Animals around your house...

landrover wrote:

This insect appeared in my house and a face appears to be drawn on its body.

Blaine.....please identification.

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Here you have a starting point for begin your search: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] but I didn't found any match. Many genus where it could belong, yes, but none exact species. Being in Colombia it would be very unsurprising to find that is an undescribed new species for science.

sorry I don't have a lot of experience with Neotropical lamiines, but the link sent should be a starting point. You can also post to the iNaturalist website.

Thanks Pardofelis, very interesting information

Can anybody ID this caterpillar? I live in the northwest region of the US.
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Is the caterpillar of Papilio troilus

Very nice caterpillar, with very rare eyes.

It looks awful similar but mine didnt have the big black eye spots, just the smaller ones. And google says the spicebrush swallowtail is a southeastern habitat species. However, we had white faced ibis visit us for the first time this year too so maybe climate change is widening the habitat ranges.

At any rate I moved him from my deck to the front yard so my dogs didn't bother him.

It is a Papilio for sure, but it could be one of several species that have similar-looking larvae. Knowing the host plant could help, but unfortunately you don't have that info (at least, not in this pic)

Nope I don't, it just showed up on my deck. Plants that I am familiar with that are butterfly favorites are some milkweed in the fields nearby and we have a "butterfly bush" in our yard that adults like to feed from. Not sure if that helps.

Well I get butterflies on my buddlilea (butterfly bush) so sadly no it won't help as all butterflies and most pollinating insects love them

These are not really wildlife, but there are travelling sheep in our area. I asked the shepherd: These are 500 sheep moving from one field to the next. The local farmers grew some stuff in autumn that sheep like. I think that's good for both sides - the sheep get fresh greenery and the farmer fresh dung :-)
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What fabulous forage harvesters

Some gorgeous sheep, it must be so nice to see them!

Sheep partyyyyy

They have very beautiful floppy ears, any idea of the breed Sortepletter?

Sorry, no idea, only that there seemed to be different breeds included, sturdier ones with dark faces and smaller more delicate ones in all white. Perhaps some of them were Moorschnucken, they are a hornless white Version the Heidschnucke. But thats just a guess.

Thanks, I can see some of them being Moorschnucken

I learnt some new breeds of sheep

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A North American Woodpecker on the street where I live, in Winter.

Beautiful!

Fantastic, what is a North American woddpecker? Is it a Hairy woodpecker?

Some Tree Frogs I found.

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Great close ups! Finding frogs was always a big joy for me. They're American green tree frogs, aren't they?

Thank you. Inaturalist identified them as Squirrel Tree Frogs or Hyla squirella. I usually see that species around my house. I use Inaturalist very often and when I take animal photos and I’m not sure of the species, I just post them there.

I see Green Anoles around my house and neighborhood all the time.
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Five Lined Skinks (these are incredibly hard to catch)
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Little Brown Skink
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Mediterranean House Gecko (Invasive Species, but doesn’t really do any harm)
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Eastern Glass Lizard (named glass after the way it drops its tail) this is actually a Legless Lizard instead of a snake, seen by the presence of small ear holes and blinking eyes.
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Pine Woods Littersnake (visually similar to Corn Snake, but is mildly venomous. I actually handled this one before releasing it, but made sure not to appear threatening) Even if I was bitten, I wouldn’t have been in any danger.
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Adult and Baby Box Turtles
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Common Snapping Turtle
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WOW !!! You live in the middle of a ZOO

No. Sorry, I know these are real, wild animals, but it sometimes can take a split second to understand that some people actually have these in their garden

I suppose you would feel the same if somebody here show you a picture of a Polar bear outside his house  

Beautyful photos ! Thankyou for sharing

Hmmm. "Mildly poisonous"

What is my gecko doing here? I wasn't expecting to see a Mediterranean one among your friends. That five-lined skink is very beautiful, I think our skinks are not has half as pretty.
Thanks for telling about the tree frog, to be fair, even reading this great blog entry, I am not able of identifying from your pictures. Though, if I could listen to their call, it was quite easy and funny and I could easily identify them.