Missing a few bits and pieces
Feb 25, 2021 10:42:32 #
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Feb 25, 2021 12:06:53 #
Interesting the ravages that nature can bestow. To agree with kpmac, and add perhaps more than just winter.
--Bob
--Bob
rwilson1942 wrote:
Found this guy beside the back door this morning.
Feb 26, 2021 12:43:34 #
Great find for this time of year. If I were to find one I'd have to chip it out of the ice!
Feb 26, 2021 12:54:15 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Great find for this time of year. If I were to find one I'd have to chip it out of the ice!
Take it in and feed it some lettuce leaves, he's had a hard time.
Feb 26, 2021 14:16:39 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Great find for this time of year. If I were to find one I'd have to chip it out of the ice!
That was last week here in Texas :)
I think the high yesterday was 81.
Feb 26, 2021 16:26:53 #
A Neoconocephalus, possibly N. robustus, female (in Texas, I think). No obvious stridulatory apparatus of a male. Looks like the end is nigh -- the black at the back leg base and abdomen is not healthy at all! Males make an incredibly loud 'scream', can be heard for nearly a mile away, louder than the periodical cicadas en masse. Interesting: males warm up the body before singing by rapidly vibrating their wings, adding around 8 deg C to ambient temperature. That's a lot, ~15 F, for a bug! Then the males can open-close their wings at ~ 200 cycles per second. (Some relatives reach 250 cps!, and also warm up first -- seems to be related to the speed.) They normally overwinter as eggs.
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