Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / April 2004

A friend of mine has a pet turtle (I don't know what species) that
she feeds crickets, which she in turn feeds corn meal. How would I
figure out what species of cricket it is? I think she probably buys
the crickets from a pet store.

Here's a photo of it, in fact!
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There is a paper wasp on my balcony as seen on the web site below, I looked
for info on the web and found that there are about 22 species of them in the
U.S.
If you could help ID the species I would appreciate it.

I have noticed for a while these beetles running around our living room. I
have ID'd them as Furniture Beetle but on looking through various web sites
non appear like ours. I did a google picture search and found one picture
but no details of the exact species. I was going to take a ...

Yseterday, 24 April 2004, I saw a spider that was less than a half
inch long, appeared to be similar to a wolf spider but had a red back
[last third of its body]. I saw it near the HQ building of the
Sacramento NWR where it was crawling on the concrete but near grasses

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that's all i've got!  i live in southwestern michigan and i ...

I posted a picture of a moth in news:alt.binaries.pictures.animals
of a moth that I photographed last night. It's a large moth -- about
a 3-inch wingspan, and I'm in central Texas. Can anyone tell me
what kind of moth it is? I couldn't find it in my books.

I would like to discover which species of spider I saw yesterday in
Deptford, London, as I'm sure it wasn't a British native.
Unfortunately I don't have a photograph, but here is a pretty accurate
description:  the spider was about 7cm or 8cm long altogether; the head,

I've come across some of these larvae <
http://www.ngs.fo/janus/larvas.htm > (250 KB), and I've happily
ignored them until I got a question earlier today, about what they
might be.

i found this spider in my sink and after lots of looking at pics online i
cant find anything similar.
can anyone help me tell if this spider is beneficial or poisonous?
black, hairy, orange spots on its back, big stocky legs, and green fangs! i

Any idea what this is?  It's new to me.  Thanks in advance.
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Hello all, I've never posted to this group, so I appreciate your
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I recently acquired a wonderful new digital camera (a Nikon D70). One
of my grat joys is in photographing small things so that they look

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It has 10 legs, two very big fangs in front, a very hary head with what
looks like two eyes. It's about an inch long, gold colored and a long dark
brown thorax...the back end.

Seems like there was a discussion on this awhile back but I can't find it in my saved msgs.  
What is the best way to attract moths for an evening moth program.  I know the white sheet part, but what is the best light source to use.  I'm in the desert southwest, would "mothing" be ...