Well, Since I am curious what’s the weirdest observation you’ve ever had, :eye_in_speech_bubble: I want the weirdest most wack observations and maybe the story <3 :black_heart:

Reminds me of the famous “Kentucky Meat Shower” which may or may not have been vulture vomit.

[image] martyndrabik: Warning: This may crash your browser. It did once :sweat_smile:

Have a few ones I find weird, others may not xD I’m not sure what weird is at this point since with my fave fungi and inverts they can be de facto weird as is. Weird by virtue of location - my quick ant snaps turned out to be a species not really found that side of south America at all. Also one I …

On our 2nd boat tour of the St. John’s river in Florida we encounter this Snowy Egret surfing on the back of a Manatee. The Egret was eating various insects stirred up by the Manatee as it grazed on the vegetation. Super fun to watch. [331]

I’m now instantly googling “Kentucky Meat Shower” :rofl:

Fly larvae are always weird ( 1 , 2 ) but I think this macroscopic colonial ciliate might be the weirdest thing I’ve found! Took me quite a lot of looking up to figure out what it was!

[image] f-sundw: Fly larvae are always weird I second that!! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330019922

Here’s my tray of drain maggots (and a pupa), much bigger than adult Clogmiae. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/328455955

Probably my weirdest was not photo’d and is not on iNat. It was an oddly shaped piece of bone I found half-buried in the sandy shore of a small stream in New Mexico. I couldn’t figure out what it had come from until I turned over the bone in my hand and realized it was part of a human skull staring…

@ocean_beach_goth , I remember some of my elder downhome relatives telling me about that when I was a kid. At the time, I thought that they were just pulling my leg!

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