[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 10TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Two photos of a beige and brown American rose chafer beetle on a small branch of small, bell-shaped flowers /End IDs.]
Huamantlan Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus salvini), family Viperidae, Tlaxcala state, Mexico
Venomous.
photographs by Jose Machuca
Rainbow Bee Eaters (Merops ornatus), family Meropidae, order Coraciiformes, Australia
photograph by Darren Stephens
Callianthemoides semiverticillata, family Ranunculaceae, found growing amongst rock fragments on the sides of mountain in northern Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
photographs by Marcela Ferreyra
Oh also got to see something neat. This is a fungus, Exobasidium arctostaphylii. Like the name implies, it is a parasite of members of the arctostaphylos genus. I’ve found the typical red leaves caused by it before but never infected flowers. I’m having a hard time finding much information about their life cycles and reproductive nature, but they likely use flies and other pollinators to spread their spores from these false flowers to other plants.
Yay fungi taxonomy
Early August along J-Six Ranch Road, looking north toward Rincon Peak, Cochise County, Arizona.
Anonymous asked:
bit too shy to go off anon, but here are two of my fave inat observations!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107591414
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103356401
ive been doing a lot of Strigopidae research as of recent so i have a lot more where that came from. i group them mentally in with kiwis too ive been doing a lot of conservation research abt them aswell
crabussy answered:
oh I like this one. harnessing her power. yeppp she laied an egg and that egg was the FUCKING SUN okay so be grateful?
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