Feeding on a chickadee carcass. At least 4 came in to share. Also investigated by a White-breasted Nuthatch but that chose not to feed.
Dead bird may have been a window strike, but if so had been moved away from the house.
A very fast, accelerating scissors-grinder; wondering if it could be winnemanna x linnei?
There appeared to be a die off here near IIT. I found six dead near the train station.
about 1.67 chirps per second it looks like. Peak frequency ~6KHz
Neotibicen tibicen tibicen (Swamp Cicada)
Audio is of a single full song from 1 of 2 individuals on a telephone pole along Pleasant Plains Road in the Great Swamp NWR. Target song from 0:01 - 0:17 (fairly heavy Swamp Cicada chorus in the background of entire recording). Identified to species audibly and to subspecies by range and visuals (both individuals on pole had black hind collars). Audio made at 9:53am. Audio normalized at -3db.
An unusual visitor at the buglight. Total length 50 mm, body length 33 mm. I posted one of these from my neighborhood to BugGuide 10 years ago, but they've still only got 1 other from NJ, & that's from Cape May (2.5 hours south). So is this a very local population?? Or is it just undersampled?
Ventral photo shows the black ventromedial stripe & bowed wing costa. Sound recording is a brief "buzz off!" call. I accidentally triggered it trying to place the bug back on the sheet, & decided to replicate it with the recorder running. It was surprisingly hard to annoy the bug sufficiently!
At this loc, total eclipse was from 13:27:27 CDT to 13:29:01 CDT (online data).
Cicadas had been singing early in day but were quiet by 10:00 CDT. They began singing at 13:24 before totality but when light was dusk-like, and continued through 13:30, then were quiet again.
I collected several small green cicadas (photo) but had also seen one much larger black one day before, so not sure which species was singing (or both). Recorded singing for 18 sec at 13:25 (attached).
Habitat is residential neighborhood backed by oak-hickory woods on shale hill.
greenish-brown wasp, green lantern wasp
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Being eaten by a golden-mantled ground squirrel! Does anyone have any information on ground squirrels (which I thought were herbivores) eating (or even catching) Dragonflies?
From the raptor photography hide at Inala. Grey goshawk, white morph.
My son thought he would be clever and tonight set up a camera to capture Santa, so here's the results :-)
San Diego County, California, US
One never knows what they will find when out walking along a beach.
Flew down and landed on the screen. I quickly searched for the species so it could be with its kin ;-)
Thought this was a muskrat, but swimming funny and look at that tail. We have video could not upload. I think this is a groundhog although we have never seen one on this Marsh. Please help
KoH yellow on cap. A. phalloides var Alba also suggested. Specimen kept. Rather large. Hardwoods area.
Herpes Simplex Virus-1 (HSV-1) causing human esophagitis. All images are from the same patient and are: cytology brushing, cytology cell block, tissue biopsy H&E stain and HSV-1 immunostain. Cells show the “3 Ms “ that help make the diagnosis: molding, multinucleation, and margination of nuclear chromatin. HSV-1 infects the mouth and upper GI tract. HSV-2 infects the genitalia, genital skin, and the rectum. Both would look the same under the microscope. Of course individual viral particles would need electron microscopy to see. What we see here is the effect of viral infection on esophageal squamous cells.