Nature in Orange!

[varanus_enthusiast]

Recently, we’ve had both yellow and red, so what colour but orange should come next! Lets see what awesome orange organisms have been recorded by the Inat community.

Here are some of my favourite orange critters I’ve found:

This Western brown snake is a locale specific colour, with most members of the species being a plain brown rather than this striking orange:

This awesome muscleman tree ant, that is dragging a caterpillar away to her nest:

An eleven-armed sea star:

And this (not so) green grocer:

[shroomysean]

There are a lot of nice orange fungi. I’ll try to keep this as short as I can manage

Candy caps! Lactarius rubidus. An indicative feature of this species is its scent - it reeks (nicely) of maple syrup when dried. They’re used in cookies and other sorts of baked goods. Around here they tend to associate with Hazelnut.

These orangish waxcaps I found at a local park today! There aren’t many other observations in the area, quite the neat find! Cuphophyllus pratensis.

The orange gills of this false-chanterelle, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca.

Orange Jelly! They’re so fun to touch. Dacrymyces chrysospermus.

“Hairy Curtain Crust” altough I have never heard ANYONE call it that. We just call it false turkey-tail. Stereum hirsutum.

The bright orange gills of these unidentified Hygrophorus mushrooms. I love waxcaps :>

Finally, the orangish brown cap of this Psilocybe pelliculosa specimen. They’re quite common, and had quite a good run this last fall!

[varanus_enthusiast]

Fungi are such cool things!

[octobertraveler]

American Copper–and a favorite of mine.

[joeylikesbirds]

Clavulinopsis aurantiocinnabarina (Orange spindle coral)

Eastern comma

Peck’s skipper

Baltimore oriole

Salmon pinkgill

[Thunderhead]

[varanus_enthusiast]

I love the Isabella tiger moth caterpillar

[Thunderhead]

Thanks, they’re favorites of mine. Wooly Bears we predicted winter by the markings. I also think the protective technique of curling up is one I could and would use myself!
Thanks for the thread, Orange and green are my favorite color combo.

[oksanaetal]

Monarch!

[Thunderhead]

Marbled orb
Leaf beetle eggs
Blackberry Orange Rust
Rotund-collared Soldier Beetle
Asian Ladybeetle
Unidentified crawlie

[erin-816]

Pheucticus melanocephalus (Black-headed Grosbeak)

Sphex ichneumoneus (Great Golden Digger Wasp)

Lilium pardalinum ssp. shastense (Shasta Lily)

Danaus plexippus (Monarch)

Scutellinia (Eyelash Cups)

Hemitrichia slime mold

[sethshively]

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/242385138

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256310750

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/247251771

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205117784

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238668411

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/264044613

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/239456908

[endearingexotics]

This Vibrant Prairie Ringneck

And this Eurymerodesmus birdi.

[papernautilus]

This has been identified as a Crumb of Bread Sponge, but I can’t vouch for that. It is a sponge, and it is orange.

[erin-816]

Atteva aurea (Ailanthus Webworm Moth) on an equally orange Asclepias tuberosa

Erythroneurini micro leafhopper

Anomia simplex (Common Jingle)

Pilosella aurantiaca (Orange Hawkweed)

Trentepohlia aurea (Orange Rock Hair)

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (American Red Squirrel) (looks orange to me!)

and one of the most beautiful mushroom observations I got to make - I found this beauty at just the right moment…
Amanita jacksonii (Jackson’s Slender Caesar)

[aniandthedeer]

The beautiful orange on an opalescent nudibranch

[danly]

Monarch:

Viceroy:

Tiger moth:

[isopodguy]

Sunburst lichen

Rove beetle larva

Dead female helmet crab with eggs

A seapill (genus Gnorimosphaeroma)

Psylloid

Amphipod (family Anisogammaridae)

Bluespine hermit crab

Orange sea pen

[oksanaetal]

@isopodguy

Orange sea pen

And orange gloves!

[isopodguy]

Yep! We caught that by mistake while fishing for halibut. At first, I thought someone had dropped their glove overboard when we pulled it up.