the flattest bug you've ever seen?! @bstarzomski
found by @rebeccareaderlee
"You'll never find me...!" Little guy dove and hid under a lily pad right under my nose, then checked to see if I was still looking.
"What did you see?"
A very confused Halloween pennant. Alive, but repeatedly trying to fly toward light. Which here meant ceiling lamps.
I had to lead it, lamp by lamp, to get it to fly back outside.
Then, once it was outside, it kept on trying to fly to the light I forgot to turn off but now couldn't because I didn't want it to fly back in, lol.
Took some gentle forcing to get it to go over the balcony railing.
A guess at species ID. Caught and released
D. cf nervosa. @rebeccareaderlee I wanted to check on the development of your gall from Pedder Bay to see if they were still looking good, this guy looks great. This is from the https://inaturalist.ca/observations/186204927 collection. Fingers crossed we get emergence so we can key the adults with the Eady and Quinlan 1963 key which looks pretty straightforward. I’m going to see if I can get this one barcoded.
Date is dissection date after rearing in a vial in an unheated shed near UVIC campus. Location is collection location. Conditions fairly comparable to collection site I assume but the phenology should not be considered exact.
This is Simon, he’s part of a rescued litter from a feral colony up in Port Hardy that the BC SPCA has in their care. They confirmed by respiratory test that Simon has calicivirus, a lifelong condition in cats that causes coughing and watery eyes when they get stressed. We are fostering Simon and plan to adopt him, so wanted to just iNat his cold, welcome him to the family, and remind everyone reading to keep your cats indoors
Pidén robándose un hueso que estaba en una fogata abandonada, ribera río Picoiquén en zona de uso público.
Needless to say, this broad-winged hawk and I were both unhappy to find it stuck in my chicken pen. Soon after this he figured out the trick of letting go hold of the fence and flew off.
Florida Bluet riding a sandwich through the inky void. This is not an altered photo, nor was this my sandwich.
Spider came to piece of lobster mushroom that was broken off on the ground. The spider looked like it was sucking up the mushroom for about 5 mins then walked away. An ID on the spider would be great as I am not familiar with them
Moved a bit fast for my camera setting
Accidentally caught in a live trap set for rats; released unharmed. Photo by C. Ashurst
Nudibranch Coryphella trilineata (northern form, about 10mm long) & look-alike amphipod Podocerus cristatus. Scanned from a 35 mm slide I took in the lab in 1984. I had found the specimens in close proximity to each other a few days earlier in the low intertidal at Middle Cove, Cape Arago, Oregon. The amphipod (and her recently hatched juveniles, visible at lower right when viewed large) are on a piece of the outer tube of the polychaete Pista elongata; the slug is on a piece of the hydroid Abietinaria.
Notice the white head tentacles of the slug and the white antennae on the amphipod. Here's what one form of the amphipod looks like in central California, where the southern form of O. trilineata ( with chromium orange on their rhinophores and cephalic tentacles) is prevalent: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1103734
Farther south, near Puerto Vallarta, MX, the amphipod lacks white lines, just like the abundant local aeolids (see Fig. 1f-h in paper here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282252603).