Very cooperative and posed for the camera!
On Common Hackberry (214525706).
No clue on this one. They were popping out of the fruit!
There were similar galls on leaves and stems. But after checking gallformers.org I didn't see a good match for galls on fruit.
Stuck it in Celticecis for lack of any other ideas.
Q. falcata. Cross sections in pics 4-6. q-marilandica-bubble-gall? q-marilandica-globular-vein-gall?
on Mountain Mahogany
On Acer floridanum(?)
Rhopalomyia a-tridentata-conical-teardrop-gall? On Great Basin Sagebrush
As we know, Acorn Woodpeckers - (Melanerpes formicivorus), can be very loud with their vocalizations, which caused me to look up. In the first photo, a territorial dispute is in progress between two Acorn Woodpeckers, while another watches from below. In the second photo, I believe one Acorn Woodpecker dived bombed another while being upside-down, and to the side of the other, as one bird is back side up, and the other is belly side up. At first I didn't know what I was looking at in the second photo. What do you see?
Host: Blue Elder (Sambucus cerulea)
Host observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205201895
These lice were crawling in and out of the gaps in this stem gall, unsure if they are the cause of it:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205331598
Host: Blue Elder (Sambucus cerulea)
Host observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205201895
Corkscrew twig near bud gall, very hairy on willow sp
on Fraxinus aff. chinensis
Red oaks, possibly Q. pagoda
Swamp Box or Golden Bouquet
On Syzygium.
Amorpha canescens after dark in remnant sandy hill prairie.
Ovipositing on Galium spurium
наверное это галлы на веках ели
host:Eurya loquaiana
Best educated guess based on similar galls produced by members of the genus, in this case on Cardiospermum. See also https://link.springer.com/article/10.1017/S1742758410000135
On Viola (?)
Maybe, or something else
Decided to collect seeds from the Solomon’s plume this year. They require double stratification but what the heck, I’m very comfortable with failure.
What I like about this plant is that I found it in much smaller numbers, limping along 15 years ago when I first started clearing invasives like honeysuckle. The seed bank under invasives has never gotten better in southwest Ohio, only worse. This means that the natives that have managed to persist amidst this flood are particularly important. The reason for their persistence must be either geography or genetics.
If the reason is genetics, it might be more important to propagate natives from the exact places where invasives are the worst.
4th pic - what the seeds looked like after being removed from the pulp and just before the first stratification.
Plant: Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis)
The world's next carnivorous plant? (Notice the atypical leaves whose margins are fused; consider similarities to leaves of Sarracenia & Nepenthes.) :) :) :)
= https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108655977
I'm sure this is a kind of malformation (bud gall) of Cleistogenes spp. (the plant) or anything else in Shandong
seemed on Phragmites australis
Toumey's Agave Blooming in the Browns Mountain area of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve
@stevejones This is the first time I've seen this beauty. It matches this sighting so I went with it:
Zeltnera nudicaulis
https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxauthid=1&taxon=3635&clid=1
I couldn't find it in the Preserve checklist and wondered if it's new to the list?
Hope to get a sharper photo some day