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Dugong (Dugong dugon)Observer
martin_the_mako_kostalDescription
If anyone would appreciate a video of this particular dugong, it is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNRliJ-61HU&t=245s
The video also shows that it is a male dugong. The genital slit is distant from the anus.
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Woolly Aphids and Gall-making Aphids (Subfamily Eriosomatinae)Observer
alex_bairstowDescription
Root aphids being tended to by ants.
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Oak Gall Wasps (Tribe Cynipini)Observer
scoutingforplantsDescription
Ovipositing? On Swamp White Oak (Q. bicolor)
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Genus AmphibolipsObserver
carrieseltzerDescription
Maybe something else—attached to leaf (not stem) and on Q. phellos
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Small-Flower Pawpaw (Asimina parviflora)Observer
nonbinary-naturalistDescription
the leaf on the right. Compared to common pawpaw.
The observation for the plant itself:
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Peacock Tree Frog (Leptopelis vermiculatus)Observer
carrieseltzerDescription
This is a juvenile, only about 1.5-2 cm. I know I have the name somewhere...
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Yellow Blunt-headed Tree Snake (Imantodes inornatus)Observer
tiwaneDescription
What's up with the different eye pigmentation?
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Idalus borealisObserver
tiwaneDescription
This moth is just too amazing. Nice find by @sylvainmorin.
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Broad-billed Motmot (Electron platyrhynchum)Observer
kuedaPlace
bridge on Sendero Estacion Rio, La Selva Biological Station, Heredia, Costa Rica (Google, OSM)Description
The bird on the right caught the spider and gave it to the bird on the left.
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Hieroglyphic Moth (Diphthera festiva)Observer
darienPlace
Aeropuerto Internacional de El Salvador Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, San Luis Talpa, La Paz, SV (Google, OSM)
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Volcano Hummingbird (Selasphorus flammula)Observer
carrieseltzerDescription
Thought it was trying to nectar on the fern fiddlehead, but collecting nesting material makes more sense.
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jnewton728Description
Blooming in Elmore County, AL, USA.
Possibly Asimina x piedmontana, if not Asimina triloba.
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Greater Wilfred's Red-nosed Mouse (Wilfredomys oenax)Observer
laura_magallanes
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Bulimulus rushiiObserver
sgomez-barbozaPlace
Missing LocationDescription
Identificado por Fabrizio Scarabino como Bulimulus rushii. En una de las fotos se lo compara con un ejemplar de Plagiodontes dentatus y Rumina decollata. Mide pocos más de 2 cm.
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Magellanic Snipe (Gallinago magellanica)Observer
batituDescription
Dos grupos numerosos
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Bagworms, Clothes Moths, and Allies (Superfamily Tineoidea)Observer
lendebeerDescription
This is the second member of the Ambohitantely species that bred out today 1 March 2023. The images are of what (I suspect) is a live female Madagascar silk angel moth? The final two images are of the casing the pupal skin and the dried dead adult. Len
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California Pill Millipede (Glomeroides primus)Observer
ponerinecatDescription
Exciting stuff! Two adults and a subadult tightly rolled up in duff under a stone, all three of whom refused to uncoil for me. A nearby board yielded a third adult who was kind enough to move around a bit.
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Oak Gall Wasps (Tribe Cynipini)Observer
jeffdcDescription
On White Oak (Q. alba)
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Southern African Dwarf Chameleons (Genus Bradypodion)Observer
vynbosDescription
Found him in the dense foliage of a stream. I'd never have noticed him if it weren't for his colours which lit him up like a Christmas tree. Was he courting?
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Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)Observer
eleanor18Description
A few of these Monarda flowers had kind of a second layer of flowers sitting on top of the normal layer of flowers. Gall?
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Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)Observer
whitemudwayneDescription
Adult, female
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Neotropical Freshwater Crabs (Family Pseudothelphusidae)Observer
briangratwicke
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Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus)Observer
zerbekDescription
Female with ova.
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Rodents (Order Rodentia)Observer
yusufzanzibarDescription
mouse been eaten by a brown house snake
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Cape Wolf Snake (Lycophidion capense)Observer
matthieuberroneauDescription
Cape Wolf Snake
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Slug Caterpillar Moths (Family Limacodidae)Observer
bartwurstenDescription
Caterpillar
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Asian Woolly Hackberry Aphid (Shivaphis celti)Observer
meravDescription
on Bougainvillea
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East African Camphor-Wood (Ocotea usambarensis)Observer
paulakahumbuDescription
Octea usambarebsis
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Beilschmiedia kweoObserver
andreaudzungwaDescription
distinctive orange trunks
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Balsams (Genus Impatiens)Observer
andreaudzungwaDescription
new species recently described by Gavyn-Smit and Gereau
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lp_dagallierDescription
Tree 5m tall, 5cm diameter no flowers, no fruits. Collected for herbarium collection (duplicates at MPU, WAG and others) under number: Dagallier, L-PMJ 63
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Genus UvariopsisObserver
lp_dagallierPlace
Ambangulu, top of the mountain above the tea plantations, East Usambaras , Tanzania (Google, OSM)Description
Tree 15m tall, 25cm diameter DBH flower buds on young branches population of ca. 10-15 individuals up to 30m high and 50cm diameterDBH. Collected for herbarium collection (duplicates at MPU, WAG and others) under number: Dagallier, L-PMJ 66
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Tailed Snails (Family Urocyclidae)Observer
paulakahumbuDescription
Green slug
