m_whitson's Favorites
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Heart Leaf Groundcherry (Physalis cordata)Observer
nbenDescription
Single plant, in a pumpkin patch with many Physalis angulata, both spp. infested with Chloridea subflexa
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Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle (Chilocorus stigma)Observer
leoguyDescription
Sur un Hêtre à grandes feuilles. Boisé de l'Université Laval.
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Oedancala dorsalisObserver
johnwaidnerDescription
Host: Carex davisii (Davis' sedge)
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Canadian Petrophila (Petrophila canadensis)Observer
jagawongDescription
Swarming this (I assume) native plant, right on the edge of Lake Kagawong.
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Parallel-banded Leafroller Moth (Choristoneura parallela)Observer
cindydarnellDescription
recently emerged from pupal case.
Brumley Nature Preserve
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Northern Parula (Setophaga americana)Observer
traianoDescription
ID please ,bird
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Northern Parula (Setophaga americana)Observer
mikaelbDescription
Taken at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port Aransas, scouting for our Big Sit competition the next day for the Great Texas Birding Classic.
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Long-tailed Giant Ichneumonid Wasp (Megarhyssa macrurus)Observer
m_whitsonDescription
This is one of the most amazing sights I've ever seen in my yard. These "stump stabber" wasps look like flying syringes in the air, but this ovpositing female looks like something out of Aliens.
These wasps are parasitoids and the female is placing her egg on a grub within the rotting stump. While Bugguide says these grubs are found in conifer wood, native conifers are uncommon in my area of Kentucky (we just have juniper), and the stump shown here is a hardwood of some type.
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Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)Observer
ocdivingdebDescription
I also took video of this cloudless sulphur butterfly eclosing.
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Stalked Puffball-in-Aspic (Calostoma cinnabarinum)Observer
tararoselittlefield
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Eight-toothed Cuckoo Leaf-cutter Bee (Coelioxys octodentatus)Observer
gcsnellingDescription
In mixed pine/ hardwood bottom land.
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Swamp Darner (Epiaeschna heros)Observer
wendyinmdDescription
It was flying carrying a cicada! After ripping the cicada wings off mid-flight, it landed in a tree for what I suppose was consumption.
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Ginger Button (Acleris aspersana)Observer
kjeld_bremDescription
Yngre larver fundet indspundet i Mjødurtblade. Her senere 8-10 mm lang
Younger larva found in spunleaves of Filipendula. Here, later it is 8-10 mm in length
Further on breeded to Imago!
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Moss-rose Purslane (Portulaca grandiflora)Observer
jakobDescription
An Aizoaceae?
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Moss-rose Purslane (Portulaca grandiflora)Observer
ivanprstDescription
Когда-то культивировался, потом попал в удобную нишу и начал распространяться сам
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Withered Mocis (Mocis marcida)Observer
m_whitsonDescription
This is the coolest caterpillar. I was weeding large grasses away from where they'd been encroaching on some sumacs (Rhus typhina laciniata) and this caterpillar was exposed when I yanked up a clump, like it was nestled around the rootball or just at ground level. Stretched out, it just looks like an elegantly pin-striped tan caterpillar, but disturbed, it curls up and displays these two black bands. Do they mimic eyes? I don't know, but it's very interesting.
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Black Bullhead (Ameiurus melas)Observer
tfandreDescription
This poor fish didn't have a good day! First the Plain-bellied watersnake caught it. Then rejected it and I was despairing that it would go to waste when the Yellow-crowned Night heron found it and proceeded to squeeze it, turn it, mash it and massacre it. Again, thought it would never meet its end and that the bird would never figure out how to get it down its throat. Literally cheered when it finally did. Poor fish...not a dignified end as the entire process took just shy of 15 min.
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Phymata fasciataObserver
m_whitsonDescription
This jumping spider thought it had it made. It caught a honeybee larger than itself; then these two bugs horned in. Look carefully and you can see that the lower bug is sneaking a sip of bee. Sadly, this was in the days before my higher resoultion camera, but none-the-less, a cool interaction between predators.
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Dark Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus)Observer
m_whitsonDescription
I was attempting to get the perfect shot of the glorious, iridescent markings on this Monarch chrysalis when I was photobombed by a wasp.
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Common Green June Beetle (Cotinis nitida)Observer
izipDescription
There appeared to be sap present at a scar on this tree that attracted the beetles to it.
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Common True Katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia)Observer
rossalleniDescription
Being eaten by a European Hornet.
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Spectacled Flying Fox (Pteropus conspicillatus)Observer
davidgwhiteDescription
Eating a native fig
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Northern Crab Spider (Mecaphesa asperata)Observer
sambiologyDescription
Not much water flowing on the Neches River... A few spots of moisture were prized by the bugs though!
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Maryland Milkwort (Polygala mariana)Observer
janetwrightDescription
Pine savanna. Leaves alternate, not whorled. Largest leaves 12mm x 1.5mm. Corolla same length as wings. No persistent bracts. 2 seeds per capsule, seed is hairy and 1mm long with eliasome(?)
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Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis)Observer
m_whitsonDescription
This mantis was hunting in one of my alpine plant troughs, and did not wish to be disturbed.
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Yellow Spragueia Moth (Spragueia apicalis)Observer
m_whitsonDescription
This poor moth has had a run-in with a milkweed (Asclepias sp.). Now it has big yellow pollinia glued to both of its front feet, and is sleeping off its ordeal on my patio pipevine (Aristolochia tomentosa).
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Nightshades (Genus Solanum)Observer
higuitaDescription
Crece en el borde de un bosque
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Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)Observer
mathias_sDescription
small tree, leaves and fruit also visible
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Genus ZelusObserver
ariellopezpicsDescription
I think this is an egg case of some kind?
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
leydiyohanalozadavillamizarDescription
Planta
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Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)Observer
mimlouderDescription
Larger spotted egg. Also with Bronzed cowbird and brown-headed cowbird eggs
