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Photos courtesy of Samantha M. Clements & the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.

This is the true A. chagosensis, endemic to Chagos and an obligate symbiont of Heteractis magnifica.

Compared to the undescribed A. cf bicinctus in Chagos, it is smaller, more brown than orange, with dark ventral fins, and thin stripes. Juveniles lack subapical dark spots in the dorsal and anal fins (present in juveniles of A. cf bicintus).

First Canadian record of family/species, Epipyropidae/Fulgoraecia exigua.

Found Acanalonia conica with white growth on side of abdomen. I thought it was a fungus but it is actually a fuzzy looking caterpillar/larva, feeding on the planthopper.

Senecio pleistocephalus?

See fly
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49961570
See fly
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49961574
See beetle
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49961583
See bug
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49961584

The first time I had ever seen this, i videoed the entire event as well from entry to exit. It was as if this species swims all the time. I sent it to a frogmouth expert and she had never seen that before. The bird chose to swim and flew away very easily after its swim. There appeared to be no explanation for the bird swimming as it was not particularly hot or anything unusual.

spent the morning with @nancynorman and @dhend9 along a section of the upper Guadalupe River north of San Antonio, Texas.

We watched this Dragonhunter totally consume the Queen. When the Dragonhunter picked a perch farther back into the vegetation I was able to pick off the small twig it was on and bring it out into the open for more images. The female Dragonhunter was a real photo ham and never seemed to mind our close handling or photos. She finally flew off to go hunting again.

All three toucans were perched together high up on a tree. I was very lucky they showed up in this picture, I was in the canal below on a boat. I will make a separate entry for the rainbow toucan in the corner.

Mature specimens of H. karnatakaensis and H. wayanadensis sp. nov. were observed/
collected during the late pre-monsoon (April–May) and early monsoon (June–July) seasons. Only juveniles of
Hindumanes were spotted during the post-monsoon (October–January) season.Specimens collected from under the leaves of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) in the moist mixed
deciduous forest of Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India