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Genus BryobiaObserver
regnierdaDescription
Since the shepherd's purse started coming up along my fence line a few weeks ago, I've been noticing teeny, tiny, reddish flecks of something on the leaves. For the longest time I thought they were just tiny pieces of lint or something, though I couldn't figure out where such lint might be coming from.
While editing the photos in https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155955427, I noticed the same fleck in the last picture, and upon zooming in I realized that it wasn't lint at all, but some kind of insect.
I went out and took some pictures. This is the best one I got. The picture was taken with a 20x hand lens and my phone was set to 2x digital zoom.
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Cixiid Planthoppers (Family Cixiidae)Observer
regnierdaDescription
On Solidago canadensis.
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)Observer
sarah473Description
One in first photo. Two perched on same branch in second photo
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Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)Observer
gaminghyenaDescription
A red fox in my neighborhood.
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White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)Observer
stephen1923Description
Excuse me...
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Cavernous Crystalwort (Riccia cavernosa)Observer
jyhmmlDescription
numerous in a zone at the wet top of the riverbank, just above exposed sandbar due to lowwater level
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Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)Observer
rachelkunchallDescription
Capturing a fish in the pond, then flying off with it
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Woolly Plantain (Plantago patagonica)Observer
jyhmmlDescription
Sorry for the grass blade in the foreground, obscuring one of the three plant stems...
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Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus)Observer
jyhmmlDescription
While I'm taking pictures, he's thinking, "Boy, do I hate flash photography!"
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Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis)Observer
jyhmmlDescription
Caught as bycatch in a pitfall trap. Thankfully, it was alive, so I carefully released it after taking this picture.
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Western Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta ssp. bellii)Observer
jyhmmlDescription
This chap was very little and quite a distance from water...and there was a second of the same size right there also. Could they have emerged from eggs in a nest nearby, or hibernated together?
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
michellebiodrowskiDescription
on scat
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Observer
jyhmmlDescription
on old branch of apple-ring acacia (Faidherbia albida) split for firewood
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Phloeosinus dentatusObserver
jyhmmlDescription
inside house, possible from cedar or pine wood brought indoors
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jyhmmlDescription
USA: IA: 7 km N of Hawarden, 43.057174, -96.472548, 07.06.2019, col. J. D. Hummel, pitfall trap on prairie slope with snowberry nearby
