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Mites and Ticks (Subclass Acari)Observer
igor117Description
A mite (?) parasitizing on the head of a springtail (Tomoceridae, maybe Tomocerus), seems to be similar to this case: https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/8451/element/7/0/Erythraeidae/
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Helicoid Land Snails (Superfamily Helicoidea)Observer
peter1918Description
På betonmur
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White Oaks (Section Quercus)Observer
alexander_baranskyDescription
Among the bushes.
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Bobak Marmot (Marmota bobak)Observer
serggrekDescription
Sunset in the Ukrainian steppe
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Hemp Agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum)Observer
igor117Description
with galls? something like Aceria eupatorii? https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/acari/actinotrichida/prostigmata/eleutherengona/eriophyoidea/eriophyidae/eriophyinae/acerini/aceria/aceria-eupatorii/
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Great Ciliated Lichen (Anaptychia ciliaris)Observer
davydovbotanyDescription
Oak-pine forest, on Quercus robur L.
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Eastern Heath Snail (Xerolenta obvia)Observer
odonatalyDescription
79th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum)Observer
saber_animalDescription
scalariform freak / mutación escalariforme
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Xeropicta derbentinaObserver
davydovbotanyDescription
An oak-pine forest, on Quercus robur L.
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Door Snails (Family Clausiliidae)Observer
wildhamandpetershamDescription
Under bark near river
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igor117Description
Same beetle dead next day:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49221804
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Lancet Liver Fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum)Observer
igor117Description
"Zombie" ant (Formica sp., https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91429431) infected by the cercariae of a lancet liver fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum) - typical ant's behaviour for the life cycle of this parasite, it climbed on the top of a grass and clamps its mandibles onto it (I've checked, this one was holding hard with mandibles, despite being dead), waiting for some grazing animal to eat this grass and to continue the life cycle of a parasite (see life cycle of Dicrocoelium dendriticum).
