Dead beetle found ?

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I think I know what it is but not 100%… found it on the end of my short walk .

 

[SpookySpooder]

Yes, dead beetle found.

 

[CutThroat Kid]

I feel you. i’ve been looking for one of these june bugs. Finally thought i had one. Nope, this one is dry as a potato chip.

 

[SpookySpooder]

Live beetle found. Sorry, couldn't resist going outside really quick to troll you.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

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Live beetle found. Sorry, couldn't resist going outside really quick to troll you.

Wish I could find one of those ! So rare not seen one in 3+ years or more..

 

[SpookySpooder]

I let my a big part of my backyard in Houston become a shrubland--I also fell a couple branches and logs and let them decay. I get to see all kinds of critters because of it.

Also get bit by all manner of critters for it.

It's a thankless job I tell ya.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I let my a big part of my backyard in Houston become a shrubland--I also fell a couple branches and logs and let them decay. I get to see all kinds of critters because of it.

Also get bit by all manner of critters for it.

It's a thankless job I tell ya.

very creative!
Yeah I don’t know what happened here It’s like a big bug bomb went off I’d have to go to the park to hunt for stuff if I want to find anything. I’ve not done that in years but I might this year.
I used too see tons of grass spiders all over our yard now ; rarely a few at the end of fall .. and moths I rarely see even if I left I light on outside it’s like they were eradicated. No sightings of jumpers or orb weavers either .. I see baby wolf spiders that’s it.

 

[SpookySpooder]

You won't find any kind of biodiversity in a place where humans constantly destroy the environment and spray chemicals everywhere. Not to mention grasslands and shrub lands have a diverse amount of flora that supports an entire ecosystem of fauna...

What does mowed grass in a park support? Crickets and roaches?

Gotta level your expectations when you're in the city. I don't expect to find much of anything when I'm in LA.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

You won't find any kind of biodiversity in a place where humans constantly destroy the environment and spray chemicals everywhere. Not to mention grasslands and shrub lands have a diverse amount of flora that supports an entire ecosystem of fauna...

What does mowed grass in a park support? Crickets and roaches?

Gotta level your expectations when you're in the city. I don't expect to find much of anything when I'm in LA.

I don’t search the mowed grass except around the stream , there’s loads of fallen trees on the trails I’ll go eventually. No guarantee I’ll find much of anything, looking under rocks mostly just find centepede and isopods , some spiders. Stone pedes are so tiny I’ve not tried keeping one in ages . Poor critters do better in the wild ..
Surely Crickets and roaches are there not that I can catch them. Usually they bolt ..

 

[SpookySpooder]

Look what I found today, it's a lifeless husk.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Look what I found today, it's a lifeless husk.

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That beetle has had too many beers ?? Yeah I know what that is but I don’t want spoil it for anyone looking at this thread .. that beetles chilling …

 

[SpookySpooder]

It's onto bigger and better things... I hear them screaming about it every night

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

It's onto bigger and better things... I hear them screaming about it every night

I used to see the dog days ones a lot around here , but for some reason I don’t anymore maybe pesticides killed most them ? Or the concrete jungle itself .. man those things are loud, I even had a female one try and sting me with its egg thing once .. ouch ..

 

[SpookySpooder]

Ain't nobody spraying pesticides on my lawn.

Most I'll do is a mosquito donut for the irrigation channel out front.

I read a large number of them are threatened because of encroachment on the forests/grasslands where they incubate for years. Hard to come out of the ground once it's been paved over.