Osprey and big fish I’ve seen.
But a Lamborghini?
I think I’m motorhead enough to actually put that in “lifer of the week”!
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It’s not ‘‘another observation’’ but that is a nice Lamborghini hehehe.
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Cardamine species can be annoyingly hard to tell apart. I’m trying to learn to tell C. occulta, C. hirsuta, and C. pennsylvanica apart.
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I just realized there were twisted-wing insects parasitizing this dark paper wasp I saw last year. I went back and found some surprisingly (and completely accidentally) good shots of the wasp’s abdomen; I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me at the time to try to figure out why the abdomen was so distorted.
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Oh, and forgot to tell you, they are damselflies, not dragonflies hehe.
Nice pictures. And that snail is adorable.
I’m not sure why I wrote dragonfly. I got it right on my second post though. I’ve got it recorded as Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Large Red Damselfly) but it’s still on my list to make into an observation.
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I went on a short walk in the park today and found what I think is a wild geranium. I grabbed a photo of it, but the sun was so bright that it was difficult to see my phone screen as I took it, so I hardly noticed that there was a tiny beetle hiding on it!
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Today I’m editing photos from last year and I just found this little damselfly next to the water moccasin I was photographing
Northern Cottonmouth / Water Moccasin
Fragile Forktail (damselfly)
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What’s funny is that the damselfly is more in focus than the snake!
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I always wondered about those orange “spots” on Harvestmen! Thanks!
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great thread!
leaf or tree hopper nymph inside the crab spider’s grasp, didn’t realize it was there til I was processing the shots hours later. missed it even though it was literally inches infront of my face.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54344235
third image has an ambush bug in the foreground and a crab spider in the background. again didn’t see them till I was cleaning up the photos much later.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80162910
Jumping spider with a parasite, took many tries but got a couple shots of it tucked behind the cephlothorax. image 2 and 3
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/97858062
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Soooo many of my sheet pictures have smaller photobombs. Small flies, planthoppers, moths, wasps, beetles… I bet I have a hundred species of tiny things and some of them are focused enough to ID if I was pointing out the non-lep
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I was so intent on photographing this lively velvet ant that I completely missed seeing that little green thing at the time. Now I’m desperately curious about it.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121730468
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Was photographing a “Stink Bug” - did not notice that it was preying on something even smaller. And then of course there are some smaller mites of some kind on the bug
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That Canada Goose is real good at hiding.
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That’s part of a petal of some plant.
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I didn’t notice the cactus in this photo until I was uploading it:
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I also missed this heron until uploading:
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