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Ditto. They could be in your hair Right.Now.   @Amanda wrote: For some reason that makes it worse!! You'd never see it coming! LOL   ... View more

@bare65,  I didn't know any of that, so now I'll be extra careful -- It's quite amazing they store water in their bladder to use to stay hydrated -- we humans can't do that at all, that stuff just wants to come out!   "You have to be extremely careful though when moving a desert tortoise. Don't life it too high and always keep the tortoise level. Believe it or not, tortoise actually store water in their bladder...thus the reason they can travel great distances without stopping for water....BUT, if you go picking up a tortoise suddenly and scare it, it will pee and lose all of that precious water it has stored for it's travels. That is almost certainly a death sentence if the tortoise cannot find a suitable water source nearby to replace the loss." ... View more

@val_t, I haven't a clue what doodlebugs are...I checked Google and got this.  Is that a doodlebug? ... View more

I've used cheeky monkey and cheeky bugger.  Not so much wee, though.  That's more Scottish or Irish, in my experience.   @GabeU wrote: bare65 wrote:  Have you ever heard the expression.."Cheeky wee bugger"?  Cheeky, but not cheeky wee bugger.  My mother's family (and herself) is from England, and I would hear that word every now and again, though not much anymore.     ... View more

@Amanda, those are cute little buggers -- I like how they hold their tails straight up when they run across the road. ... View more

I have, yes. 🙂  I use the expression "bugger" all the time.     Have you ever heard the expression.."Cheeky wee bugger"?     ... View more

@bare65, how big are those tortoises?  Turtles and tortoises are amazing.  There are a lot of turtles in my area, and I've been known to stop the car to pick one off the road and take it across,as some people drive over them on purpose.   @bare65 wrote: You all got some amazing photographs... I'll have to dig through some of my youngest sons digital albums and see if I can post a few more for you all... He always had a knack for photography...me, not so much, LOL   Here is another one of his pics...this one he took about 3 miles down the road from our house. A desert tortoise   Although I see these all around where I live, I'm always in awe at how truly magnificent they are. As you can see, they are easily camoflagued when attempting to cross the paved sections of roads out here, and often get run over. New road signs were put in place out this way to help warn motorists of possible tortoise crossing the roads..         ... View more

What.The.Fork.  You can walk that thing on a leash, @GabeU.   @GabeU wrote: Here's a sizable one.  I've never seen one quite this size, but close.       Edit:  I changed the picture as the one I originally had was not from the US.  A different species.       ... View more

@GabeU, The wheel bug didn't bite me -- it just emerged from my wallet and I was mesmerized, trying to figure out what it was.  I had never seen a bug with a volume wheel on its back, LOL.  I've never seen a water bug either. How big are those things??  ... View more

I have lots of grey squirrels, and also scads of rabbits. It's quite wonderful to see all of these creatures.      @alfresco wrote:   Ubi The only pic I have is the ubiquitous squirell.   ... View more

Those are some AWESOME lizards and snakes, @bare65. Very cool.  ... View more

A chicken? A cow? (JK, looks like some kind of hawk)   @MarkJFine wrote: @Jeff_T- Indeed. Anyone want to even guess what this critter is? Some kind of wild turkey maybe?   ... View more

@Jeff_T, wonderful photos! ... View more

@MarkJFine wrote: Love learning new anglicisms. Have to remember this one. There's a rhyme you're supposed to recite to get the ladybird to go (maybe @GabeU could test to see if it works):   Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,Your house is on fire and your children shall burn!     ... View more

It's not the weirdest thing I've found in my wallet. It once had a very weird beetle type thing in it, something I had never seen before. It took me a LONG time to find out what it was.  It was a wheel bug. VERY weird.   https://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/shrubs/note65/Adult2.jpg   ... View more

It was a little odd -- I thought there was something like a button there that I had never seen before, until the "button" took flight.  And yes, I'm sure it was going for the money.   @GabeU wrote: @maratsade wrote: I found a ladybird in my wallet.   Jeez!  That's a new one.  They're trying to steal your money!  😛     ... View more

"Those darn lady bugs, though.  I'll be sitting there and all of a sudden my arm will start stinging, only to look down and see one of those buggers biting me."   @GabeU, so how do you feel about ladybirds, then? LOL   I have never been bitten by one unless I pick it up.  ... View more

I don't mind ladybirds nor stinkbugs.  I don't pet them or anything, but they don't annoy me.   ... View more

I found a ladybird in my wallet.    @GabeU wrote: @MarkJFine wrote: We usually get a rash of ladybugs Aug-Dec during an Indian Summer when it hits around 70. Never this late... early? We have quite a problem with these around here.  They make nests in your home and if you don't catch them right away they get out of hand.  These are Japanese lady bugs, too, which are an invasive species.  I hate them.    Oh, and they apparently woke up during that stretch of warmer weather we had a few weeks ago.  Did I say I hate them?  If not, I hate them.  😛     ... View more

I get ladybirds (what you call ladybugs) at the beginning of the winter. They come inside to spend the winter -- they leave when the weather's warmer.  ... View more

Wow, that's a great spider, @GabeU.  C0rr0sive should adopt it. ... View more

Go Harley!  ... View more

That's a great photo, @GabeU.  One of the things I like about living in a rural area is all the animals I can see on the property.  Having been a city dweller all my life, this is quite a treat. ... View more

So it's you hogging all the speed, then.  🙂   @Reggie wrote: This would be great if was true. I know it is a fluke.   https://testmy.net/quickstats/Reggie59       ... View more