Monarch and ?bumblebee species facing off on purple coneflower
Queen and Monarch possibly mating together? In the Mueller Native Plant demo garden butterfly area.
Not sure about this one. Basket snail perhaps?
A robust colony of these Thaids showed up in Toyon Bay on Catalina Island in 2000. They were mostly mature specimens but did not reproduce.
My conjecture is that these settled in as a result of an El Niño period and were not able to survive beyond one season in such relatively cool waters.
~3mm
Our first one.
Lots of fruiting bodies at various stages on one log
Size: less than two cm
seen at Stables in 35m of water
the culprit of the mystery egg sacs!!??? it was in the sea grass burrowed next to several egg masses!!
@jeffgoddard @alanarama3
last photo is not the exact eggs it was next to, just one of many seen that day, but the same type of egg mass
Found at about 60 feet. Multiple specimens, laying eggs and foraging.
A major discovery for me; with no reports of live specimens since 2007 - I was able to locate a population living at 1680 masl. The species appears to be fossorial, therefore extremely hard to spot. Unfortunately the location is a small relict of privately-owned cloud forest, surrounded by cattle fields.
Eating dill in the garden
Found at Barren's Hut divesite feeding on Sigillina cyanea
Observation & photo submitted by @tighephoto (Michael Tighe) via Instagram #macarthurparklake
Gall with exit hole on huckleberry oak (Quercus vacciniifolia).
Happy new year!! Hoping to go outside and observe as much as I can this year :)
Hummingbird and Hummingbird Moth sharing a thistle!
Found in site by fishermen. All had been predated by octopus.
Seen in my garden for the first time.
Day 82, one individual.
Relacionado con // Related to:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667158
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667199
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667420
The shell.
Calliostoma annulatum making a funny face.
This is the holotype of Chimaeria incomparabilis Briano, 1993 (now Sphaerocypraea incomparabilis), considered to be one of the rarest of all seashells.
The original description was published in: Briano, B., 1993. Description of a new genus and a new species of Cypraeidae from Somalia. World Shells 5: 14-17.
Its provenance remains a mystery, but it is said to be from somewhere off Somalia.
The holotype is deposited in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, MNHN-IM-2000-3556.
I'm fortunate to have had the opportunity to visit and do some research at the type collection at several large museums, and to have seen in person four of the only six known specimens of this beautiful shell.
When this shell was discovered it puzzled malacologists. It resembles a true cowrie, family Cypraeidae, but it was later discovered to look similar to a fossil, Sphaerocypraea, in the family Ovulidae.
See more taxonomic information at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) at:
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575782
Based on a suggestion by jakob, I changed the observation to the original data when the specimen was collected, 1963 (I don't have the photo of the specimen label handy, so I don't know the month and day). However, by posting the date of observation it sounds like I observed it a little before I was born :-). I guess iNat is not meant to document museum specimens, since it complicates things quite a bit. Maybe there needs to be a similar website for natural history museum specimens, named iNat Museum! I saw and photographed this shell in person on 2008-11-17.
Algodones Dunes, Imperial County, California
I enjoyed spending 15 minutes or so with this foraging White-lined Sphinx Moth in my yard a while ago. Many folks mistake these sphinx moths for hummingbirds.
Dripping Springs,
Hays Co., Texas
13 April 2018
There is a Western Honey Bee stuck in the web.
It had a Western Honey Bee and a fly stuck in its web. I managed to get a few pictures of it wrapping its prey, a fly.
Low tide -1.05, found tide pooling
San Diego County, California, US
Micros found sifting through sand and shell fragments. Size markings are in millimeters.