My favourite plants (well, sort of, because someone has to like them and they attract a lot of insects): thistles - here Onopordum macracanthum
Argia fumipennis (Variable Dancer)
Tradescantia virginiana (Virginia Spiderwort)
Tischeria quercitella (Oak Blotch Miner Moth)
Cicindela scutellaris ssp. lecontei (LeConte’s Tiger Beetle)
I’ve only got plants, too, I think… Here we go!
Could have taken on the color of its food? Those disk flowers are an even purpler purple.
I remember reading long ago that sea otters eat so many pacific purple sea urchins that their bones are sometimes stained purple. It’s been cool to see a few of sea otter bones on iNaturalist to confirm, like this one.
The flower of a Chicory Cichorium intybus plant provided a pretty backdrop for this Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee which is the official bee of the City of Toronto.
After looking at several pics to see what purply things I have, I ended up googling to figure out what counts as purple, and ended at a result that basically is “depends on your culture” so these are things which are purple to me?
Male Emma’s Dancer (Argia emma)
While not the purplest purple that ever purpled, I think that their warm lavender is quite pleasing.
I’d say you nailed purple! I believe your gorgeous salamander has a place in this thread as well: Funny, Long, or just plain weird animal names (-:
One purple organism that may never make it to iNat?
The ‘Purple Sock’ mystery:
https://underthecblog.org/2016/02/06/mystery-of-the-deep-sea-purple-sock/#jp-carousel-3820
Someone found a red one, maybe your post will serve as a challenge for our coastal iNatters - find the missing purple sock! (-:
Who knows, someday it might appear in someone’s dryer. (I keep looking)
Cheers. I have looked at that, but not quite as visually appealing as these threads. But I was really happy when I found it, as the name suggests of course I found it in Colombia, havent been to Ecuador yet.
Actually more lavender than true purple, but people seem to be rather broad with their color categories. This unfortunate damselfly had a deformed wing, which is how I was able to take such a close-up:
does this plum-headed parakeet count?
Answer: yes, it can count up to six. Unfortunately it only has three talons on each foot, so counting past six is a challenge.
