Garden visitors

[Wisnu]

First time I saw this morning. Wish this beautiful moth will be our garden regular visitor.
Will plant more zinia to attract them

Hummingbird clearwing moth

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[harryopal1]

First time I saw this morning. Wish this beautiful moth will be our garden regular visitor.
Will plant more zinia to attract them

Hummingbird clearwing moth

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Interesting. At first glance at the video it seems more like a bee or wasp.

 

[Wisnu]

Interesting. At first glance at the video it seems more like a bee or wasp.
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According Mbah Google, I do check you picture too, this creature is a Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe), known for its ability to hover and feed on nectar during the day, mimicking the behavior of a hummingbird.

Distinctive Features: It has clear wings with a reddish-brown border, an olive-green or golden thorax, and a burgundy abdomen.
Feeding Mechanism: Instead of a beak, it uses a long, coiled tube called a proboscis to drink nectar from flowers.
Behavior: These moths beat their wings rapidly—up to 70 times per second—allowing them to hover in place while feeding

 

[jstar]

Beautiful animal and nice flowers Wisnu. But that (background) noise?

 

[Wisnu]

Beautiful animal and nice flowers Wisnu. But that (background) noise?

Ha ha ha
Living in a remote village 2.5 hours from main tourist area doesn't mean it's always peaceful and quiet. In fact, there are events and ceremonies almost every day, in addition to the three daily Trisandiya mantras/prayers . Actualy I enjoy them, but not the dangdut and karaoke, especially after a few bottles of arak make them feel like they're participating in KDI. However, I've taken that into account by installing quality UPVC windows and doors for the price of a Wuling EV.

 

[Wisnu]

Our lush garden attracts many wild birds. However, once again, a turtle dove entered the house, panicked, and crashed through the top window from a height of 6 meters. Unfortunately, this time it didn't survive.

 

[Dave70]

Our lush garden attracts many wild birds. However, once again, a turtle dove entered the house, panicked, and crashed through the top window from a height of 6 meters. Unfortunately, this time it didn't survive.
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Never had wild birds entering the house because we have insect screens on windows and doors.

 

[jstar]

We had a hawk living close by so found these all the time…

 

[Wisnu]

Never had wild birds entering the house because we have insect screens on windows and doors.

Our house has large glass windows and doors. Even though it's in the middle of a rice paddy, we don't have a problem with insects, only occasionally at night. It's not aesthetically pleasing and it's difficult to install insect screens nowadays.

 

[Jaime C]

We have screens on all our windows. Only our bedroom has AC in it, but if cooler, my wife loves to have fresh air come in the early morning.

Sometimes we’ll leave the front door open in the morning. We have a security gate at the carport. So far, the worst intruders are the neighborhood cats that like to explore.

 

[Jaime C]

Has anyone run into the black centipedes inside their house? Our teen took a shower this afternoon, and 10 minutes later was brushing her hair in front of a big mirror. Only to have a 15-20 cm centipede fall on the floor. Looking online it looks like a Scolopendra.

She thinks it may have come up the drain in her shower. Not sure if it climbed up the wall, or dropped from the ceiling onto her hair.

The bad thing is my daughter was really freaked out about it, but my wife thought she was over reacting and just ignored it.

Turns out this centipede actually escaped into our bedroom. My wife is deadly afraid of snakes, and I’m sure if I found this crawling on me, it would wake everyone up in the house.

Any common sense things to get rid of them from inside the house? I know you need to eliminate food sources.

 

[Wisnu]

Has anyone run into the black centipedes inside their house? Our teen took a shower this afternoon, and 10 minutes later was brushing her hair in front of a big mirror. Only to have a 15-20 cm centipede fall on the floor. Looking online it looks like a Scolopendra.

She thinks it may have come up the drain in her shower. Not sure if it climbed up the wall, or dropped from the ceiling onto her hair.

The bad thing is my daughter was really freaked out about it, but my wife thought she was over reacting and just ignored it.

Turns out this centipede actually escaped into our bedroom. My wife is deadly afraid of snakes, and I’m sure if I found this crawling on me, it would wake everyone up in the house.

Any common sense things to get rid of them from inside the house? I know you need to eliminate food sources.

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Plenty in my garden, but not inside the house, including the bathroom because we use a smart drain so small animals will not be able to get through. Here tyoically small, about 5 cm long. For those that are 15-20 cm long, I think the body diameter is more than 5 mm. It should be difficult to get through typical drainage cover. If not, try installing a smart drain cover.

 

[harryopal1]

Has anyone run into the black centipedes inside their house? Our teen took a shower this afternoon, and 10 minutes later was brushing her hair in front of a big mirror. Only to have a 15-20 cm centipede fall on the floor. Looking online it looks like a Scolopendra.

She thinks it may have come up the drain in her shower. Not sure if it climbed up the wall, or dropped from the ceiling onto her hair.

The bad thing is my daughter was really freaked out about it, but my wife thought she was over reacting and just ignored it.

Turns out this centipede actually escaped into our bedroom. My wife is deadly afraid of snakes, and I’m sure if I found this crawling on me, it would wake everyone up in the house.

Any common sense things to get rid of them from inside the house? I know you need to eliminate food sources.

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I think most of us would "freak out"finding one of these in our hair while showering. I wonder if your wife would be so stoic had it happened to her. A late American wife was terrified of geckoes. It was if they were vampires about to latch on to her throat. My present step daugher at the age of early 20s was reduced to tears when we went into a bird hide out of Townsille and there was a row of really pretty litte green frogs in the crevice where two walls met. A Thai lady I knew was alost hysterical with fear when it was found that there were leeches in the area. But sorry other than sweeping the centipedes out I can offer no solutions.

 

[Jaime C]

The interesting thing is that my daughter felt something on her shoulder, while showering. She thought it was her hair. She had a plastic cap on while showering, and the centipede didn’t fall out until brushing her hair, 10 minutes later. She has dark brown hair, so it might be a bit hard to distinguish.

She’s the only one who saw it, so not 100% sure if her size estimate is exact.

I think my wife is looking to change the drain covers today.

 

[Wisnu]

I've never seen millipedes crawling up a ceramic/granite/marble wall or shower pole. I don't think your bathroom wall is made of wood or bamboo.
Are there any holes or gaps and rooting wood in the bathroom ceiling? Millipedes love decaying organic matter.

 

[Jaime C]

The walls are all ceramic tile.

 

[Jaime C]

Well, we got some of the drain covers that self close after the water has passed, so hopefully no more drama from that.

 

[Wisnu]

This morning, we found a puppy hiding in the irrigation culvert in front of our house; it was terrified, shivering from the cold, and starving. Neighbors said they had heard the puppy crying for at least two days. We managed to get it out by giving milk and lumpia (spring rolls). It is doing better now and seems comfortable playing in our garden and garage. To be honest, we don't know what to do; we’ve never owned a dog—we even once turned down an offer from a close friend to adopt their Golden Retriever puppy.

 

[jstar]

A real garden visitor. Quite a responsibility to adopt a dog. But the affection and guarding ability is also worth something. Luckily in many places in Bali they can be be hybrid home/street dogs otherwise I would already have 15 dogs there.

 

[harryopal1]

A life changing, learning experience if you keep the pup. I am sure most of our members will be interested to know what you do. Living at Bukit Hijau in Bali, a street dog had a litter of 9 pups in the culvert at our front gate. The mother was struggling to provide enough milk for them all so I began feeding them. Within a few weeks five males were taken. ( I hope not for sate.) The curious thing was how different they all were. One like the pup in your pic. Another all black. Another a kind of greenish brown with darker stripes. Another an almost white light grey. This one was adopted by a woman around the corner although he still lived in the street. A year or more later she moved but not with the dog. An Italian woman adopted him and called him Milo. She returned to Italy, came back later, returned to Italy and in the intervening bits we fed him. The others were being fed by a lady in another street. They remained street dogs but quite friendly. I once tried to take Milo to a vet but he struggled wildy and snapped a quite thick rope. Later we moved and I considered taking him with us but he was committed to being a street dog in that area. If I took him I think he would have run away and tried to return "home" with the danger of being killed by traffic. Now, four years on he still lives in that area and remembers us if we return but too far away to feed him daily.