What do you think of this example:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141537618
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Is that a fly?
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Unexpectedly cute hitchhiker!
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I read about mites that live on wasps and today I had a chance to see it in person. There is a groove under the edge of the first tergum where they live (second photo).
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I think they may be drinking its tears!
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What is it?
a frog
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I might be touching the limits of this topic with this contribution,
but I just realized there is a lion hiding in this observation…
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Have you seen this photo?
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Reviewing (and deleting) some blurry photos today and I spotted a sneaky wasp. Do you see it in the original observation?
Liorhyssus hyalinus (Hyaline Grass Bug)
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Didn’t notice the treecreeper when I took the photo or even when I was editing the RAW. I think that was my luckiest crop of all! The worst part is the bird I didn’t see is the one more in focus, I need to get better with that lens…
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I found a mushroom on a walk by the lake a few months ago and took a photo of the inside of the stem. When I got home and started sorting through my photos I realized it had tiny beetle larvae inside!
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I was wondering where my beloved crested grebes had gone when the local pond froze over. Since that island is fairly far away from the shore (about 160m if Google Maps distance measurement is to be trusted), I pretty much always discover some bonus birds in my viewfinder (the heron in this case). I only noticed the second extra when editing!
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Just discovered a snail in the background of this photo and am very sad I did not see it on the spot and focussed there :-/
I was looking through a recent (at the time-- this was in May lol) photo of Fire Pinks to draw one day and noticed something I’d seen before on someone else’s observation–
Rather than possessing the typical bright yellow anthers this should have, they were black! An observation half the state away had them, and I somehow re-found that observation and copied the ID from it-- it’s an anther smut that infects Fire Pinks.
If I hadn’t have seen that observation and remembered it pretty well, and if I hadn’t been using them for a drawing reference (where color matters immensely), I never would’ve noticed it at all, much less known what it was. Kinda neat. :)
I apparently actually didn’t even upload the Fire Pinks themselves as an observation since I’d posted a few from that location already that month, so… they would’ve flown totally under the radar.
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Whenever I look at my old plant observations I always notice the presence of small insects I didn’t see back when I took the photo.
This one in particular is absolutely teeming with pollinators:
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My new interest in arthropods combined with my failing eyesight means I frequently don’t see things until I am processing images on my computer. This fly isn’t alone. https://inaturalist.ca/observations/145459549
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