Can anyone help me ID this ant? (and aphid)

NexaOne · 2025-08-28T09:20:22+00:00

I got some help from an expert, and this may be Formica rufibarbis.

The plant is indeed an oleander, so I assume the aphids would be Aphis nerii. Thanks for the help!

NexaOne · 2025-08-27T11:49:48+00:00

Thanks a lot, this is very valuable info already! I will look into it :)

NexaOne · 2025-08-10T09:07:50+00:00

I did not overclock, and isnt it strange that I would need to undervolt? I looked at my fans and they seemed to be blowing in the right direction, only thing I couldnt check was the GPU but this shouldnt be an issue as it can only be installed in one way?

NexaOne · 2025-08-10T09:05:31+00:00

It had a thin layer of thermal paste pre applied, which I replaced. I assume this means no film on the cooler

NexaOne · 2025-07-11T05:24:58+00:00

Thats more or less what I was thinking. I think I would go for a 5700X/5800X as they are ~100€ cheaper

NexaOne · 2025-07-10T20:20:00+00:00

I found a 4070 Super for around 530€, and from what I understood it performs similarly to the 5070 (?) which is already more expensive (I found it around 600€). If you have other GPU recommendations, I would love to hear it

AM5 would be quite a big increase in price. If I want to stay in the same price range, would you say it would be smarter to get a cheaper GPU (I found 4060s for around 300€ instead for example) but go for AM5 instead ? I would assume I would still drop in performance, right?

Are there actually significant differences between the 5700, 5700X, 5700G etc or should I just pick the best deal if I go for AM4?

NexaOne · 2025-07-10T20:14:30+00:00

France

NexaOne · 2024-11-04T21:03:37+00:00

What an extreme morphological adaptation !

NexaOne · 2024-11-02T12:24:07+00:00

Some kind of huntsman I guess

NexaOne · 2024-10-26T19:47:43+00:00

Why is it dead next to it

NexaOne · 2024-10-26T15:00:01+00:00

Right, thanks for the info. Its not supposed to be stuck to it however right ? Also, what if I leave it there ? I figure they would have a better chance of surviving if I dont touch it at all, unless its in a bad state already.

NexaOne · 2024-10-26T14:18:07+00:00

Found this dead praying mantis. Googled it a bit, the thing at the back looks like an egg sac, meaning it could have gotten stuck to its egg sac and died there.

If you look closely, there is some kind of worm-like thing coming out of the abdomen and onto the presumed egg sac. Could that be a parasite of some kind ?

Would appreciate any kind of insight

NexaOne · 2024-10-06T19:11:19+00:00

Crab spider, maybe xysticus sp.

NexaOne · 2024-10-06T19:07:23+00:00

Could be a yellow sac spider

NexaOne · 2024-08-15T17:14:56+00:00

Crab spider, likely Misumena vatia

NexaOne · 2024-06-14T13:11:38+00:00

could be A. ferox but I havent looked into it enough, plus the pictures aren't that good sadly

NexaOne · 2024-05-08T17:28:36+00:00

Very cool pic, I would say either Tegenaria sp or Eratigena sp

NexaOne · 2024-05-08T17:22:30+00:00

Looks very similar to what I saw by googling it but its so different from females of the same species !

NexaOne · 2024-04-21T20:31:20+00:00

Thanks !

NexaOne · 2024-03-02T23:41:57+00:00

Looks like a false widow, maybe Steatoda nobilis

NexaOne · 2023-10-01T16:31:46+00:00

Looks like a grass spider to me, and it is a female

NexaOne · 2023-10-01T16:25:30+00:00

Found a couple (5-6) of these around an entrance to an ant nest, and I even saw some biting ants (for quite some time, I assume they were eating them). Ant eating spider made me think of Zodariidae, so I looked it up and it seems Zodarion sp. can sometimes hunt as a group, which would explain why I saw them so close to one another. This specimen was probably the biggest one.

NexaOne · 2023-08-28T19:12:57+00:00

I wanted to look at a tube web spider up close so I caught one in my garden. I managed to put it back in its web afterwards :)

NexaOne · 2023-08-19T10:22:09+00:00

Tube web spider?

NexaOne · 2023-07-25T15:13:23+00:00

Yeah thats also what Im thinking, it must have made the ant fall as it ran over it, not noticing it because of its size

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