Pseudoscorpions and ticks are super sneaky!!! Amazing find.
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Another sneaky pseudoscorpion! They are so cool.
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This one wasn’t quite “hiding” but it was certainly an unintentional capture - canada goose photobombing my turtle picture!
I often find interesting plant pathogens I failed to notice at the time, like this one on a rare species of Chorizanthe I was photographing: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109336781
Or this cool little insect that showed up in my casual snap of a bay tree branch: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101312218
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They are so funny, they look like they want to hug you…
Right now is tick season here in Mexico, or at least I’ve found many these days.
I missed the focus on a dragonfly photo and accidentally got a good shot of the mites it was carrying.
I also noticed a springtail in this photo as I was cropping it down and decided to leave it in.
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Wow, very interesting. Are those really mites? They are weird.
I’m really annoyed at myself right now - I was going through photos and in one of my pictures of a pretty common wildflower I found a very weird plant I hadn’t seen and have no idea what it is! I’m tempted to go back and look for it again, but it’s really far out of the way and gas is expensive. And my car is in for repairs anyway. Argh!
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Water mites of some kind. I might make it an observation and get that verified though. Sadly I couldn’t catch the damselfly to pop a couple off for a better ID. It doesn’t seem to cause them any problems even at this level of infestation. I saw this one mating while still carrying them.
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It’s not a handsome picture, as i just took a quick snap of the stork’s bills on the way back to my car. But, looking at the picture, i see a lady beetle nestled down in (3 o’clock of center).
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Oh, I can see it, it looks like a convergent ladybug I believe.
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This was a fairly quick ob of a common flower that I took today. Now I’m reviewing the photo I can see three aphids on there. I’ll have to try and track them down tomorrow.
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The great thing about aphids is they never stray far. As long as the birds don’t find them anyway… Too small for my macro lens to deal with though and I’ll have to wait until they’re adults to identify them anyway. I really need to fork out for that 2x magnification lens.
The flower is proving trickier to identify than I thought too.
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Cardamine. Normally, I would think Cardamine oligospermum, but I have seen comments that there are other ones that look the same to me.
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I was recording a few laughing doves, and then suddenly from behind a pallid harrier takes flight. I only noticed him as I was reviewing my tapes
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Cardamine hirsuta I think, but I’m struggling to separate it from Cardamine flexuosa. I’ve read a few conflicting guides and the plant showed traits from both. It could be a hybrid I guess but I think I need to do more research.
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I just looked at a Penstemon photo from 8 years ago that someone added an ID to today and noticed a snakefly perched on the lower lip: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111280316
That certainly took long enough!
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You’re welcome? I went back and commented on other ones with pollinators, like Pseudomasaris, if you want to duplicate them 
Yes, thanks again for bringing those up to the top of my feed!
So cool.
Here’s one of an . . . unnatural kind. Maybe somebody will appreciate it.
I was was out in the countryside focusing on an osprey diving into a river. It caught a fish so big, it couldn’t fly away with it. After struggling for about 5 full minutes, it gave up and flew away.
Only later when editing the photos I noticed a Lamborghini had zoomed past in the background.
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