Dark-field image taken at 100x magnification. Image reconstructed from 3 photos to increase depth of field.
GPO juvenile. Collected of FHL Dock approximately 10:00 along with 3 other juvenile octopuses.
Empty land snail shell from the hurricane plant-debris drift, extremely high on the beach.
Comparing one of the larger shells with one of the few smaller shells, in order to try to see if they are two species or one.
For more images of the shells in this genus that I found here, please also see:
Another of my experiments to see what grows / happens.
This is on a lemon that I left to do it's thing inside.
This is the male that goes with the female and larva, pupa stages of this mosquito
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/34195726
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/34054522
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/33690323
Round, spiky shape. Seems to be remains of a shell during meiosis.
this was a very small zooplankton, even under 40X dissecting microscope magnification. Our plankton collecting group simply knew the as trochophores, but I can find no taxonomy here.
*FV
Crustose red algae on underside of rocks. The cell division pattern seems unique. Coated in diatoms.
2013 was so high water temperature year in Yakushima island.
we experienced severe, widespread coral bleaching in 2013 (one of the worst bleaching on record).
2013 was so high water temperature year in Yakushima island.
we experienced severe, widespread coral bleaching in 2013 (one of the worst bleaching on record).
If you are a SeaweedPhreak then you'll need to toast Lily Newton today. It's her 125th birthday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Newton
I don't think she is well known outside the UK but her book is in the possession of every Phycologist I know.
A few green seaweeds then, easy to exploit and photograph but not easy to describe and annotate in fine detail - THAT is what her book is about, fine detail.
Published in 1931 and getting rare.
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Very cool pagoda-like brown and white fungus with tiered discs on central stem. Two to three cm tall. First time I have seen one of these. Percy Scenic Reserve, Lower Hutt.
I am interested in the Dolichospermum variants in these photos, not the Aphanizomenon. Are they the same, even with the different coiling patterns?
Found in saltwater next to an estuary.
Was known as Agmenellum.
I remember finding these asian lady beetles in my garage. They had started being a problem the year before but started to occur in large numbers this year. This was after the crop harvest so that all started getting into their hibernation groups. There were two groups of them in the garage and they were behind and under boards.
Freshwater rotifer that forms colonies. From surface bottle sample from canal off Caloosahatchee River in Cape Coral, FL.
Aphrodita japonica
The species name was not listed on inaturalist.
Mass stranding on Lighthouse Beach, Cape Arago, Oregon, April 1981 (the only water showing in the 1st image is at the upper right corner of the beach). A couple of Nereocystis are also present. Scanned from 35 mm slides.
Green goo sitting in stagnant pools on Mount Desert Rock. It bubbles and smells bad - I about like sour sulfur. Covers the tops of the pools but does not continue past the surface of the water. Any ideas?!