I love the Forum thread about blue organisms, and always enjoy the photos that people post, particularly of organisms I have never seen. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-some-blue-organsims-you-have-photographed/59163 I believe we need a similar topic for the presence of red in nature. Fo…

Thanks for adding a couple of my obs to the cauliflory project. That wasnt a term I was aware of.

[fruitdove] Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove

You’re welcome! Thanks for posting your Parkinson’s Rātā Metrosideros parkinsonii - just a day after I created the project, what timing! I think cauliflory is beautiful and so interesting, and your post let me add a species that I hadn’t encountered before. (-:

My first Tiger Beetle dating back to 2014 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129662061

Good shot for black and white and red all over too!

[Tetraopes tetrophthalmus] Red milkweed beetle [Rhodobaenus tredecimpunctatus] Ironweed curculio [Coleomegilla maculata] Spotted pink lady beetle

I definitely see red when these guys reappear each spring on the lilies in my garden Lilioceris lilii (Lily Leaf Beetle) [Lilioceris lilii] This Russula was a nice fresh find so the color is vibrant [Russula sp] Actaea rubra (Red Baneberry) [Actaea rubra] Trillium erectum (Red Trillium) […

[image] erin-816: Trillium erectum (Red Trillium) [Trillium erectum] Oh yes! Music to my, um, eyes!

[DSCN7830] White Ibis in breeding plumage

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Red milkweed beetle

Ironweed curculio

Spotted pink lady beetle

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