What’s on the destruction agenda today? Bald faced hornet nest...
A yellow female Goldenrod Crab spider (info given in the previous post)
Disturbed ant colony in the garden ... retrieving eggs
Had a tiny visitor when having lunch with my mom outside the other day. (This is a Pavement Ant with a fairly large piece of bread crust.)
Ants follow a pheromone trail that takes them from food source areas back to their nest... or from a host nest to satellite nests (found often in a structure wall). This video shows an ant carrying Ant bait to their nest...as well as, ants without food following the same pheromone trail.
What's out there right now? Odorous House Ants! For the past month or so, the Ant has invaded many homes. David use to call them horrible hoarders. They would over populate their winter food supply by the end of February & invade the unexpected home. They are a moisture loving ant, often found in kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms, etc where they are searching for food.
Indianmeal Moth in moth form...1st to be noted today
One of the larva has formed into an adult moth...inside the jar of sunflowers seeds (video taken this morning -- March 07, 2017
Indianmeal Moth Larva moving around in a jar of sunflower seeds
This is a nest of Indianmeal moths found in a jar of sunflower seeds. In this video you will see a fully developed larva moving around. -- video taken by myself on March 07, 2017
More info on Indianmeal moth will be added in an album coming up shortly.
Indianmeal Moth Larva moving within its silky tunnel in a jar ...
This is a nest of Indianmeal moths found in a jar of sunflower seeds. You can see in the video a moving larva which is still in its silky tunnel (cocoon). -- video taken by myself on March 07, 2017
More info on Indianmeal moth will be added in an album coming up shortly.
Clarification: at the end of the video I mentioned that all the little clusters you see are eggs...what you see is a combination of clusters of eggs, as well as fecal pellets.
