Big mahalo to @damontighe for shining his UV light on this beauty. The round things are likely diverticula of the digestive system, being pushed against its exoskeleton by a load of eggs.
Kudos to @nmcnear for finding this explanation on BugGuide.
These guys seem to really like the pool but had to be relocated to a nearby pond because of the noise. Batch 2 as the bucket wasn't big enough to hold 33 jumpy frogges.
Vivid blue cup fungi, growing on dead tree in Beech Forest (Red, Silver & Mountain) near Knobs Flat, Eglington Valley.
juniper + lava rock habitat. remarkable animal
Very docile, once they settled down. Tended to drop to the ground if disturbed (perhaps a defense mechanism against bats?), but happy to perch on a finger. Picked this one up and placed on this leaf for a nice photo op. Wingspan 8 cm.
Aracnido perteneciente al orden Opilión de la familia Gonyleptidae. Sadocus Ingens, macho.
Robert hand feeding nuthatch at Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington Ontario Canada
Nuthatch vs chickadee
1 pair and several singing males
A very colorful Violet-green Swallow paused on a picnic table in the campground for a portrait.
[NEW SPECIES]
Bradypodion venustum - Grootvasdersbosch Dwarf Chameleon. From Grootvasdersbosch Forest, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/chameleons/bradypodion-venustum-grootvasdersbosch-dwarf-chameleon/
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
PanAmericana 2017 - the image was taken on an overlanding travel from Ushuaia to Anchorage - taken by Thomas Fuhrmann, SnowmanStudios - see more pictures on / mehr Aufnahmen auf www.snowmanstudios.de
This guy was just a wee red blob, but I knew it was something interesting from previous observations from up north :-)
The last image has a scale (mm and 1/2 mm divisions), the bell is about 4mm high.
It can curl up its tentacles so they are just little knobs, which it does when swimming. It can then unfurl those tentacles and drift with them extended.
Eating a Smith’s Black-headed Snake (Tantilla hobartsmithi)
Being eaten by Pholcid spider.
Rough Greensnake catching an orbweaver spider. It got close to the web and then stayed there for what felt like 10 minutes (not sure it was waiting to figure out how to catch the spider or because I had disturbed it). After a while, it finally caught the spider and seemed to have no trouble eating it. My first time seeing a wild snake catch its prey!
Frigga sp. Celestún Biosphere Reserve, Yucatán, México.
Being eaten by a Dark Fishing Spider
I think this is the tiniest creature I've photographed so far!
Note: the increments on the ruler in the last photo are 1/32 inch, not 1 millimeter. The spider's body is about 4mm long.
Beautiful spider - glad to finally find one in the wild and happen to have my camera with me. Somehow I managed to take 20 pictures of this spider and not get a good in-focus dorsal shot :(
It's not obvious in these photos but there is a patch of light/white scales near the base of the chelicerae which matches notes I found on bugguide for H. coecatus.
~4mm. Playing on a picnic table in a neighborhood park.
~4mm. Got some pretty nice photos of this one. It looks similar to Habronattus fallax but I defer to the experts :)
Found by a trail near Big Manitou Falls at Pattison State Park, Wisconsin
A female Ebony Jewelwing that appeared to be laying eggs on a plant right after mating. It let me get pretty close up while it was occupied.