This amazing observation was made by Manfred R. Ulitzka (https://twitter.com/Thrips_iD). It was uploaded to iNaturalist on his behalf.

The photograph is of a specimen on a slide that was obtained by Manfred. On the back of the slide it indicated that the specimen was collected at the town of Elliot, NT, Australia, in 2016. There was no exact date / time of collection so to enable uploading of this observation the date 1/6/2016 :12:00PM was chosen.

The body length according to Manfred was 2.95mm.

The specimen was collected from the plant 'Acacia kempeana'.

The Twitter post relating to this observation is here: https://twitter.com/Thrips_iD/status/1489012165222838281

Este puma hembra de aproximadamente dos años fue rescatada por elementos del zoológico de Zacango, después de que un vecino diera aviso a las autoridades de que el animal se encontraba en una palmera del jardín de su casa. Los médicos veterinarios que acudieron lanzaron dardo para sedarla, al bajarla comentaron que el animal era silvestre ya que no presentaba signos de que estuviera en cautiverio y fue trasladado al zoológico para su observación. Un biólogo comentó qué hay una investigación de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México donde han registrado a través de cámaras trampa la presencia de estos felinos en un sierra cercana a esa población que está dentro de la distribución natural. He publicado dos fotografías con el fin de que quede registro y ojalá surja interés de especialistas en continuar la investigación.

Amblyrhynchus cristatus × Conolophus subcristatus. Hands-down the rarest animal I've ever seen: 1 of 16 ever recorded, and 4 known alive as of 2013. The stripes are characteristic of the mainland common ancestor, but are found in neither island parent. More at www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161024-there-is-a-hidden-iguana.... I suspect this is the same individual as mentioned in that story, as it was found in the same location: we got off the boat at the landing & there it was.

Eating a newly-hatched iguana. I saw two, same color and size, about 9 cm tall.

Comiendo una iguana recién nacida. Observé a dos del mismo color y tamaño, aprox. 9 cm de alto.

G. brasilianum juveniles?

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!

This migrating warbler flew over our boat and sat on the water. When we moved closer to it to "rescue" it and bring it onboard it took flight and headed away.

San Diego County, California, US

Cattle Egret
with Barn Swallow it has caught
Dry Tortugas, Florida
1 May 1988

Cattle Egrets are a species known to wander. They made it to the U.S. on their own in the early 1950s and are now a common species all over the Americas. I once found a dead Cattle Egret on a rocky beach in Antarctica. There are no insects on Antarctica, so that particular Cattle Egret just wandered too far. Such might be said for Florida's Dry Tortugas. They are called "dry" for good reason. There is no fresh water. Birds that end up there and are too tired to move on, simply die. It is a daily task of employees at Fort Jefferson to walk around and pick up and discard the Cattle Egret carcasses before they open the fort to the birdwatchers each spring day. On this day my group watched a starving Cattle Egret (there are few large insects for the egrets to feed on) grab a Barn Swallow. It certainly made for a strange scene!

Man root on right, man on left. Found excavated by construction activity, took home to nurture, fed tea, then planted in native garden.

*2021 Update: the transplant didn't take and this sweet soul was lost to the world, buried dead as it had been buried alive.

Roughly 7 generations growing in this spot, all self seeded since I brought three seeds here from the foothills of the Olympic Mountains 15 years ago. Thousands of plants here now. The ground is now covered with pappus hairs from this year’s seeds. As all of these plants are self-seeded it fits the iNaturalist definition of "wild", but I also thought people should know this is not part of a population that has persisted here since before European contact.

(Update 3/24 these thistles are no longer so dense here, but are still numerous.)

This species was on a list I found 21 years ago of those native species that hadn’t been recorded in Seattle in decades when I started studying how to identify them all, and just what habitats they naturally grew in, and looking for where I could find wild seed of the species on that list from sites physically and ecologically close to Seattle, to try planting in the most promising spots here.

I started with the goal of helping the recovery of butterfly species that had become rare in, or had disappeared from, Seattle, and knew thistles to be important as both butterfly nectar, and host (caterpillar food) plants, and had learned that all 4 of Seattle's native thistle species were on that list of our lost species. So I am pleased to see a bit of improved butterfly habitat in this spot where this native thistle species is thriving again!

I’ve since spent 15 years weeding this site and controlling the Artichoke Plume Moths https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/319034-Platyptilia-carduidactylus, the best I can, as the mother plants sent their offspring to occupy the growing patch of land vacated by my weeding around them. I also have a significant problem with non-viable seed, more later in the season, than with the initial crop, which I believe is due to predation of the receptacles, where the seeds develop, by the introduced Rhinocyllus conicus - the Nodding Thistle Receptacle Weevil https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/229899-Rhinocyllus-conicus .

Looking down from the jetty, a marvelous scene of epic scope! A bajillion soldier crabs moving in groups and waves, with the front of receding water apparently the most prime spot, worth braving the numerous toadfish patrolling the edge and waiting for the right time to lunge forward in the shallows and run away with a crab. Often they wouldn't get the crab-- it was a bit fast for me to see, but looked like the crab would pinch them in the snoot-- and sometimes when they did get a crab the competition from other fish would be so fierce that the crab would get dropped and escape to shore.

"The Art of Mother Nature".

These images represent the brief but beautiful display we get on the first hard freeze of a winter--if we get such a morning at all at our latitude. We've had a few cold mornings just below freezing in Austin over the past few weeks, but this Arctic blast was enough to keep the temperature in the teens and 20's for several hours. The result for Frostweed is frozen sap which splits the base of the stem and comes curling out in fantasticly beautiful "shaved ice" forms. Botanical icicles. The shapes are as diverse as snowflakes.