Floating dock. In a Watersipora colony; red from feeding on it, probably. @imlichentoday
Nature is funny. I have lived here in Maryland pretty much my whole live and don't recall seeing this small spider before. Probably because I, like pretty much everyone, just wasn't paying attention.Found this week on the MAGLEV proposed train yard and repair site on BARC WEST. This and thousands more species of plants, animals, and insects will be gone if it goes in. Photo by Anders Croft.
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Unknown spider found March 21, 2013 in a steam tunnel underneath the Beltsville Agriculture Research Center, Ashley Bradford suggested that this might be...Pholcus phalangioides?
this species is known only from lava tubes in the Hat Creek Lava flow of northern California. Those remarkably long black anterior structures are chelicerae!!!
It was running nearby Pheidole sp ants at home. First time saw it in my area.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a fallen Nikau frond.
The same individual posted here -https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69264982
On soil bank above slow moving creek, in riparian ravine with Quercus agrifolia.
Auckland Entomological Society field trip, 1 October 2023.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest.
Larva.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. At night.
Margarodidae: Coelostomidia zealandica - Giant Scale Insects
winged male and wingless female, in copula
Low intertidal, under a rock on reef. Size approx. 1 cm.
Rockpooling with @fiestykakapo and @predomalpha
Spotted on salp remains (very little was left of the salp to aid in identification - probably salpa maxima).
1-1.5cm in lenght.