Welp, it’s October, and as the weather gets colder in the Northern hemisphere, Halloween draws closer. In honor of spooky season, what are some organisms with a spooky color scheme, spooky name, or spooky behavior?

I think the adult Mediterranean red bug looks like a Halloween mask: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132868086 [image]

south of the border, much of the water is delivered by trucks, the most-ancient trucks on the road generally… the old tanks in the trucks and many folks’ wells (just a giant 4 meter deep concrete box buried in the ground) or water tanks (a massive plastic tub mounted on the roof of houses) are easil…

[image] Witch’s Butter | Tremella mesenterica | Observation: 127129412

Given these methods of water sanitization of either boiling water or using sodium hypochlorite, is water just used as-is, knowing these risks of these lethal outcomes for lack of information, fuel to boil water, money for dissinfection, or some other reason?

Sailor’s eyeball ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa ) which also happens to be the biggest single-celled organism. A 1 inch diameter cell is kinda spooky even without the common name.

I think accidents happen. At least in Ecuador, most homes in Ecuador rely on the delivery of propane gas tanks for cooking fuel. For example, if you’re reliant on boiled water, for drinking water, and if you run out of gas in the middle of the night and there’s no way to contact the “gas guy” becau…

this is terrible, and I’m not serious, but can you “pop” them?

I don’t know from personal experience but apparently it’s one of the top questions Google gets about them…: [SailorsEyeball] I also note the “taste” tab up there, so apparently there’s info on that too…

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wildwestnature October 24, 2022, 8:17pm 45

ready for trick or treating in name but not very scary looking:
masked hunter

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