Walked in on this situation and immediately walked back out
Part of a strange.... structure. I am not associated with it's construction.
...I am also not responsible for the cigarette
Wo! Unexpected spot for these
On Viburnum lentago in shrubby wetland. Covered in fungus?
Un macho que acaba de eclosionar en mi jardín. Su coloración y marcas son muy extrañas. Las alas de abajo no funcionan y no puede volar.
supposed to be aberrant Aglais Io
Medium-sized sphinx moth, reddish-brown with purple hints, no obvious pattern. Not sure if it is just a worn individual, or melanistic.
This pair mating formed a heart shape.
Unsure if wasted (lots of healthy adults around) or just gull predation at low tide
Hosting on my poor Hyalophora euryalus
Over the span of 2 days one cat died, followed by 2 more the following 24 hours. One remains unaffected for now and I am bleaching their mesh pop ups.
Symptoms include darkening of the skin and liquification.
It is believed to have hitched a ride on willow I've been feeding to them.
After work edit, an Io has succumbed. Same symptoms. Bleaching all containers and separately quarantining all 3 species of caterpillars.
Edit, 26th: The last Hyalophora has passed away.
Florida Bluet riding a sandwich through the inky void. This is not an altered photo, nor was this my sandwich.
Caught almost casting distance from the jetty at Mt Sinai harbor
With Red-shanked Grasshopper
Aberrant species
why is this caterpillar split in half exactly down the middle with two different colors. ive heard of bilateral gynandromorphism, so i was wondering if this was that or if its just random that its perfectly split in half by color?
Why is it color green? Update, looked for hours multiple days after the 13th of August in Oak Openings with no luck, as I figured. Sent photos to some universities trying to gain some knowledge.
Albinism to some degree?
Schooling with 3 others
Body length a tad short of 600mm! Emerged from a sparassid. Found curled up into a Gordian tangle, suggesting a Horsehair Worm or Gordian Worm (due to their knottiness)belonging to the Nematomorpha, usually seen emerging from crickets and grasshoppers. It appears, however, that such worms that come from spiders are more likely mermithid Nematodes. All references I could find quote Poinar 1985. The brief text in ADS2014:(p.19)that deals with nematode parasites of spiders is also copied from that article.
Little seems to be knowm about life cycles or identification of long, tough helminths that live in large spiders. Poinar (1985) mentions mermithids up to 150mm and Nematomorphs that parasitise insects are said to be as long as a meter. By size and general appearance this worm resembles Nematomorphs I've seen emerging from Cockroaches.
I dipped the worm in hot water to kill it so I could satisfy my curiosity about its length. It is now preserved in cane spirits if anyone is interested?
parasitic nematode?
~32 cm long parasitic worm that emerged from a Mecodema sculptuartum. The beetle was found wandering around during the day and then overnight the worm emerged from it. The beetle was still alive and active despite the damage to it's abdomen (visible in the 2nd and 3rd photos).
Squished two harlequin bugs (Murgantia histrionica) and one was parasitized.
This appears to be two spiders of different species tying up the same bug. The yellow one is doing most of the work, but the other one comes in to help for short periods of time. (The observation is of the yellow spider, for IDing purposes.)
I think this junco is feeding a baby cowbird
This moth, first time for me, was spotted at Karzi-Mangnam, West Sikkim, one of the remotest villages in our state. I'd taken my family to show them how does it feel like reaching there (adventurous roads, first road came in 2004), living there and experiencing their lives.
The trip indeed was fruitful, despite the back-breaking journey, I managed to photograph some extraordinary moths, like this one.
Golden-backed Frog
Mushroom grown on frog body
Socorro Isopod from the vicinity of Socorro, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA. where it occurs at a natural spring and nearby spring-fed artificial refugium pools, the only places in the wild the species is found.
Wild adult specimens collected by Brian K. Lang for photographic purposes and subsequently released at capture site. Joel Sartore of National Geographic was also present with us this day to get pictures and his photos of this species for the magazine put mine to shame.
Vagrant King Penguin appeared here at Cape Point at the end of October 2019.
An endemic psyllid found only on Cryptocarya oahuensis, which has only one wild tree left.
Still alive Male L.cervus on a small parking lot, perhaps devour by a bird. Mandibles and antennas are still moving but all the abdomen/wings were eaten.
I found the missing elytras and the four back legs within 5 meters around the main body parts
Was looking at a group of 30 Black Oystercatchers when I noticed a fishs fins flapping out of the surf. The fish then came out of the water and started flailing in the sand. I immediately ran towards it and tried to drag it back towards the water at least 5 times by its tail but had no luck getting it all the way back into the water. We ended up leaving after trying for about 5 minutes to get it back in the water since I was guiding at the time.
3-4 ft long, sharp teeth. Beached itself for ~1 minute then swam back out to sea. These photos were screenshotted from a video that I would be happy to share to help with ID.
2 large peccaries wandering around right after sunset. Sadly I forgot my flashlight so photos are very poor. In the first photo you can just make out eyeshine and body shape, and in the second photo you can see eyeshine.