"Willamette phase" Mountain Garter Snake (Thamnophis elegans elegans) found along the CZ Trail.
Bursting out of the belly of a road-killed Red-shouldered Hawk. Probably yesterday's lunch, as today was quite cloudy. Further impressive as the ditches are full of snow and most of the water is frozen over
Found and photographed by Brian Hess
Counting DORs, this was part of a fairly ridiculous 10 snake species in a day - cal king, desert night, shovelnose, glossy, longnose, coachwhip, patchnose, gopher, rosy, sidewinder. 7 were found in less than 2 hours of road-cruising with the rosy-gopher-patchnose on the crawl the next day.
Comparison.
From left: Stipa lepida, Stipa pulchra, Stipa coronata.
Western fence lizard basking on a tree trunk. The lizard was covered in fungal spores, which gave it a yellow coloration.
Large polygynous colony under stone on SW exposed hillside with Artemisia, Arctostaphylos, and Ceanothus shrubs.
Three dealate queens were observed together with brood and workers under the same stone. I'm not sure if this has been observed in the species before.
San Diego County, California, US
Oh, no! iNaturalist doesn’t have a clue! It was all over the area, but I don’t know what it is either.
Lice of unknown species near the eye of Ivory Gull
Ejemplar 38. Para más información visita: https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/megamouth/mega38.html
What is this thing? I can’t figure it out! A bit desiccated.
7-8 individuals observed. Steady rain, 12-13 degrees C. Please note that this location is closed to public access.
11 Aug 2017.
Buckingham Springs, Bucks Co, PA.
Found on a cultivated Zinnia on the patio.
Hybrid?
The timber of the Mulanje Cedar, which is endemic to the mountain, is highly prized, and that is what many of the woodcutters are after.
The cedar is Malawi's national tree, and is protected by law, but there's no enforcement.
Our guide told us that the woodcutter who actually cuts the trees and carries the boards down from the mountain only makes a handful of dollars for each ~12 foot plank. The people who buy the planks and resell them are the ones who make the real money.
I’m at a bit of a loss on this one. At first thought spider eggs which I thought was confirmed when I found a small spider inside of the mass but then found another small spider of an obviously different species, and when we pulled apart the mass we found the shell of a much larger insect that was not a spider.
Going off of iNat suggestion and visual similarity to eggs but eager to hear suggestions.
Found on Otay Mesa
Waif plants, possibly L. stoechas
Head of Scove Canyon, just off Sunrise Highway. Collected 12/10/16.
Trapped calico American lobster donated by a lobsterman to a restaurant for live display. Digital photographed by me as a record. The calico trait is based on post embryonic crossing over of a recessive trait in epidermal tissue.
Beautiful twig mimic caterpillar had been feeding on Malosma laurina leaf. Great camouflage.
Every year, in mid-July, large numbers of humans, of both sexes and multiple age classes, congregate at select river mouths in the Upper Cook Inlet, Kenai Peninsula. The species is in pursuit of readily available protein in the form of hundreds of thousands of sockeye salmon. Experts label this annual congregation, the PU Fishery, and it is associated with several other species, including members of the Larus genus (gulls) and Diptera order (flies and mosquitos). Increasingly, this concentration of people represents a seasonal migration from the Anchorage metro area to the Central Peninsula. Local monitors of human behavior (i.e., newspaper journalists) have suggested the migration represents a doubling of the resident population, and subsidizes the amount of biological waste and other refuse present in local habitats. Resident humans have been observed complaining about displacement on movement corridors and practicing avoidance behavior during peak migration times. Other residents appear to mix readily with immigrant humans, although the extent to which genetic intermixing occurs during this period is currently unknown.
I was honored to spend a fair amount of time with Roger Tory Peterson between 1985 and 1995. He passed away in 1996. This image shows Roger on a private ranch in Kenedy Co., Texas where we were photographing birds in Sept., 1995. This image scanned from a slide.
I was honored to spend a fair amount of time with Roger Tory Peterson between 1985 and 1995. He passed away in 1996. This image shows Roger and Victor Emanuel on May 1, 1985 on a birding trip on the Texas coast. This image scanned from a slide.
Dude was found mobbin around the brush totally close to the marsh. Little dude got hectic and laid one right on my arms, I was like woooah. It was a mellow day, overcast yet warm. Found alongside the epic HSU herp class.
Keonehe'ehe'e / Sliding Sands Trail.
Found in the middle of the trail, I think dead. Moved it off to the plants on the side.
Hosts clinging to undersides of Rhus integrifolia leaves in coastal sage scrub.
Swept from mixed grasses and low growing herbs in open field with diffuse Pinus jeffreyi.