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Taraxacum fulvum Raunk.

• In poorly irrigated lawn
• Plant 19cm across
• Longest leaf ~9cm long
• Lateral leaf lobes mostly triangular and recurved, the proximal ones thinner and often dentate
• Interlobes darkened
• Terminal leaf lobes small and triangular
• Midrib dull pink to pale green
• Petioles purple-green
• Outer involucral bracts corniculate, pale grey-green to suffused purple in color, recurved, with thin hyaline margins, ~7mm long by ~3-4mm wide
• Pollen absent
• Cypselae distinctively cinnamon in color.

Identified with help from Curtis Randall Björk.

Relevant sources:
• https://www.gbif.org/species/5394654
• https://www.artportalen.se/media/taxon/230625
• https://herbarium.nrm.se/search/specimens/?query=taraxacum+fulvum&name=&family=&basionym=&continent=all&year=&collector=&collectornumber=&group=&createddate=
• Richards, A.J. 2021. Field Handbook to British and Irish Dandelions. BSBI Handbook 23. Durham: Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.

AC2-13.002

Extra foot on Taricha torosa. The rest of the discussion is here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2641024#activity_comment_73ece484-b655-4dd7-9d4d-39e6e0b7696b Thank you @upupa-epops for your help!

About 4 cm long, on Silver Maple. Still alive, but its egg-laying days are over. Pulling back to get a wider shot, I noticed that its ovipositor was still stuck in the tree, but no longer attached to the wasp. I suspect it had finished egg-laying and refused to die in the humiliating position with its butt in the air. Noble.

First known wild observations and discovery of natural fluorescent in an old world mammal or any mammal outside of North and Central America, images of the Springhare taken in August 2019. Incredible to see it’s orange and pink glow firsthand, especially when it wasn’t expected! Accidental discovery whilst out photographing scorpions under UV light

Shot using a Nikon D850 Handheld with a Nitecore Chameleon C6 ( 365nm ) torch.

For anyone interested in February 2020 a Scientific journal was released by a American research group ( no relation to me ) about this UV trait and science behind it from research in museum & zoo specimens in the US.

There are a few more images, but you might be able to imagine photographing a rather skittish nocturnal creature on foot with a UV torch in one hand and a large DSLR in the other during a unexpected encounter whilst also trying to expose a camera correctly for UV light isn’t the easiest thing to do the split second.