#my PHOTOS ON INATURALIST

[mosscrab]

saying I've been added to an invasive species group was really just setting myself up wasn't it

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

[hawkpartys]

Eudryas brevipennis

another lucky find with only 21 observations worldwide on iNaturalist

[thethingything]

I've spent so much time IDing things on iNat over the last few days that now when I see random photos of creatures on here I start mentally sorting them into the lowest taxonomic category I can identify them as being in before realising there's no button to suggest an ID because this is Tumblr not iNaturalist

[jenfoundabug]

Skippers are so freakin cute 🥰

Burnsius communis (common checkered skipper), Northern California

Blehhh 😛

[miyrumiyru]

Pair of cute bumble bees!

... still cute bees (/▽＼)

Fiery-tailed Bumble Bee observation by Nan Yang on iNaturalist (CC BY-NC)

[spinus-pinus]

Canada Jay Perisoreus canadensis

5/17/2024 Spokane County, Washington

Andrew Thomas via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC

[patbingchuuu]

[quigley-in-the-wild]

So today I was down by the neighborhood pond and spotted some ducklings! Aaaaand about a minute later, so did a red-shouldered hawk! RIP baby duck, I hope you tasted good

[noncompliantcyborg]

First Observation for this siphonophore species on iNaturalist! Dimophyes arctica

Found this beautiful siphonophore the other night and got the exciting honor of being the first observation for it on iNaturalist. I almost didn't bring my camera that night but I'm so glad I did. (It is so hard to get good pics on a moving dock in the dark and this guy was so little - I'd say the nectophore was less than 1 cm).

If you wanna watch a video of how it moves - you can find that here: https://youtu.be/f2cnCMtm6iU

[curls-cat]

last night i dreamed i saw a really cool lady bug and was super excited but then it turned out this thing had some kind of. stabby proboscis. which it used on creature's eyes.

[0venatrix]

Found a baby turtle at archery 2 months ago, turns out it’s an endangered species.

[arachnophanatic]

PROWLING SPIDER (family Miturgidae): Syspira sp.

[hawkpartys]

Genus Pseudacris

[thethingything]

I find it funny that half our iNat IDs are stuff like us going "you can tell from the lack of checkering on the wing fringe that this is actually P. icarus, not P. bellargus" while the other half are us going through unknown observations and going "well that sure is a plant. hopefully someone who knows plants will see it after I add this ID"

[frankenfossil]

Mistletoe seeds germinating! Muellerina eucalyptoides, creeping mistletoe.

I planted them mid-June and yesterday spotted that they are coming alive!!! Very exciting! I have tried once or twice before to grow mistletoes with no results, but I think I'm ahead of the 3% success rate the city had with planting mistletoes a few years ago; well, if I count in terms of germination, anyway. Probably I shouldn't get ahead of myself vis-a-vis establishment, especially since I don't know for sure that I've stuck them on suitable hosts.

First 2 pics are of the only seed that's poked its cotyledons out yet. It's one of the ones I stuck on a grevillea, which I have not seen listed anywhere as a host of any mistletoes; so maybe they won't be able to establish on that one, but I'm hoping at least one will manage; it's my preferred host in terms of my personal gardening aims (location etc).

The other photo is of one of the seeds on a wattle, and that genus IS a known host for this species, so it probably has more hope of establishing there, except that this particular tree is a bit delicate and spindly and I would prefer a nice hearty parasite to be on one of my stronger trees. So, if any of the others get established, I'll probably remove them all from this one.

There's also some seeds on my persimmon; I've not heard of this species of mistletoe living on any persimmons, but I've read that persimmons can be hosts for a different species of mistletoe, and this species isn't host-specific and regularly lives on other exotic trees. Someone on iNaturalist was theorising that the exotic trees that can host native mistletoes are hosts to mistletoes in their original habitats, which I have no data or other research to back up but is a hypothesis I'm happy to test. Anyway it would be nice to have a mistletoe on a deciduous tree; show it off better than the grevillea or wattle.