found amongst decaying leaves.
was moving when found, similarly to an annelid
Just comically large eyes on this tiny guy
Je connaissais pas ! C'est extraordinairement cool !
Rainy day, under a log and close to a stream (<50ft).
Collected from gravel in the Nihotupu stream. Videos included to show the movement of the large gills.
Spent a little over an hour mostly looking at two oaks with low branches, snapping pics of galls and critters on the leaves and branches. Also brought an old peach to see what I could attract.
All of my observations from today:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-02-07&place_id=any&user_id=joemdo
At night.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Seen with Noah Fenwick (@noahfenwick ), Ben Ackerley (@benackerley ) and Christian Cosgrove (@kakarikinz )
in the absence of a trunk or stone to lean on, a capybara may be an option;
I have observed these two individuals do this twice;
see also
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/nelson_wisnik/21258-the-friendly-capybara
Been 4-5 years since I've found one and tonight only found two
first waterbear! found in lichen/moss on rock wall in woods
Chesser Island Boardwalk; Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. March 9, 2022.
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This is the greatest concentration of insects I've ever seen. Springtails in the Invercargill Estuary. Could be ten million or more in this patch and other patches along the beach. Really weird.
Gall with exit hole on huckleberry oak (Quercus vacciniifolia).
So, this is a polyergus bilateral gynandromorph! ½ worker caste (red), ½ alate (black). The mandibles, eyes, single wing, and antennae are the more obvious caste traits reflected in each half of this individual. Found them shortly after leaving the colony possibly (I found one a few feet away).
See: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124878696
& https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124879042
ID courtesy of Wayne Maddison! Found in oak leaf litter
An amazing glass squid. When I disturbed it it would tuck in its tentacles and eyes, and even its fins and show big spots. So cool. The area around the brain was brightly iridescent. There are very faint long tubercles around the mantle if that helps with species id.
Really hard to get nice shots with a compact camera sadly.
~2.5cm long
Adult female with nymphs. And a mite? on the adult female's back.
Believe that it was inside of a muddy worm tube
Was from a core sample in Estero Bay
~2 mm body. Was observed ovipositing into Phenacoccus mealybugs on a Boerhavia coccinea stem.
Guessing at the name, please correct me. She was 2mm long MAX, so tiny I could barely see her without the camera.
Adult male! (Catch and release)
growing on horse dung near a horse paddock
Seen on private property in Guaynabo. Cannot show location
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night.
In beach drift on sand with plant litter on high tide line.
Attracted to lights at night.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a damp decomposing wood.
I didn't expect this when I flipped the piece of wood. Carefully placed back after getting images.
I don't want this one :)
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest (remnant), at night.
observation is for the blue structure on the edge of the Komplex Padina pavonica. Is it part of the Padina or is it another specimen atop?
Ok so this is the Gold-eye lichen, Teloschistes chrysophthalmus.
But what are the little red things ??
Some form of fruiting body ??
I'm guessing the little black hemispheres are lichenicolous fungi.
Abundant in shallow watercourse