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Trying to identify the source of the holes here, but I included a leaf from the tree if that's helpful. I think it's a plum/cherry of some sort, it flowers in the spring though I can't recall ever seeing it bear fruit. I'm thinking either a woodpecker or maybe carpenter bees?

Ex commercial Citrullus lanatus in Woolworths Supermarket.

The geolocation given refers to the location of the store in which the observation was made, not the location of growth or the location of seed production (which are unknown).

Red-winged Blackbird
near Stewardson, Illinois
1 June 1989

I'm posting this record just for the general interest of a Red-winged Blackbird with one white wing. Whether a partial albino, or a partial leucistic bird, I'm not sure. A local farmer told my wife and me that this bird had been on his farm for three summers. The bird left in the fall with the other Red-wingeds and came back in the spring. I watched it for about 30 minutes. It vocalized like any other Red-winged BB and interacted with other Red-wingeds normally. It was pretty flashy to see in flight, however. Three shots posted. These images scanned from old color slides.

An ancient beetle lineage
Identified as Omma stanleyi on Bowerbird by Matthew Connors: "This family is considered one of the oldest beetle families alive today and consists of just two genera, one from Australia and the other from South America. This genus is incredibly old and was once much more widespread, with a fossilised representative extremely similar to this one (O. daxishanense) known from the Late Jurassic of China around 160 million years ago! An exciting find to say the least"

Deinacrida heteracantha
Colenso's giant weta
Wëtäpunga
Holotype
Collected: 1939
Collected by: W. Colenso
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-167523

My dad and I saw this fox near San Juan Island National Historic Park (South Beach). It had blonde fur and very skinny legs. In the summertime, there are giant groups of rabbits running around the grassy fields. I often see foxes in this area, and I assume they predate these rabbits.