Leaving us
Thanks to some sleuthing from @ceiseman who has been going through many observations added to the project, and @harsiparker, the mysterious case of the mysterious case has been solved.
It had been observed by several users in North America and assumed to belong to Arthropoda, but it was, in fact, a geranium seed and its dispersal mechanism (a filament trailing from it).
Here it is:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68020364
Staying with us is an observation from Ukraine (by @dinasafina) of Polistes dominula building a nest inside a chunk of animal bone:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54959613
Happy observing!
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I do appreciate the mention and though I too had wondered for some time whether it might be a seed of some kind, I was actually little more than a supporting player in the solving of this mystery. As far as I'm aware, @lotteryd was the one who first presented evidence linking these unusual structures to geranium seeds on this post:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15281806#activity_identification_133611844
Cool! Lotteryd does burn through a lot of IDs!
Sorry I forgot!
I love a mystery! ;)
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