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Hey Pandas, What Is This Thing? Help Other Pandas Identify Random Items In The Comments
Sometimes your biology knowledge or google just isn't enough. Do you have a picture with no idea what the thing in it is? Let's hope someone does.
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Ok, What Kind Of Owl Is This Because I'm Curious.
My comfort movie
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Load More Replies...Barn owl babies are little squeaky goblins that morph into ridiculously cute floofs with heart shaped faces.
Taken In July This Year, Riverside Path, Central-Eastern Europe. 😮
That is a robber fly. We have lots of them around, and they’re usually good pest control. They can deliver a pretty painful bite, though, as I learned the hard way when trying to catch one.
So he is NOT kissing the lady bug is what you're saying.
Load More Replies...Convinced eh??? Well sign me up and take my wallet!
Load More Replies...These Wild Flowers In California USA, Just Off Highway 1
Thank you so much!
Load More Replies...We have those in Greece but I've never known what they're called
Southern American here and those are CRAZY LOOKING AND I WOULD LOVE TO TOUCH ONE
Taken In July Of This Year, Embankment By The River, On Milkweed, Central-Eastern Europe
Oh, good job! I’d never have guessed a wasp.
Load More Replies...It looks more like a fly than anything else, but ’m not sure what it is. The only insects I can think of with four yellow spots in that arrangement are the Scoliid wasp and some hoverflies, but they don’t resemble it in any other way. The face makes me think of a horsefly.
This Huge Flower Only Blossoms Once Every Decade. I Know What It Is, But Do You?
Can Anyone Identify This Plant That Looks Like Flames?
Lotus maculatus, also known as "Parrot Beak", from Canary Islands https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2019/6/17/can-cultivation-save-the-canary-island-lotuses
Bought A Chili Sapling On Discount That Was Said To Be A Chayenne. It's Not
Do they have the violet edge in the flowers? Then it might be... Haven't tested how hot those are yet
Load More Replies...I always took out the seeds, because, frankly, they taste just bitter and hot - the nice flavour that makes me accepting of the hotness, even train my level of acceptance, is not in the seeds. I didn't really mark them, but just collected, mixed with each other, and every year, I plant surprise chilies now. They never fail to have at least a few really hot and tasty ones in them, ... so far, any homegrown chili were great, no disappointment. Just an element of surprise.
Thanks for the answers. I guess the plants got mixed up on the discount racks. Well as long as it's tasty and doesn't grow too large for the windowsill 😅
I have a purple cayenne growing in my garden right now…
Load More Replies...Heavy Metal, Handle? Found In Yard, USA.
Pretty sure it could be an old clothes iron handle. But I'm not that kind of doctor so I don't know for 100%
This Huge Beetle Slept There All Day And Moved On That Night...
It's a Grapevine Beetle. It's a brownish orange with dots. I get them all the time in my mailbox
Did a previous resident subscribe to the "Beetle Of The Month" club?
Load More Replies...Many Small Bugs In A Maple Leaf. Look Closely And You Can See The Individuals. They Lose The White Fluff After They Land. The Leaf Fell Off Tbe Tree Prematurely. They Are Not Mealworms, But I Have Not Been Able To Id Them.
Looks like you've got a colony of woolly alder aphids. https://uwm.edu/field-station/woolly-alder-aphid/
I'm not sure these are aphids, but only because of their size, and they don't have fuzz on their abdomens. ( I just googled WAA's) But this is much closer to anything I could find, so thank you. The bugs I have seen started at about 1/16 of an inch long, but some were much larger. The fact they were on a silver maple leaf makes me think it's very close. The ones in the leaf were all different sizes. Up to about 3/8 of an inch long.
Load More Replies...What's the movement speed? Because fungal spores might do this too, but they don't get around as much
I wish I could post the videos. I have one with them in the leaf, and you can see that the bugs are moving. The other was taken the next morning and it is one of the bugs crawling away after detaching the "tails". I wish the suggestion of some type of aphid was correct, I would love to know what they are. But aphids are teeny tiny, and these are much bigger.
Load More Replies...Looks like same as above picture only a whole colony of them....whatever they are.....
I believe the parent lays the eggs in a maple leaf. I only see them in the yard by the maple tree.
Load More Replies...Here's Another Pic Of My Alien Bug.
I'm curious myself, I've never seen one like this! We have little white puffball looking ones but they're more round and fluffy.
I’m no expert but if I honestly had to guess that might be a spider covered in white fungus. There’s a fungus that basically makes zombie spiders or something. That’s my guess
Trust me, as arachniphobic as I am, if it was an "elb" * I would not have a picture of it in my phone. Lol * eight legged bastard*
Load More Replies...What I left out in my further explanation, was that I would see a couple of these in the spring, usually April. And saw them for years, but only during a very short span of time. That's why I think the white parts are parachutes. They pull off after they land and the little gray bugs ( with only 6 legs, lol) crawl away.
A further explanation. Until the leaf holding these bugs fell from the tree, I had seen the bits of fluff caught on various things in the yard. But I always tought they were a part of a flower that I just couldn't find. One day was just sitting under my maple tree and the leaf literally fell off the tree at my feet. See #11. It's a pic of the leaf as I found it. By the next morning the bugs were crawling away.
Mushrooms In My Potted Plant, And Two Insects From A Hike. Any Clues?
Thanks. They were everywhere. Like white dashes on the leaves. Then they would fly all at once. Very pretty to see.
Load More Replies...Ok Turkey. You a native buckeye? Or just living there?
Load More Replies...Wtf Is This Beauty?
That’s definitely a cherry millipede. They secrete cyanide, and I’d recommend leaving them alone because they smell REVOLTING when disturbed.
Thanks. I actually find millipedes n centipedes creepy AF. But I will photograph beautiful ones.
Load More Replies...Do not dare to touch those millipedes EVER! You're most likely to get cyanide poisoning, I really can't remember the name but it was some sorta fruit.
Hate these kind of bugs. But zoom in to photo for the colors. Gives me reference ideas for art projects
Load More Replies...Cherry millipede. Per the article, it smells like cherries and oozes small amounts of cyanide 😳 https://www.southernliving.com/travel/virginia/cherry-millipede-richmond-national-battlefield-park-virginia-facebook
Saw this at the Petroglyph Park in Ohio near Chillicothe.
Load More Replies...Obviously A Rock, Unlikely Something Genuine, Maybe A Scout Project? But What Did They Try To Make? (Found In Sweden)
Holding it in one hand, keep turning it until it feels like it fits perfectly. It would be how it fit in the hand of its maker. The indentation on top looks like a thumb or forefinger would fit. The crooked point looks like it could be the tool. If it doesn't feel right, try your left hand.
Forgot to point out that a big chunk of the top is missing.
You need a geologist here. I thought chert because of the colour and the shape is intriguing me. Looks like the head of a broken tool of some kind. It's a stone found in Europe from the Mediterranean to southern Sweden, I think.
Load More Replies...Shrooms
If this was store bought potting soil, be happy you have mushrooms. This means the soil is healthy and rich. I have been surprized at little clusters of light brown mushrooms in a huge Mother In Law's toungue plant I have. I freaked out because it is right next to my bed and I thought GREAT! I'm going to die of inhaling Alien Spores From Hell and they name a wasting disease after me. But..am told, mushrooms growing mean your plants is very happy and they are good for the soil. I wouldn't recommend eating them, ever. You don't know what they are and you're watering the plant with tap water. There is stuff in the perlite and soil and fertilzer. Just, no. Enjoy the extra bonus Life and let it do its thing.
I don't eat wild mushrooms. I do not know what to avoid. Many look alike. But I've never had bright yellow ones around me. This plant is huge. 4 ft tall. I've had it for years. Outside in warm months, inside in winter. But this is the only time I have seen these.
Load More Replies...Leucocoprinus birnbaumii? I've had them last year - I guess some spores were in the soil i bought for repotting my plants.
I don't think these are the deadly ones, but always be careful with white mushrooms unless you can tell what they are
I don't eat wild mushrooms. I do not know what to avoid. Many look alike.
Load More Replies...Sorry, Ladt Pic Was Just The Fluff After It Was List. This Pic Has The Separated Fluff, And The Bug On The Stick. I Have A Video Of A Single One Crawling, But No Idea How To Publish A Video.
What Kind Of Moth Is This? Its Butt Curves Up Some
Sphinx moth, they are pretty common in Louisiana for sure. I love those guys
Ooh I see these a lot in my backyard. They're called sphinx moths but I like to call them hummingmoths because they act so much like hummingbirds
My guess is a blinded sphinx moth (paonias excaecatus) but it doesn't look exactly the same as the one in this picture
ah thx :3 does that one live in southern usa? thats generally where i am
Load More Replies...What Kind Of Flower Is This? Found It In My Great-Aunt's Garden
Help! I Need To Know What This Plant Is! Is It Dangerous??
”Pilea peperomioides" or "Chinese money plant" Classified as pet-safe were I live so not considered dangerous
I Found This While Snorkeling In Maui. The Writing Says Hear Wo But I’m Pretty Sure It Use To Say More
Wtf Is This?!
Definitely a spiders nest. When the time is right, they will all come out at once, such a beautiful thing to watch ;)
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Load More Replies...to all who says its a spider nest: its really small, and it has been a month
