На грибе трутовике растущем на березе
Part of a mixed community of cyanobacteria and lichens that have colonized a sock, embedded in the mud of a flooded abandoned quarry. The filaments of Scytonema are embedded in thick yellow sheaths, 12 to 20 microns wide. The epifluorescence photos reveal the form of the filaments within the sheaths.
Laccobius zeitsii (Hydrophilidae) found in Warperup Creek with salinity 28ppt.
Length 3.0 mm. With damselfly naiad in background. Original ID on BugGuide: http://bugguide.net/node/view/358625
diving beetle, weird water bugs, zippy with striped carapace
All photos copyright David Liittschwager, Natural History Photography. Http://OneCubicFoot.com
I have too many moths to add here.But this one was exceptionally beautiful. ID from a moth expert . This one was sitting on my kitchen wall. After I took the photo she flew away and never revisited me.
found facing upwards on painted sign... attracted to the yellow or just a coincidence?
Wondering if this is A. hemiophrys but not sure what I'm looking for to distinguish between it and americanus- yes- it's wild. west side of the northern Sable Island on Lake of the Woods (this time of year there are thousands of toads (mostly babies) there so this one caught my eye for being different)
Length 1 mm. In Polyporus squamosus. Original ID on BugGuide: https://bugguide.net/node/view/196352
PARATYPE
coll'ed by Godwin, Riley, Warner, & Wolfe
sifted from surface sand & debris
spmn in the TAMUIC
Det. E. G. Riley, 1999
First Texas Record
coll'ed by E. G. Riley, at UV light
spmn in the EGRC, College Station, TX
Beautiful beetle! New species for me.
Collected from trunk of dead Ligustrum lucidum which was also crawling with Neoclytus acuminatus
Jar from fall water collection from La Salle River
Length = 120 um Width= 8um
Brokenhead River @ Hwhy 15, just east of Nourse, MB
Per label data, IS Askevold, Coll.
I figured these were something interesting when I saw them, though they were undescribed at the time. It turns out this a species endemic to this site, as well as the only US Asellid endemic to a thermal spring.
Resting on an understorey plant. At a quick glance, I initially thought it was a bird dropping. The white hairs give it the appearance of being infected with an entomopathogenic fungi, maybe as a deterrent to predators...? Definitely the most amazing cerambycid I've ever seen!
Update: this species finally has a name! The paper naming and describing it can be freely downloaded from here: https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.iv1x5
Other specimens coming from this observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195246069
Possible first North-American record
Found in a large nest of Camponotus floridanus. Tiny thing, under 1cm.
Hundreds of individuals found in a American White Pelican gular pouch.
Unknown janiroid found in a sponge collected from approximate location less than a week ago.
Gros Isopodes. Exceptionnel dans les chaluts à crevettes à 282 mètres de profondeur.
Growing in wood tunnels of Hylecoetus lugubris, which ran horizontally just under the bark of Populus grandidentata. Fungal hyphae growing on the walls of the tunnels were scaped to get these photographs, and later cultured and sequenced for the cited GenBank ITS sequence. A photo of a larvae from the tunnels is in this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72682862
It seems to be a commensal organism, not a food mutualist. The larvae appeared to be eating a much lusher growth of another fungus, a filamentous yeast, Alloascoidea.
The microscopic images are stained with cotton blue; the actual hyphae are whitish-clear, aka hyaline.
Griechenland, Kentriki Makedonia, Arnissa (am Vegoritissee), 870m Άρνισσα
Bild 070358 © Heiner Ziegler. Det. Bernd Arnscheid. 10.April 2007
Car pini
This species belongs to one of the most primitive family of weevils, Caridae which contains only about 5 species world wide. Car pini is the only representative of Caridae in Tasmania and lives soley on Great Oyster Bay Pines (Callitris rhomboidea). My brother and I spent months looking for this, and it was a great reward to find this unique species. we have recorded Car pini between Orford and Bicheno.
about 5 individuals were found on Great Oyster Bay Pines along the Old Convict Road, Orford.
Note: 3 individuals were collected for the TMAG (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) invertebrate collections
The green beetle
Undescribed species near lineola. Swept from Thalictrum pubescens flowers.
Undescribed species near biguttatus. Pitfall trap in a maple and oak forest.
Indivíduo encontrado em ambiente de Caatinga Arborizada com presença de afloramentos rochosos, no leito de riacho temporário.
Sítio Riacho Fundo.
For the same plant on June 16 (2 days before this Observation), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/122095217
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