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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 26, 2013 - 08:38pm PT
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Timmc
climber
BC
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Nov 26, 2013 - 08:50pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 27, 2013 - 12:35pm PT
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"You don't have to be big to be successful."
Collective wisdom of Pratt, Chouinard, and Harding on Watsonkins and El Cap, for sure.
Grade VII, let's go to the coffee shop.
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2013 - 03:26pm PT
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That's crazy, some real sci-fi stuff there.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Hoh, man! "Daddy, be careful."
She should have said, "We're gonna need a bigger bucket, daddy."
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Rudder
Trad climber
Costa Mesa, CA
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Don't know anything about insects, but this boy was hard at work in the yard of a house I'm working on. That's a Bee he's wrapping up, so you can get a sense of his size, he's a beefy fellow.
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2014 - 03:49pm PT
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I've seen those guys around here too. Never have found out what kind they are.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 10, 2014 - 05:49pm PT
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You mean "insetcs."The entree.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 17, 2014 - 12:59pm PT
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Think you had a rough day?
The weird thing is that after patiently posing for a dozen pics I was
thinking about putting him out of his misery. No sooner than the thoughts
coalesced he emphatically took off!
ps
Rudder's spider looks a Garden Spider but that's not definitive.
Black Widow egg sac...
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2014 - 11:41am PT
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Rudder et al, those are cat-face spiders. Either Araneus gemma or gemmoides. Fun to have around in the garden for sure.
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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As part of my BA in art, I specialized in science illustration. Here are a few of many insect paintings I did in partial fulfillment of the degree. They are small- 3"-4" gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper, made with the aid of a camera lucida Some of my illustrations appeared in Scientific American and other journals many years ago.
While doing grad studies in Anthropology in Nayarit, I was hiking in the jungle with a local and saw a caterpillar similar to this one. My guide, Jose Angel, shouted out- "Don't touch it!!" It turns out some of these things can kill a person, just by touching the hairs.
Some selected from the www~
"Froggy went a courtin' and he did ride um hm,
Sword and pistol by his side um hm."
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2014 - 02:56pm PT
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Great illustrations Keith, cool pics too, thanks for posting. I've heard about them caterpillars.
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Plan B
Ice climber
Agua Dulce,CA
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Mar 31, 2014 - 11:12pm PT
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Some pics from the South Coast Botanic garden last Sat at the Birdapalooza (see Birds thread)
sorry about the quality...those guys don't sit still too much :)
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MH2
climber
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Mar 31, 2014 - 11:22pm PT
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Nice ones. Like the red cactus flower and the bee with red pollen boots.
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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Keith, those are absolutely superb, in the best traditional of biological illustration going back to Hofmeister and those folks, combining artistic beauty with scientific accuracy. Thanks.
Since we've seen plenty of spiders on this insects thread, it seems fair to post up something of even more ancient ancestry, a Scolopendra centipede. This one's only about 5-6 inches long, from the hills in Santa Barbara Co., but there are footlong ones (which I've encountered) in the tropics. All of them, including our local ones, have an extremely vicious bite, I believe known to have been fatal to children. So, presumably even worse than a velvet ant (yes, I know, a wasp, but that's the name), which is probably the worst insect sting available for sampling in the western U.S.
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