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Wish I could find one of those ! So rare not seen one in 3+ years or more..View attachment 449759
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Live beetle found. Sorry, couldn't resist going outside really quick to troll you.
very creative!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.
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 ..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.
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 …Look what I found today, it's a lifeless husk.
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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 ..It's onto bigger and better things... I hear them screaming about it every night