A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf.
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@alexwild @futurebird oh it is doing the thing like its name
@waitworry @futurebird A few years back, I collected a fly I didn't recognize, from my window. I looked it up. It was a "window fly".
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@waitworry @futurebird A few years back, I collected a fly I didn't recognize, from my window. I looked it up. It was a "window fly".
@alexwild @waitworry @futurebird before i saw the rest of the thread i thought this was about how bad modern search engines were!
(link for anyone who might actually be suffering from a very bad search engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenopinidae) -
@alexwild @waitworry @futurebird before i saw the rest of the thread i thought this was about how bad modern search engines were!
(link for anyone who might actually be suffering from a very bad search engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenopinidae)@alexwild Locally, I've seen evidence of cut leaves from Leafcutter Bees (genus Megachile), but I've yet to catch one in the act of cutting leaves.
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@waitworry @futurebird A few years back, I collected a fly I didn't recognize, from my window. I looked it up. It was a "window fly".
@alexwild @waitworry @futurebird guess where my friends found the “Italian wall lizard”
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@alexwild @waitworry @futurebird guess where my friends found the “Italian wall lizard”
@tschfflr @alexwild @waitworry
IDK. Reading the wikipedia article it sounds like you might find them riding the LIRR...
"The species seems to be extending its range from an initial colonization event in western Long Island, presumably by using railroad tracks as dispersal corridors along the middle East Coast. "
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@tschfflr @alexwild @waitworry
IDK. Reading the wikipedia article it sounds like you might find them riding the LIRR...
"The species seems to be extending its range from an initial colonization event in western Long Island, presumably by using railroad tracks as dispersal corridors along the middle East Coast. "
@futurebird @tschfflr @alexwild @waitworry funny enough, the only place I have found a lizard in the UK was on a disused railway. I wonder if they enjoy the sun-basking opportunities of the broken-stone track bed?
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@tschfflr @alexwild @waitworry
IDK. Reading the wikipedia article it sounds like you might find them riding the LIRR...
"The species seems to be extending its range from an initial colonization event in western Long Island, presumably by using railroad tracks as dispersal corridors along the middle East Coast. "
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@tschfflr @alexwild @waitworry
IDK. Reading the wikipedia article it sounds like you might find them riding the LIRR...
"The species seems to be extending its range from an initial colonization event in western Long Island, presumably by using railroad tracks as dispersal corridors along the middle East Coast. "
Cute. Reminds me of the smaller green anoles that used to hang out on our porches in South Carolina.
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Cute. Reminds me of the smaller green anoles that used to hang out on our porches in South Carolina.
The wikipedia article is unusually entertaining. Apparently they are also bad at math. Why do they have to make it sound like the poor lizard needs to go to summer school??
"... experiments confirm the ability of P. siculus to learn ... However, there is controversy over the ability of P. siculus to perform quantitative discrimination...while 60% of subjects were able to distinguish between 1 and 4 items, very few were able to distinguish between 2 and 4 items"
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The wikipedia article is unusually entertaining. Apparently they are also bad at math. Why do they have to make it sound like the poor lizard needs to go to summer school??
"... experiments confirm the ability of P. siculus to learn ... However, there is controversy over the ability of P. siculus to perform quantitative discrimination...while 60% of subjects were able to distinguish between 1 and 4 items, very few were able to distinguish between 2 and 4 items"
These lizards are fine... but they suck at counting.
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These lizards are fine... but they suck at counting.
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