Nature in Orange!

[broacher]

Microleafhopper, genus Erythroneural.

[Mercedes-Fletcher]

Thank you so much! :)

[sigridjakob]

Something in Nectriaceae has recently popped up in my incubated white tailed deer dung from Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/264137967

[jezzecek]

Does captive count?

[jnstuart]

Neon Skimmer. Supposedly the abdomen is red but looks more orange to my eyes.

[oksanaetal]

Eh, I’d say abdomen is red, thorax and wings are orange if I remember my insect anatomy correctly.

[jnstuart]

That’s why I’m not allowed to pick out paint colors.

[wendy5]

Here’s a Cucumaria miniata (Red Sea Cucumber) that’s often bright orange!

[miau_petoncles]

Greetings from Portugal.
Our vote goes to:

[symphylan]

Notophthalmus viridescens

[whaichi]

Flies and fungi are the things I think of first when it comes to orange organisms.

Flies

Homoneura haejuana 해주꼬마큰날개파리

Diogmites neoternatus | Plain-tailed Hanging Thief

Granted, for this species it’s only the head that’s orange, but I’ve always found them quite striking:

Prosthiochaeta bifasciata | 날개알락파리

Fungi

I enjoyed stumbling across these poking out from a sea of green:

Rickenella fibula | Orange Moss Navel · 패랭이버섯

Marasmius siccus | Orange Pinwheel · 애기낙엽버섯

These are the voyages of the Trametes Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no fungus has gone before.

Trametes cinnabarina | Northern Cinnabar Polypore · 주걱송편버섯

[tjeales]

Arkys turberculatus

[ItsMeLucy]

One of the five photos that was originally here. (I’ll let you figure out where this falls in the cycle.)

[ra_teo]

My favorite this year so far is the Common Cryptops - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/265293543

[ra_teo]

Still looking for the older orange obs

[isopodguy]

Sea cucumber

Some strange unidentified worm

[Drew_Baxter]

I see this orange butterfly frequently and often on walks through my neighborhood in the south end of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. This is a male Julia Longwing or Mariposa Julia Americana Dryas iulia ssp moderata.

[GothHobbit]

@jezzecek

Does captive count?

A handsome boy like that? How could he not? (I have a soft spot for gingers; what can I say)

Some of my (other) favorite orange organisms (links go to observations):

Orange Bluet (Enallagma signatum)

Female Plains Forktails (Ischnura damula)

Eastern Amberwings (Perithemis tenera)

Bullock’s Oriole (Icterus bullockii)

Spent Sulfur Buckwheat flowers (Eriogonum umbellatum)

[ItsMeLucy]

Danaus eresimus ssp. montezuma , dining on a flamboyán seedling.

I really like the dotted body - dotted wing edge coordination and wish I had more artistic ability; this is one species I would like to try my hand at I think.

[broacher]

How about that snowy owl in Michigan?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/science/snowy-owl-orange-michigan-rusty.html