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Lesser Grass Blue (Zizina otis)Observer
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I know it's a lycaenid, and I made an educated guess based on a Balinese butterfly list that this is probably the species but I'm a little uncertain. Seen hanging around some cultivated flowers at a resort in Bali.

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Striped Small Carpenter Bees (Subgenus Ceratinidia)Observer
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Lotta bee hanging out around the cultivated flowers in the resort, except I have no idea what species they are.

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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
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Slight different from the other mushrooms I saw growing on logs in the underbrush of Gunung Tompotika

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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
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Found on some dead logs while hiking Gunung Tompotika

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Genus BaviaObserver
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While on vacation, saw this jumping spider appear on my table

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Green Heron (Butorides virescens)Observer
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Cond Puesta del Sol Loc 17, Marina Vallarta, 48350 Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico (Google, OSM)Description
Right next to the crocodile...

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Racer Mangrove Crab (Goniopsis pulchra)Observer
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Cond Puesta del Sol Loc 17, Marina Vallarta, 48350 Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico (Google, OSM)Description
Right next to the crocodile...

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Round-backed Millipedes (Superorder Juliformia)Observer
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While night time herping, found some millipedes too!

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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
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Near Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park camp site

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Smooth-eyed Bushbrown (Orsotriaena medus)Observer
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Near Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park camp site

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Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Allies (Suborder Caelifera)Observer
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Near the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park camp site

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Lesser Long-tongued Fruit Bat (Macroglossus minimus)Observer
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Caught near the village in a disturbed forest

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Grasshopper on the rope bridge near the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park camp grounds.

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Saw this flower by camp grounds near the entrance area of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park.

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Xanthoid Crabs (Superfamily Xanthoidea)Observer
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Jalan Raya Lintas Barat Sumatera Tanjung Setia Kecamatan Pesisir Selatan Pesisir Barat Lampung 34875 (Google, OSM)Description
A small crab found while tidepooling. It has such a beautiful spotted pattern

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Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)Observer
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Fungus found on some fallen trees in a camp ground near Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park

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California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus)Observer
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Tons of sea lions on the rocks near the docks as we were leaving the bay

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Noni (Morinda citrifolia)Observer
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I see this plant in the Philippines and in Indonesia, but have no idea what the scientific name is...

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Lesser Long-tongued Fruit Bat (Macroglossus minimus)Observer
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We were at Mambukal Resort as part of our evening activities at the 4th International Southeast Asian Bat Conference. We got rained out a bit in the evening so we were only able to net a few pteropodids in the woods near the hiking trails

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Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)Observer
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Compared to a few years ago there are a lot more cottontails around here now.

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Monarch (Danaus plexippus)Observer
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I was in Chicago visiting the Field Museum to measure some bat skulls. Saw this in the morning walking around the park near the museum. Pretty sure it's a monarch but if it ends up being a viceroy, lemme know haha

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American Robin (Turdus migratorius)Observer
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It's kind of spring here in DC? Hard to tell with the fact that we were supposed to get snow again this weekend. Can't really go birding for very long right now in this cold.

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Black Longspine Urchin (Diadema setosum)Observer
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Near the jetty, there's not a ton of natural predators for the sea urchins so there's huge groups of them sporadically in the shallows.

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Apples (Genus Malus)Observer
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Started seeing a lot of these fruiting now near the bus station. I'm not great at ornamental plants...some kind of crabapple?

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Heterotrematan Crabs (Zoosubsection Heterotremata)Observer
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We found a lot of tiny crabs found during tide pooling, every rock revealed a new one. Still going through all the photos

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True Mangroves (Genus Rhizophora)Observer
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I think this is Rhizophora apiculata. One of the mangroves we reconned.

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Indo-Pacific Sand Star (Archaster typicus)Observer
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Found on the beach while we were waiting for the flying foxes to emerge at dusk.