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This picture was taken with a non-digital camera in Fall of 1984, I can't tell which day or month. I took several caterpillars from the WILLOW trees around Hubing Pond to my apartment within an easy walk of the Pond, where I could easily get willow branches to feed them. That's where the caterpillars made their cocoons, and also where this adult eclosed in the spring of 1985, close enough to get back to the Pond. I can't be sure these are all one individual but thought they should go together for convenience If you don't like that, I can separate the three.

Under a rotting log: these are quite chunky, up to 8cm long, orange legs and head, brown jaws, and make a "C" shape; their gut contents can sometimes be seen through their lower half, as here in my photographs.

For an impressively sized Giant Stag Beetle adult near here, cf. my inaturalist.org/observations/65930236

Backyard birding, Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. ©williamwisephoto.com

• Clouds and wind, 71°F, low 43°F.
• Sunrise 7:32 am; Sunset 7:47 pm
• Daylight Hours: 12 hours, 16 minutes (+2m 7s)
• Moon: 98.0% Waxing Gibbous

My first River Otters within the Oke Refuge... two of them!

Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. October 29, 2022. Paddling green canoe trail from Kingfisher Landing entrance southward to Durdin Prairie and back.

• Location: N30.92738° W82.15568°
• Cloudy, with a high near 77.
• Sunrise 7:42 AM; Sunset 6:43 PM
• Daylight hours: 11 hours 1 minute (-1m 41s)

See and learn more about the incredible Okefenokee at www.okefenokee.photography

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. Monday, April 17, 2023.

• Location: Green canoe trail from Kingfisher Landing to Bluff Lake N30.88501° W82.14271°
• Sunny with high near 78, low 43.
• Sunrise 6:59 AM; Sunset 7:59 PM
• Daylight hours: 13 hours 0 minute (+1m 47s)

See and learn more about the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on my blog at www.okefenokee.photography

More of it on this tree: inaturalist.org/observations/198669024, inaturalist.org/observations/199068527, inaturalist.org/observations/199068942, inaturalist.org/observations/199069798, inaturalist.org/observations/199070627, & inaturalist.org/observations/199072128
For the Spotted Ruffled Lichen (Parmotrema ultralucens), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/198746914
For the Obscure Shield Lichen (Heterodermia obscurata), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/198749140

With natural daylight and using a 365nm UV light to show how it fluoresces
More of it on this tree: inaturalist.org/observations/198746908, inaturalist.org/observations/199068527, inaturalist.org/observations/199068942, inaturalist.org/observations/199069798, inaturalist.org/observations/199070627, & inaturalist.org/observations/199072128

ID tentative. Accepted iNat's top suggestion.
Found inside some well-rotted wood. (I broke into it trying to identify the host of a fungus: 198023950)

This cyanobacterium, initially a small, hollow gelatinous globule, becomes a leathery, flattened, convoluted, gelatinous mass with other nearby colonies; inside the thin sheath numerous unbranched hair-like structures (trichomes) is a string of short cells that are bacteria, thus having no nucleus nor internal membrane system

For the American Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans) last photo, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/194469547

As of the upload, this is the only Fragrant Virgin's-Bower (Clematis flammula) Observation in Latin America

First photo close-cropped to show flight, the rest of the photos full size, with them roosting high up in the big, tall tree below this one flying, and then, when we came out from visiting the museum, they were gone!

For a fruit bat roosting kind of solo, above the others in this tree, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/192439294

Fruit bat acro*bat*ics here: inaturalist.org/observations/192435661 & inaturalist.org/observations/192437621

When I stepped out into the dark, I felt a soft lump. No shoes were involved. We both survived without serious injury. Toad moved to opposite side of doorway. I apologized. I feel tolerated, but not accepted and will never be sure if I've been forgiven. That is fair. Be well, Toad.

There was a toad at the door the previous night as well, maybe the same?

Crop/full size; Engelmann's Arrowhead (Sagittaria engelmanniana) inaturalist.org/observations/180717109; for the pinkish Swamp Smartweed (Persicaria hydropiperoides), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/180701285; & for the coppery Least Skipper (Ancyloxypha numitor) butterfly, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/137375641