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Cyclopoid Copepods (Order Cyclopoida)Observer
hobiecatDescription
in a vernal pool
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Water Mites (Infraorder Hydrachnidia)Observer
hobiecatDescription
in vernal pool water sample
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Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus)Observer
hobiecatDescription
Playing Possum at 40°F
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Cutworms and Dart Moths (Subfamily Noctuinae)Observer
hobiecatDescription
Moth
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Water Mites (Infraorder Hydrachnidia)Observer
hobiecatDescription
... from a vernal pool water sample
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American Water Frogs (Genus Lithobates)Observer
hobiecatDescription
Probable Green Frog tadpoles (and one adult frog observed)
After a few dry summers, a large frog species has returned to a former farm pond.
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American Water Frogs (Genus Lithobates)Observer
hobiecatDescription
Northern Leopard or Green Frog tadpoles swimming under ice.
After a few dry summers, a large frog species has returned to the sometimes "vernal" pool.
(a Northern Leopard was the last Northern/Green species seen here)
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Animals (Kingdom Animalia)Observer
hobiecatDescription
from vernal pool
Rarely active unless the dish is jostled,
then re-appearing and slow moving until suddenly dropping straight down
into the substrate, raising a cloud of particles.
Capable of very fast forward movement if provoked.
Cilia may be visible in the photos — now taken with a lens extension for larger images.
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Animals (Kingdom Animalia)Observer
hobiecatDescription
from vernal pool
Slowly meandering along the dish.
Estimated at half the size of a somewhat similar animal
at --> https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195421028
but this one may be just another ostracod.
This observation's photos taken with a lens extension for larger images.
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Groundhog Tick (Ixodes cookei)Observer
hobiecatDescription
Tick species ....... cookei
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Groundhog (Marmota monax)Observer
hobiecatDescription
... with Groundhog Ticks (Ixodes cookei)