A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.
I saw this female Monarch butterfly at The Wilderness Center on a Butterfly-weed plant.
Also, there was a Monarch caterpillar, eggs, and a chrysalis.
Some chrysalis were collected and hung on a screen. After the butterflies emerged, they were released at The Wilderness Center.
In the last 2 weeks the Mantis nymphs are everywhere. :)
Monarch #3 Right Before Emerging
While Monarch #2 was drying her wings, Monarch #3 was getting ready to emerge. This is how Monarch #3 looked right before the action started.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Crambidae, Spilomelinae
Filodes fulvidorsalis
Ping Tung, Tai Mong Tsai, Sai Kung, Hong Kong.
this must be the "daddy long-legs" of the moth world!
Helecho del género astrolepis, muestra obtenida en las laderas de una montaña cercana a una laguna, la rareza del mismo radica en que no se encontró un espécimen similar en un radio de 100 metros. Muestra hojas segmentada con formas estrelladas, y cubiertas de filamentos delgados y blanquecinos.
This was observed falling from the canopy in a slow circular motion (about a 1 meter diameter circle). The two halves in the picture here connected together until it landed. We were told by a Waorani that it was a parasite, but don't think so.
Spider with eggs. The third picture shows a smaller different shaped spider with similar legs, in the same web.
I am 6 feet from finger tip to finger tip. Big fish!
The red filamentous cyanobacteria that Oncinopus neptunus wear on own body.
One of the most amazing worms I've ever seen. About 8 mm long, climbed out of a clump of tunicates we put in a dish, undoubtedly sponges and other things mixed in too. Very close resemblence to this image, ID'd as A. speciosa at http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/calnemo/GroupSummary.jsp?GRP=Annelids-Polychaetes, but given the image at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34212266 that seems like it might be wrong.
Owlfly
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital campus, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 16th September 2012
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor AF 28-105mm OS lens
(identified by Joshua R. Jones, Texas A&M University, USA)
I watched this ermine catch 5 pika on trips up and down the slopes of Cracked Crag. Chipmunk-sized with a short tail (there are no perspective tricks going on in this picture, but if needed, I can upload others with a more side-on perspective. Pika observation recorded separately here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14002186
Found by a neighbor early afternoon on Oct. 10, 2016, hanging out on an outside wall of an apartment building in (East) Oakland, CA 94605