on salmonberry in hyperoceanic drippy splash zone of water fall.
Yakan Point, north Graham Island, BC Haida Gwaii Adula californiensis April 28, 1998
This may be the first reported record of this (locally) rare fly in BC/Canada since the 90s! (see Cannings 2006). This is one of around ten that was seen at this location. It was flying around, landing, and seemed to be feeling the sand with the end of it's abdomen.
The 3rd picture is of the habitat for reference.
Unsure about this one, possibly just a weird form of window feeding
Photo from just above northernmost point on map here:
http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1110459
Gravelly path margins. Update on: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149288423
New season of sporophytes, undifferentiated capsules in early October.
Many individuals ovipositing on Quercus garryana buds.
Seems like a really good candidate for R. nigrella, will have to update later.
Insect eggs of some sort?
I know I see these show up every year but never really took the time to actually find out what they were before. Seems like a lot more than usual this year all throughout the TNRD area from what I've seen. On tips of Big sagebrush branches.
stem piece broken off to show hollow base
On Rhododendron groenlandicum.
cc @fmcghee @bstarzomski - looks like this grows on native stuff too! I bet you guys can expand the range of this hugely this summer.
Very intrigued to find this on Purple Sanicle, which is not a common species in our parts
On basil from the store Photo 2: x200, Photo 3 x 200 underside of a 'tape' of the mold. Photo 4 x100 x 20 ocular in Lactic acid, Photo 5 (Lower left of photo looks like an oospore of Peronosporales, with spikes coming off the antheridium - see pg 23 The 5th kingdom) and 6 - looks like brown fuzzy sporangiophore of Peronospora belbahri, maybe? Photo 7 better close up on the fuzz. Much better microscope images than mine (clearer)https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178909988
These were accidentally acquired along with a Platanthera orchid I'd collected on July 1, 2021, south of the Peace River in British Columbia, Canada, north of Jackfish Lake Road.
Host plant here:
https://inaturalist.ca/observations/101914155
These beasties turn up in the plant press, munching their way through my nice Platanthera specimen inflorescences...these are pics of a few dried out ones that were still stuck to the flowers.
on Aphanes sp leaf
Top of a rocky peak, ~2700m. Cool fly!
@RBCM This is the third record of the species in Canada.
Confused by this one! Definitely looks like a Polygala, but not sure what species it would be. Looks a bit like P. vulgaris, from Europe...
50-100 plants, most in flower. Leafy stolons present. Unusual occurrence for a species associated with interior BC.
Madwort? Damp gravely area beside lake. Bit weedy, sometimes cattle. Blue Lake, South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area, Osoyoos, BC, Canada
Awesome find by @rambryum and @iancruickshank on Physcocarpos canes along river. Super tiny.
leaf spot fungi on Vaccinium?
Champion Lakes Provincial Park, West Kootenays, BC
Formerly Anabaena azollae. Strands of vegetative cells, plus a few nitrogen-fixing heterocysts (the larger cells) which are surrounded by sheaths. Extracted from Azolla filiculoides by squishing a piece of the fern on the microscope slide using the back of a spoon. 400x magnification.
Observation of the fern at:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189172422
Around 5pm today in the middle of the road. Large 3ft or more snake. Hisisng, loud, almost like a rattle noise. But no tail rattle. Defensive while I kept distance. Aggressive. Never took its eyes off me. Opened mouth often. No teeth. Black eyes. Black tongue. Large center. Moments prior a large barred owl flew past my windshield and watched me as I approached snake. An epic moment in my day. I was going to pick up my son who was with a native medicine woman.
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on cedar bark
Basal squamules sparse and diminutive. Podetial cups with terminal holes and distinctly flared margins (>1.5mm). Esorediate.
Probably braunii, but indusia entire. Many plants in talus under sitka alders. None of the plants showing bulbils on rachis.
In crack of dry asphalt laneway. AI says Gypsophila paniculata but seeds >5 and inflorescence wrong. Spergula & Spergularia have sepals alternating with petals- I don't see it in this.
Seeds (see last picture) not winged but with lines or ridges.
Hopefully someone will correct or confirm this. Thanks.
maybe? on Betula
@fmcghee - legitimately shocked to see you haven't already posted this
on planted rhododendron beside parking lot
On shale Bluff
Growing in sandy shoreline at Nels Bight.
Castle Wildland PP. Mossy seep on south-facing cliff.
Small remaining patch of sandy dune-like habitat. In final photo, this sedge is on the left with Carex macrocephala (Large-headed/Bighead Sedge) in the centre/right side for scale.
Island in Hague Lake, Cortes I.
Host: Columbia Manzanita Arctostaphylos columbiana