Female hatched from gall 16 days after being brought indoors. Females began hatching about 12 hours after males started. Separated from males due to larger size (one on left) and more round, larger abdomen with visible ovipositor.
at middle (yellow arrow); showing "adult" features, side-by-side with "juvenile" American Elm and "adult" Slippery Elm for comparison
Sharp-tailed Grouse x Greater Prairie-Chicken (hybrid), a taxon not in iNaturalist
Shows features of both species. Danced like a STGR and had a purple sac. Intermediate breast pattern between STGR and GPCH, overall darker than STGR with less white on the tail. Had strange stunted little horns. Attracted the attention of a female GPCH.
Appears to be some sort of worm: black in color, long as a large nightcrawler but wider in girth. Traverses land in full sunlight without drying out; not a snake.
on Small-flowered Buttercup. yard fm
These very fast ants looked as though they were gold-plated. Observed on road pavement through wet, high-elevation forest.
Not sure my identification is correct. I went with iNaturalist's suggestion.
So I have solved the Rhodotus palmatus odor mystery! Field guides typically list it as having no odor. As it turns out, it’s actually the stinkiest mushroom I’ve ever come across, but only SOME people can smell it!
I had a sample and 20 willing, perhaps reluctant, participants. Of them, only myself and one little boy could smell it. It is a pungent, minty, chemically smell, reminiscent of camphor. (The little boy described it as peppermint.) It’s so strong I can smell it through a sealed ziplock baggie.
Sea Rim State Park.
This was a first for me. This rare and unusual shaped fungus took me by surprise. This specimen stood around an inch (25 mm) tall. After spotting the first, I began to see them every where. All were found on decaying wood among the leaf litter. A neat find for sure! Found in dense woods on decaying wood among moist leaf litter.
Found in Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine dominant canopy in Spring. Younger specimens tend to look more like the Disney epcott center and do not develop long spines until full maturity. These were all collected and photographed on the same day(Spring of 2016) while foraging for natural morels(Morchella snyderi).
pseudocyphallae on upper surface, rounded lobes with brown
On a pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
Small guy we named him Tod.We were having fireworks and he was hopping along and he found us!He stayed the whole time!
Pentatomidae
similar to Juniper Stink Bug (Banasa euchlora) but I think it is different?
Found lots of these washed up on the beach at low tide this morning , some inside the cases along with plenty of empty cases. Look like mini transparent lobsters
I also made a short video on Youtube here https://youtu.be/ikoJm2_YtFI
This observation links to these:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3184890
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3184503