Foi uma ótima surpresa quando essa lagarta se revelou😍
A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.
Monarch 63rd Street Beach, Jackson Park.
I saw this female Monarch butterfly at The Wilderness Center on a Butterfly-weed plant.
Also, there was a Monarch caterpillar, eggs, and a chrysalis.
Some chrysalis were collected and hung on a screen. After the butterflies emerged, they were released at The Wilderness Center.
In the last 2 weeks the Mantis nymphs are everywhere. :)
Mariposa amate ♀
Calydna sturnula (Geyer, 1837)
Familia: Riodinidae
6 observation
Monarch #3 Right Before Emerging
While Monarch #2 was drying her wings, Monarch #3 was getting ready to emerge. This is how Monarch #3 looked right before the action started.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Crambidae, Spilomelinae
Filodes fulvidorsalis
Ping Tung, Tai Mong Tsai, Sai Kung, Hong Kong.
this must be the "daddy long-legs" of the moth world!
Helecho del género astrolepis, muestra obtenida en las laderas de una montaña cercana a una laguna, la rareza del mismo radica en que no se encontró un espécimen similar en un radio de 100 metros. Muestra hojas segmentada con formas estrelladas, y cubiertas de filamentos delgados y blanquecinos.
This was observed falling from the canopy in a slow circular motion (about a 1 meter diameter circle). The two halves in the picture here connected together until it landed. We were told by a Waorani that it was a parasite, but don't think so.
Spider with eggs. The third picture shows a smaller different shaped spider with similar legs, in the same web.
I am 6 feet from finger tip to finger tip. Big fish!
The red filamentous cyanobacteria that Oncinopus neptunus wear on own body.
One of the most amazing worms I've ever seen. About 8 mm long, climbed out of a clump of tunicates we put in a dish, undoubtedly sponges and other things mixed in too. Very close resemblence to this image, ID'd as A. speciosa at http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/calnemo/GroupSummary.jsp?GRP=Annelids-Polychaetes, but given the image at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34212266 that seems like it might be wrong.
Owlfly
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital campus, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 16th September 2012
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor AF 28-105mm OS lens
(identified by Joshua R. Jones, Texas A&M University, USA)
I watched this ermine catch 5 pika on trips up and down the slopes of Cracked Crag. Chipmunk-sized with a short tail (there are no perspective tricks going on in this picture, but if needed, I can upload others with a more side-on perspective. Pika observation recorded separately here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14002186
Found by a neighbor early afternoon on Oct. 10, 2016, hanging out on an outside wall of an apartment building in (East) Oakland, CA 94605
Three Tree dive site. South Puget Sound. Max depth 21 m