u/PsychoticGardener315

What are your pros and cons about this variety?

Io moth (male)

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I found this male IO moth in upstate NY, USA. Like northern NY. We know it is a male because of those deep pink/red colorings. He's a gorgeous specimen. I don't see theseuch, so it was an honor to see him!

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Photo credit: me

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Sorry about how I said her name (Potato). I was trying hard not to stutter.

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She's my per Cuban Tree Frog that I raised for a tadpole last year.

I got this at a nursery today. I picked it up thinking it was a staghorn fern, but I'm not entirely what I got.

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I've used a few apps and they're saying staghorn, but I'm not sure since there are several in this pot.

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I saw this green plant with a ton of green flowers.

It looks like it could be an invasive spurge? But I'm stumped.

I'm really good at identifying a good chunk of plants, but this one is just a mystery. I have to buy a field guide.

Anyway, AI (Google images, to name one source )gave me a few very incorrect responses, and I even got told it was edible (I'll be hesitant to believe that.)

Anyone who tells me to use AI will get a downvote. I hate it. And it's terrible for the environment.

I have always grown up with sea monkeys, but I've gotten into aqua dragons lately. (I know same thing, different suppliers...)

Anyway, aqua dragons leaflets say to use bottled (not distilled water) yet sea monkeys (at least when I was a kid) said that distilled water was best.

Also, sea monkeys instructions says not to feed for several days while aqua dragons says to feed sooner?

This is just a temporary home for my Blue java banana plant. I know it has potential to grow up to 15 feet tall.

But I wanted it on my balcony for this season.

I am in USDA zone 5a so these are grown as potted plants.

I have a place to grow this next year when it outgrows my apartment.

I just got this yesterday. It was mailed to me. Are these fruits? Should I remove them? When should I remove them? Are these ones edible, or do they dry at maturity?

I just got this little sling today. I was told it was a Lasiodora parahybana, and I'm hoping it is.

What are some things you wish you knew before getting one?

I've been keeping all sorts of arachnids for almost 2 decades, so I'm not afraid of poor husbandry.

This is or was an act of sourdough starter that I only just fed and put in the fridge and I forgot about it for weeks. I want to make sourdough bread and I went to pull her out and feed her. I'm not going to feed her if she's going to make me sick.

She's been refrigerated, lightly covered. I can't tell if there are any weird flecks due to color blindness! I can't tell if the surface is pink or not. I do not see any fuzzies though! *Edit: My brain is telling me that I need to throw this away and forget it ever existed and I'm about ready to do that.