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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: FloridaGreenMan on March 23, 2012, 09:40:14 PM
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What wild animals have you spotted in your fruit trees, your orchard or your farm? I have seen Screech Owls, Snapping turtles, Iguanas, Cuban Knight Anoles, Red Shoulder Hawks, Racoons, Opossums, Woodpeckers, Vultures, Snakes, and many others...
The worst pests are BY FAR...are squirrels and Racoons! Iguanas also love to eat flowers, including Annona flowers!
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Screech Owl
(http://s17.postimage.org/bc9afmrff/2008_0823_Otters_Fruits_Marisa0008.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/bc9afmrff/)
Cuban Knight Anole
(http://s11.postimage.org/qq2ni6uvj/2008_0121_Orlando_Jan080008.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/qq2ni6uvj/)
White Ibis
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OWL IS BEST PIC EVER!!!! :o FRAME IT AND SELL ME ONE!!!
THANKS FOR POSTING! :) :) :)
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the owl and the annona fruit is a gr8 shot ,, thx for sharing ,,
Amr
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Hi,
One day I saw this opossum strolling on my fence.
(http://s12.postimage.org/h4wii3dw9/IMG_4409.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/h4wii3dw9/)
Tomas
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great pics- i also love the owl
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Yeah the owl picture is really cool. I like those Ibis as well, we don't get them in San Jose!
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Love the Owl picture also, its almost as if he was posing for that shot.
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x
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We have hawks, owls, and bats here, but they usually stay inside surrounding rainforest. Main animals that sometimes wonder on fruit trees are minah birds, red jays, japanese white eyes, geckos, anoles, and jackson cameleons. Here is one jackson on an etrog fruit:
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/EtrogWithJackson.jpg)
Oscar
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These guys are regular guests! I also have owls, osprey, sri-lankan weevils (lots of these), iguanas, cuban anoles, squirrels, and possoms..
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(http://s16.postimage.org/4sn6ldkdd/IMG_0882.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/4sn6ldkdd/)
(http://s10.postimage.org/6k0zoxkpx/IMG_0887.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/6k0zoxkpx/)
These guys are regular guests! I also have owls, osprey, sri-lankan weevils (lots of these), iguanas, cuban anoles, squirrels, and possoms..
ahhhh, what a great pet...just don't let them "mouth" you or your pets.
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I remember Harry posted a pic of someone holding a coral snake on their nose, I think it was on gardenweb.
/found the pic:
(http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/blog/babycoralsnake.jpg)
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I sure did, but the one that Patrick posted looks to be about 3 feet long. Not sure I would find anyone with that sized coral snake on their face.
Harry
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Which animals eat the fruit? I assume squirrels, raccoons, and birds. What are the best ways to deter them? Does anything work besides keeping dogs (and cats) in the yard to scare them off?
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Snoral Cakes! thats the biggest one I seen! :o
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Great pics! I've seen white ibis, mocking birds, crows, wood peckers, pigeons, doves, a large raccoon during broad daylight, other bird species including a hawk and a loggerhead shrike. I've also seen burrowing owls in my neighborhood.
There are also many lizards including an exotic looking one that just runs around and eat bugs.
(http://s17.postimage.org/r4l12avzf/020.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/r4l12avzf/)
(http://s10.postimage.org/eeyo19o2t/019.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/eeyo19o2t/)
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We have hawks, owls, and bats here, but they usually stay inside surrounding rainforest. Main animals that sometimes wonder on fruit trees are minah birds, red jays, japanese white eyes, geckos, anoles, and jackson cameleons. Here is one jackson on an etrog fruit:
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/EtrogWithJackson.jpg)
Oscar
Very cool creature! I also have a large Central American Basilisk lizard on my property which has so far, eluded my camera!
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We have hawks, owls, and bats here, but they usually stay inside surrounding rainforest. Main animals that sometimes wonder on fruit trees are minah birds, red jays, japanese white eyes, geckos, anoles, and jackson cameleons. Here is one jackson on an etrog fruit:
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/EtrogWithJackson.jpg)
Oscar
Love the Jackson's. One of my favorite chameleons.
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There was a jackson chameleon on one of the lychee branches that we were about to run through the chipper shredder. Fortunately one of us saw it and we spared it a grueling death.
Oscar
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My neighbor's got a bird's next in his Manila tree - but it's one of those that's kind of round with a hole in the side
where they come and go....I'll have to get a Pic and Post it....
Fang
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There was a jackson chameleon on one of the lychee branches that we were about to run through the chipper shredder. Fortunately one of us saw it and we spared it a grueling death.
Oscar
Great photos, thanks for sharing - can see East Africa is now truely represented in Hawaii.! Looks like many former exotic pets have established viable populations in Florida as well...
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very cool pics everyone. oscar- do you cook with etrog, or make jam- it is one of the most beautiful and fragrant fruit out there. how do you use yours?
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Very cool thread, the owl picture looks incredible.
My Jack Russell greets all comers to our place way before I get the chance for any picture, it gets rather messy.
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very cool pics everyone. oscar- do you cook with etrog, or make jam- it is one of the most beautiful and fragrant fruit out there. how do you use yours?
i've only made one vain attempt to use etrog fruit to make marmelade, but did something wrong and came out terrible. Have to try it again. I do also bring them indoors to make the whole house smell nice.
Oscar
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Latest addition to the wildlife thread. Spotted this little guy last night
(http://s15.postimage.org/ewjfpodiv/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/ewjfpodiv/)
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Great thread Idea Noel!
I love all the interesting pictures.
But I don't like snakes...ick
I have many critters and creatures roaming around here but I thought of only 2 pics worthy of sharing.
GIANT IGUANA
(http://s14.postimage.org/vdgxlazjx/BIGLIZZARD.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/vdgxlazjx/)
Beautiful Butterfly
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Really cool looking iguana! Looks like it is missing the tip of its tail?
Oscar
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Largest Hornworm I ever seent, eating up my 4826 leaves. I let it go to town, because I love hummingbird moths, and it doesn't seem to hurt the tree...it knows just how to eat it, without getting me angry! Hasn't eaten blooms yet!
And a nice big black racer in the wood pile by annonas in pots. I touched his tail! and he jetted!
(http://s11.postimage.org/6m591191r/annonagraft_3_28_12_025.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/6m591191r/)
(http://s11.postimage.org/oq89lo6q7/annonagraft_3_28_12_026.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/oq89lo6q7/)
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More snakes in my yard, this time Black Racers making love! :-*
(http://s9.postimage.org/avpn1eyyj/IMG_0207.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/avpn1eyyj/)
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u r a breeding grounds for snakes!
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Here is a photo i took at Anestor's farm in Southern Brazil. He asked me if i wanted to try an accidental cross between Musa ornata and Musa velutina that he had. I said sure! And he proceeded to advance towards the stalk with his machete. Suddenly in mid pace he comically jumped backwards about 3 feet! I didn't see it but he did. If you look closely you can see a snake coiled inside the stalk. He told me it's one of the moist poisonous snakes in Brazil and proceeded to dispose of the snake. Was sad but i guess necessary. I forget what he called that type of snake.
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/MusaOrnataXVelutinaStalk.jpg)
Oscar
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OK, here is the name of that mystery snake and also a better photo:
jararaca (Bothrops jararaca)
(http://fruitlovers.com/IMG_6655.jpg)
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I am always happy to find one these little guys...
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yk8bcuzCBsM/SoCjR-gVYfI/AAAAAAAAAAs/IEvaETbWw4o/s1600/w-sapote-surprise.jpg)
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Latest addition to the wildlife thread. Spotted this little guy last night
(http://s15.postimage.org/ewjfpodiv/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/ewjfpodiv/)
You can't fool me. You have a stuffed owl there with menacing glare.
And that frog of late would look good on my dinner plate.
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Citrus Dog eating my white sapote!!! I never knew this could be host plant to, but makes sense because its Rutaceae...I love the butterflies this bird poo looking caterpillar turns into! Giant swallow tail I believe.
Don't kill these guys! :)
(http://s13.postimage.org/dsfqu8o1v/sapodilla4_8_12_008.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/dsfqu8o1v/)
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Citrus Dog eating my white sapote!!! I never knew this could be host plant to, but makes sense because its Rutaceae...I love the butterflies this bird poo looking caterpillar turns into! Giant swallow tail I believe.
Don't kill these guys! :)
(http://s13.postimage.org/dsfqu8o1v/sapodilla4_8_12_008.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/dsfqu8o1v/)
You are correct, it turns into the Giant Swallowtail.
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Be a doll, and grab me one of those 6 inch garcinia seedlings...all the way in the back row.
LOL,
I live a good 300 ft or more from a lake..but I guess the water snakes are hungry...and I have enough cuban tree frogs here to feed them.
U can hear a frog being eaten at night by a snake...it sounds like a miniature cat being dismembered.
Its quite disturbing...enough so, that when I approached a frog being eaten (meowing crazily like a cat), my presence startle the black racer snake that was eating it, and the frog got away.
this snake I saw today was a bit scarier, because they look like a cotton mouth to the untrained eye.
I hear these brown water snakes have long teeth for catching fish, and they can have some nasty bacterium in their mouth...but don't bother me none.
I took a pic and let him slither away...
but he did try to offer me this crazy looking delicious fruit...I wouldn't eat it though...maybe he'll have better luck convincing Audrey (LOLOL she wouldn't walk within 10f of the snake)
(http://s18.postimage.org/vx3o2m2at/9_30_2012annon_001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/vx3o2m2at/)
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The snake lives at my house...it wasn't just passing through.
Now I see it all the time...a red banded water snake I suppose.
I wonder if the huge amount of frogs and toads that sing at night, may have lured this heavy bodied aquatic reptile to my house?
I like the snake...and plan on protecting it. It looks like a pregnant female! (but I have no idea).
(http://s11.postimage.org/f75u2qfpb/9_30_2012annon.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/f75u2qfpb/)
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I had a 10 ft Anaconda show up on my property, it killed three geese before we found it and shot it. I gave it to my neighbor who made some belts out of the skin and invited me over for BBQed snake steaks.
They were pretty good steaks
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hey!
I want a belt!
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Every spring summer when I take my plants outside and start agressively collecting rainwater I start seeing the local treefrogs show up.
Last winter, in January, I discovered that one of the tree frogs had come in with my plants and was living inside the room where I keep my plants. I had wondered why the bug population was lower that winter than previous winters! So I let the stowaway stay with the plants and when I took the plants out the stowaway went with them.
Also when my plants are on the deck (right now they are on my driveway awaiting the transition into the garage and the room upstairs) my cats enjoy it because they attract birds... and that's cat TV extreme hunting channel.
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I had a 10 ft Anaconda show up on my property, it killed three geese before we found it and shot it. I gave it to my neighbor who made some belts out of the skin and invited me over for BBQed snake steaks.
They were pretty good steaks
That is a big snake! I didn't realize you could eat them. The Everglades is loaded with them.<--- meaning really big snakes-they eat everything in sight and the food supply in the Everglades is never ending.
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Worst of all are the pygmy rattlesnakes,they love to move in in pots,allways have to be on the lookout for those,quite a few people been bit over the years grabbing pots in garden centers,while poisonous and not deadly for most healthy peple,kids and elderly can certainly die from a bite if not treated immediately, most of them here in south fl are 12 to 14 inches long and love to crawl into the draiholes of 3 gallon pots, my jack russel goes out on snake patrol every morning,he has gotten quite good at it,unfortunately he kills more rat snakes then anything and thaey are pretty harmless and beneficial.
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Those big snakes down here are mostly pythons never heard of an anaconda being caught down here,i thought anacondas are a protected species in their native habitat,oh well you never know in south fla,tigers,lions,panthers,huge snakes,monkeys,bears,emu,people own all kinds of crazy stuff,but its the owners that are probably more dangerous than the animals,we have an over abundance of crazies down here in fla!!!!!!!!!
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Those big snakes down here are mostly pythons never heard of an anaconda being caught down here,i thought anacondas are a protected species in their native habitat,oh well you never know in south fla,tigers,lions,panthers,huge snakes,monkeys,bears,emu,people own all kinds of crazy stuff,but its the owners that are probably more dangerous than the animals,we have an over abundance of crazies down here in fla!!!!!!!!!
crazy and irresponsible....when people get tired of caring for those exotic pets they just let release them and I don't think that they realize the long term effects of that decision at the time they're letting the creatures go.
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Those big snakes down here are mostly pythons never heard of an anaconda being caught down here,i thought anacondas are a protected species in their native habitat,oh well you never know in south fla,tigers,lions,panthers,huge snakes,monkeys,bears,emu,people own all kinds of crazy stuff,but its the owners that are probably more dangerous than the animals,we have an over abundance of crazies down here in fla!!!!!!!!!
You maybe right that it was a python, identifying snakes isn't my specialty.
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I used to be the guy who wanted his own pet snake,
now I'm happy to have my own resident snake...I don't need to clean it's cage, buy it poor rodent souls to devour, and have to deal with the snakes eventual demise, and funerary expenses. ;D
I'm happy to encourage wild life at my house, but not inside the house or in little cages.
my hats off to those who responsibly rear small critters, I hear some turtles are being captive bred and sold for big bucks, for zoos, pet trade and repopulation projects in Asia.
it reminds me of growing plants but more difficult and smellier.Those big snakes down here are mostly pythons never heard of an anaconda being caught down here,i thought anacondas are a protected species in their native habitat,oh well you never know in south fla,tigers,lions,panthers,huge snakes,monkeys,bears,emu,people own all kinds of crazy stuff,but its the owners that are probably more dangerous than the animals,we have an over abundance of crazies down here in fla!!!!!!!!!
crazy and irresponsible....when people get tired of caring for those exotic pets they just let release them and I don't think that they realize the long term effects of that decision at the time they're letting the creatures go.
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Here are some of the critters I have run into since I moved to south Fla 7 years ago. And I still can't believe someone would hang a "red on yellow" on their nose. One of the worst poisonous snakes to get bit by!
Hiding in the dried male flowers of the FHIA 1 banana bunch.
(http://i.imgur.com/8ov8kl.jpg)
Gave him a poke and he was ready for a fight.
(http://i.imgur.com/2OJYTl.jpg)
King snake - this guy was handled with care and sent to the vacant lot next door to do his job - eat other critters.
(http://i.imgur.com/iVzC7l.jpg)
This is the couch critter that lives in the house. Gets up for food and walks. Eats everything!
(http://i.imgur.com/jmEfHl.jpg)
Crawled down the vine to say hello to the tourists in Costa Rica. Reminds me of couch critter.
(http://i.imgur.com/WC3fDl.jpg)
South Florida squirrel. Walks slow - easy to catch. Spends a lot of time in malls. Especially in Broward.
(http://i.imgur.com/jzS8Cl.jpg)
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Dan, what great shots! Thanks for sharing.
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Great bird photo Adam! Our woodpeckers love ANNONAS too !
(http://s8.postimg.cc/gmoql9wk1/YARD_9_23_12_006.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/gmoql9wk1/)
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Great bird photo Adam! Our woodpeckers love ANNONAS too !
(http://s8.postimg.cc/gmoql9wk1/YARD_9_23_12_006.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/gmoql9wk1/)
thanks Noel!
I found the pic online!
your pic is excellent! I suppose you're the photographer.
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Yes, that was in my tree!
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haha..take a close look at this rollina emarginata picture I just took tonight...I always feel like, somebody (or something ;) ) is watching me!
(http://s7.postimg.cc/6o6o5npxz/5_25_2013_005.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/6o6o5npxz/)
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Lol adam the way you took that pic reminds of the raptor from jurassic park.
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On my yard I've personally seen: foxes, possums, raccoons, squirrels, mice, rats, bats, frogs, large toads, black snakes, common lizards, many snails. And, many different kinds of birds like Falcons, Mockingbirds, Bluejays, parakeets, ducks, cockatoos, parrots, hummingbirds, crows, small white crane like looking everglades flocks. Also, of course, many types of insects, including the all important pollinator, honeybees.
It gives me much more pleasure knowing that there is all this type of wildlife in my yard, than any anguish that may come when animals go for the fruit.
I enjoy knowing that my yard attracts life and that it's full of life, besides edible fruit trees. Indeed, it would worry me if wildlife were not attracted to my yard.
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Lol adam the way you took that pic reminds of the raptor from jurassic park.
Ken,
It was super dark, I didnt even mean to get a photo of the lizard. It does remind me of jurassic park :D
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Excellent shot Adam! Cool looking bird. 8) What kind is it?
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Excellent shot Adam! Cool looking bird. 8) What kind is it?
Oscar
I can only take credit for finding the pic online...it's an African bird I assume, because it was a website about Africa.
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Excellent shot Adam! Cool looking bird. 8) What kind is it?
Oscar
I can only take credit for finding the pic online...it's an African bird I assume, because it was a website about Africa.
I assumed you took the shot because of the red custard apple. Also because thread subject is wildlife in your fruit trees, Ok you fooled me. ???
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I dont have any picture right now, but a question. If any of you have monkeys, how do you prevent them from coming in and eating up the fruit? unlike with birds, netting doesnt really work that well.
**I dont want to harm them**
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Wow, you got me. Now, that's a problem! How about an electrified fence? The voltage wouldn't need to be lethal, just enough for a good electric jolt.
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On my family's farm we have seen many types of wild life, among the more memorable was a bear that came down from the mountain and was eating our pluots, figs and persimmons for a couple months, there is a photo online somewhere that I will post if I can find it. On one piece of land there is a family of bobcats that I often see, we have around a 100 or so California quail and have big problems with trespassers hunting them. Same goes for doves during dove season, those dudes will just about shoot anything so its a dangerous time of the year. We also have many owls, bats, racoons, snakes(though less and less because the Hispanic population kills them on site), possums and the scourge of the earth at my home skunks... I have also occasionally seen boars, once saw a bunch of feral emus. One time saw a mountain lion too. Used to see kit foxes until the coyotes killed them all, oh yeah, lots of coyotes that tear up the drip line. Lots of rabbits, road runners, other stuff. The farm is 15 miles southeast of Bakersfield on the very edge of the Ag land in kern county. My family's house is on the intersection of two dirt roads with the closest paved road about 2 miles and our closest neighbor being about 3 miles away and the closest shop a little over 7 miles, everything around us is endless farmland with a mountain backdrop. While looking for the photo, I found one from one day when I was driving to school and saw them moving some pruning towers, not really wildlife but shows where I live.
(http://s11.postimg.cc/9lh2sb1wf/images_from_my_first_time_in_asia_from_USA_and.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/9lh2sb1wf/)
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Found a video of the bear on the news
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/704968/another_bear_sighting_at_murray_family_farms (http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/704968/another_bear_sighting_at_murray_family_farms)
It left at the end of the summer and hasn't been back. (Its my dad in the video)
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Dragon fruit flowered again last night. Anything jump out at you? Notice the tree frog-- probability looking to nab a potential pollinator.
(http://s16.postimg.cc/3wcxchzr5/081.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/3wcxchzr5/)
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Tropicalgrower89- the lizard in your pics is a Green Ameiva. itroduced exotic. Very cool animal though and very fast.
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Cool :) Thanks for the identification! Yeah, they just walk around and eat bugs.
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I was checking on a few mango seedlings that I am sprouting and to my surprise behind them was this large blue land crab! Definitely made me jump out of my skin!
(http://s12.postimg.cc/rffm4xe5l/1d77a67e2573c23c0f3e6530089a9add.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/rffm4xe5l/)
(http://s12.postimg.cc/bigu87lrd/784abd07b5b89a203670b3d8cfaf1223.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/bigu87lrd/)
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Do vast amounts of mosquitoes count as wildlife? ??? ::) :) :D ;D
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Worst of all are the pygmy rattlesnakes,they love to move in in pots,allways have to be on the lookout for those,quite a few people been bit over the years grabbing pots in garden centers,while poisonous and not deadly for most healthy peple,kids and elderly can certainly die from a bite if not treated immediately, most of them here in south fl are 12 to 14 inches long and love to crawl into the draiholes of 3 gallon pots, my jack russel goes out on snake patrol every morning,he has gotten quite good at it,unfortunately he kills more rat snakes then anything and thaey are pretty harmless and beneficial.
Thanks...good to know.
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(http://s21.postimg.cc/w0qd0py3n/Pig.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/w0qd0py3n/)
Not in fruit tree but enjoys what drops to the ground
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Thank you so much! All this photos are beautifull! ;D
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This morning I found a garter snake behind my mango seedlings. ......keeping bugs at bay I hope.
(http://s23.postimg.cc/qqow42b47/9_FD90099_5224_4_D2_A_85_E0_E7_BBAB1_FDF10_6210_0000075_CD72_E630_B.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/qqow42b47/)
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Vermin: Bushy-tailed rats! Roof Rats. [Both attack my 'Trompo' Canistel.]
Welcome: Ring-Necked Doves, mocking Birds, green parakeets, Screech Owls, Curly-Tail Lizards, Cuban Tree-Frogs.
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All frogs are welcome, are good and look cute
All squirrels must die. Just saw one scamper off with a mango seed I buried in mulch to sprout. Attacking my mangoes this summer, hellfire and damnation for them all!
All my remaining mangoes are now plastic clam shell (like strawberries come in) protected
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in the suburbs, but not too far from swamp/forest. i get opossum and lost of squirrels
none seem to bother my papaya or guava
i have LOts of little green lizards. i think they eat a lot of pests
they may be eating the good pests too cos i have an aphid problem now
and i dont see many natural predators around
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Found this male Jackson chameleon on the ice cream bean tree. Their favorite fruit trees are that one and the rollinia. Here he poses in front of a mango:
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/JacksonChameleonWithMango.jpg)
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Wow Oscar that is really something and I have seen a few in Africa much like that. Flying foxes and cockatoos are my biggest wildlife consumers of fruit. I had a 20lb lace monitor eating a papaya on the ground last week. Friends near Innisfail get heavily taxed by pigs and cassowaries. My Innisfail friend lost his entire vegie patch,15 lbs of papaya and had his cattle dog terrorized by a cassowary recently.
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Found this male Jackson chameleon on the ice cream bean tree. Their favorite fruit trees are that one and the rollinia. Here he poses in front of a mango:
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/JacksonChameleonWithMango.jpg)
That creature has cool eyes!!
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It's really neat to watch their eyes rotate independently of each other. They can be looking towards the front with one eye and towards the back with the other. Their feet are pretty neat also. I'll see if i can post a video later.
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(http://s16.postimg.cc/p62ahr7dt/DSCF5782.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/p62ahr7dt/)
The wildlife have been eating fruit lately and 15 minutes ago I noticed the wildlife visiting my backyard and taking my goose. My big gander was looking forward to Christmas and didn't even know he was on K.P. for Christmas. Unfortunately an amethystine python is making a meal of him. Hawks ate my duckling recently and goannas have eaten all the eggs from nests. I don't mind sharing fruit with the wildlife but sharing the livestock is taking things too far.
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(http://s16.postimg.cc/p62ahr7dt/DSCF5782.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/p62ahr7dt/)
The wildlife have been eating fruit lately and 15 minutes ago I noticed the wildlife visiting my backyard and taking my goose. My big gander was looking forward to Christmas and didn't even know he was on K.P. for Christmas. Unfortunately an amethystine python is making a meal of him. Hawks ate my duckling recently and goannas have eaten all the eggs from nests. I don't mind sharing fruit with the wildlife but sharing the livestock is taking things too far.
Would love to see the cockatoos and other parrots in your fruit trees, if you have some photos. I love all kinds of birds, especially parrots. Do you ever see the rare Palm cockatoo and eculectus parrots, around your area?
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Not quite in a fruit tree but in my backyard. This hawk has become my new best friend and chief ally against local squirrels. This is the third one that I have seen him catch within the last couple of weeks.
(http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee281/ICEchargerRT/005_zps5ba19357.jpg) (http://s235.photobucket.com/user/ICEchargerRT/media/005_zps5ba19357.jpg.html)
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Thao those 2 are further north.In my yard the main parrots that cause strife are sulphur crested cockatoos,rainbow lorikeets,scaley breasted lorikeets and macleays fig parrots. Friends have trouble with crimson rosellas and king parrots with red tailed black cockatoos sometimes causing grief for peanut farmers.
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Thao those 2 are further north.In my yard the main parrots that cause strife are sulphur crested cockatoos,rainbow lorikeets,scaley breasted lorikeets and macleays fig parrots. Friends have trouble with crimson rosellas and king parrots with red tailed black cockatoos sometimes causing grief for peanut farmers.
I see, they are very clever birds and can cause huge destruction, once they learn how to manipulate or find easy food source. With all those parrots, are they still expensive at pet shops like it is here in the US and other parts of the world, that they aren't native too? I remember reading online articles, saying the cockatoo species is the #1 pest bird for farmers. They devastate huge farm lands and eat almost any crops in sight. Farmer's are allowed to kill the too's on sight, if they are destroying crops?
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Not quite in a fruit tree but in my backyard. This hawk has become my new best friend and chief ally against local squirrels. This is the third one that I have seen him catch within the last couple of weeks.
(http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee281/ICEchargerRT/005_zps5ba19357.jpg) (http://s235.photobucket.com/user/ICEchargerRT/media/005_zps5ba19357.jpg.html)
can I rent the hawk?? Good bird, good bird! Lol.
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Thao those 2 are further north.In my yard the main parrots that cause strife are sulphur crested cockatoos,rainbow lorikeets,scaley breasted lorikeets and macleays fig parrots. Friends have trouble with crimson rosellas and king parrots with red tailed black cockatoos sometimes causing grief for peanut farmers.
I see, they are very clever birds and can cause huge destruction, once they learn how to manipulate or find easy food source. With all those parrots, are they still expensive at pet shops like it is here in the US and other parts of the world, that they aren't native too? I remember reading online articles, saying the cockatoo species is the #1 pest bird for farmers. They devastate huge farm lands and eat almost any crops in sight. Farmer's are allowed to kill the too's on sight, if they are destroying crops?
I regret to say it but i killed loads of parrots in Australia. If you drive a car ( i had a bus though) in the outback while it's getting dark then they all fly straight into the headlights of the car right on your windscreen. I slowed down a lot but they kept on coming and there is nothing you can do to stop that. Still lucky it were parrots who came and not them kangaroo's though because they also like to do that.
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The wildlife have been eating fruit lately and 15 minutes ago I noticed the wildlife visiting my backyard and taking my goose. My big gander was looking forward to Christmas and didn't even know he was on K.P. for Christmas. Unfortunately an amethystine python is making a meal of him. Hawks ate my duckling recently and goannas have eaten all the eggs from nests. I don't mind sharing fruit with the wildlife but sharing the livestock is taking things too far.
I guess that python celebrated Xmas earlier than you this year. ;) Is python edible? Mix em in with your sphagetti squash. :D
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Thao those 2 are further north.In my yard the main parrots that cause strife are sulphur crested cockatoos,rainbow lorikeets,scaley breasted lorikeets and macleays fig parrots. Friends have trouble with crimson rosellas and king parrots with red tailed black cockatoos sometimes causing grief for peanut farmers.
I see, they are very clever birds and can cause huge destruction, once they learn how to manipulate or find easy food source. With all those parrots, are they still expensive at pet shops like it is here in the US and other parts of the world, that they aren't native too? I remember reading online articles, saying the cockatoo species is the #1 pest bird for farmers. They devastate huge farm lands and eat almost any crops in sight. Farmer's are allowed to kill the too's on sight, if they are destroying crops?
I regret to say it but i killed loads of parrots in Australia. If you drive a car ( i had a bus though) in the outback while it's getting dark then they all fly straight into the headlights of the car right on your windscreen. I slowed down a lot but they kept on coming and there is nothing you can do to stop that. Still lucky it were parrots who came and not them kangaroo's though because they also like to do that.
Some animals, just seem to do that, they head for the light and BAM, they really are going towards the light this time. I guess, the too's are so plentiful, that some dead ones, won't cause any major population decrease. Also have read and saw on animal planet, when Oz land was infested with Mice......ECK. That was just soo disturbing to watch them running everywhere and climbing on your legs.
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Are those Pythons native? In Miami the non natives ones have killed a bunch of my stuff, unfortunately i dont have a picture anymore of the last one. But I made a $100 selling an 8 ft. one that killed my best gander. Some crazy cuban guy I know makes then into belts and sells the snake oil as an arthritis treatment. He also gave us a piece of the meat to eat, it was pretty good.
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Python's aren't native. They are an exotic species just like the iguanas and now the nile monitor lizards which give a nasty/high infectious bite and are very defensive.
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(http://s24.postimg.cc/7aceoq6r5/DSCF5789.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/7aceoq6r5/)
I get 4 native python species visiting my yard and this one is an amethystine python around 15 feet long.It just finished its breakfast and has suddenly put on between 10 and 15lbs.It could probably do with a cat chaser.
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Red touches yellow kill a fellow Yikes ! .. not a friend of snakes ;(..
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Python's aren't native. They are an exotic species just like the iguanas and now the nile monitor lizards which give a nasty/high infectious bite and are very defensive.
And don't forget the basilisk lizards (aka jesus lizards). The damage these non natives are doing to bird populations is scary. At least the pythons eat them... :-\
Keith
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Any of you Floridians ever seen those giant African pouch rat, run around your yard. It makes me go eck! I saw on Animal planet's channel's special on the invasive exotic species in Florida. I can't even stand little mice, let alone giant rats, bigger than most house cats. I bet none of your house cats will go after one of those, unless you own one of those Florida Pumas/mountain lions ;) But, good news is that, it says, only small numbers have been spotted wondering around the Keys or some other island atm, imagine seeing one in your yard munching away at a fallen mango in your yard. But, it does mention, they can be train in their native land to help humans detect landmines. So, I guess, they are ok in a sense, but they still make me squeal like a little girl, if I ever saw one. Just not my cup of tea.
Thistle - The Gambian Pouched Rat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFGj1o0W40Q#)
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It's not really a rat. Actually it's a dwarf kangaroo. ;)
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Mike do you also have tree-kangaroo's in your area?
Tree kangaroo joey growing up at Saint Louis Zoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f8yp0PBIS4#)
I would like to have one as a pet. :D
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It's not really a rat. Actually it's a dwarf kangaroo. ;)
I wish. But those naked scaly tails and long nose, makes me go ewwwwwwwwww. Then again a squirrel is just a fluffy and furry rat that eats nut and climb trees. I'm fine with those BTW.
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African pouched rats are really rodents (not marsupials or kangaroos of ant sort) and much like white tailed rats in my area that are fruit,meat and nut eaters. I have lost papaya to giant white tailed rats. Tree kangaroos are real marsupials and I get Lumholtz Tree Kangaroos on the hills behind my place. They are more common on the Atherton Tablelands.
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Here's where genetic modification could really be useful: remove the eek gene from rodents and replace them with cutesy genes from marsupials or koala, or better yet panda bears. ;)
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I have 3 types of rat in my area (2 I have seen in the yard) that can exceed 1kg.They seem to be universally disliked.
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Some people find them just like any other creature with fur, so it's just a state of mind. But, my mind has been made up about them. Until gene modification ;) is made on future rats, I will go eww. But, did you guys know that, there was a furry rat found in Laos, a while back. Along with some newly discover species like the Annamite striped rabbit and just last year the giant Laotian flying squirrel.
Laotian rock rat
I guess, you can call it kinda cute
(http://s15.postimg.cc/hcxplo8jr/rock_rat.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/hcxplo8jr/)
Annamite striped rabbit
(http://s16.postimg.cc/a9sjqv7fl/rabbit.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/a9sjqv7fl/)
Laos giant flying squirrle
(http://s2.postimg.cc/6tpl0pwet/flying_squirrle.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/6tpl0pwet/)
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Hi,
One day I saw this opossum strolling on my fence.
(http://s12.postimage.org/h4wii3dw9/IMG_4409.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/h4wii3dw9/)
Tomas
thats rare this fara(opposum), here are whites and brown specs, variety I suppose....
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Hey those are beautiful and unique wild animals there in California. I was not aware of their existence there.
About two months ago, while stepping out the front door of my house, I almost tripped on an all black snake that crossed my path. I guess that's what I get for planting flower bushes near the main door of the house. I'm quite sure it wasn't venomous, but it was a somewhat startling event. Nothing like that has happened to me before. I'm glad I'm not superstitious; Happy Halloween. :)
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Hey those are beautiful and unique wild animals there in California. I was not aware of their existence there.
About two months ago, while stepping out the front door of my house, I almost tripped on an all black snake that crossed my path. I guess that's what I get for planting flower bushes near the main door of the house. I'm quite sure it wasn't venomous, but it was a somewhat startling event. Nothing like that has happened to me before. I'm glad I'm not superstitious; Happy Halloween. :)
This reminds me. In india, my cousin's house is surrounded by fruit trees (although they really have just about no land at all, think a three foot wide strip of dirt that extends around the house) and there is a vacant lot nearby, so there are large snakes all over the place. Once,when i was about to put on my shoe, a shin, iridescent green snake came out. I was terrified ;D
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Hey those are beautiful and unique wild animals there in California. I was not aware of their existence there.
About two months ago, while stepping out the front door of my house, I almost tripped on an all black snake that crossed my path. I guess that's what I get for planting flower bushes near the main door of the house. I'm quite sure it wasn't venomous, but it was a somewhat startling event. Nothing like that has happened to me before. I'm glad I'm not superstitious; Happy Halloween. :)
If you were referring to those pictures that, I posted. They aren't actually in California, I found them online, those three are actually new species found in the jungles of South East Asia(Laos and Burma to be precise) not too long ago. The first picture is actually a prehistoric rat(not an actual squirrel) species thought to have been extinct in the wild. But, biologist found some being sold in the wild bush meat market in Laos. the second picture is an Annamite striped rabbit found in the Annamite Mountains bordering Vietnam and Laos. The last one is a giant flying Squirrel species found in the jungles of Laos. That flying squirrel is bigger and longer than the average house cat.
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Hey those are beautiful and unique wild animals there in California. I was not aware of their existence there.
About two months ago, while stepping out the front door of my house, I almost tripped on an all black snake that crossed my path. I guess that's what I get for planting flower bushes near the main door of the house. I'm quite sure it wasn't venomous, but it was a somewhat startling event. Nothing like that has happened to me before. I'm glad I'm not superstitious; Happy Halloween. :)
If you were referring to those pictures that, I posted. They aren't actually in California, I found them online, those three are actually new species found in the jungles of South East Asia(Laos and Burma to be precise) not too long ago. The first picture is actually a prehistoric rat(not an actual squirrel) species thought to have been extinct in the wild. But, biologist found some being sold in the wild bush meat market in Laos. the second picture is an Annamite striped rabbit found in the Annamite Mountains bordering Vietnam and Laos. The last one is a giant flying Squirrel species found in the jungles of Laos. That flying squirrel is bigger and longer than the average house cat.
Someone has been discovered :o
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first let me start by saying, it's always a pleasure to disprove what the books tell you (and especially that damn wikipedia...a place for half assed information)
today I documented a Zebra Swallowtail (Protographium marcellus) laying eggs on Annona dioica, Annona cornifolia, and A. muricata.
all the info I've seen, says that they feed exclusively on Asimina species.
Well I'm here to tell you, that's not true.
Here is proof.
a female hovering around Annona cornifolia, looking for a place to lay.
(http://s14.postimg.cc/bg1ajymr1/IMG_1501.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/bg1ajymr1/)
about to lay an egg on A. cornifolia
(http://s14.postimg.cc/a29nonnhp/IMG_1504.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/a29nonnhp/)
difficult to see, but there is an egg on the new growth of this grafted A. dioica
(http://s14.postimg.cc/4f8pdfvl9/IMG_1512.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/4f8pdfvl9/)
easy to see the egg, on the new growth of A. cornifolia (this seemed to be the butterfly's favorite tree, it laid most of it's eggs on cornifolia)
(http://s14.postimg.cc/6z4c7jj59/IMG_1513.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/6z4c7jj59/)
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Maybe the swallowtail butterflies hadn't read that wikipedia article? Or maybe they just got confused in identifying different species? ;) Anyway, yes experience is the best teacher. There are so many exceptions to every rule that so called facts, aren't always so factual.
About wikipedia, their articles are only as good as their contributors. Because they never give the names of the contributors you don't know how trustworthy they are. Also because the contributions are done for free sometimes not that much effort goes into them.
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Hey guys, should I be worried? I got a soil test but I don't think they tested for radioactive waste. Maybe I should have gone the chemical route instead of all this weed pulling and cover cropping.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8813/17236756842_835a6b41cf_c.jpg)
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first let me start by saying, it's always a pleasure to disprove what the books tell you (and especially that damn wikipedia...a place for half assed information)
today I documented a Zebra Swallowtail (Protographium marcellus) laying eggs on Annona dioica, Annona cornifolia, and A. muricata.
all the info I've seen, says that they feed exclusively on Asimina species.
Well I'm here to tell you, that's not true.
Here is proof.
a female hovering around Annona cornifolia, looking for a place to lay.
(http://s14.postimg.cc/bg1ajymr1/IMG_1501.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/bg1ajymr1/)
about to lay an egg on A. cornifolia
(http://s14.postimg.cc/a29nonnhp/IMG_1504.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/a29nonnhp/)
difficult to see, but there is an egg on the new growth of this grafted A. dioica
(http://s14.postimg.cc/4f8pdfvl9/IMG_1512.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/4f8pdfvl9/)
easy to see the egg, on the new growth of A. cornifolia (this seemed to be the butterfly's favorite tree, it laid most of it's eggs on cornifolia)
(http://s14.postimg.cc/6z4c7jj59/IMG_1513.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/6z4c7jj59/)
When the eggs hatch and the caterpillars start eating those plants, then you can update Wikipedia.
Maybe you need to plant more host plants for that particular butterfly. That way the poor egg laden females wont have to resort to laying their eggs on just any plant, but can do it proper and give her young ones a chance. :)
DM
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definitely will take pics of the larvae if they hatch...it doesn't take long.
but I won't be updating wikipedia...I guess people will have to read the forum.
first let me start by saying, it's always a pleasure to disprove what the books tell you (and especially that damn wikipedia...a place for half assed information)
today I documented a Zebra Swallowtail (Protographium marcellus) laying eggs on Annona dioica, Annona cornifolia, and A. muricata.
all the info I've seen, says that they feed exclusively on Asimina species.
Well I'm here to tell you, that's not true.
Here is proof.
a female hovering around Annona cornifolia, looking for a place to lay.
(http://s14.postimg.cc/bg1ajymr1/IMG_1501.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/bg1ajymr1/)
about to lay an egg on A. cornifolia
(http://s14.postimg.cc/a29nonnhp/IMG_1504.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/a29nonnhp/)
difficult to see, but there is an egg on the new growth of this grafted A. dioica
(http://s14.postimg.cc/4f8pdfvl9/IMG_1512.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/4f8pdfvl9/)
easy to see the egg, on the new growth of A. cornifolia (this seemed to be the butterfly's favorite tree, it laid most of it's eggs on cornifolia)
(http://s14.postimg.cc/6z4c7jj59/IMG_1513.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/6z4c7jj59/)
When the eggs hatch and the caterpillars start eating those plants, then you can update Wikipedia.
Maybe you need to plant more host plants for that particular butterfly. That way the poor egg laden females wont have to resort to laying their eggs on just any plant, but can do it proper and give her young ones a chance. :)
DM
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hehe maybe it's evolving into a new life form -- a flying lizard?
Hey guys, should I be worried? I got a soil test but I don't think they tested for radioactive waste. Maybe I should have gone the chemical route instead of all this weed pulling and cover cropping.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8813/17236756842_835a6b41cf_c.jpg)
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hehe maybe it's evolving into a new life form -- a flying lizard?
Hey guys, should I be worried? I got a soil test but I don't think they tested for radioactive waste. Maybe I should have gone the chemical route instead of all this weed pulling and cover cropping.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8813/17236756842_835a6b41cf_c.jpg)
i don't have the picture to prove it, but i have seen a lizard with two tails once before
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you guys in florida have some amazing wildlife!
Here in CA I saw a coyote last week, but he had passed by the time I got a photo.
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(http://s8.postimg.cc/9tyyqathd/DSC00102.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/9tyyqathd/)
the cardinals that hang out on my porch have learned that the dogs' dish always has something good to eat in it. they have set up housekeeping in a mexicola avocado tree about fifteen feet from the bowl of kibbles. a short commute. this pic is from a few days ago. there are now three babies in the nest.
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:o :-[ 8)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7641/17059567189_6e889f7be2_c.jpg)
Vernmented Orchards "Home of the Deformed Lizards"
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:o :-[ 8)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7641/17059567189_6e889f7be2_c.jpg)
Vernmented Orchards "Home of the Deformed Lizards"
wonder what she saw in him ;)
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i had a mosquito problem
the more plants i had, the more wildlife i had
then i started seeing a LOT of dragonflies
now, i have a lot of lizards
but, i just got a dog, who now thinks she is lizard patrol
she loves chasing and catching them, though last time she caught one,
she just played with it. i have seen her eat one though.
maybe now i will have more dragonflies and less lizards again ?
(http://s1.postimg.cc/aw8vnpsaj/lizar_moleke_mbembe.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/aw8vnpsaj/)
(http://s21.postimg.cc/z6j936zfn/lizard.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/z6j936zfn/)
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Here's a butterfly with pretty good camouflage on my dream cherimoya.
(http://s22.postimg.cc/cta3714pp/cherimoya1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/cta3714pp/)
Here's an interesting fly I found on one of my longkong trees.
(http://s30.postimg.cc/rzvky2ufh/20150329_152325_crop.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/rzvky2ufh/)
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Not a fly but a leafhopper :) Cool looking insects despite that they are feeding off the sap of your trees.
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Tetsu,
nice cloudless sulphur butterfly.
greenman,
the shot of the anole eating the dragon fly is awesome!
vernmented,
you kind of remind me of the video vigilante...you busted those lizards in the midst of an indecent act...and the male looks like he's bowed up, and ready to fight you...I can see the look in his eye....he's like "for real? you're going to put me on blast like that?"
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Found this male Jackson chameleon on the ice cream bean tree. Their favorite fruit trees are that one and the rollinia. Here he poses in front of a mango:
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/JacksonChameleonWithMango.jpg)
Nice. I'm going to start raising them in my greenhouse. I used to raise chameloeons a when I was a kid inside. I'm thinking it should be really easy out in the greenhouse.
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Found this male Jackson chameleon on the ice cream bean tree. Their favorite fruit trees are that one and the rollinia. Here he poses in front of a mango:
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/JacksonChameleonWithMango.jpg)
Nice. I'm going to start raising them in my greenhouse. I used to raise chameloeons a when I was a kid inside. I'm thinking it should be really easy out in the greenhouse.
That's cool, it should work, there's a guy some where up there that does it for $$
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today i saw the eggs hatching...the small caterpillars were almost impossible to see..they looked black and white, and fuzzy...i saw them consuming the shell of the egg they hatched from...then later this evening, I witnessed a larva that had fed upon the foliage of A. dioica...(I couldn't find them on the A. cornifolia, but this is only because they're so darn small...i know they're there...feeding on the foliage somewhere)
I will try to get pics when they get larger...right now there is no way my camera phone could focus on them (maybe it can? I will try tomorrow a few times)
first let me start by saying, it's always a pleasure to disprove what the books tell you (and especially that damn wikipedia...a place for half assed information)
today I documented a Zebra Swallowtail (Protographium marcellus) laying eggs on Annona dioica, Annona cornifolia, and A. muricata.
all the info I've seen, says that they feed exclusively on Asimina species.
Well I'm here to tell you, that's not true.
Here is proof.
a female hovering around Annona cornifolia, looking for a place to lay.
(http://s14.postimg.cc/bg1ajymr1/IMG_1501.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/bg1ajymr1/)
about to lay an egg on A. cornifolia
(http://s14.postimg.cc/a29nonnhp/IMG_1504.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/a29nonnhp/)
difficult to see, but there is an egg on the new growth of this grafted A. dioica
(http://s14.postimg.cc/4f8pdfvl9/IMG_1512.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/4f8pdfvl9/)
easy to see the egg, on the new growth of A. cornifolia (this seemed to be the butterfly's favorite tree, it laid most of it's eggs on cornifolia)
(http://s14.postimg.cc/6z4c7jj59/IMG_1513.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/6z4c7jj59/)
When the eggs hatch and the caterpillars start eating those plants, then you can update Wikipedia.
Maybe you need to plant more host plants for that particular butterfly. That way the poor egg laden females wont have to resort to laying their eggs on just any plant, but can do it proper and give her young ones a chance. :)
DM
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Latest addition to the wildlife thread. Spotted this little guy last night
(http://s15.postimage.org/ewjfpodiv/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/ewjfpodiv/)
cousin albert!!
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a colorful jumping spider on my harvest moon abiu
(http://s21.postimg.cc/tnmi5jp7n/IMG_1674_1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/tnmi5jp7n/)
(http://s21.postimg.cc/58ea4hqar/IMG_1678_1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/58ea4hqar/)
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a colorful jumping spider on my harvest moon abiu
(http://s21.postimg.cc/tnmi5jp7n/IMG_1674_1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/tnmi5jp7n/)
(http://s21.postimg.cc/58ea4hqar/IMG_1678_1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/58ea4hqar/)
That's a cutey!
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a colorful jumping spider on my harvest moon abiu
(http://s21.postimg.cc/tnmi5jp7n/IMG_1674_1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/tnmi5jp7n/)
(http://s21.postimg.cc/58ea4hqar/IMG_1678_1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/58ea4hqar/)
Are those the eyeballs on top of the head? Unusual place to have your eyes!
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Greenhouse frog inside Nepenthes (Pitcher plant):
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/NepenthesWithGreenhouseFrog.jpg)
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while I was flooding my White jaboticaba in my back yard, right by the house...i noticed a weird noise coming from the ground..,
it was like a frog? or a mole?
I couldn't see what it was, but it kept chirping, (almost like a frog)...and when I went to take a closer look, I could see fur.
i gently cleared away some dead grass, and uncovered a Marsh Rabbit nest....there was several babies in the nest, making some kind of defensive noise, and were also kicking, and squirming around (it seemed like an attempt to startle me...and it worked).
once i realized what I had uncovered, I quickly put the nest back together (there was a lid, made of dead grass, and rabbit fur...i just put the lid back in place)...the baby rabbits seemed to be ok...
now I will make sure the dogs don't kill them!
here is a pic I found that looks much like what I saw (but I didn't take any pics, as to not disturb the nest any more...being that I didn't have my camera when i discovered them)
(http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/sites/default/files/rabbit3_1.jpg)
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Oscar,
remember that spider?
i found out what it's called, a "Bold Jumper"...lol
apparently they come in many color forms, and the one I photographed seems quite rare!
http://www.spiders.us/species/phidippus-audax/ (http://www.spiders.us/species/phidippus-audax/)
a colorful jumping spider on my harvest moon abiu
(http://s21.postimg.cc/tnmi5jp7n/IMG_1674_1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/tnmi5jp7n/)
(http://s21.postimg.cc/58ea4hqar/IMG_1678_1.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/58ea4hqar/)
Are those the eyeballs on top of the head? Unusual place to have your eyes!
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Yes i remember! In close up mode i could see in your photo what a furry little thing that jumper is! We have lots of jumper spiders here, but none that look like that.
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first let me start by saying, it's always a pleasure to disprove what the books tell you (and especially that damn wikipedia...a place for half assed information)
Aww.. that's a bit harsh, I like to call it half-fast :-)
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You get what you pay for. And wikipedia articles are free. Considering that it's free it's pretty darned good. The quality is just dependent on who wrote the particular article, which you never know. Some are very precise, others quite sloppy, or just very short abstracts.
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What you lookin' at?
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"My Jackfruit!". Very cool picture. :)
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check out this bird feeder in my buddies fruit garden...every hole has a cuban tree frog popping out. ( counted 4 in the photo)
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wow! It was tough to see that one on the left
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found a cool corn snake in my garden. was very docile...picked it up off the tree, and put it back, it didn't seem to get defensive.
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I see snakes of several species, goannas, bandicoots, many types of parrots and flying foxes all the time.That is not to say there is not the same abundance of wildlife as ten years ago in my area.
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I see snakes of several species, goannas, bandicoots, many types of parrots and flying foxes all the time.That is not to say there is not the same abundance of wildlife as ten years ago in my area.
if you get a good photo of a flying fox eating a tropical fruit, I will pay you for it. (can't afford to pay too much, but I need some good photos...has to be tropical fruit, annonas or jaboticabas would be awesome)
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Spectacled flying foxes are the main species visiting me and the take off when you are 15 feet away or more.
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Spectacled flying foxes are the main species visiting me and the take off when you are 15 feet away or more.
so you'd need a long lens i guess.
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Google my full name,cairns and flying foxes and you can use anything you find.
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What wild animals have you spotted in your fruit trees, your orchard or your farm? I have seen Screech Owls, Snapping turtles, Iguanas, Cuban Knight Anoles, Red Shoulder Hawks, Racoons, Opossums, Woodpeckers, Vultures, Snakes, and many others...
The worst pests are BY FAR...are squirrels and Racoons! Iguanas also love to eat flowers, including Annona flowers!
(http://s16.postimage.org/6eajfrpsh/Fruit_Conf2011_187.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/6eajfrpsh/)
Screech Owl
(http://s17.postimage.org/bc9afmrff/2008_0823_Otters_Fruits_Marisa0008.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/bc9afmrff/)
Cuban Knight Anole
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White Ibis
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Google my full name,cairns and flying foxes and you can use anything you find.
thank you Mike, you are also welcome to use any of my photos, just give me credit for taking them. I will do the same for you...( I will try to find something I can use searching your name on google...if I can find a usable pic, I'll let you know)
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(http://s16.postimg.cc/5wv2xtsb5/Pregui_a2.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/5wv2xtsb5/)
This animal does not eat fruits but only Cecropia leaves and guess how is its water intake !
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(http://s16.postimg.cc/5wv2xtsb5/Pregui_a2.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/5wv2xtsb5/)
This animal does not eat fruits but only Cecropia leaves and guess how is its water intake !
how does it drink?
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owls baby
(http://s23.postimg.cc/6rfnfskzr/20130530_144911.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/6rfnfskzr/)
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owls baby
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Soooo cute! Cool picture wu.
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He may not be wild, but he does a good job of keeping away the rats, squirrels, Blue Jays and Mockingbirds. . .
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(http://s16.postimg.cc/5wv2xtsb5/Pregui_a2.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/5wv2xtsb5/)
This animal does not eat fruits but only Cecropia leaves and guess how is its water intake !
how does it drink?
Every 2-3 days it comes down from the tree and searches a puddle of water. It sits on the puddle, relaxes its anal sphincter.Water creeps in; then it closes its anal sphincter, and returns to the tree top ! Too lazy to drink water by the mouth !
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I found it on my cherimoyas seedling
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I didn't get a picture of the flock of sulphur crested cockatoos that keep hammering my mandarins.They flew out of my pandora passionfruit today when I arrived home and the demolished most of the fruit leaving bits strewn around.
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Mike T...... I had the cockatoos in the only Avocardo tree I have that is flowering & they completly destroyed every branch..... Not a single leaf left...... Mike
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Mike, they have pruned lots of my trees but left the avocadoes alone as there were citrus trees to attack and rip the branches off.I am glad I am too rainy for the red tailed black cockatoos because they demolish trees.
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Australia is really vermin capital of the world. To think that people in Florida complain about a few measley squirrels! Oh well, you can always think of a worse situation to console yourself....i guess.
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owls baby
(http://s23.postimg.cc/6rfnfskzr/20130530_144911.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/6rfnfskzr/)
Wow...those owls look pretty large. I have a few that frequent my yard at night, but they are quite small. maybe 5 inches tall. Last week, I was in the yard at night and saw one on my utility wires. I went around to the front of the house for a few minutes and when I turned to go back into the back yard, I almost ran smack into the owl, who was perched on top of my DF post...literally, my face was 2-3 ft from the owl, and right at face-level. startled me a bit, but the owl didn't even move. lol
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Those owls are cute. ;D Here's what I got on my citrus tree. It was quite big.
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a gang of orange dogs on my McDill white sap...
a handful of the dozens that hatched, and survived...the rest got eaten by birds (or lizards?)...something loves to eat them for sure...the disappear daily (before they are full sized and ready to pupate.
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I was watering a few weeks ago, and I leaned in to look at a plant and was taken aback by this little creature. I've seen him 2 more times since. A welcome addition since he eats insects. :)
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its mokele mbembe
https://www.google.com/search?q=mokele%20mbembe (https://www.google.com/search?q=mokele%20mbembe)
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(http://s2.postimg.cc/tasq01fl1/liza.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/tasq01fl1/)
(http://s9.postimg.cc/z9uampwrv/lizard.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/z9uampwrv/)
(http://s22.postimg.cc/u3g2cv9vh/PC050006.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/u3g2cv9vh/)
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Nice photo of the dragon fly vs a dragon!!
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a spider eating the head of a hymenoptera, on a leaf of Campomanesia xanthocarpa.
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another spider on the leaf of Eugenia florida. The small spider was barely visible.....blurred near the tip of the leaf, (small, orange colored), but it's peculiar web caught my attention.
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Ouch! ;D
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Galka,
makes you wonder how he does it?!
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He was running away from me and jumped right on that cactus and was sitting there for awhile. He also let me take some pictures. :D
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1618/23360116293_18035b2fb6_b.jpg)
This is where baby Pickerings come from.
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If you look closely at the wasps head you can see its 3 simple eyes, above the two compound eyes...most people don't realize they have 5 eyes altogether
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homosaphien spotted in the garden. That's me hard at work.
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If you look closely at the wasps head you can see its 3 simple eyes, above the two compound eyes...most people don't realize they have 5 eyes altogether
Interesting!
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the other day i was rummaging through my pots to get some one gallons (repotting jaboticabas and eugenias to sell later this year...lol)
as I was about to throw a stack of pots, I saw a bird fly out of a 3 gallon.
after closer inspection, I realized, I was less than a second away from almost killing 3 baby birds (unhatched eggs)
the bird was small, and brownish red...not sure what type it is yet.(carolina wren?)..but here's a pic I took tonight.
now I have to guard the nest and make sure the birds are ok...not the best place for a nest...but I guess the bird got lucky...it found an animal lover!
(http://s28.postimg.cc/4mhsik8vd/IMG_0201.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/4mhsik8vd/)
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lol...check out what wiki says about the Carolina Wren...based on the description, it must be what I have...
"It has an affinity for dilapidated buildings and unkempt yards in man-made areas"
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lol...check out what wiki says about the Carolina Wren...based on the description, it must be what I have...
"It has an affinity for dilapidated buildings and unkempt yards in man-made areas"
Home, Sweet Home.
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She can be wild...sometimes, lol. ;D
(http://i.imgur.com/skK7D80.jpg?1)
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She can be wild...sometimes, lol. ;D
(http://i.imgur.com/skK7D80.jpg?1)
Hahaha! The way he's guarding that tree, I'm guessing it's one of those rare Tuna Trees. . .
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I've got no shortage of wildlife willing to share my fruit with me, or take all of it if they can get away with it. The night shift is dominated by Flying Foxes. They are careless eaters and drop a lot of partly eaten fruit to the ground. Often see the Possums (Northern Brushtails) in the trees but haven't actually caught any in the act of eating fruit. But I doubt they climb high into the trees just to enjoy the view. Dayshift starts with 'armies' of Magpie Geese flying in. They start on what's been dropped to the ground overnight and then fly up and knock some more down. Parrots also come in for their 'fix', the Sulphur-crested White Cockatoos, Northern Rosellas, Collared Lorikeets and Red-winged Parrots. On the ground the Plumed Whistle Ducks pick up 'crumbs' left by the Magpie Geese, they can't handle the bigger lumpy bits. And the Wallabies come in for their share as well.
The Geese get quite aggressive, fight amongst themselves and sometimes have a go at the Wallabies as well.
(http://s19.postimg.cc/va5j58doz/tf_n_15120926.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Caught 'red-handed'
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Mum out with bubba in her built-in pram. Guess though you couldn't really call it a perambulator, it's more of a perhopulator.
(http://s19.postimg.cc/c7m5ib2oj/tf_n_15121009.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
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Blueberry buddy
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He is feeling all of the feels on this one.
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I've got no shortage of wildlife willing to share my fruit with me, or take all of it if they can get away with it. The night shift is dominated by Flying Foxes. They are careless eaters and drop a lot of partly eaten fruit to the ground. Often see the Possums (Northern Brushtails) in the trees but haven't actually caught any in the act of eating fruit. But I doubt they climb high into the trees just to enjoy the view. Dayshift starts with 'armies' of Magpie Geese flying in. They start on what's been dropped to the ground overnight and then fly up and knock some more down. Parrots also come in for their 'fix', the Sulphur-crested White Cockatoos, Northern Rosellas, Collared Lorikeets and Red-winged Parrots. On the ground the Plumed Whistle Ducks pick up 'crumbs' left by the Magpie Geese, they can't handle the bigger lumpy bits. And the Wallabies come in for their share as well.
The Geese get quite aggressive, fight amongst themselves and sometimes have a go at the Wallabies as well.
(http://s19.postimg.cc/va5j58doz/tf_n_15120926.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Caught 'red-handed'
(http://s19.postimg.cc/b4216ci1f/tr_n_15120425.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Mum out with bubba in her built-in pram. Guess though you couldn't really call it a perambulator, it's more of a perhopulator.
(http://s19.postimg.cc/c7m5ib2oj/tf_n_15121009.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Wow!! As an American, this pic of the wallaby shocked me to see...do you have monkeys there in Australia, too?
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baby banded water snake, chillin in my greenhouse, in a tub of water, with jabos in it.
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Wow!! As an American, this pic of the wallaby shocked me to see...do you have monkeys there in Australia, too?
Plenty of the hairless ones, but the hairy ones are only in zoos. ;)
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A green frog on my Mangosteen tree!
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Does anyone know what's the best way to 'off' a noisy animal, likely a Gekko under my house?
My house is surrounded by established and growing fruit trees. This attracts a lot of wildlife, which I appreciate, attracting wildlife to me is akin to a life giving paradise/place, as long as the wildlife stays outside.
There's been some kind of animal living under the crawl space of my house for several months now. At night it makes noises which interrupt sleep. At first I thought it was a possum, but I don't think that the noises it makes belong to a possum.
So, yesterday I used all kinds of protection and crawled under my house to the location where the animal noise was coming from, and as suggested, I strategically placed some rat poison pellets hoping to take care of this ongoing problem.
I've completely sealed the crawling space under the house, and it's been months now, yet the animal still sounds quite healthy. Maybe it's found some water source and it sustains itself with insects. Now, if this is the case, I beginning to think that the animal is not a Possum.
Talking about this at work, I was told that it was a Gekko. The person telling me this even imitated the sound the animal makes, and it was remarkably close! So now I'm not sure if rat poison pellets will terminate the gecko, if that's what it is. I've always liked Gekkos, with all their sticky paws abilities and cool reputation, but I've never heard that they could be such a nuisance.
I'm beginning to suspect that the poison pellets will not do the trick since they're meant for a mammal, not a reptile like a Gekko.
Any suggestions on the best way to send this Gekko (?) that's living in the crawl space under my house, on a journey to its next life, will be greatly appreciated.
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We've got rats in our black sapote tree. Last night I went out and discovered they aren't feral rats, but some quite attractive native species. They are protected, as native rats are fairly rare in the cities here, so I guess there's another bunch of hungry mouths to feed!
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Does anyone know what's the best way to 'off' a noisy animal, likely a Gekko under my house?
My house is surrounded by established and growing fruit trees. This attracts a lot of wildlife, which I appreciate, attracting wildlife to me is akin to a life giving paradise/place, as long as the wildlife stays outside.
There's been some kind of animal living under the crawl space of my house for several months now. At night it makes noises which interrupt sleep. At first I thought it was a possum, but I don't think that the noises it makes belong to a possum.
So, yesterday I used all kinds of protection and crawled under my house to the location where the animal noise was coming from, and as suggested, I strategically placed some rat poison pellets hoping to take care of this ongoing problem.
I've completely sealed the crawling space under the house, and it's been months now, yet the animal still sounds quite healthy. Maybe it's found some water source and it sustains itself with insects. Now, if this is the case, I beginning to think that the animal is not a Possum.
Talking about this at work, I was told that it was a Gekko. The person telling me this even imitated the sound the animal makes, and it was remarkably close! So now I'm not sure if rat poison pellets will terminate the gecko, if that's what it is. I've always liked Gekkos, with all their sticky paws abilities and cool reputation, but I've never heard that they could be such a nuisance.
I'm beginning to suspect that the poison pellets will not do the trick since they're meant for a mammal, not a reptile like a Gekko.
Any suggestions on the best way to send this Gekko (?) that's living in the crawl space under my house, on a journey to its next life, will be greatly appreciated.
Try this. You need to make sure the gecko can hear you, and then mutter loudly to yourself... "I wish there was some way I could save money on my car insurance." There's a high probability that the gecko will emerge from underneath your house and explain to you that, by switching to Geico, you can save 15% or more on your car insurance. While he's talking, end his life with a quick swipe of a shovel.
* note - this only works if you're not already with Geico.
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Hi BMc, Wow you blow my mind! protected Rats, I cant believe it, here in Florida we have a Billions of them and the best rat is a dead Rat.
If I had an Owl's sleep on my Annona tree's I could have a lot more Fruits, and remember rats can produce 4 to 6 litters a year, and the offspring become fertile in less than three months, and a pair of Rats can produce a colony of two thousand in a year.
Carlos
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Hi BMc, Wow you blow my mind! protected Rats, I cant believe it, here in Florida we have a Billions of them and the best rat is a dead Rat.
If I had an Owl's sleep on my Annona tree's I could have a lot more Fruits, and remember rats can produce 4 to 6 litters a year, and the offspring become fertile in less than three months, and a pair of Rats can produce a colony of two thousand in a year.
Carlos
I lay down some rat poison pellets whenever I see them. After that, I never see one for a while.
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Did you know Jackson's Chameleons have naturalized in soucal? . I was sort of amazed to learn that.
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As for gecko comment my guess is "Tokay gecko"- gecko gecko. Named for the males call, one of the largest geckos, grey with orange spots. Locally common in south Florida, I've even seen populations as far north as Daytona. up to 1ft in length, great pest control they love palmetto bugs and roaches. Your dealing with a male that has established territory, you best option is a cat, be honest. Not much else you can really do, IMO.
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As for gecko comment my guess is "Tokay gecko"- gecko gecko. Named for the males call, one of the largest geckos, grey with orange spots. Locally common in south Florida, I've even seen populations as far north as Daytona. up to 1ft in length, great pest control they love palmetto bugs and roaches. Your dealing with a male that has established territory, you best option is a cat, be honest. Not much else you can really do, IMO.
Weird. I live in broward county and I've never seen those kinds of geckos. I usually see the small pale brown ones at night.
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The Indonesian house gecko is far more common and wide spread, an accidental introduction, also a prey species for the Tokay. Tokays are only locally common through out the state. Primarily in areas they have been introduced to intentionally. (based on this inquiry, I contacted a friend in Ormond by the sea FL, Northern Volusia county, nuts!!!.
The population is going strong 10yrs + since my discovery, they can handle cold snaps better than soursop! plus the house I speak of has 10+ plus out door cats. So much for that idea.
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Not exactly in my fruit tree but I'm sure he was eying my unripe mangoes
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Cant beat the bear one but couple of months ago had a 4' green tree snake hidin in me grumichama, couldn't resist and had to drag him out and have a play with it and scare the neighbours a bit. There not poisonous but are very agile little buggers and can give ya a good bite if you stir them up. Cant get photos on here but if some one emails me I can send them through to put up.
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(http://s33.postimg.cc/v8uqettez/green_snake.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Hopefully this works. tree snake out of garden.
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As for gecko comment my guess is "Tokay gecko"- gecko gecko. Named for the males call, one of the largest geckos, grey with orange spots. Locally common in south Florida, I've even seen populations as far north as Daytona. up to 1ft in length, great pest control they love palmetto bugs and roaches. Your dealing with a male that has established territory, you best option is a cat, be honest. Not much else you can really do, IMO.
By the noise it makes, it sounds like a large gecko. Maybe it's exactly as you're saying and it's a 'Tokay' gecko.
Options on the table for 'correcting' my uninvited Tokay (?) gecko that's living under the crawl space under my house:
1 Watch the 'Caddyshack' movie to get some ideas on getting rid of the gecko, although dynamite is out of the question, not quite there yet
2 Use mouse poison pellets instead of rat pellets, or gecko/lizard poison pellets if they exist
3 Electrocution chamber the heck out of the critter with an electrocution zap/stun gun, the one that shoots out electrified wires. The only problem with this option is that a line of sight is required and the gecko is probably somewhere inside a cavity of a wall.
4 Send the gecko to the gas chamber by putting a termite tarp over the whole house. This is probably the most expensive option of all and the one that I'd like to avoid.
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Chased him out of my yard into my neighbor's.....he wasn't looking for mango waiting for my dogs
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Enjoyed watching these bros for three days only to realize they were eating leaves off my bael seedlings. I dont know what they are but they do look like a pokemon.
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Enjoyed watching these bros for three days only to realize they were eating leaves off my bael seedlings. I dont know what they are but they do look like a pokemon.
Swallowtail caterpillar? They like to eat leaves of plants in citrus family, like bael.
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Enjoyed watching these bros for three days only to realize they were eating leaves off my bael seedlings. I dont know what they are but they do look like a pokemon.
Swallowtail caterpillar? They like to eat leaves of plants in citrus family, like bael.
Ah! Thanks. Do they also eat guava leaves? I had problem with my guava leaves being eaten but couldn't find the culprit. This was during summer. However it stopped when monsoon arrived.
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when i see swallowtail larvae i like to gently pester them by tapping them on the head, the result is cool, they evert their osmeterium...(which produces an interesting odor)
http://youtu.be/XUt3T5dYHgE (http://youtu.be/XUt3T5dYHgE)
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first pygmy rattler I've seen on my farm...it wasn't aggressive when prodded at it with a stick, so I let it go. I bet there are dozens of them out here, but they are seldom seen, thankfully.
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Nice work leaving the pygmy alone. As long as you don't step on or corner one, they normally aren't much of a threat.
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Hand pollinating one night I came across a lizard and a juvenile red rat snake squaring off in my Fernandez custard apple tree. By the time I got back with my phone the lizard had lost badly.
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(http://s11.postimg.cc/44xckpq7z/IMG_20160925_210806.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/44xckpq7z/)
I also found this little baby kingsnake in one of my mangos a few months the back.
(http://s11.postimg.cc/ag00wuhgf/IMG_20160817_220151.jpg) (http://postimg.cc/image/ag00wuhgf/)
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This guys a champ, very rare color morph of the common brown anole. He lives on this pot, so cool.
(https://s16.postimg.cc/c5j4nxfo1/20160826_134151.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/c5j4nxfo1/)
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(https://s30.postimg.cc/lv1ighcj1/IMG_3556.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/lv1ighcj1/)
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(https://s30.postimg.cc/lv1ighcj1/IMG_3556.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/lv1ighcj1/)
So jealous of all these guys who regularly find snakes! Those are my second favorite type of animal.
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This guys a champ, very rare color morph of the common brown anole. He lives on this pot, so cool.
(https://s16.postimg.cc/c5j4nxfo1/20160826_134151.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/c5j4nxfo1/)
lol, that is one of the most bad ass brown anoles I've seen! I'd be tempted to catch him, and stud him out...I bet he worth like $50. (he got that dinosaur crest too)
thanks for sharing.
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Lol, I used to breed rare geckos in high school, madagacar leaf tails. This guy would be easy to breed out. He's a champ.
I've been watching him for 2 yrs, everytime I see him I think about it. May be this will be my motivation. ;D.
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Lol, I used to breed rare geckos in high school, madagacar leaf tails. This guy would be easy to breed out. He's a champ.
I've been watching him for 2 yrs, everytime I see him I think about it. May be this will be my motivation. ;D.
You should do it! If you can get hatchlings that look like him I'm sure many people, myself included, would be eager to purchase one, especially if you sold cheaper than big commercial breeders.
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Lol, I used to breed rare geckos in high school, madagacar leaf tails. This guy would be easy to breed out. He's a champ.
I've been watching him for 2 yrs, everytime I see him I think about it. May be this will be my motivation. ;D.
i would feel bad if something happened to him in captivity...but put me on the list for babies if u get some..lol..
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This guys a champ, very rare color morph of the common brown anole. He lives on this pot, so cool.
(https://s16.postimg.cc/c5j4nxfo1/20160826_134151.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/c5j4nxfo1/)
Funny you have one too, i have 2 red anole in my yard. I wonder whats causes them to go red, maybe the vibes of the tropical fruit trees ;)
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Lol, I used to breed rare geckos in high school, madagacar leaf tails. This guy would be easy to breed out. He's a champ.
I've been watching him for 2 yrs, everytime I see him I think about it. May be this will be my motivation. ;D.
i would feel bad if something happened to him in captivity...but put me on the list for babies if u get some..lol..
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Lol, I used to breed rare geckos in high school, madagacar leaf tails. This guy would be easy to breed out. He's a champ.
I've been watching him for 2 yrs, everytime I see him I think about it. May be this will be my motivation. ;D.
i would feel bad if something happened to him in captivity...but put me on the list for babies if u get some..lol..
Ditto. If you think you can provide sufficient breeding and care conditions, put me on the list for any red morph babies.
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My thoughts exactly Adam. If he's still around when I finally buy a house I will be setting up a sick vivarium for him and his harem. They are very easy to keep, although would take multiple generations to breed anywhere close to true. LOL maybe one day ill be trading lizards for trees!! :P
Thank for the feed back, very funny.
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(https://s15.postimg.cc/oy3dqlj6f/IMG_20160823_164435.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/oy3dqlj6f/)
(https://s15.postimg.cc/cyrvjadlj/IMG_20160823_174830.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/cyrvjadlj/)
Enjoyed watching these bros for three days only to realize they were eating leaves off my bael seedlings. I dont know what they are but they do look like a pokemon.
Certainly Papilio. Swallowtail caterpillars in Asian almost always ear Citrus. The larvae are impossible to tell, but they certainly all turn into beautiful butterflies. I raise the U.S. ones.
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(https://s27.postimg.cc/7hv0tudhr/phasmid.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/7hv0tudhr/)
I have been having strife with huge grasshoppers and stick insects chewing the foliage of my trees lately.This is the third largest stick insect and is quite colourful.Like the other types it enjoys all Myrtaceae and particularly enjoys guava.One insect can strip lots of foliage if undetected for a few weeks.
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(https://s27.postimg.cc/7hv0tudhr/phasmid.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/7hv0tudhr/)
I have been having strife with huge grasshoppers and stick insects chewing the foliage of my trees lately.This is the third largest stick insect and is quite colourful.Like the other types it enjoys all Myrtaceae and particularly enjoys guava.One insect can strip lots of foliage if undetected for a few weeks.
Reminds me of my phasmid breeding days.
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(https://s27.postimg.cc/7hv0tudhr/phasmid.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/7hv0tudhr/)
I have been having strife with huge grasshoppers and stick insects chewing the foliage of my trees lately.This is the third largest stick insect and is quite colourful.Like the other types it enjoys all Myrtaceae and particularly enjoys guava.One insect can strip lots of foliage if undetected for a few weeks.
It's Eurycnema goliath, Goliath Stick Insect. I get Eurycnema osiris, Darwin Giant Stick Insect, at my place. I've found them on Acacia and Casuarina but I don't know what their preference is here. There's lots of Melaleuca on my block but I only have one very large Guava, never found the stick insects on those.
E. osiris
(https://s19.postimg.cc/6wil9duj3/ai_n_150510_07.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/6wil9duj3/)
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Wow! Some great pictures here. Thanks!
I have a nest of honeybees in a huge tamarind tree. The nest is about 1 meter across and they swarmed about a month ago. Now I have a box full of bees too.
Also the biggest wasp I've ever met. After poking my finger at it for scale, I read that this tarantula wasp is second only to the bullet ant for the most painful sting. Hummingbirds are frequent visitors too but they don't pose for pictures.
(https://s27.postimg.cc/k5dod52xb/Bee_Nest.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/k5dod52xb/)
(https://s27.postimg.cc/dvjvtuoof/Bee_Swarm.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/dvjvtuoof/)
(https://s30.postimg.cc/3otjxj0kt/Huge_Wasp.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/3otjxj0kt/)
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(https://s27.postimg.cc/7hv0tudhr/phasmid.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/7hv0tudhr/)
I have been having strife with huge grasshoppers and stick insects chewing the foliage of my trees lately.This is the third largest stick insect and is quite colourful.Like the other types it enjoys all Myrtaceae and particularly enjoys guava.One insect can strip lots of foliage if undetected for a few weeks.
When my kids were young, we used to have Australian Walking Sticks as pets. Can't get them here anymore, for obvious reasons. But they could clear out our invasive himalayan blackberry brambles like nobody's business!
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Being high desert here, we get prairie rattlers. None have gotten into the greenhouse, but on a cool morning when they are a bit slow, they are easy to photograph. They keep the mouse population down. Our dogs, having been to the local "snake-proofing" class, leave them be.
(https://s24.postimg.cc/itihog9z5/rattlesnake.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/itihog9z5/)
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http://www.cairnspost.com.au/cassowaries-pining-for-spiky-breakfast-fruit-in-mission-beach/news-story/aa8e0f5d40df1efd4478427957f826 (http://www.cairnspost.com.au/cassowaries-pining-for-spiky-breakfast-fruit-in-mission-beach/news-story/aa8e0f5d40df1efd4478427957f826) The cassowaries are notable fruit thieves in my area and can even swallow pineapples whole.
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http://www.cairnspost.com.au/cassowaries-pining-for-spiky-breakfast-fruit-in-mission-beach/news-story/aa8e0f5d40df1efd4478427957f826db (http://www.cairnspost.com.au/cassowaries-pining-for-spiky-breakfast-fruit-in-mission-beach/news-story/aa8e0f5d40df1efd4478427957f826db) let me try that again as the link isn't working from the first effort
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http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/dd9a1535ea6a693c7ed46eb66f978a38 (http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/dd9a1535ea6a693c7ed46eb66f978a38)
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Female Jackson chameleon on mulberry tree.
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/JacksonChameleonOnMulberryTree.jpg)
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It's either an eight-legged Giant Cuban Anole hanging out in our rollinia tree, or we might be seeing some more mini Giant Cuban Anoles running around soon.
(https://s7.postimg.cc/kil5djzcn/Giant_Cuban_Anole_Love.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/kil5djzcn/)
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Female Jackson chameleon on mulberry tree.
(http://fruitlovers.com/Gallery1/JacksonChameleonOnMulberryTree.jpg)
That's pretty sweet. I'm considering getting a pair to free range in my greenhouse. I used to breed chameleons when I was a kid. I'll just need to put some screen over my vents and door.
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Found this Cuban Knight Anole digging a hole in my mango tree container to bury an egg which she just laid.
(https://s27.postimg.cc/6w7aijcyn/IMG_4025.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/6w7aijcyn/)
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Well, this one wasn't in the tree, but he came right down when the cacao pods were cracked open - the seeds are the ones I brought back from Hawaii, and the resultant trees are currently fruiting in my Boise Idaho greenhouse.
(https://s3.postimg.cc/c8zrtmxxr/IMG_7458.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/c8zrtmxxr/)
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This coyote had been climbing my tree and eating hundreds of peaches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLAxvnHOPME (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLAxvnHOPME)
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This coyote had been climbing my tree and eating hundreds of peaches.
That is something else! I thought I just had to protect my dogs from the coyotes, now I need to protect my fruit trees?
Thank you for sharing!
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This coyote had been climbing my tree and eating hundreds of peaches.
That is something else! I thought I just had to protect my dogs from the coyotes, now I need to protect my fruit trees?
Thank you for sharing!
This has been going on for a few weeks now. I am trying to remove the coyote that Ive nicknamed "peaches". Hopefully he becomes fruit tree fertilizer soon.
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This guy wasn't in my fruit trees, he preferred mangroves. My wife shot about fifty pictures. He was totally non-aggressive and hung around for a couple of hours. Never saw him (or her) again since that day. What a beautiful, albeit poisonous, snake.
(https://s8.postimg.cc/ym5avqwb5/IMG_3558.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/ym5avqwb5/)
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Lately I've seen rats in my 'Tiger-Tail' Mulberry tree. I think I have to find a way to increase the number of cats that I own, and have them hunt more. It's been several years since they've left the severed head of a rat outside the residences's door, I really miss that.
My cats now are more: oh, I love you, you love me - kinda cats. By necessity, I find myself gearing up to train them to hunt rats again. And, if they want my love, they have to bring me some rat heads first - LOL.
I have it all planned out: (1) Teach them to kill rats, (2) Determine which one is best genetically predisposed to kill rats, and finally, (3) Propagate those cats. Then, I suppose I could say that I have a superior race of genetically engineered, professional rat killing cats.
(Perhaps I'm having a 'Caddyshack' movie deja-vu)
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Also get rat snakes or black racers.
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Although not in a fruit tree, this is in a Christmas Palm.
(https://s24.postimg.cc/rdgcrdtch/IMG_0468.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/rdgcrdtch/)
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Here in FL, I think the only effective way to defend yourself against rats is with permanent bait stations. Just One Bite II seems to be a favorite for the rats here.
Lately I've seen rats in my 'Tiger-Tail' Mulberry tree. I think I have to find a way to increase the number of cats that I own, and have them hunt more. It's been several years since they've left the severed head of a rat outside the residences's door, I really miss that.
My cats now or more: oh, I love you, you love me - kinda cats. By necessity, I find myself gearing up to train them to hunt rats again. And, if they want my love, they have to bring me some rat heads first - LOL.
I have it all planned out: (1) Teach them to kill rats, (2) Determine which one is best genetically predisposed to kill rats, and finally, (3) Propagate those cats. Then, I suppose I could say that I have a superior race of genetically engineered, professional rat killing cats.
(Perhaps I'm having a 'Caddyshack' movie deja-vu)
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Yes, I have'm too. I get startled when I bump into them every now and then. You can only really see them when they start to move. They also love to eat kittens; and I hate that.
Also get rat snakes or black racers.
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Thanks for the Just One Bite II suggestion, that may come in really handy.
I used to go out in the yard and eat the Mulberry fruit right off the tree, but not ever since seen the rats; birds I can handle and appreciate, but rats are just nasty! Now, I pick the Mulberry fruit and give it a water & vinegar bath for a few minutes, before eating fruit.
It can be really tedious to take measures to protect oneself from microscopic organisms. This is why I for one wish the AI Robots would finally get here and assist us with the tedious but very important shores; 60%-90% of our cells are alien bacterial cells! There are more alien bacterial cells in & on our bodies than our own cells!
Here in FL, I think the only effective way to defend yourself against rats is with permanent bait stations. Just One Bite II seems to be a favorite for the rats here.
Lately I've seen rats in my 'Tiger-Tail' Mulberry tree. I think I have to find a way to increase the number of cats that I own, and have them hunt more. It's been several years since they've left the severed head of a rat outside the residences's door, I really miss that.
My cats now or more: oh, I love you, you love me - kinda cats. By necessity, I find myself gearing up to train them to hunt rats again. And, if they want my love, they have to bring me some rat heads first - LOL.
I have it all planned out: (1) Teach them to kill rats, (2) Determine which one is best genetically predisposed to kill rats, and finally, (3) Propagate those cats. Then, I suppose I could say that I have a superior race of genetically engineered, professional rat killing cats.
(Perhaps I'm having a 'Caddyshack' movie deja-vu)
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A water snake hanging out by the edge of the lake
(https://s15.postimg.cc/tlbywmtdz/IMG_4107.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/tlbywmtdz/)
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California rattlesnake
(https://s14.postimg.cc/3zgeu8ejh/IMG_5036_1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/3zgeu8ejh/)
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(https://s15.postimg.cc/mcgl99i3b/IMG_5138_1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/mcgl99i3b/)
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Yesterday evening: Went to check out the 'Edward' mangos on the tree and found fewer hanging mangos than a couple of days before, and two of them had the bottom one third of them eaten off. Then, I followed my gaze to a fruited Papaya tree that's beside the 'Edward' mango tree, and there's a fruit-Rat on the fruited Papaya tree, with some small papaya fruit on it that had been clearly eaten at. I proceed to pick up a stone and throw it at the fruit-Rat that approximately 15 feet up in the canopy of the Papaya tree.
I thought I hit the fruit-Rat but instead, the stone bounces off the tree, dropping at my feet. I pick up the stone again and get ready for a second shot, but the fruit-Rat jumps off the 15 foot tall Papaya tree and lands on some 5 foot tall Ixora flower trees, and gets away. Needless to say, I was floored by this, a fruit-Rat that behaved like a Squirrel!
This has been happening every year, with the fruit-Rats going ONLY after the 'Edward' mangos. 'Edward' is regarded by some mango experts as arguably the best mango in Florida, the only problem being is that it appears to be a shy bearer. So, there are not enough 'Edward' mangos for me to share with the fruit-Rats (with impeccable taste).
I'm about to go off right now and remove all the remaining 'Edward' mangos from the tree. I normally don't mind sharing the fruit bounty with the wildlife. But, unfortunately, it looks like I have some kind of Caddyshack rodent war brewing here, with fancy fruit-Rats with impeccable mango fruit taste...
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Put some mango on some rat traps and get rid of them. I have mice eating my fruit. I put out ten mouse traps every night for a few days and it makes a big dent in them. I leave the dead mice out on a big boulder and the birds fly off with them.
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Nice, your solution sounds easier & better than buying a BB-gun to shoot at the fruit-Rats and worrying that the pellets may fall on, and possibly damage, a neighbor's property; also, much less time consuming, and cheaper; thanx.
Put some mango on some rat traps and get rid of them. I have mice eating my fruit. I put out ten mouse traps every night for a few days and it makes a big dent in them. I leave the dead mice out on a big boulder and the birds fly off with them.
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(https://s17.postimg.cc/q2m22zou3/20170628_100230_2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/q2m22zou3/)
Thank God these guys don't climb trees!
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One problem with Idaho - periodic plagues of Mormon Crickets! These guys totally freak me out. They are big, mean, fast, and although they can't fly, they can cover large distances just by running.
They are eating a lot of local gardens right now, but they are also very cannibalistic. So if you start killing them, more come running in to eat their little friends.
If you try to "shoo" them away, they actually CHASE you. And they BITE. HARD.
I have kept them out of the greenhouse so far, but my outdoor plants are in dire straits. Thank goodness for APHIS! They are treating farmland to try and stop the "march of horrors". Big problem is we had a really harsh winter and there is still a lot of flooding, so they can't bait a lot of places that they normally would.
What to do? Well, the only thing I could come up with was to try and humiliate them, so they would skulk away, by making them pose for inappropriate photos...
(https://s9.postimg.cc/3lezpk76z/IMG_5770.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/3lezpk76z/)
(https://s9.postimg.cc/apwsylegb/IMG_5800.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/apwsylegb/)
(https://s9.postimg.cc/u91e7yd7v/IMG_5809.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/u91e7yd7v/)
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More please Daintree!
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(https://s1.postimg.cc/oih8tphpn/I_love_the_circus.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/oih8tphpn/)
I just love the circus. I hope they have cotton candy!
(https://s1.postimg.cc/p99yzhk2z/Whats_for_lunch_honey.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/p99yzhk2z/)
Ah, a relaxing picnic.
(https://s1.postimg.cc/536h0loff/Why_does_SHE_get_all_the_attention.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/536h0loff/)
I don't see what's so hot about Juliet. Why does SHE get all the attention?
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Here in Spain -and almost everywhere in Europe- one of the biggest (in the broadest sense of the word) problems is the wild boar. Part of my work as biologist is to sample them and for that I use cameras trap to find and count them. Here some examples:
(https://s21.postimg.cc/fkxpefftf/IMG_0087.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/fkxpefftf/)
(https://s22.postimg.cc/x9lg9z7nx/IMG_0050.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/x9lg9z7nx/)
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We have that same problem here in the US. My husband's sister lives in Mason Texas, and they are absolutely overrun with wild boars.
(https://s3.postimg.cc/vtvp0upxr/Untitled.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/vtvp0upxr/)
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Found this little Jesse slithering at the base of a potted Ponderosa lemon tree on the pool deck.
(https://s17.postimg.cc/drhpjkp8r/Ring_Neck_Snake_7_2017.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/drhpjkp8r/)
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Ring-necked snakes are poisonous. They can't open their mouths wide enough to bite a finger, but in that picture, it is getting kind of close to a fold of skin that it might tackle.
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We have that same problem here in the US. My husband's sister lives in Mason Texas, and they are absolutely overrun with wild boars.
(https://s3.postimg.cc/vtvp0upxr/Untitled.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/vtvp0upxr/)
Yes, Texas is one of the hot spots for this animal in USA (where is non-native). The wild boar is thriving fast in south and mainly in south-east, where predators that could control its expansion were extirpated (basically cougar, jaguar and wolf).
This week I "caught" some interesting ones with the cameras, these fellas would keep your squirrels far from mangoes (also would eat your hens, I'm afraid ;D).
Egyptian mongoose:
(https://s11.postimg.cc/bbj23tiun/IMG_0021.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/bbj23tiun/)
House marten:
(https://s2.postimg.cc/hzdpggbet/IMAG0049.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/hzdpggbet/)
Common genet:
(https://s2.postimg.cc/905vw9oth/IMG_0026.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/905vw9oth/)
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Snake in my yuzu tree -
(https://s1.postimg.cc/4ag6ncq1n/DSC04184.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/4ag6ncq1n/)
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My guava trees have lots of these praying mantis type bugs that look like guava leaves. No idea what they are or what they eat.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4438/36318060186_9837435cdc_b.jpg)
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It's a katyidid, not prying mantins. Katydids eat mostly plant leaves.
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Its probably eating my guava trees although I havent seen a lot of damage. Is there anything to use to get rid of them?
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Just remove it manually. It usually isn't hoards of katydids taking out an orchard or tree, so shouldn't be any need to use anything unless you notice a bunch of them.
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This bat has been devouring on our guavas for a couple of days.
(https://s26.postimg.cc/d1v0yluxx/IMG_20170830_154005.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/d1v0yluxx/)
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I have hassles with flying foxes and cockatoos but lately I have had goannas stealing eggs and hassling the fowls. They have threatened me a few times in the last couple of weeks and I would prefer not to tangle with one when I am moving them along.I figure I have 4 regulars.
(https://s22.postimg.cc/eaz904g4t/goanna_1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/eaz904g4t/)
(https://s22.postimg.cc/j9mrep9nx/goanna_2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/j9mrep9nx/)
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Interesting animals! All I get are spiders in my citrus (orb weavers) bats squirrels and rats. :( at least I don't have to deal with venemous snakes.
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Pruning mango found myself face to face with this peaceful little Screech Owl. I waited till the next day he had moved on, and hopefully he is on rodent control at night.
(https://s22.postimg.cc/ruygp5avx/DSC01420.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/ruygp5avx/)
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I have hassles with flying foxes and cockatoos but lately I have had goannas stealing eggs and hassling the fowls. They have threatened me a few times in the last couple of weeks and I would prefer not to tangle with one when I am moving them along.I figure I have 4 regulars.
(https://s22.postimg.cc/eaz904g4t/goanna_1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/eaz904g4t/)
(https://s22.postimg.cc/j9mrep9nx/goanna_2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/j9mrep9nx/)
Australia definitely takes the cake for most bizarre animal encounters!
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That goanna photographed last week is hanging above my bedroom window and that foliage is from my big pitangatuba (thanks Oscar).8m away are my sapodillas and the screeching of flying foxes sends me through the ceiling at 2am with their blood curdling screams.
(https://s22.postimg.cc/a180klvgt/goanna3.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/a180klvgt/)
Getting back to goannas, this lace monitor last week stripped the leaves off the papaya just by climbing on it.
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Common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) nest in one of my soursop trees, built using just 3 leaves
Day 1
(https://s15.postimg.cc/wv4qabr87/20180830_142851.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/wv4qabr87/)
(https://s15.postimg.cc/esbnj6fyv/20180830_142901.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/esbnj6fyv/)
Day 2
(https://s15.postimg.cc/aj6xh3cqf/20180901_152613.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/aj6xh3cqf/)
Day 3
(https://s15.postimg.cc/591yp92lz/20180902_140149.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/591yp92lz/)
Day 4
(https://s15.postimg.cc/cc9u4wxrr/20180903_111732.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/cc9u4wxrr/)
Day 7, nest is no more :'( :'( :'(
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Wow, the little tailorbird nest is amazing. They actually sew, so cool.
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I have hassles with flying foxes and cockatoos but lately I have had goannas stealing eggs and hassling the fowls. They have threatened me a few times in the last couple of weeks and I would prefer not to tangle with one when I am moving them along.I figure I have 4 regulars.
(https://s22.postimg.cc/eaz904g4t/goanna_1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/eaz904g4t/)
(https://s22.postimg.cc/j9mrep9nx/goanna_2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/j9mrep9nx/)
Wow, i wouldn't want those guys around looks like they can climb any thing you guys do have some off the wall critters! Although yours is on the wall!! Do they go after any of your fruit ? ???
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Do your local laws protect those monitor lizards? Seems you would have shot them.
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Goannas are meat eaters and scavengers and don't really eat fruit. There are lots of species of them and these are lace monitors. The biggest adults are probably around 35lbs and 1.8m long or a little bigger,but my ones are less than that. All wildlife is protected even the big pythons and venomous snakes. Not many guns in private hands in Australia and you certainly cant use them in the suburbs.
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I have hassles with flying foxes and cockatoos but lately I have had goannas stealing eggs and hassling the fowls. They have threatened me a few times in the last couple of weeks and I would prefer not to tangle with one when I am moving them along.I figure I have 4 regulars.
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Unfortunately Cane Toads wiped out most of our Goannas over the past decade. As a consequence the Bush Chook population has exploded and they're causing a lot of havoc in gardens. Prefer to have the Goannas back any day. And the other things the Cane Toads have virtually wiped out are the Frilled-neck Lizards.
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Cane toads here initially impacted on the northern quolls,freshies and Varanus panoptes and V.gouldii as well as quite a few others that are now being affected in the NT.They will bounce back to normal abundances as they did in qld.Cane toads didn't make anything die out or change in abundance in the long term. After the cane toad boom they will bust and get less common and be naturalised.
The frillies around here are one thing you don't see as many of as when I was a kid. That isn't because of toads.
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This is the wildest thing I've seen lately in my mango tree.
Squirrels, rats, blue jays are not a problem. . .
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Game camera capturing a racoon climbing my Kent mango tree.
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My dog kept eyeballing the top of one of the bushes this morning, after looking around I spotted this little guy. The dog must have run off momma when I let him out this morning.
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Amazing how close these owls will let you get. It's hard to believe it will be alive in a year if it trusts this low perch to sleep in the daylight. The owl is only about 5 foot from the ground in a dense carrie tree.
With flash & eyes opened a little. But head was turning so it was awake.
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Without flash
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My biggest pests (literally) are the wild boars. The biggest one is as big as a sofa. Messing up my meadows literally every night so invasive weeds can replace the native herbs. Have to surround every young fruit tree not only with mesh against the deer but to fix the mesh30 cm into the ground against the pigs.
Apart from that green woodpeckers, crows and ravens, lizzards and snakes, foxes, badgers, weasels and ferrets, lots of small birds and bees, tons of stag beetles, some great capricorn beetles, different falcons and buzzards and even a breeding pair of giant eagle owls.
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Fig trees create an electro-badgernetic field around
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I keep bees in my orchard and even thogh they live in these beehives ,they are wild and they can go to live on theyr own if they dont like it here.Sometimes ,especially after i drink a few beers and watching them go to otther peoples lands to take the pollen and nectar from their fields ,i consider myself to be a soird of an despotic ruler with an army of thiefs :).(https://i.postimg.cc/JzBfnZqG/IMG-20181031-123926.jpg) I also have a big ,half a meter tall ,nest of european fire ants that i always protect when im digging the land because theyre beneficial.
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Giant Cuban Knight Anole
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Lorikeets are probably the biggest destroyers of rambutan crops in Australia with Sulphur Crested cockatoos not far behind. There were flocks stuffing themselves on friends rambutans about an hour ago and this one just laughed at me when I tried to shoo it.
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Beautiful looking pests!
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When I trim my mango trees I often find deserted birds nests. The new birds have hatched and they are all off to other places. A few years ago I was getting dive bombed by them when I got too close to nests I could not see. Bird watching is great idea but I am not that interested in it. But I do get excited when I see a Red Cardinal, Blue Jay in my yard.
I see Ibis in my yard all the time. Pecking away at the grass for insects. Sadly, our local Ibis now imitate seagulls with their dumpster diving behind local restaurants.
I would love to see hummingbirds feeding here. Any tips for attracting them in South Florida?
Here is a geese that has infested our local parks and has pushed out the ubiquitous and dominant for decades Muscovy Ducks, hijacking their niche. Called Egyptian geese. I have been told they lay and hatch eggs three times per year. Looks to me like two times per year.
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Amazing how close these owls will let you get. It's hard to believe it will be alive in a year if it trusts this low perch to sleep in the daylight. The owl is only about 5 foot from the ground in a dense carrie tree.
With flash & eyes opened a little. But head was turning so it was awake.
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Without flash
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Me, too.
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Those are the little screech owls that sound like rattlesnakes and flying saucers at night; love em! Yes, they will sometimes let you walk right up on them. Very cool little raptors.
Found this critter hangin underneath a Ceci Love graft that is starting to take.
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Those are the little screech owls that sound like rattlesnakes and flying saucers at night; love em! Yes, they will sometimes let you walk right up on them. Very cool little raptors.
Found this critter hangin underneath a Ceci Love graft that is starting to take.
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We have small burrowing owls at the Tamarac (33321) athletic field. I always say hello to them. They come in m/f pairs. There are many more of their underground nests at the green space on Southgate along the canal. Go north on Pine Island/88th and take a left (West) on Southgate Blvd. This greenspace/ parkland will be on your right where the very wide canal is. Lots of parking spaces available.
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I hear ya Zands, the burrowing owls are super cool. Have seen them a few times as well. Have yet to find any owl holes. They are very welcome here. Plenty for them to eat.
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pic taken from a FB posting
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Today I released a smallish python that was hoping to eat a duck in the shade of my orange tree -Duck a l'Orange. I had detained it for a few days.Today I nearly stepped on a goanna with anger issues in my shed. This lizards have real attitude and the last thing you need when looking for a hammer is a lizard threatening you.
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Tonight a tattered female hercules moth flew in the kitchen from the garden as I left the back door open. I have never seen a moth flap around and cause havoc like this. It was a big one and I tried to pin the struggling insect on a 12 inch ruler to check its wing span and I reckon it was 1cm more than what the picture shows as it was struggling. It looked like a flying newspaper. This commotion happed 30 minutes ago.
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Thought the moth could have exceeded a foot but at around 11.5 inches for an insect is a respectable wing span.
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A dove decide to build a nest and lay two eggs in a potted cherilata grafted onto soursop......she’s got good taste in trees lol
-joe
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flocks of these shining starlings come and get all my chilies. They are not the Einsteins of the avian world and this one hit a window and its covered in green ants.
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Yes Mike I've had similar problems in Australia.
A thylacine came to visit my ghost chilies. And to make matters worse a dingo took my baby kiwi (A. arguta).
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When I trim my mango trees I often find deserted birds nests. The new birds have hatched and they are all off to other places. A few years ago I was getting dive bombed by them when I got too close to nests I could not see. Bird watching is great idea but I am not that interested in it. But I do get excited when I see a Red Cardinal, Blue Jay in my yard.
I see Ibis in my yard all the time. Pecking away at the grass for insects. Sadly, our local Ibis now imitate seagulls with their dumpster diving behind local restaurants.
I would love to see hummingbirds feeding here. Any tips for attracting them in South Florida?
Here is a geese that has infested our local parks and has pushed out the ubiquitous and dominant for decades Muscovy Ducks, hijacking their niche. Called Egyptian geese. I have been told they lay and hatch eggs three times per year. Looks to me like two times per year.
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.JcBuEnB2Ee6_NhzZT5U2WwHaIh?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)
Personally, unless the Egyptian geese are causing other problems, I don't mind them pushing out the Muscovy ducks. These ducks are also non-native, and the Egyptians are easier on the eyes.
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Here are some native anoles breeding on my Fei banana.
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Out at night scoping annona flowers and in the sugar apple tree a lizard and butterfly catching some zzzz’s with sugar apple flower in background.
-Joe
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I have Hummingbirds nest in my sapodilla and lime trees and they come back the following year to use the nest again.
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Im in Okeechobee. There's every animal native Florida plus the invaders. I have herds of wild hogs. Owls, eagles and hawks are awesome! They help get ride of the pests- rabbits are a big problem. They eat everything except mango plants. Same with the deer. Deer even ate my citrus plants! Good thing mangos are in the sumac family I believe.
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I have Hummingbirds nest in my sapodilla and lime trees and they come back the following year to use the next again.
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Hummingbird nest pics rock! Great find, one of my fav birds.
We feed them, yet to see a nest.
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Yes, Hummingbird nest are neat. I didn't know they like to make their nest so close to the ground. The one on the sapodilla tree is about 3 ft off the ground so I try not to get any water on them when I water my yard. When it rained here these babies in the lime tree nest were getting wet so I had to build a pseudo umbrella using a car sunshade (it worked).
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you are awesome, a god to hummingbirds
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wife said I was crazy doing it in the rain.
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Great shots! Didn't know hummingbirds recycled their nests. What kind of material are the nests made from?
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Oscar, I don't know what material but it seems to be very fine material. You can see a few more photos I took of the nest on the Lime tree(1st photo) and the Sapodilla tree(2nd & 3rd). This is the second year they laid eggs on the nest on the Sapodilla tree (3ft off the ground). Last year the babies grew up and left the nest. This year I may have accidentally watered the eggs and the mother may not be sitting on it now.
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“I found my thrill...on blueberry hill...”
Two monarchs havin a little fun on the blueberry bush
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Great pics everyone!! I have to say the Humming bird nests are the best, super cool find and to get awesome pics is even better. We used to see them here once in a blue moon, but I cannot remember the last time I have seen them. I even put a humming bird feeder and never saw a single one use it, it's been many years.
You guys with the Giant Anole lizards and iguanas in your trees, I would have a heart attack if I saw either of those in my yard, especially my mango trees! Yikes, those guys scare me :o
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Since you liked the hummingbird photos, here's some of the baby that still hangs around the nest in the lime tree. It's nice since they like to catch/eat small flying bugs on the window/walls of the house.
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I was planning to harvest some loquat seeds but didn't get to it yesterday. Something got into it before me.
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I had my pellet gun ready, but after taking these photos, just couldn't use it on him. Instead I gave him some loquats to eat.
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I was planning to harvest some loquat seeds but didn't get to it yesterday. Something got into it before me.
I had my pellet gun ready, but after taking these photos, just couldn't use it on him. Instead I gave him some loquats to eat.
Positive -- hummingbirds are amazing. I am sure by flying and hovering while sucking nectar, that they violate 5 laws of aerodynamics. Thanks for the photos and please post more. I need to read up on how to attract them. Do you do anything for this?
NEGATIVE! -- Get those possums off your property or they will multiply. Being marsupials I was all sentimental and forgiving of them. Until a really huge one tore the screen in my garage window and starting breaking in. He deposited a pile of possum shit in one place. There is nothing to eat in my garage but he poking around anyhow.
By huge I mean his body looked one foot long. I sighted him twice in the garage and shined a strong LED flashlight in his face. He ignored it completely. Perhaps he was old and blind. I think I am rid of him/her now but I am not positive.
Do not coddle these cute pests. You can always shoot one and put it in the stew pot with potatoes and carrots.
Making Possum Stew
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFbr7Mzq0w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFbr7Mzq0w)
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Yes, those possums do multiply. Last year my wife was screaming for me to get home because she had something in the trash can for me. It was a moma possum that had babies and my wife said it was making noises and trying to bite my small dog so she grabbed an empty trash bin and covered it up. I didn't want to kill the mother so I took it to a park and released it. The little babies all ran away into the neighbors yard. Possums are not as large as the racoons that come visit my fruit trees almost every other night to eat my ripe fruits. Racoons are big guys, they always start by climbing up my large plumeria in front and climb over the root to get to the back yard. I even threw some large lemons at them on the roof to scare them off but it didn't deter them, they just gave me a dumb look and just kept going to the back yard for some dinner.
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Cute lil opossum looks to be part pig. Let em live, you can always make stew later. Great famine food, lol.
These frogs are all over the place. Get pretty big. Hanging out on fruit trees, and do some pest control. Frogs and Tokay geckos ate every caterpillar off sugar belle plant. Great to have around.
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I grew up catching reptiles and amphibians in South Florida. I have a feeling if I was born in Australia, my penchant for herptiles would've led to a short life.
I unfortunately found this bug on one of my papaya plants.
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The blue jays and the squirrels are definitely enjoying my Sweet Tart mangoes
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Fliptop- that looks like a wasp. Wasps eat aphids and other harmful insects. This in addition to pollinating plants.
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3rdgrey, the bug is a papaya fruit fly. I've met many of their kids, who like to reside within the fruit.😜
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They sure do resemble wasps!
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Giant Cuban Knight Anole hanging in achachairu
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Black Racer in my Flacourtia inermis(https://i.ibb.co/JCw34nj/20210905-092351-HDR-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/JCw34nj)
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I came across this big grasshopper on my Sugarloaf Mango Tree. I asked if it was there to cause trouble. It replied, "I'm a Lubber, not a fighter."
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"I'm a Lubber, not a fighter."
:) These things have taken over my miracle fruit bush this year, a group of them hangs out every night. I was concerned they'd decimate it, but it's actually created a nice flush of fresh growth.
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Those grasshoppers are evil! They will multiply, and eat everything without prejudice. They tear up our ornamentals, like crinum lily. Lizards and birds won't touch them, must be noxious. Have never tried one.
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Those grasshoppers are evil! They will multiply, and eat everything without prejudice. They tear up our ornamentals, like crinum lily. Lizards and birds won't touch them, must be noxious. Have never tried one.
Have you tried other grasshoppers? "Lubbers ingest and assimilate substances in the plants they consume that, although harmless to humans and the lubbers themselves, are toxic to many predators. These chemicals may kill smaller creatures such as birds or leave larger animals quite ill after ingesting a lubber."
Darn things could be eating Sabara flowers/immature fruit, been wondering why the fruit is vanishing.
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Found this pair in restinga. I'll have to get serious about removal if they're ruining the jabo crop, we all lubber jabos.
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I'm a nature lover, but STOMP EM!
No, haven't tried grasshoppers or crickets yet, but would go with other varieties.
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Kid found this munching on fallen papaya, and hiding in firebush. "They're sooo cute." Cute demon. Nipples too, so must have babies around.
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saw a pair of swallow-tailed kites flying around the other day, it's very unusual to see these graceful birds here this time of year; they're migratory for Florida and don't stay longer than Feb-March. They were hiding under the flower pods of a royal palm, scanning the grounds every now and again. So beautiful and special on the wing, you cannot mix them up with any other bird because of the swallowtail and white underbelly.
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Cardinal nest in guava tree. I thought the baby birds died as they vanished from the nest so fast, but I read that they leave the nest only 9-11 days after hatching! Talk about a speedrun!
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Anyone else get hummingbirds in their fruit trees?
My hummingbirds came back this year and made their nest in the loquat tree, pretty low to the front door walk way. It's about 6 ft off the ground. I looked inside the nest, it has a few eggs.
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It's been raining for the last 3 days now and I'm worried the hummingbirds nest will be soaked from the hail and rain we get.
I decided to help them out and put a plastic cover over the nest area. I think the moma bird is much happier now. The eggs hatched and the two babies were getting all wet.
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Hi Kaz,
I would keep an eye out and make sure you see the momma stay with the babies during this storm. When it's really cold and rainy, hummingbirds go into a sleep like state called torpor to maintain body temperature.
I had a similar situation happen during a winter storm where the momma went into torpor for a couple of days. I ended up cutting the large branch that the nest was attached to and took the babies to a hummingbird rescue person in Huntington Beach so she could feed them and keep them warm. After the storm was over and the momma woke up, I picked the babies up and tied the branch in the same spot.
I know some birds will abandon their young if they've been held by humans, but hummingbirds are okay with it.
Also, the momma is expending a lot of energy looking for food in this cold. I opened up my compost tumbler so she had plenty of fruit flies, which is a main source of protein they need in addition to nectar from flowers. Hope your birds stay safe.
Janet
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Hummingbirds and those that care for them rock! Hope they weather the storm well. Best of luck
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Just amazing pic's of your Hummers Kaz, hope mom comes back! 8)
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She has been sitting in the nest every day and night so it should be good.
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Update on the 2 baby hummingbirds. They are both doing well, have some feathers starting to grow out now. Momma is still coming to feed them a few times a day.
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I have another new update on my fruit tree. Anyone else see a squirrel's nest in your tree?
Today I was trimming down most of my passion fruit vine that has overgrown on my large pomelo tree. As I was cutting and pulling down the passion vine, I heard some squeak coming from the tree. By the time I tugged on the vine, I realized there was a squirrel's nest on the top of the tree inside the passion vine. A baby squirrel was hanging from the nest which was half open since it was made in the vine. After a few minutes I noticed the baby squirrel was hanging on and then fell towards the ground. I landed on the patio chair and just hang on. The momma squirrel was screaming at me and hopping around. Here's my question:
1. Anyone know what the typical size/number of baby squirrels in a nest?
2. Look at the sad photo of the baby squirrel and tell me if you think it will survive.
3. If I repair the nest and put the baby back in the nest do you think the momma will take care of it?
Here's a few photos I took after the baby crawled on the mesh chair screen and layed on top of it.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/fb82vhBZ/Squirrel-Nest-Baby-2.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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(https://i.postimg.cc/52GQ5Q13/Squirrel-Nest-Baby-4.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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I decided to repair the squirrel nest which was 15 ft off the ground at the top of my pomelo tree. I got my 10 ft ladder and repaired the nest, then caught the baby and put it back in the repaired nest. I was a little hesitant to stand on the top of the 10 ft ladder since I had my knee replacement last August, but I had to put the nest back where it was.
Hope it will survive and the momma squirrel comes back to take care of it.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/8z6N3txq/Squirrel-Nest-Baby-7.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/QCzZYTm8/Squirrel-Nest-Baby-8.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)