🌿 Empetrum nigrum (black crowberry)

📅 Observed on 2025-03-19

👤 By: kazimierasmartinaitis

📌 Location: Neringa, Neringos sav., Lietuva

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333830325

📷 Photo credits: (c) Kazimieras Martinaitis, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empetrum_nigrum

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🐸 Minervarya agricola (Common Paddy Field Frog)

📅 Observed on 2025-03-19

👤 By: rejoicegassah

📌 Location: Dosdewa Forest trail

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/311651270

📷 Photo credits: (c) Rejoice Gassah, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minervarya_agricola

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🌿 Sesamothamnus guerichii (Herero Sesamebush)

📅 Observed on 2025-03-18

👤 By: dune_ninja

📌 Location: Khorixas, Kunene, Namibia

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/306054921

📷 Photo credits: no rights reserved

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🐟 Chaetodon ocellatus (Spotfin Butterflyfish)

📅 Observed on 2025-03-18

👤 By: nbasargin

📌 Location: Jardines dive site, Playa del Carmen, Mexico

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/334884359

📷 Photo credits: (c) nbasargin, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotfin_butterflyfish

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Ich submitte heute einfach zwei #Bugoftheday weil ich mich so gefreut hab, das zweite Mal einen SACKTRÄGER zu finden. Als ich zu Wiase meinte, ich hab einen weiteren SACKTRÄGER in einem Hochstand gefunden, war sie verwirrt, weil ja, Männer auf Hochstand, das ist eigentlich jetzt nichts wo man besonders aufgeregt ist. Tatsächlich sind Sackträger aber Motten, die sich als Raupen in Stöckchen hüllen. Die die es hier in Deutschland gibt, sind ganz ganz klein. Würde sagen so 2cm Stöckchen. Meinen ersten hab ich letztes Jahr an nem Hochstand gefunden. Ihr könntet sie kennen aus Animal Crossing.

Naja auf jeden Fall, guckt es euch doch an!

#inaturalist : https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/343863486

#insectphotography #bagworms

Mein #Bugoftheday ist dieses Rothalsige Getreidehähnchen. Das Türkis war in echt noch viel schöner.

#inaturalist : https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/343863451

#beetles #insectphotography #insects

While helping out Heidi Allan with her field work earlier in the week, crossing NZ's South Island, I also (of course) counted nature along the way and took photos of notable species I found. I've uploaded some of them to #iNaturalist.

When it comes to little things like insects and smaller plants, Aotearoa-New Zealand is still in the early stages of exploration. It's almost trivially easy to make important observations. There's so much still to document.

Here are five of the most notable things I found on our three day trip.

The first record of a showy mistletoe species between Hanmer Springs and Kaikoura (Yellow Mistletoe at Mount Terako): https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/343867527

The first observation of the pretty little fly *Maorina gourlayi* from North Canterbury (the 5th observation from anywhere on iNaturalist and 15th on GBIF): https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/343609762

The 1st record of the rare native earthworm-eating snail *Wainuia edwardi* from Mount Terako, and 37th observation on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/343863343

The 1st record of a Bobilla cricket from Westport: https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/343677893

The 1st record of steelblue ladybirds in Westport and the 2nd anywhere on the West Coast: https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/343677847

#iNaturalistNZ #biodiversity #nz

🐛 Polyrhachis pilosa

📅 Observed on 2025-03-18

👤 By: natashataylor

📌 Location: Lower Oxley Creek

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325468758

📷 Photo credits: (c) Natasha Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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🌿 Cephalocereus mezcalaensis

📅 Observed on 2025-03-18

👤 By: jmrm2201

📌 Location: 75848 Puebla, Mèxic

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/341137095

📷 Photo credits: (c) Jose Manuel Ramos Martinez, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalocereus_mezcalaensis

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