I wasn't aware O pallidula extended down into NSW?

I'm not sure we get that one here. Also the crab pictured had a carapace width of 40-50mm at least, which I think is too big for Ocypode pallidula.

this is definitely not pallidula, which is restricted to offshore islands off QLD
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/74283-identifying-australian-ghost-crabs

Thank you @tmessick Again, you are giving me a lot of food for thought in the Plant kingdom. I have seen several corrections from you in the last 2 days. I really appreciate the time you give me to help me learn and get this correct. Unfortunately many of these plant observations that may have errors are under quite a bit of snow - or are not in their active growth phase right now. So thank goodness for geotagging! I know where many of these are anyway. So come April, I will take a look and maybe get better pictures and or just make corrections! I will tag you with further pictures if necessary. Thank you again Tim Messick! And I'm looking forward to wildflower season 2023!!

I'd appreciate you thoughts on this observation @david99 @biohexx1 @kyle_eaton_photography

Oops, got here late. Sorry, was out iNatting today. I'm not good with Genus Haemorhous.

Congrats on being the top observer in the preserve! Very impressive.

Let us know which insect is the object of the obs and I will re-instate it.

@raycama thanks others cropped out

@heikelb

@connlindajo

Wow! What an interesting lichen. Sorry, I have never observed one like this and am unable to help you with an ID.

I would like to draw attention on an identification / interpretation problem that seems to be getting worse with each day:
Poneridia semipullata is most likely misidentified here on iNaturalist and on ALA, i.e. there are currently 160 "Research grade" observations misidentified,

El reconocimiento radular dirá con exactitud a qué especie corresponde.. Pero de todas formas, por morfología se asemeja bastante más a D. odhneri que a D. punctuolata, más que nada, porque punctuolata se caracteriza por tener manchas en dorso del manto, de hecho es comunmente nombrada como babosa cerda manchada por lo mismo, y no es el caso del ejemplar que muestro en la fotografía. De hecho, presenta varias características que lo hacen diferente a Doris punctuolata. Habrá que estudiar más a fondo las especies para llegar a una conclusión real.

Which insect?

Since you have no indicated a preference and only one insect can be IDed here (although you can repost the same photo as many times as needed to ID the others) I am going to make this obs casual. Let us know if you change your mind @martin487
From left to right: a mayfly, a Braconid, a beetle (aquatic type??) and a non-biting midge.

@raycama thanks

This looks different to the example in Lindsay’s site. I think this is a female, the ovipositor doesn’t extend @lindsay-popple

Can't quite tell, but I suspect this may be Brewerimitella breweri. Do you have more pics?

If it were P. pentandra the stamens would be opposite petals instead of alternate with them. Note Brewerimitella breweri is synonymous with P. breweri in this key:

https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_keys.php?key=69022

@texasgirl27 - while I get a pretty good feeling this is S. neglecta, unfortunately this angle makes it a very difficult to make a strong ID. Did you happen to hear it call?
Otherwise I think this needs to be left at the genus level.

@bluebellprince
@tstou10
From 2020? I'll have to blame this one iNat first and to me second for not looking close enough.
This must have been another case of iNat autofilling an ID (I think that's been fixed for some time now but it was really bad for a while) because we don't have any C. caroliniana around here at all (that I'm aware of) and those leaves are not even close to the species we have here! We have acres and acres of Spring Beauty carpeting the ground in some places around here and this isn't even close. Thank you for you both catching this one! I think I post too much too fast!

We do have Carolina spring beauty in Michigan, but the C. virginiana is definitely more common. No worries, and happy to help. I'm going through all dicots and angiosperms in Michigan right now which is why I'm identifying your old stuff (only ~100 pages left ! lol). So you might see my name a few more times :)

@bluebellprince
I guess what I shudda said is I haven't seen any Carolina yet in the areas I go to most often which is Livingston County.

I'm glad to see that many IDers are working on old ones like this! It's neat to get up in the morning and see a bunch of IDs for the oldies! I look forward to any IDs you can provide. Thanks!

Nice one!

Can't quite tell, but I suspect this may be Brewerimitella breweri. Do you have more pics?

If it were P. pentandra the stamens would be opposite petals instead of alternate with them. Note Brewerimitella breweri is synonymous with P. breweri in this key:

https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_keys.php?key=69022

Looks good for a Eastern Boxelder. What suggests otherwise? Range? @michaelpirrello

No, range is okay for eastern, but veins were just slightly red and there's this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136965626

Ah, I see. Are there areas where to two species overlap?

See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/compare?s=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

Not sure if these are mines. There were several leaves with very similar markings/mines on this live oak. I took a picture of two separate leaves to show how similar all of the markings/mines were.

The leaves do not end in tendrils, this is not a Vicia

Thanks Murray

@mossgeek @georgeg @tayloria your views appreciated

I would say either orthotrichum or sm possibly grimmia. Would need microscope leaf photos

Oh this is uk.. definately tayloria

This species is planted as a street tree along University Ave. See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146585763

At least one seedling seen in the area. It's not a root sucker either. Nearest tree more than 50ft away, and they have narrow root systems anyways. May be potentially naturalizing.

@oscargsol, checking the CCUD database I find that Carminatia recondita and C. tenuiflora are both reported from the Ixtapan de la Sal area. You probably have this information, but according to McVaugh, the corollas in the first enlarge from the base to the tip while those of the second are linear or narrowed. The corollas in this plant appear to be opening up. Also, the floral spikes of the first are generally secund, while those of the second are not. This plant has floral spikes that are strongly secund. Both of these characters point to C. recondita. Unfortunately, the most diagnostic character requires examination of the achenes under a microscope, which I didn't do. In the first the pappus is connected to the apex of the achene by a pilose neck, while the pappus of the second is connected directly to the apex. Thank you again for all your help!

@oscargsol, rereading McVaugh's treatment I found this statement: "A genus long supposed to consist of a single species ranging from Texas and Arizona to Chiapas. The two species recognized here are so similar in general appearance that they are for all practical purposes indistinguishable by the unaided eye. They are perhaps most easily separated by inspection of the tips of the corollas in the flowering heads."
The corollas that appear to be "opening up" is consistent with C. recondita. I need to look for the other taxon for comparison.

Carminatia includes 4 species: C. alvarezii and C. papagayana are more recent additions.
I distinguish C. recondita from C. tenuiflora by the position of the capitula, as you point.
Photo 7 looks like C. tenuiflora to me, at least the topmost plant. Photos 6, 8 and 9 I am not sure and the remaining ones are C. recondita.

@oscargsol. Thank you for your input! When I took the pictures I didn't know that there was more than one species. Like many Acanthaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Asteraceae, etc. I suppose it is possible that C. recondita and C. tenuiflora were growing together and I took pictures of both. I will separate them and go back next growing season now that I know more to take a new set of pictures.

@oscargsol, creo que ahora solamente son fotos de C. recondita, gracias por tu ayuda!

Gracias de nuevo por tu ayuda oscargsol!

Goanna but what type

@rynxs under the currently taxonomic framework by Mark Chase (which Kew follows), Dendrobieae becomes Dendrobiinae, a subtribe of Malaxideae and sister to Malaxidinae. The current genera in Malaxideae will be moved to Malaxidinae. I can graft all the current Malaxideae genera to Malaxidinae now and make a draft for the change for Dendrobieae; I just need to mark that as a deviation, is that correct?

@deionsmall Welcome to iNat!

@deionsmall Is this your own photo? The symbol in the bottom left seems to indicate that this is a screenshot from Google Images.

None of these photos show diagnoistic features, sorry!

Really? That's fairly distinct given the leaf shape, lack of spines on the leaf vein undersides, mucronate tip, etc.

Thanks for correcting!

@oscargsol

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