🐦 Aerodramus terraereginae (Australian Swiftlet)

📅 Observed on 2025-04-05

👤 By: pchi45

📌 Location: Stewart Creek Valley QLD 4873澳洲

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/334215549

📷 Photo credits: (c) 呂一起(Lu i-chi), some rights reserved (CC BY)

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

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🌿 Microgramma squamulosa

📅 Observed on 2025-04-05

👤 By: itskazborn

📌 Location: Fazenda Experimental Gralha Azul, Fazenda Rio Grande - PR, Brazil

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/341944754

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

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

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🐛 Tomares ballus (Provence Hairstreak)

📅 Observed on 2025-04-05

👤 By: lucasbenaiche

📌 Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333783680

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

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

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There's a new fly in town.

While out for a run yesterday, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, I noticed this unusual orange-headed black fly. I uploaded my photos to #iNaturalist when I got home and learned that it's the Australian Soldier Fly, *Inopus rubriceps*. This looks to be the first record of it anywhere in the South Island south of Nelson.

The species is a minor pasture pest and is well-established in NZ's North Island, where it was first seen in 1944.

As the world warms, NZ continues to fill with Australian insects. They first establish in the North Island then spread southwards. The pattern is repeating over and over. In this case, the two Australian parasitoid wasps (Neurogalesus spp.) that feed on *Inopus rubriceps* have also already established in the North Island.

*Inopus rubriceps* is a distinctive fly, especially the female which has the orange head (the male is all black). Keep an eye out and you might find some more of them.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/347771177

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🐙 Armadillidium arcangelii (Arcangeli's Pill Woodlouse)

📅 Observed on 2025-04-04

👤 By: yvesbas

📌 Location: 34380 Viols-en-Laval, France

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333177505

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

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Nouveau pokémon (une araignée) à mon pokédex (iNaturalist) : Synema globosum, aussi appelée thomise globuleuse. Avec en bonus une mise en abîme où je suis pris en photo en train de faire les photos de cette araignée. Merci @Lunai ❤️🕷️

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🌿 Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot)

📅 Observed on 2025-04-04

👤 By: nonenmac

📌 Location: Shepard Settlement, Onondaga County, NY, USA

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331578064

📷 Photo credits: (c) Randy A Nonenmacher, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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

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🐦 Mareca americana (American Wigeon)

📅 Observed on 2025-04-04

👤 By: jcollatz

📌 Location: Shaw Island, WA, USA

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/345212468

📷 Photo credits: no rights reserved

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

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A gulf fritillary on pink flowers, San Jose, California, Apr 2026

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