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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:35 am

You mean this?

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You can right click on almost any image and get a pop up menu asking you if you want to display the image in a separate window. If you right click on that you can ask google to search from similar images and usually find the image address without all of the baggage of click bait adds.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby HONDO74 » Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:01 am

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:05 pm

I was testing Kaweco Midnight Blue - Ink with a Goulet #6 Steel EF Nib in a dip pen handle on HP Copy&Print20 paper when along came a tiny (5 mm) black beetle.
(Photo taken with Celestron Handheld Digital Microscope Pro mounted in a microscope stand.)

Whatz the beetle?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:35 pm

black carpet beetle?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:08 pm

chuck wrote:black carpet beetle?

That is what I thought but the various carpet beetles all have clubs on the ends of their antennae.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:19 pm

Pine Bark?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:56 pm

chuck wrote:Pine Bark?

Thought of bark beetles too. They have short clubbed antennae. Short because of the environment they live in. Long antennae would be a hindrance. Many bark beetles have protective grooves to fit the antennae into. Unlike most beetles, many bark beetles have a simple eye on the center of their head.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:09 pm

It appears to be in the former Cyphon family, now Contacyphone.
Reference: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1037109/bgpage
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:45 am

Whatzits?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:05 am

Amber, top right corner. The rest we used to call "Lucky Stones," when I was a boy.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:49 am

Stones/glass you found on a beach? They show the characteristics of erosion/polishing by water and sand.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:51 am

"Sandy stuff" from the bottom of your creek>
What if lollipops moaned every time we licked them?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:01 am

chuck wrote:Stones/glass you found on a beach? They show the characteristics of erosion/polishing by water and sand.

Close enough. It is recycle glass tumbled in commercial tumblers, packaged in small bags and sold in craft stores. I use it in planters with baby cactus I brought from Arizona.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:12 am

Used to have one of those cacti.......forgot what it was called commonly; button hook?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:06 am

Ferocactus wislizeni, the fishhook barrel cactus.

Reference: https://art-botanical.org/DesertBreeze/ ... actus.html
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