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marinejanineΠεριγραφή
Empty test in the intertidal.
@predomalpha - another one you might recognise. Thanks for your help.
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darylnolanΠεριγραφή
Sharp-eyed students from the Awaken Inquiry and Adventure Okanagan class spotted this cicada leaking hemolymph (a moulting related injury perhaps). Unlike mammalian blood which is iron-based, hemolymph in insects is copper-based which, when exposed to oxygen causes it to turn blue.
I found this fact, and others, about cicada moulting here: http://www.masscic.org/cicadas101/when-ecdysis-in-cicadas-goes-wrong
During ecdysis hemolymph is very important and helps the insect to schlerotize properly.
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angelique_kΠεριγραφή
ex Leucanthemum maximum - not ox-eye daisy as originally thought. See https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256470097_A_new_approach_to_species_delimitation_in_Septoria
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713890/
(Not sure why these papers have same publ. date with different titles) need to see if species listed are different.
Other spps seen on leaf: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/225192263
Black book 2: Pg 10 Jul 1, 2024:Still have to do size/shape comparisons with link above
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angelique_kΠεριγραφή
Maybe? Could not find any septa along the length of the arms, only divided at the base, and no longitudinal lines within the arms that could point to ascospores within an asci - Must be an interdimensional entity or a chytrid. One of the two ;) Not moving at all. Top of Leucanthemum maximum leaf Photo 1 1 div= 10um, photo 2 1 div =2.5um I found another similar to this on a Blackberry leaf - should have made a separate observation at that time: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/217191312? (multi-armed, connected at base, like a mini-starfish) Same spps? See the original leaf observation here http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/225155584
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jacinvΠεριγραφή
Gravid mature female, accidentally destroyed her hammock moving empty plant pots around so I took some photos
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cgbcΠεριγραφή
Deadman Bay Trail, Lime Kiln Preserve, San Juan I.
On Melica subulata
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cgbcΠεριγραφή
Deadman Bay Trail, Lime Kiln Preserve, San Juan I.
On Symphoricarpos
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cgbcΠεριγραφή
On Sanicula crassicaulis. Observation for the tiny white lesions/spots, not the leafminer (separate obs.).
Very tentative. Early stage infection of Physoderma pluriannulatum? Or maybe Ochropsora ariae (s.l.)? cf. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/222744364, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164087261
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cgbcΠεριγραφή
Deadman Bay Trail, Lime Kiln Preserve, San Juan I.
On Sanicula crassicaulis
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cgbcΠεριγραφή
Deadman Bay Trail, Lime Kiln Preserve, San Juan I.
On Holodiscus discolor
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cgbcΠεριγραφή
Lighthouse Trail, Lime Kiln, San Juan I.
Aberrant colouration
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jasonheadleyΠεριγραφή
Thanks to @katemckeown for spotting this beauty https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/61512571
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bclaridgeΠεριγραφή
Cratichneumon russatus male.
This species is widespread and fairly common in western North America.
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sumie-dhΠεριγραφή
Specimen with typical shape of head and coloration. Elevation of locations is 240 m, character of locality - small lowland creek with standing water at its upper part. No other Planaria species known in Czech at all.
More:
http://brmlab.s0c4.net/bioosm/det/9cd63a512ed42beaf156dbb624e40b2c.htm [picture of upper part of locality in]
http://brmlab.s0c4.net/bioosm/det/ce1c0ac0c082294601d1ce67b86b1a89.htm
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crabsandshrimpsΠεριγραφή
on the snout of a great sculpin, Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus
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ja_fieldsΠεριγραφή
observed while nightlighting on FHL dock from 7:15-10:15 PM. Collected and photographed in lab. Second image is a manually focus stacked edit of two different shots just as a glam pic.
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leftcoasterΠεριγραφή
Night dive at Es-hw Sme~nts Park (aka Oakleaf).
I've never seen hololepida magna before, and suddenly I spotted 3 this dive.
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hakaiinstituteΠεριγραφή
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-08787 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
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thygΠεριγραφή
Bad photo but seen by many birders. Holding on for dear life in crazy wind
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davidfraser1-Περιγραφή
harassed by Brewer's Blackbirds most of the time I was observing this bird.
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thefungiphotographerΠεριγραφή
I poked it expecting it to be hard, but it was soft and full of pink goop.
Returned the next day and found the outside was grey and the inside had become hard and brown
Pretty sure it's a reticulate slime mold, but please correct me if I'm wrong!
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thefungiphotographerΠεριγραφή
Couldn't get a clear photo, but the wings were a very bright blue colour
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bobhardingΠεριγραφή
I think. Early stage of eclosion process. On trunk of deciduous tree, ~1 metre from ground level. 25mm hand lens for scale.
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angelique_kΠεριγραφή
Prey nearby ;) Aphids, Aphideaters in one little bud of snowberry. Sorry no sawfly to be seen in the folds after a fair amount of unfolding.
