Insects in the Backyard

http://www.youtube.com/user/starzship presents another Natural Wonders- Insects in my Backyard. While doing the chore of removing weeds from part of the backyard area, I find many insects abound!

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Pets & Animals

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• starZship
• insects
• backyard
• potatoe bug
• potato
• bug
• bugs
• lady
• larva
• butterfly
• spider
• grasshopper
• wild
• life
• preserve

[Seed0529]

The little red bug is called a "Clovermite".

[starzship]

seed- thanks! I'll look it up.

[jcmegabyte]

Dude - you got the jungle there! Your first two critters are moth pupae. Dunno what species - you get to find out when they emerge! Could be a few days, or next year. Keep them dry and out of direct sunlight. Heat and condensation will kill them. A plastic container, lined with paper towel and topped with netting and rubber and works great as an emerging chamber. The moths will need to climb up the sides and hang to expand their wings properly. Good luck!

[starzship]

ok, got the pupaes in a jar, on paper towels, out of direct sunlight. I guess they can't climb glass so I'll put in a small branch for them to climb. Could take up to a year to "hatch"? wow. ok.

[jcmegabyte]

Chances are good they'll be out within a couple of weeks. They usually head for the sides of the jar and may not be able to find twigs in the center. I usually wrap a layer of paper towel around the inside of the jar, at least half-way up the sides so no matter which way they crawl they'll be able to climb up. They may be OK just sitting on the bottom, too. Depends on the species. :-)

[starzship]

jc- one "hatched" already. Its a brown moth. It happened overnight so I didn't get to catch the actual emergence on video. (my cam doesn't have time lapse). I'll wait to see if I can video the next one emerging but I do have the first one on tape- post-emergence, fluttering inside the jar. I let it go outside. It's a common moth I see around here, I'll look up to see what species it is.....

[jcmegabyte]

Cool that you got some results already! I thought it might be a generic little brown moth or "LMB" as we call them. Sometimes you get lucky, though, and find something cool like a tigermoth (the super fuzzy "wooly-bear" carterpillars turn into those).

After responding to your your post, I found some pupae in my yard and shot a quickie video about making an emerging chamber (v=rBef31Ippu8) since I get this same question a lot. Good luck getting that next one emerging on vid! 8D

[BRACK3N]

Lots of bugs ive never seen before, nice footage.

: )

[cenotevenus]

wonderful thanks

[thruthem]

The ladybugs doing it doggie style is the best part.

You should have an extended version of that with some soul music!