Author Topic: Wildlife in your fruit trees ? (Read 78243 times)

Galka · « **Reply #150 on:** July 11, 2015, 12:26:26 PM »

Quote from: wu on July 11, 2015, 12:13:24 PM

owls baby

Soooo cute! Cool picture wu.

Carbo · « **Reply #151 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:51:48 PM »

He may not be wild, but he does a good job of keeping away the rats, squirrels, Blue Jays and Mockingbirds. . .

mangaba · « **Reply #152 on:** July 20, 2015, 09:42:51 PM »

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on July 10, 2015, 09:53:55 PM

Quote from: mangaba on July 10, 2015, 09:48:30 PM

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 !

joaave · « **Reply #153 on:** July 21, 2015, 10:25:33 AM »

I found it on my cherimoyas seedling

Mike T · « **Reply #154 on:** July 22, 2015, 04:17:23 AM »

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.

mike rule · « **Reply #155 on:** July 22, 2015, 06:05:51 PM »

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

Mike T · « **Reply #156 on:** July 22, 2015, 07:01:30 PM »

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.

fruitlovers · « **Reply #157 on:** July 22, 2015, 08:07:07 PM »

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.

gunnar429 · « **Reply #158 on:** July 23, 2015, 09:00:45 AM »

Quote from: wu on July 11, 2015, 12:13:24 PM

owls baby

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

Galka · « **Reply #159 on:** July 23, 2015, 10:23:27 AM »

Those owls are cute.

Here's what I got on my citrus tree. It was quite big.

FlyingFoxFruits · « **Reply #160 on:** August 05, 2015, 04:38:47 PM »

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.

Tropicaliste · « **Reply #161 on:** August 05, 2015, 11:39:14 PM »

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.

greenman62 · « **Reply #162 on:** August 06, 2015, 11:18:48 AM »

its mokele mbembe
https://www.google.com/search?q=mokele%20mbembe

FlyingFoxFruits · « **Reply #163 on:** August 06, 2015, 12:13:46 PM »

Nice photo of the dragon fly vs a dragon!!

FlyingFoxFruits · « **Reply #164 on:** October 16, 2015, 02:05:15 PM »

a spider eating the head of a hymenoptera, on a leaf of Campomanesia xanthocarpa.

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.

Galka · « **Reply #165 on:** October 16, 2015, 05:25:24 PM »

Ouch!

FlyingFoxFruits · « **Reply #166 on:** October 16, 2015, 07:52:29 PM »

Galka,
makes you wonder how he does it?!

Galka · « **Reply #167 on:** October 16, 2015, 11:20:08 PM »

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.

Vernmented · « **Reply #168 on:** December 26, 2015, 01:02:06 PM »

This is where baby Pickerings come from.

FlyingFoxFruits · « **Reply #169 on:** December 26, 2015, 06:29:13 PM »

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

knlim000 · « **Reply #170 on:** December 27, 2015, 04:17:25 PM »

homosaphien spotted in the garden. That's me hard at work.

Vernmented · « **Reply #171 on:** December 27, 2015, 07:04:02 PM »

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on December 26, 2015, 06:29:13 PM

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!

FlyingFoxFruits · « **Reply #172 on:** April 04, 2016, 10:51:18 PM »

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!

FlyingFoxFruits · « **Reply #173 on:** April 04, 2016, 10:56:44 PM »

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"

Doglips · « **Reply #174 on:** April 04, 2016, 11:05:45 PM »

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on April 04, 2016, 10:56:44 PM

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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