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Genus Conura

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"Various urodele amphbians, not all to the same scale." The life of vertebrates. 1962.

Internet Archive

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Spanish Ribbed Newts (Pleurodeles waltl), mating, family Salamandridae, Andalucia, Spain

photograph by Pedro Verdejo

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The sky in the lake.

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Been moving slow on some new paintings

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Yellow Sea Snake (Hydrophis platurus xanthos), family Elapidae, Costa Rica

Venomous.

This is an all yellow subspecies of the Yellow-bellied or Pelagic Sea Snake.

photograph by Alejandro Solórzano

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Liqueur glass - Serge de Vries

Dutch, b. 1968 -

Oil on wood , 14.5 x 11.5 cm. 5.7 x 4.5 in.

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for the past few days I've been waking up to the sound of a small animal in my bedroom, messing with plastic bags and such on the floor, but in a way that I had literally no idea what it was. It sounds about the size of a mouse, but it doesn't scurry in bursts like a mouse - it moves continuously. when it walks over plastic, it sounds like slowly deflating an air mattress into a bag of tissue paper.

now that I own the house and I have to pay to fix this stuff, it's extra disturbing; especially since I can't find any evidence of damage in the rest of the house. a squirrel already destroyed some of the soffit to get into the roof earlier this week - what new horrible thing is here now?

friends, today I caught the animal:

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Rare images of a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider:

These photographs were taken in Queensland, Australia, by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders.

The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside, allowing the bee to enter the nest, and then simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.

After inspecting the nest together, they return to their resting positions -- sitting side-by-side in the entryway to the nest.

The bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the spider seems equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.

This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.

Sources & More Info:

Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'

iNaturalist: Megachile macularis

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Sappho et amicae - Misty morning by the river

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train landscapes 2: amtrak cascades

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autumnal window view

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Own.

Trollskog IV.

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L'ÉLEGANCE DES NYMPHÉAS

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Gust of Wind with Setting Sun Ferdinand du Puigaudeau — 1900 ca