A couple times lately I’ve come home from a day of bird-watching and been a bit dejected that I didn’t see anything new. Then I’ll start going through my photos and notice species in the shots I didn’t see out in the field! I think now I’m just going to get in the habit of taking tons of group shots…

I found a beautiful Ichneumoid wasp, took several photos, and prepared them for upload. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165469212 On the 4th photo, I saw a small animal clinging to the wasp. [image] Do you see it? It’s on the left hind leg. I still could not find out what kind of art…

Nice! Pseudoscorpions often get around by phoresis , or holding on to larger animals.

[IMG_1935] Moth on a collected Virginia pine bonsai https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163720865

[DSC_5975] Sorting through my photos from my trip to the Bay of the Somme in May (there’s still a fair few to upload and refining the location is hard). Apparently, while taking photos of Linaria cannabina as we got closer, I managed to intercept a yellow missile (the shot is wider, I just cropped…

So, I was looking through some old observations because teellbee reported seeing a softshell turtle in another forum thread. And, I found a couple of dragonflies in one of my old photos! Geez! I wish I had seen this two years ago! I think I have to go back to that park and try to find them now since…

This happens more than I care to admit. I work so hard to get the tiny mites/springtails etc in focus, that I miss everything else. Saw this beautiful Snout Mite and only at home saw the giant next to it! And I love weevils, how did I miss it? [IMG_6225-001]

[2023-07-02a Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge northwest Lake Ladora 075 sdtr] I didn’t even see the Silver-spotted Skipper when I was taking the photos of the New Mexico Locust . Once I noticed him, though, he got his own observation.

I obsereved these leaf-spot galls on a greenbriar: [image] [image description] A greenbriar leaf with numerous circular brown-and-tan spots [end image description] I’m so used to seeing Smilax rotundifolia everywhere, I didn’t think much of it, as I was focused on the lifer galls, and especial…

I didn’t evenn notice at first when I was taking photos of this Eastern Box Turtle that it had a Twin-flagged Jumping Spider hitching a ride on it’s back! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179888356

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WildEdges July 18, 2023, 9:34pm 324

Look at this camera shy beetle that I missed while taking photos of the bee. To make it worse the camera focused on the beetle rather than my actual target.

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