Urban Hawaii

[agama]

i know where my next vacationing area will be

 

[xhexdx]

Thread resurrection!

I'll be in Kona, Hawaii (The Big Island) from January 19-26; I plan on doing tons of hunting and picture-taking while I'm there. I'll post what I find here.

If anyone on here happens to be near Kona, drop me a line and we can meet up.

--Joe

 

[Fingolfin]

Thread resurrection!

I'll be in Kona, Hawaii (The Big Island) from January 19-26; I plan on doing tons of hunting and picture-taking while I'm there. I'll post what I find here.

If anyone on here happens to be near Kona, drop me a line and we can meet up.

--Joe

Can't wait to see what you come up with. Went to Oahu for 10 days last year but didn't get to take many invert pics, outside of a really cool orb web spider at Hanauma Bay.

I found it super awesome to visit, but don't know if I could live there, felt very isolated being so far from the mainland.

 

[Galapoheros]

I think the snail is an Achatina species(from Africa), has gotten out of hand there, cool pics.

 

[xhexdx]

Got lots of pics of plenty of inverts and a few verts - no scorps yet but found a bunch of pedes. Going to the rainforest today to hopefully find some happy-face spiders, so we'll see how that goes.

Probably won't post pics until I get home and settled.

 

[xhexdx]

Here's the vertebrates portion - forgive the lack of binomial nomenclature:

Day gecko:

Green anole:

House gecko:

Coqui frog (Eleutherodactylus coqui):

The elusive rhodesian ridgeback/cow hybrid }):

The not-so-hybrid:

Last, but certainly not least, Honu (Green sea turtle - Chelonia mydas):

Inverts coming later tonight, maybe.

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

Awesome pics of that first gecko and the turtle, Joe. Can't wait to see more.

 

[xhexdx]

Thanks, Jason.

'Pedes:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Spiders:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Millipedes:

Moths:

(1)

(2)

Mantis:

Lacewing:

Ladybug:

Monarch egg/caterpillar/chrysalis/butterfly:

Carpenter bee:

Bumble bee:

Sea cucumbers:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Sea urchins (wana):

(1)

(2)

(3)

Sea snail:

Hermit crab:

Crab:

Just because I liked it:

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

Diggin the pics of the pedes and sea urchins. Makes me want to visit Hawaii so much more now lol. How was it exploring the rainforest? I didn't get to do that at all when I was there. Nice pics Joe.

 

[xhexdx]

The rainforest was fun, but I didn't find what I was looking for. Took a ton of pics though, I'll post those once I upload them. We found some boar tracks as well as some relatively fresh dung, so we didn't stick around that area too long afterwards.

 

[zonbonzovi]

Great shots, Joe...I really enjoyed the cukes & anenomes. The 2nd centipede that you photographed(the blue legged Otostigmus)- were they quite abundant where you were at?

 

[xhexdx]

I caught 9 'pedes that night, 6 of them were the blues. The largest one was only about 3" though (the one pictured), while the largest of the other species was closer to 6" if not a little larger.

Also, all 9 were caught within a 20-square-foot area and within about half an hour from first to last - I'm sure there were plenty more around had I continued looking.

 

[Kreatz]

more picture please :drool::drool::drool:

 

[TheDarkInfinity]

@xhexdx Awesome pics!! Kinda makes me miss Hawaii. Well at least being able to hunt inverts out my back door. In Colorado now, so guess will just have to wait till summer....

 

[ZergFront]

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Badumna. We get them all over in California. They like the PVC pipes that are in my yard.