Emerged from a rose gall (bedeguar)
Who would have guessed? Driving down this beautiful, winding road we happened upon a koala ... He seemed drunk ... probably chewed on too many Eucalyptus leaves?
The iNaturalist AI thought this was maybe a lasioglossum - which was my assumption too. But somethings don't seem quite right. The antennae are unusually thick and long. The legs seem a bit thin - no sign of scopae. And the behaviour was a bit strange too. It kept folding itself in half to get the abdomen into the flowers it was visiting (almost as if it was trying to deposit some eggs??).
Could this be a wasp mimicking a lasioglossum? Or is it just a male bee with some odd behaviours to explain?
This animal had been killed by dogs and brought back to the police at this border station. It had been dead for 2-3 days, and unfortunately, was very fly-blown.
When I returned to the area the next year, a policeman said that the dogs had killed a second animal, during July of 2012.
They are completely subterranean, living inside of a small cavity. They move forward by digging away the dirt in front with their enormous claws (pictures 8-19), and passing it under their belly to behind them, where, with their blunted rump and armored tail (pictures 6-7), they compact this fresh dirt into a new "plug" of compacted dirt.
The soil of the Larrea desert immediately surrounding the station is too hard a substrate for this species to live in. I think that the animals live in the damp sand that fills in the meanders in the adjacent Río Colorado. This soil would be the kind that they could burrow in and probably has many more arthropods for them to feed on.
An expert in this species told me that this animal represents the most southwestern locality for the "pichi ciego".
Brilliantly camouflaged wolf(?) spider found on hanging moss in rainforest understorey.
Does anyone know what’s going on here? The little mining bees I didn’t see land to forage normally at all, instead I saw at least two landing on the male carpenter bees like this (who didn’t seem to appreciate it much).
Photo credit: Alan Cressler
A particularly red female brown anole. I’ve never seen them this color all over. Usually just on the head. I have not retouched these photos at all.
Not the toad but the collection of spider ants. i dont know what they were doing but they seemed to be eating, moving or carrying those white eggs covering the toad.
Eating a Jerusalem cricket (Ammopelmatus)
On Ceratosoma trilobatum
Found inside chimney following death of adult, managed to rescue and rear all young until fledged
Lots of fruiting bodies at various stages on one log
Euphrasia zelandica, growing in a Donatia cushion.These are root parasites. This one appears to be parasitising Donatia novae-zelandiae
@ozzicada Apparently rental properties are in short supply!!
8.5cm in length not including antennae. Tried to be more mindful of cleaning the animal this time.
In all of my time outdoors, I had never seen a venomous snake in the wild in North America, until today! I would have been excited to see any snake today, but was thrilled to see a copperhead. We were walking back towards the car on the bike path when my husband and I spotted it at the same time. Made my day as I was hoping to see a reptile for the global snapshot of biodiversity!
Observation for Red-tailed Hawk is here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102283953
Pseudoscorpion & its babies !
These tiny creatures are really amazing to watch. Other day I posted how these false scorpions carry their eggs, like a bunch of grapes on its back.
Here i got continuation of that , Where Mother pseudoscorpion is carrying its juvenile on dorsum of abdomen & few more are there on its ventral side.
I was not able to capture better than this as pseudoscorpions are restless creatures & they never sit when exposed to sunlight. They always move in search of the dark. These Arachnids have the unique strength of moving both forward & backward.
This makes us very difficult to capture . I am sharing three record photos,to showcase its maternal care.
ಹುಸಿಚೇಳಿನ ಬಗೆಗೆ ನಾನು ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ಜೇನು ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯೊಳಗೆ , ಜೇನ್ನೊಣದ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಇವು ಜೀವನ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಪ್ರಕೃತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇವು ಮರದ ತೊಗಟೆಯ ಅಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುತ್ತವೆಯಾದ್ದರಿಂದ ಇವು ಹೊರಜಗತ್ತಿಗೆ ಕಾಣುವುದೇ ಇಲ್ಲ.
ಈ ಅಷ್ಟಪದಿಯ ಅಧ್ಯಯನಕ್ಕೆ ಒಂದು ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಜೇನು ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯೇ ಸೂಕ್ತ .
ತಿಂಗಳಿಗೊಮ್ಮೆ ನಾನು ನಮ್ಮ ತೋಟದಲ್ಲಿನ ಜೇನುಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯ ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಕೈ ಹಾಕಿದಾಗ ನನಗೆ ಈ ಹುಸಿಚೇಳುಗಳ ದರ್ಶನವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ ಸದಾ ಜೊತೆಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಇವು ಸದಾ ಕತ್ತಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬದುಕುವ ಜೀವಿಗಳು. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ನಾವು ಜೇನು ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಯನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದೊಡನೆ, ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಸೆರೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಅಡಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತವೆ.
ಮೊನ್ನೆಯೂ ಹಾಗೆ ಆಯ್ತು.
ಜೇನು ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯ ಒಳಗೆ ಹುಸಿಚೇಳೊಂದು ಈಗ ತಾನೇ ಮೊಟ್ಟೆಯಿಂದ ಹೊರ ಬಂದ ಮರಿಯನ್ನು ಬೆನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಕುರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿತ್ತು. ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಯ ಕೆಳಗೆ, ದ್ರಾಕ್ಷಿ ಗೊಂಚಲಿನಂತೆ ಮೊಟ್ಟೆಗಳಿದ್ದವು ಮತ್ತು ಆ ಮೊಟ್ಟೆಗಳಿಂದ ಮರಿಗಳು ಹೊರಬರಲು ಆರಂಭಿಸಿದ್ದವು.
ಈ ಅಪರೂಪದ ಕ್ಷಣಗಳನ್ನು ದಾಖಲಿಸಲು ಅನೇಕ ಸವಾಲುಗಳು.
ಹುಸಿಚೇಳು ಕತ್ತಲೆಯನ್ನು ಹುಡಿಕಿಕೊಂಡು, ವೇಗವಾಗಿ ಚಲಿಸುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಇವುಗಳು ಹಿಂದೆ, ಮುಂದೆ ಅಡ್ಡಡ್ಡ ಚಲಿಸುವ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಥ್ಯ ಹೊಂದಿದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಇದನ್ನು ಫೋಕಸ್ಪೆ ಮಾಡುವುದು ಬಲು ಕಷ್ಟ. ಜೇನು ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಯೊಳಗಣ ಜೇನ್ನೊಣಗಳು ನನ್ನ ಸುತ್ತ ಹಾರುತ್ತಿದ್ದವು. ಯಾವಾಗ ಚುಚ್ಚುವುದೋ ಎಂಬ ಭಯ ಒಂದು ಕಡೆಯಾದರೆ, ಕಾಲಿಗೆ ಕುತ್ತುವ ಸೊಳ್ಳೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಕಚ್ಚುವ ಕೆಂಜುಗಗಳು ಇನ್ನೊಂದುಕಡೆ .
ಇವೆಲ್ಲದರ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ನನಗೆ ಮೂರೇ ಮೂರೂ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು ಸಿಕ್ಕವು. ಅಷ್ಟು ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಈ ಹುಸಿ ಚೇಳು ತನ್ನ ಮಕ್ಕಳೊಡನೆ ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯ ಸೆರೆಯೊಳಗೆ ಅವಿತುಬಿಟ್ಟಿತ್ತು.
ಚಿತ್ರೀಕರಿಸಿದ ಆ ಮೂರೂ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು ಇದೋ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ ನಿಮಗಾಗಿ.
May 2021
Indraprastha
Mysuru.
Encontrado en Cerro grande, La Serena