedes that no one likes.

Also, actually, close up, the centipede looks adorable.

Cute

Here's a funky bug I found on the side of my garage a while back o.O

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/PoisonWaffle/DSC00695Large.jpg

Here's what appears to be a dragonfly or mayfly nymph. He was caught in a local river last November... he metamorphosed about 3 months later.

http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/PoisonWaffle/fuzzy.jpg

I may go bug hunting tonight to see what kinds of fun critters I can find around the house. My guess is that I'll find a few random spiders, and that'll be about it o.O

its a mayfly nymph, cool picture

-Vincent