Critter thread

[CactusBoss]

A wasp about to get eaten by one of my pitcher plants on the front porch.

Black and Yellow mud dauber to be exact(Sceliphron caementarium) a very docile wasp.

[Buckethead]

I rode out to a local city lake this afternoon for the first time in a while and hit the jackpot. I was talking to to some guy who had just caught a nice catfish when this mink came up. As soon as it saw us it went into some rocks, but after a while it came out and looked around the shore for a moment before heading back toward some overgrown land next to a golf course. We were on a fishing dock thing that was about three feet above it, so it may have had a hard time seeing us. I get an extra beer tonight for catching this little cutie.

[Buckethead]

I actually went out to the lake looking for dragonflys to photograph. I did quite well on them too. This is a male eastern pondhawk I shot.

[GermanStar]

Good one! And definitely one of the more exotic additions to the thread.

[daiv]

Excellent pictures!

[John C]

Here is a recent photo of a Dragonfly on the top of my Yucca bloom stalk.

[cactushobbyman]

My resident Desert cottontails. First is the baby and lives under my shed. The second is an adult.

Too tame for its own good.

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Not sure if it's the parent. Just resting mid afternoon.

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[Peterthecactusguy]

careful they will eat your cacti

[SnowFella]

Ought to make a good stew though if things get tough

[Peterthecactusguy]

haha yes rabbit stew is good in a pinch.. (much better than roadkill burghers)

[SnowFella]

Both Cactii and critters in these photos.
Could sit for hours watching these little things hunt ants through my corner cactii bed, seem they like to take advantage of the cactii as raised lookout spots
Think they are common garden skinks, Lampropholis guichenoti

[John C]

Brave little guys walking through all of those spines!

I am amazed watching the lizards here, they just run right over the cacti and other spiny plants. That takes talent!

[daiv]

What are the odds? I just saw my first skink of the year today. Ours is the "Five-lined Skink" - Eumeces fasciatus and looks almost exactly like yours.

Now I really wish I would have taken the time to get a picture.

[SnowFella]

Prefer these little guys over what takes over that corner bed during summer nights! There's a sewer access hatch hidden under the topdressing and as soon as it warms up outside and the sun sets the roaches emerge in the 100's!

[Peterthecactusguy]

ick, we have a roach problem after all the rain. Also we get the big ones that fly. (and we have an assortment of other annoying bugs, mosquitoes, flies and of course my favorite of all, assassin bugs)