This very cute and adorable Pachypodistes goeldii from Loreto, Ecuador. Fully equipped with pink wings and stilt legs. Plushies coming this christmas (j/k).
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Boots with the fur! Very cute!
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A boring pillbug. It’s a lifer only because my previous pillbug was a different species.
I also observed a beetle, not yet identified, and my first marmorated bug of the season, which is not a lifer since I observed several of them last year.
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How are they boring? They are so cool and reliably found almost anytime… love them
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Finally got to see a live Madtom in one of our waterways.
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I’d be ecstatic if I found a pillbug, mostly because I don’t live somewhere I can find them and I’ve never actually seen one. I doubt I would ever get tired of them even if I lived somewhere where there was a surplus of them.
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In some localities they are boring because they are everywhere and they are not even native.
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Goodness, when was the last time I remembered entering to this forum? Impossible to get updated.
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Just take 'em! This place is crawling with them, under every log and rock!
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Well, it’s not from this week, but I just got a taxon expert species ID that’s not only a lifer, it’s apparently a first for location, county, state, and iNat itself.
I’m kind of gobsmacked. There’s not even a taxon photo. Would anybody mind if I used mine?
EDITED to add: whoever it was who put my photo in as the taxon photo—thank you so much! 
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Congratulations! Not only does it sound fair to use your photo as the taxon photo, but it avoids any copyright problems that might be involved in using photos from another source.
And I must say that was a very considerate insect to land on your car like that! 
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WOW! Nice!
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Was fishing for bass and came across a Longnose Gar (Lepisosteus osseus)
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How do you release that without getting a nasty bite?
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Not from this week but this guy was probably my most exciting lifer! Only the second on iNat.
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Wow!! Love the antennae!! How big??
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I didn’t measure, but it was long! I think that was the main way the guy who identified it got his conclusion!
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A few weeks into my ecuador trip. Have gotten my first week processed. Always hard to narrow down a massive number of lifers to one. Since I know there is a conciousness of too many photos, I will drop from the top 10 of last year to 5, hopefully thats good.
My first Isotomurus I like its “face and how it kind of seems to be waving” it was on a frog snout in a small pond.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/318083720
This Cyclosoma anomala is the second for inat (And the first for its colour form).
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/313273426
I on this property I found four (Though one was first spoted occupied by someone else, it wasnt occupied when I checked the burrow, and didnt have all the nesting material yet). Swallow Tanager. The wiki suggests “The swallow tanagers are unique among tanagers in that they will sometimes dig a hole in a bank for a nest.” Though I have had a hard time finding photos of that. Based on locations of the holes, the owner/manager of UPDC where it was suggested they may have been formally nests of other stronger digging birds. But birds are not my speciality. Finding holes in the ground with stuff in them is a bit more so.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/318059761
This harvestmen is currently in the “What even is that” category. Its not like others I am familiar with. But it is definitly something I havent seen before.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/313944195
And something a bit more normal. My first Rothschildia.
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