I’d be happy to look it up. Just need your make/model number, add the word ‘specs’ in a browser. Done.
I agree, Im sure its superb-um, but hard not to see it as super-bum
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I’ve been kind of fascinated with Tardigrades. Years ago, my husband bought an inexpensive handheld digital microscope to use in car restoration mechanics (old Corvair). I wondered if I could see a Tardigrade with it and the answer is, yes, I can!
Identified to genus very quickly (Milnesium) so, new genus and new Phylum. I am extra thrilled with the new Phylum.
I got the moss off our sidewalk and soaked it in melted snow. It’s been fun to see stuff wiggling around in there. I found a translucent slug like creature and a few translucent worm like creatures. I think I’ll have fun playing around with the microscope and I’ve kind of got my mind wondering what a newer, slightly better model might be like to explore with.
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Nice photos!
Did you take some of them in the specimen container you got for Christmas, that you mentioned here? That was a thoughtful gift.
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/favourite-gift-related-to-nature/59753/7
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Yes, I did! It worked really nice.
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Continuous shooting:
H: approx. 10 fps max. 6 frames
M: approx. 5fps max. 10 frames
L: approx. 3fps max. until card is full
Movie recording:
4K: 38402160 (15P)
Full HD: 19201080 (59.94P/50P/24P/23.98P)
Full HD (Square): 10801080 (59.94P/50P/24P/23.98P)
HD: 1280720 (59.94P/50P/24P/23.98P)
HD (Square) : 720720 (59.94P/50P/24P/23.98P)
HD (High Speed Movie): 1280720
1.6 times slow motion (record 100P, playback 59.94P)
2 times slow motion (record 100P, playback 50P)
3.3 times slow motion (record 100P, playback 29.97P)
4 times slow motion (record 100P, playback 25P)
So, yes, this indicates 4K video. As far as changing the shutter spedd of movie recotding, I can’t tell what a lot of this means.
Anyway, this isn’t the main topic of the thread, so let’s not spend too much time on it.
So… back to the thread topic, favorite lifers. I visited my dad over Christmas. He lives deeper in the Piedmont than I have ever observed before. His neighborhood is one of those suburban deserts, but there is a small stream running between two of the dead-end streets, and the riparian corridor is still there. That’s where I found this:
Violet-toothed polypore, so a lifer genus for me, and a lifer family and order, too – despite the name, it is not Polyporales but Hymenochaetales.
[EDIT]: Turns out it wasn’t a lifer, because I have one other observation. That observation was made on a trip through Zebulon and Knightdale, mostly documenting autumn foliage, and the polypore was a bit of an afterthought to avoid the trip being just about plants.
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I’ve already been sharing those types of posts in this thread. The observation became a ‘lifer’ that week even if the observation was posted earlier so it seemed like it should be okay. Have I been mistaken this whole time?
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Good idea! The subject of how long “should/does it take” to get an ID/ confirming ID comes up semi-regularly. A dedicated thread would/could/should satisfy!
Peruvian Amazon Week 4
Opisthoxia
Bit of a cheat since I did see a couple possibly in the genus in the previous two weeks, but this one is the best. And also gives me robotnik vibes.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256483340
Huasampillia albipustulata
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256135691
Loreto White-lipped Frog Leptodactylus rhodomysta
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256352096
Not a great pic but my first wild bristlenose.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256483304
Costalimacris neotropica
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256135690
Proconia lutzi?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256607322
Camponotus mirabilis
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256483325
Labedera primitiva?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256336127
Eciton hamatum or drepanophorum? (Either way not the Eciton burchellii I have recorded before)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256483306
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I am delighted once again with the glorious range of tiny treasures you have brought here to share with us.
And treasures that are literally from (to quote a certain famous bear of fiction) “deepest, darkest Peru”.
In my head, I am already calling your stuff the ‘Paddington Posts’.
Fantastic finds. Thanks again!
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I got a Rough-legged Hawk the other day!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256876488
Not the best photo but was really cool to see!
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Cheers, only a couple more weeks worth of photos to process. Then I will be caught up again, already thinking about the next one.
Meet Loxa viridis, who is likely my final new-to-me in the garden in the old house, and what a chonker!
I was asked years ago by a Pentatomidae specialist if I had seen one since he said they were here. I said I wasn’t sure, that maybe he could review my Arvelius observations in case one of those was one and I had incorrectly identified it as Arvelius. He was like, uhhh, no, you will 100% not be confused if you ever see one.
Spoiler alert: He was not kidding, this was like twice the body size.
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I noticed an interesting fungus this week.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256946471
Also, this hermit crab I posted on this thread last week is probably a greenmark hermit crab, not a bering hermit crab as I initially thought. Greenmark is also a new species for me.
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And here I am, stuck in the grey, brown relative lifelessness of northern hemisphere midwinter… you’re making me EXTREMELY envious (in the nicest possible way).
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All a matter of perspective… I just came back to this northern hemisphere winter setting after some years and I love it actually. I always liked this calmer season for being able to focus on organisms I would normally overlook if everything is buzzing and humming (but do love that season as well).
For the sake of this thread, my favourite lifer this week is not a nice shot, as it was a dead beetle in a spider web, but I was so excited when I found it, as this is actually a beetle that is not too commonly reported and at the moment spreading north-east and reports are requested by german coleopterists and nature organisations… so very nice start into 2025 for me.
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Northern and new
On Dec. 31, I was feeling slightly bug-deprived (Niagara area, Canada), so I hit the emergency bug button and made it to my local ‘Tunnel of Bugs’ down the road, a 100 ft long, large tunnel under a highway access road, that’s ready to walk through and wide open in the middle of a large agricultural research center.
My haul that afternoon? I spotted 3 mosquitoe species, 2 moth species, 3 spider species, 5 small fly species, a mystery beetle, wood louse, 2 true bugs, a centipede, and a flowering shrub. All very much alive.
The shrub is (I think, not confirmed) Vibernum farreri
Of the rest, I’m feeling most confidence that this
Unfortunately, I made the bad call of bringing my birding camera (Nikon P950) with me instead of my best macro cam as I was feeling like I needed to learn to be a more patient birdwatcher. But the Raynox clip-on macro converter did pretty well under the circumstances.
Oh, only bird species spotted was a huge starling murmuration on the way to the tunnel.
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Gasteracantha hebridisia, a spiny orbweaver
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/257312836
Took lots of photos of this beauty.
Was quite chuffed to find this.
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Beautiful shot!
Yeah, the whole thing of hunting for stuff like this often takes on a very awkward atmosphere – especially on popular trails.
“Mommy, why is that excited-looking man over there taking pictures of poop?”
“Never mind Nathan, let’s just move along and let’s do it quickly.”
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Nice photo! Spiny orbweavers are the coolest! I’d love to see one someday.
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