Charopidae sp. “Needles”
The highly elusive (and very beautiful) Needles snail has been found!! It’s only ever been found 10 times before. It has a massive range extending along Western Tasmania, but is occurs very sparsely throughout it.
Found by Kevin Bonham
Name supplied by and with thanks to Mr Yoman, Skerrit and Raven. Spider: male. Length: less than 1mm.
Looks like moth/butterfly wing scales around the margin.
Host plant is a planted Melia azedarach
On Nothofagus cunninghamii if I recall.
Seen in the Henry Somerset Orchid Conservation Area. Very similar circumstances to this observation, including the ants.
How much risk are the ants taking here? If they walked across the flatworm, would they stick to it and get digested too?
0.5-1mm orange cup black hairy outer on small Banksia leaf.
Found a few only on Banksia leaf while searching for another similar shaped fungus Hymenoterrendiella madsenii was suggested to me but it doesn't visually fit in with image database search.
See here for additional info ref: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/123348467
This is one of the most unusual weevils I have come across. As you may be able to notice this Cossonid weevil lacks eyes. This is because it lives deep under rocks and mimicks ants to obtain food.
Most Cossonid weevils are found in wood, making its habitat most unusual for a cossonid
Small salticid (BL 2-3mm). Not very shy, likes to escape on a thread, falling halfway down.
This parasitic fungal growth was observed on Leatherwood amoung old growth Sassafras and Leatherwood at the bank of the Mersey River. Several old nodes were also observed on dead branches.
"The Art of Mother Nature".
These images represent the brief but beautiful display we get on the first hard freeze of a winter--if we get such a morning at all at our latitude. We've had a few cold mornings just below freezing in Austin over the past few weeks, but this Arctic blast was enough to keep the temperature in the teens and 20's for several hours. The result for Frostweed is frozen sap which splits the base of the stem and comes curling out in fantasticly beautiful "shaved ice" forms. Botanical icicles. The shapes are as diverse as snowflakes.
Day 82, one individual.
Relacionado con // Related to:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667158
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667199
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667420
Behemothia godmanii
Mariposa joya gigante
Familia: Riodinidae
Blue form of White-lipped Island Pitviper, from Komodo Islands
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