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Old Gray Ruffles (Parmotrema tinctorum)Observer
ccantleyDescription
underside is black with naked brown areas
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Angel's Wings (Pleurocybella porrigens)Observer
edlickeyDescription
Pretty sure… not positive
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Eight-toothed Cuckoo Leaf-cutter Bee (Coelioxys octodentatus)Observer
randybodkins
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Common Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha)Observer
grinninDescription
It flew up and landed on my head; I placed it onto a bit of sheep's wool
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Cowslip (Primula veris)Observer
grinninDescription
For more Cowslip (Primula veris) blooming nearby, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/226550009
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Family LecideaceaeObserver
grinninDescription
Who can help ID, to genus, please; is species even possible?
For the Borrer's Speckled Shield Lichen (Punctelia borreri), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/225771783
For the Common Goldspeck (Candelariella vitellina), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/225779119
For the Brown Cobblestone Lichen (Acarospora fuscata), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/225783257
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Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)Observer
grinninDescription
Security camera video capture, very close cropped; as @jwidness noted: black legs, black tipped ears
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Lesser Maple Spanworm Moth (Macaria pustularia)Observer
dburrellDescription
Attracted to fluorescent porch light.
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Eyed Paectes Moth (Paectes oculatrix)Observer
dburrellDescription
Attracted to fluorescent porch light.
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Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)Observer
randybodkinsDescription
Fresh Roadkill
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Blue-and-white Daisybush (Dimorphotheca ecklonis)Observer
grinninDescription
Wild, as I unexpectedly encountered them
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Eastern Milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum)Observer
grinninDescription
In full shed; same snake, same time, same place, cf. also inaturalist.org/observations/222904545
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Ring-necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus)Observer
grinninDescription
For the other two of this group of three Ring-necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus) individuals, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/224789600 (last photo, right) & inaturalist.org/observations/224789609: two 11" females, this one missing its tail, one with unmarked yellow belly; & the third a tiny hatchling, cf. also inaturalist.org/observations/222920217
Notation thanks to @isamalik:
• Black
• Light collar
• Dorsal scales smooth
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Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon)Observer
grinninDescription
For this same full opaque snake at this very same time, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/222920219
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Agreeable Tiger Moth (Spilosoma congrua)Observer
grinninDescription
A most Agreeable moth
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Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva)Observer
grinninDescription
First photo cropped, then full size
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Yellow-and-black Flat Millipede (Apheloria tigana)Observer
grinninDescription
For the Leopard Slug (Limax maximus), photo 5, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/224235133
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Southern Soldiers (Cladonia didyma)Observer
grinninDescription
Notes thanks to @ccantley: squamulose podetia, not forming cups as in C. coccifera
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Higher Ascomycetes (Subphylum Pezizomycotina)Observer
grinninDescription
For the yellow, the log almost glowing golden; last photos include UV. Can someone ID the black dots?
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Crumpled Rag Lichen (Platismatia tuckermanii)Observer
grinninDescription
• non-isidiate
• has apothecia
For the Salted Starburst Lichen (Imshaugia aleurites), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/223467367
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Stonewall Rim Lichen (Protoparmeliopsis muralis)Observer
grinninDescription
First two photos cropped, then full size, as are the rest
For the Elegant Sunburst Lichen (Rusavskia elegans), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/172621370
For the Common Sunburst Lichen (Xanthoria parietina), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/172617060
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American Common Merganser (Mergus merganser ssp. americanus)Observer
randybodkins
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Bulbous Buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus)Observer
grinninDescription
At Avebury, a Neolithic henge monument (between 2850 BC and 2200 BC) containing 3 stone circles, with the largest megalithic stone circle in the world, one of the greatest marvels of prehistoric Britain
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American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)Observer
ccantleyDescription
juvenile, about 2 feet long
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Dalmatian Bellflower (Campanula portenschlagiana)Observer
grinninDescription
It differs in hairiness from the superficially similar Trailing Bellflower (Campanula poscharskyana), which has gray-hairy stems: the stems of C. portenschlagiana are practically glabrous, and their growth forms also differ: portenschlagiana is mound-forming, poscharskyana, trailing; their leaves are also different
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Common Malachite-Beetle (Malachius bipustulatus)Observer
grinninDescription
For the Velvetgrass (Holcus lanatus), inaturalist.org/observations/220095312, at a 12th century church
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Wall Barley (Hordeum murinum)Observer
grinninDescription
Growing against a brick wall by the sidewalk
