Not sure if someone has already posted this (as I haven't gone through all the 16 pages yet), but this adorable gecko is one of the happiest creatures I've ever seen. He's called Tomo the Happy Gecko!
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If you dig through the posts, you'll find pictures of him playing with my sister's dice, and even making a Tabaxi Druid or Ranger! We visited after a D&D session, and my sister carries the Core Rulebooks and the module books I loaned her while I carry the more player-oriented books for easy reference. So I laid the books out in front of him, and put her dice in front of him, and he started playing with the d4!
@balrogg Hehheh, she wants it fresh I reckon. Mine prefers drinking fresh from the little frog pool we have over fresh well water in a bowl. Go figure...
I found some caterpillars on some milkweed plants at my parent's house. The two large furry ones are milkweed tussock moth caterpillars. The two tiny ones with stripes are monarch caterpillars. The milkweed tussock moths are more or less at their full size before pupating. The monarchs will actually grow to be larger than the tussocks before they pupate. I plan on keeping them until they mature fully and then releasing them. Hopefully they will all survive but the mortality rate for monarchs that tiny seems quite high sometimes (this is not my first time raising them).
@Tresset I had a butterfly garden a while back and found it was hard to keep enough dill weed growing they ate it so fast. I've wanted to start a night time moth garden for a while but never got round to it. My son (barefoot all the time outside) stepped on a stinging caterpillar (or puss caterpillar - southern flannel moth) a few years back and it left him with a big reddish purple tattoo on his foot for about a month. The public heath dept on the coast of NC even put out a warning at the time for people not to mess with them.
Despite my best efforts to the contrary, the caterpillars are all still alive. The two monarchs are growing nicely and the tussock moths have made cocoons (those are the fuzzy things on the brown leaf). I checked on them earlier today and found that the bucket they were in and the food leaves inside got infested with mold. I moved them to a different bucket and gave them fresh leaves. Note to self: Air holes are mandatory.
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He sometimes plays darts with me when I come over.
Good to see that the best animal channel came back from the dead.
My weirdo cat, Shadow, who prefers to drink from the tap over her water dish...
It’s not the freshness, but their ability to see it better when it is running.
Here he is going to town on the tap.
And here he is indulging on our patio plants.
Flying lemur: wagging tails from tree to tree.
The two large furry ones are milkweed tussock moth caterpillars. The two tiny ones with stripes are monarch caterpillars. The milkweed tussock moths are more or less at their full size before pupating. The monarchs will actually grow to be larger than the tussocks before they pupate. I plan on keeping them until they mature fully and then releasing them. Hopefully they will all survive but the mortality rate for monarchs that tiny seems quite high sometimes (this is not my first time raising them).
My son (barefoot all the time outside) stepped on a stinging caterpillar (or puss caterpillar - southern flannel moth) a few years back and it left him with a big reddish purple tattoo on his foot for about a month. The public heath dept on the coast of NC even put out a warning at the time for people not to mess with them.
Ezo Momonga!
Nothing's cuter than real life metal ooze-chans.
I checked on them earlier today and found that the bucket they were in and the food leaves inside got infested with mold. I moved them to a different bucket and gave them fresh leaves. Note to self: Air holes are mandatory.