Florida Bluet riding a sandwich through the inky void. This is not an altered photo, nor was this my sandwich.

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Saw this little bird taking a bath in a small stream, we watched him for a while from the little wooden bridge over the stream. He seemed aware of us but kept on bathing!

Portion of large colonial rotifer found floating in a freshwater pond. Rotifers are full of consumed algae.

Likely one of the caterpillars from the four eggs I found on the same Prunus serotina tree, but no others were found

S Israel, S Arava Valley,Yotvata Fields

An Eastern Emerald Elysia on the Ninigret Tidal Flats.

Male

Tiny buff fluted caps with scalloped edge and central depression, gills attached to a collar encircling the dark, course thread-like stem. Growth habit on decaying oak leaves vs. twigs and wood.

I am not sure of the relationship between these wasps and the galls

Female Northern cardinal