One of my favorite things about inatting is finding something new! So here I ask what is your favorite species you’ve seen that was new to you this week? Personally mine has to be either the Phantom Orchids I found, or the aphids I found on them! I want this to be a fun thread of everyone’s exciting…

That is very cool, thanks! I do see that they have the “pouty” look that some Wrasses have!

Week 27.09-03.10 Really cute and very common Orange Milkcaps , tentative Rose Bracket Mushrooms and small, but colourful Blue Cheese Polypore . Week 04.10-10.10 Winter Polypore [image] [image]

From last week: This Bittersweet Nightshade . The first thing I thought when I saw it was “What is a tomato plant doing here?!” From this week: Shaggy Mane ! We picked some and it was already starting to slimify when we got home, so we didn’t end up eating it.

▶ Sep 29 - Oct 6 ▶ Oct 7-13

We should probably make a new thread by the start of 2022 before this thread becomes the forum’s equivalent of Gerald .

[image] vihaking277: This really odd unidentified spider (updates will be posted) It’s a Wolf Spider.

This plant, Sweetfern Comptonia peregrina was a lifer for me on Governors Island on Friday 15th October: [image] On Oct 16th in my Manhattan neighborhood, this Powdery Mildew fungus on Catchweed Bedstraw (probably * Neoerysiphe galii *, appears to be a first record for the entire New World. [imag…

I would not have even seen this if I had not thought it might be a swollen stem caused by a plant pathogen and then taken a closer look. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98530240

[DSC_0490] It’s something I’m shocked I’ve never seen in person before, given how avidly I look for isopods – my first sighting of Invertebrate Iridescent Virus 31 , or Isopod Iridovirus. Incidentally, also my first-ever virus ID!

Sunday Oct 22nd on Randall’s Island, Neolasioptera convolvuli a new gall (gall midge) for me on Hedge Bindweed. Seems to be quite rarely observed overall. [image] Not a great image but a cool cranefly from Governors Island on Wednesday 20th Oct, Genus Dicranomyia : [image]

What is your Favorite Lifer from this week?

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vihaking277 October 17, 2021, 9:15am 202

It’s a Wolf Spider.

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