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Small plants with self supporting pitchers. Pitcher ‘hip’ low on the pitcher. Laminae strongly folded. Few active pitchers and leaves on a rosette at the end of the vine. Naturally occurs as a hybrid swarm with N. mirabilis - this specimen represents a plant furthest towards the N. tenax spectrum.

OBSERVATION IS FOR THE PREY FROG.

October 28, 2022. Paddling from Suwannee Canal Recreation area, south down the pink canoe trail through Chesser Prairie and Grand Prairie to Monkey Lake and Buzzards Roost Lake and back.

• Location: N30.73538° W82.15448°
• Partly sunny with a high near 80.
• Sunrise 7:41 AM; Sunset 6:44 PM
• Daylight hours: 11 hours, 2 minutes (-1m 42s)

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Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is!

It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing.

Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic.

Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

Dia 82, un individuo.

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

I strongly suggest that people do not go to this park to pick mushrooms. The Rangers are very aware of the situation and actively enforce the laws. I have been questioned a few times by these rangers who often wait at my car thinking I am doing more than taking pictures.
For those who think of going here to collect fungi please take this note seriously and do not pick mushrooms.

A good friend of ours, Stan Malcolm called me this morning to let me know that he had found an Isa textual caterpillar. He regularly walks along the air line trail and is an experienced naturalist, entomologist and photographer. You can visit his blog at: www.performance-vision.com/airline/index.htm

Specimen was imaged live, stack of 85 images.

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This is the first time I caught this species and realized something was odd about it. The juveniles are striped and very colorful, which is where the name "chimera" comes from. Neither my colleague Roger Thoma or I could definitively ID it, so we suspected that it was a new species.