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WTF is this ?!
Started By
CoolColJ
, Jan 19 2019 6:38 AM
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#1 Offline - Posted January 19 2019 - 6:38 AM
I saw this critter crawling in my bathtub which lies near a flyscreened window!
It's about 12mm
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It's about 12mm
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#2 Offline - Posted January 19 2019 - 7:37 AM
Embioptera apparently
Webspinner
Webspinner
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#3 Offline - Posted January 19 2019 - 8:19 AM
Webspinner as mentioned, but a female at that.
#4 Offline - Posted January 20 2019 - 9:15 AM
#6 Offline - Posted January 20 2019 - 2:51 PM
Well to be fair there are webspinners in North America as well, actually everywhere besides Antarctica. I’ve seen a fair share of them being mistaken for termites, although this one is definitely the most coolest one I’ve seen someone find.
Edited by LC3, January 20 2019 - 2:52 PM.
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#7 Offline - Posted January 20 2019 - 10:36 PM
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Edited by AntsBC, January 20 2019 - 10:39 PM.
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#8 Offline - Posted January 20 2019 - 11:04 PM
Well she spun some webs in the test tube I was holding in, against the wet cotton
I let her go, but maybe I should have kept her.
Seems easy enough to raise - lab style they do a container, dead leaves for them to nest and spin in.
Then water drops and lettuce as food
I let her go, but maybe I should have kept her.
Seems easy enough to raise - lab style they do a container, dead leaves for them to nest and spin in.
Then water drops and lettuce as food
Edited by CoolColJ, January 20 2019 - 11:05 PM.
Current ant colonies -
1) Opisthopsis Rufithorax (strobe ant), Melophorus sp2. black and orange, Pheidole species, Pheidole antipodum
Journal = http://www.formicult...ra-iridomyrmex/
Heterotermes cf brevicatena termite pet/feeder journal = http://www.formicult...feeder-journal/
#9 Offline - Posted February 11 2019 - 8:18 PM
I keep these, pretty easy. Just eat their house of dead leaves and lichen.
#10 Offline - Posted April 2 2019 - 8:23 PM
I see those here all the time in Texas, but didn't know they could spin webs. I usually feed them to my ants or other insects since they're so abundant during the summer time.
I just did a little reading on them and apparently they live in colonies and eat decomposing matter. I should probably keep a few next time and breed them to feed my other pets.
They seem easy enough to raise.
#11 Offline - Posted April 3 2019 - 10:33 PM
They don't seem to have enough nutrition in them compared to fleshy crickets and roaches
I always see webbed surfaces under loose bark and rocks around here, so it's probably these
I always see webbed surfaces under loose bark and rocks around here, so it's probably these
Edited by CoolColJ, April 3 2019 - 10:34 PM.
Current ant colonies -
1) Opisthopsis Rufithorax (strobe ant), Melophorus sp2. black and orange, Pheidole species, Pheidole antipodum
Journal = http://www.formicult...ra-iridomyrmex/
Heterotermes cf brevicatena termite pet/feeder journal = http://www.formicult...feeder-journal/
#12 Offline - Posted May 18 2019 - 7:15 AM
In California, I think that we have something similar, as I have seen them fairly frequently, but here, they seem to live in the ground and do not spin webs.
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However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:
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#13 Offline - Posted May 18 2019 - 7:20 AM
In California, I think that we have something similar, as I have seen them fairly frequently, but here, they seem to live in the ground and do not spin webs.
You are referring to Rove Beetles. I don't think these are even related to web spinners.
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#14 Offline - Posted May 20 2019 - 4:00 PM
We have webspinners here, and not only rove beetles. I saw them down in san diego where I used to live and it lived in this spider-like web under a rock. Even had a bunch of eggs. I didn't know what it was at the time so I didn't get it.
Whether it was native or not, I dunno.
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#15 Offline - Posted May 21 2019 - 4:20 PM
native
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#16 Offline - Posted May 24 2019 - 6:32 PM
The ones we get in California that I saw aren't native
http://www.tsusinvas...oligotoma-nigra
Dunno about the guy in Australia's one, dunno anything about Australia insects. But to follow up on my post above, looks like we have an invasive species from India here.
#17 Offline - Posted May 25 2019 - 9:33 AM
didn't do my research... they seem pretty harmless to the environment, though.
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