Saw this at Carlsbad Caverns in NM today. Book says it's a rare vagrant in south Texas only, but here it is in southeast NM.
Swept from scrubby vegetation in chaparral, mostly Quercus garryana.
Leafminer on Coast Live Oak. I thought that it was a leafminer, but it is a gall.
Almost certain this is a new, undescribed species. Not even sure what genus it could be in. Possibly a new Xylorhiza. Fairly abundant on steep carbonate slope with very shallow soil. Death Valley. Anyone know how to get a permit from the National Park to collect a specimen?
Not at all sure what this is. Popped up in a potted plant and just bloomed today.
only 5 spots!
First 5 photos of this Leucistic Hummingbird are from June 28, 2017, first sighting in Palm Desert, CA. The last 4 photos are from August 16, 2017. This gorgeous creature is so friendly with a huge personality. It comes when called and eats one gnat after another with so much to say! I feel he/she likes the yard because the concrete walls and house are painted bright white making this hummer feel protected. Keep in mind there are no feeders on the property. 1. Can you please help me identify the type of Leucistic this is. 2. Male or female? 3. Does this Hummingbird look healthy? I've noticed possible missing feathers on its wings. I'm not sure if it has worsened over time.Thank you :) all photos are mine and taken by me, Nicole Campanaro
Out front of 36 Exminster St, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600. Casual?
I noticed an amazing thing about these today. When I first saw them they were completely clear but when I nudged it the edges became white. This defense mechanism is used by Corolla sea butterflies as well, but I can't think what advantage it gives the animals.
Doing some research it seems this is called blanching and another siphonophore (Hippopodius) does this too. (https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02951249/document)
Mackie & Mackie 1967 stated that the opaque edges are permanent for Bassia and I can't find any later literature which mentions this behavior so maybe it is a previously unknown behavior.
This is a GO-SEA absence observation.
Updated 11/26/2022. ID’d to species. Photos of male pleopod II added. Curvature on appendix masculina is not exactly as illustrated in the description, but is quite similar. Uropod exopod is subequal in length with endopod: a diagnostic character for the species. Without material from the type locality, I’m calling it T. subequalum.
Probably the most abundant invertebrate in most of the spring runs in the Lower Canyons. ID assumed to be T. subequalum based on proximity to the type locality in Big Bend National Park. This is the only described species in the region.
Whole body dorsal photo is a female. Ventral photo is a male showing appendix masculina on pleopod II.
Dissection and more detailed comparison with T. subequalum will be made in the future.
a follow up: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68506749
this 15 minute documentary provides additional information:
Small, white specimen in the lower/right of the image, just below the red rock. Image taken with an iPhone.
Not much plankton but it was nice to see one of these. I also saw a small Lampea Ctenophore.
Found in an underwater cavern, photographed, and then released back to where it came from. Five golden colored eggs are visible in some of the photos.
This blind species is endemic to the underwater caves and caverns of the Floridan Aquifer in north-central Florida. It typically hangs upside down from the ceilings of these underwater passages.
Nine-spotted? (ID using the Adalia app.) White margin on front of pronotum is thin, but present. Central suture is dark. Front-most pair of black spots is present, but extremely faint.
Found among flowers of a perennial lupine on ridge northwest from Jeff Davis Peak, east of Blue Lakes Road, south of Thornburg Canyon Trail, Mokelumne Wilderness, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Alpine County, CA, elev. ~8650 ft.
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20+ plants on single hillside/cliff face
Found at 12 m depth. Scanned from 35 mm slides.
See p. 82.3 of Field Guide to Insects of SA.
There are others in the same tribe that live under rocks in the N Cape, on hillslopes.
Abundant and widely distributed along sand bars and sandy banks of the Green River, Utah between Mineral Bottom and the confluence with the Colorado River.
Mission Creek Preserve
This plant is appropriately named in Hawaiian either nuku ʻiʻiwi (iʻiwi’s beak) or simply ka ʻiʻiwi (the ʻiʻiwi).
This is a hybrid between a Summer and Flame-Colored Tanager.
In dunes at edge of wetland. Collected for the Royal Alberta Museum under a research permit.
Strong currents brought in a couple dozen juveniles over several days. Occurence was documented with Dr. Milton Love