Show your Bugs and Critters

[Mrj]

[Mad Mac]

Ivory-marked Borer

[Manixguy@1994]

Olympic moment ! Dan

[Mushroom]

Chip sitting on the front step waiting for Dale.



Was working at a harbor yesterday where it turns into expansive sand flats at low tide and I spotted a few critters while walking along the flats.

A rock crab in the jetty - there are a lot of these around the rocks.


A Quahog that was just asking to be used as striper bait -



A Moon Snail sand collar - a mixture of their eggs, sand, and mucus combined to form this. (A bit larger than the diameter of a standard softball)


A Cormorant feeding in the harbor - I’m guessing it was eating some type of shad.

[Manixguy@1994]

Chip sitting on the front step waiting for Dale.



Was working at a harbor yesterday where it turns into expansive sand flats at low tide and I spotted a few critters while walking along the flats.

A rock crab in the jetty - there are a lot of these around the rocks.


A Quahog that was just asking to be used as striper bait -



A Moon Snail sand collar - a mixture of their eggs, sand, and mucus combined to form this. (A bit larger than the diameter of a standard softball)


A Cormorant feeding in the harbor - I’m guessing it was eating some type of shad.

Fantastic shots Nick ! Really like seeing Chip ! Dan

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

Chip sitting on the front step waiting for Dale.



Was working at a harbor yesterday where it turns into expansive sand flats at low tide and I spotted a few critters while walking along the flats.

A rock crab in the jetty - there are a lot of these around the rocks.


A Quahog that was just asking to be used as striper bait -



A Moon Snail sand collar - a mixture of their eggs, sand, and mucus combined to form this. (A bit larger than the diameter of a standard softball)


A Cormorant feeding in the harbor - I’m guessing it was eating some type of shad.

Awesome

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

[Mad Mac]

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Large Carpenter Bee
They have drilled several holes
above the tops of doors
into the door frames
here at my house.

[Mad Mac]

Ginger lost another fight with a Copperhead last night.
As soon as I try to nail it with my heavy hiking stick
she picks them up and shakes them like a terrier.
That is when she gets bit, I think.
Next time, I'm taking her into the house
before I start pounding it.

I can't find where she was bitten
but here you can see her neck swollen under her jaw.



Here is the copperhead, now a flat-head.
Not much in the picture to show because
she did succeed in biting the snake in half.

[Mad Mac]

My helper found the rest of him.



Poisonous snakes are the only ones I kill.

[cabfrank]

I sure hope Ginger is okay.

[Mad Mac]

She was listless this morning and did not eat breakfast.
But by lunchtime she ate her dog biscuit and then ate breakfast.
She is outside playing with good energy already
but I am leaving her collar off because of the swelling.

Here is a Southern Black Widow
that had spun a web between my golf clubs and shovel
in the garage.

[cabfrank]

I hope she fully recovers soon.
We have plenty Black Widows here too.

[SpyderJunky]

[Manixguy@1994]

Mac sorry to hear about Ginger . Hope,recovery is speedy. Dan

[Manixguy@1994]

MG2

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

She was listless this morning and did not eat breakfast.
But by lunchtime she ate her dog biscuit and then ate breakfast.
She is outside playing with good energy already
but I am leaving her collar off because of the swelling.

Here is a Southern Black Widow
that had spun a web between my golf clubs and shovel
in the garage.

Glad to hear she’s doing better

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

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Well that’s cool

[Mrj]

@Mad Mac what kind of dog is Ginger?

[Mad Mac]

Best guess is a Tennessee Treeing Brindle.

Ginger was found on the side of the road with a litter of puppies
by a lady who lives out in the sticks.
She gave away all the puppies and wanted to keep Ginger
but Ginger was confined to the yard where the lady kept chickens.
Ginger was frustrated and would catch a chicken
and literally pluck the feathers off with her teeth.
She had to give Ginger away too.

Like most of my neighbors out here, I have no fenced in yard
so when I first got Ginger I kept her on a leash
until I got a fi tracking collar.
In the meantime, she would nibble the center
out of a magazine if I left her in the house.

With her tracking collar, Ginger would travel for miles with Milo,
a neighbor's big friendly dog who taught me how to shake hands.
One day, Milo did not come home.
After that Ginger stuck close to my house.
I discontinued the fi tracking collar.

My neighbor and I searched for Milo
using the tracking information for Ginger but never found him.
Milo would get in my pickup for a ride home
so I think someone stopped and picked up Milo
on one of his adventures.
Now, I like to think Milo is stretched out on their sofa
eating dog biscuits and watching Dog TV.

Ginger has acres to roam, two companion dogs,
cows to round up and plenty of squirrels to tree.
She does not nibble magazines anymore.

If you do not have a life, the Google photo album below
has been automatically adding pictures for four years
and has grown to nearly 200 photographs
of Ginger, Brandy the red hound and Izzy the white terrier.
Also a few of Don Quixote the donkey, dead coyotes and others
plus screen grabs from the fi app showing her adventures.

Ginger and Friends