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2021-08-27 #6
Observation Group #91682219
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&place_id=any&field:Observation%20group=91682219

This trickster wasn't as chilled as I thought and ended up on the kitchen ceiling! I used the old cup and paper trick and got it outside in good health.

The second photo is my best of it.

I know that in some situations there just isn't much of a choice, but please, if you are fishing and your line breaks off, try to retrieve your lost lure, hook and bobber. For about an hour we watched this Redhead struggle with a fishhook through it's face with the line frozen into the Calumet River. (Animal Control was called and the bird has been taken to a wildlife rehab center). The bird also had ice covering a good portion of its feathers. We tried ourselves to get the bird free using wire-cutting pliers to try to clip the hook behind the barb, but the bird freaked out too much and we didn't want to have it rip the hook out of its own face by struggling too much.

Found inside of a Eurosta solidaginis gall (see observation here). The observation date is when I found the galls, I'll annotate the observation as larvae but include photos of the pupae/adults that came out of them too. The gall was kept in a relatively cold closet, but not as cold as outside.
I first saw the pupa on June 7, 2020.
5th photo was taken on June 13, 2020.
The adult eclosed on: June 19, 2020.

Mouse recovered from an owl pellet.
Very near complete skeleton.
I believe one of the eyes may have survived the ordeal. The spherical object was found in the eye socket with matted hair around it, seemed to be connected to a "cord" of some sort. I wouldn't think a soft tissue like that would survive, but that's what it seems like.

Collision witnessed by students in Microbial Sciences Building. Bird was dead by the time Facilities Planning and Mgmt employee arrived. FPM employee transferred bird to Forest and Wildlife Ecology dept for salvage.

Yellow-Bellied Marmot exhibiting cannibalistic behavior. I did not witness the killing of the younger marmot so I can't say whether this is opportunistic or aggressive cannibalism. Marmot ran across the path behind me and proceeded to tear at the prey marmot after getting far enough away from me to feel comfortable.

Continued from here – https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8442265

The eggs hatched on August 16, 2015.

As an experiment three gravid female Gray Cross Spiders (not a known host species) were introduced among the larvae, unknown if any spiders were boarded.

The larvae were released at six locations (near the co-ordinates on the map), know to be inhabited by Lycosidae, Phidippus sp, and (less commonly) Clubiona sp.