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Boxerfan

(2,533 posts) Sun May 15, 2022, 10:12 AM May 2022

So I had some "Valerian Fisherman" outside my window caught on video!!!!!

Seriously-it is a strange thing-small tube upright hovering around . You can watch the leaves of my fig tree they are not moving. It moves on it's own....I'm calling them Valerian Fisherman for lack of a better term.

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5 minutes of video. 2nd night Timestamps are correct
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uAXY3b2h4qMtKFpFCKIV3QSVOLyx1JI0/view?usp=sharing

10 minutes video. I went back until (they?) it 1st appeared-I think it is impressive.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uE7zkCx0FFkTcgIeIDlZT612LvYBc0iv/view?usp=sharing

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So I had some "Valerian Fisherman" outside my window caught on video!!!!! (Original Post) Boxerfan May 2022 OP

Aliens watching you? 2naSalit May 2022 #1

I'm pretty sure Boxerfan May 2022 #2

Mysterious. dchill May 2022 #4

Looks like moth or caterpillar web material hanging from above the bush. Eyeball_Kid May 2022 #5

But I just got up! 2naSalit May 2022 #6

no vid and refused to load for me. AllaN01Bear May 2022 #3

How strange. Is it something on your lens maybe? I see it casting a shadow on the glass and 58Sunliner May 2022 #7

Maybe Dismalites fly larvae Donkees May 2022 #8

We are creek adjacent-I was thinking spiders Boxerfan May 2022 #9

2naSalit

(86,323 posts)

1. Aliens watching you?

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Sun May 15, 2022, 10:31 AM

May 2022

What are they? Some kind of worm/larvae?

Boxerfan

(2,533 posts)

2. I'm pretty sure

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #1)

Sun May 15, 2022, 10:40 AM

May 2022

What it is. But I really don't know for sure. I figured I'd post it mostly for fun. My cam has probably 14 hours of this. This was the 12-13th and have not see it since.

dchill

(38,442 posts)

4. Mysterious.

Reply to Boxerfan (Reply #2)

Sun May 15, 2022, 10:42 AM

May 2022

Eyeball_Kid

(7,429 posts)

5. Looks like moth or caterpillar web material hanging from above the bush.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #1)

Sun May 15, 2022, 10:49 AM

May 2022

Get some sleep.

2naSalit

(86,323 posts)

6. But I just got up!

Reply to Eyeball_Kid (Reply #5)

Sun May 15, 2022, 10:54 AM

May 2022

I think it, really, is a caterpillar sort of creature building a web or traveling to a habitat of some sort.

Interesting to watch some of these creatures who show up on our windows.

Once had a moth larvae build a chrysalis on our patio door. Got to have the kids watch it. Even got to see when it hatched, it was cool.

AllaN01Bear

(17,987 posts)

3. no vid and refused to load for me.

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Sun May 15, 2022, 10:41 AM

May 2022

58Sunliner

(4,372 posts)

7. How strange. Is it something on your lens maybe? I see it casting a shadow on the glass and

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Sun May 15, 2022, 11:17 AM

May 2022

it should be lit from the other side for that to happen normally.

Donkees

(31,332 posts)

8. Maybe Dismalites fly larvae

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Sun May 15, 2022, 02:02 PM

May 2022

Boxerfan

(2,533 posts)

9. We are creek adjacent-I was thinking spiders

Reply to Donkees (Reply #8)

Sun May 15, 2022, 02:09 PM

May 2022

Those are pretty similar. I see long thin strands of what looks to be spider web attached at times in the 10 minute video.

And there is a 60+ foot Honey Locust tree above where they are doing the "fishing " from. So Maybe the dismalites fly larvae or a clever spider fishing the breeze.

At least I hope so...

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