What is your Favorite Lifer from this week?

Bolivia week two lifer highlights

A diplura sanguinea (Being eaten by a Tityus bolivianus one I have photographed before)


https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/379263054

10th inat observation for Xenopholis werdingorum


https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/379262998

And a Globe-bearing Treehopper - Bocydium globulare


https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/378990451

That treehopper is wild!

That tree hopper looks so fake. I love it.

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Yeah was pretty awesome to see some, but was pretty hard to shoot even with stacking. The rough 2/3rd pics show the challenege I had. But it is pretty insane ornamentation.

Bizzare beasts did a pretty awesome vid on tree hopper ornamentation a few weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgyAnhlGUIY

Edit: Watching a second time, I only just noticed I got a credit in that vid 9 mins in. I guess you can miss those things when you listen more than you watch.

what a beautiful spider (well, when it doesn’t have a scorpion munching on its face)! those spinnerets :star_struck:

I do have an observation of one normally from the same walk, but figured this was more “interesting”. It is a nice one.

Went hiking on my day off on a trail with really nice sections of maritime grasslands and added Margined Tiger Beetle(Ellipsoptera marginata) and Three-banded Robber Fly (Stichopogon trifasciatus) to my observations. I had already seen Margined Tiger Beetle before this was just my first time ever managing a decent picture of one(Tiger Beetle moment) but this my first time ever seeing a Three-Banded Robber Fly in general, always great to see a new Asilid.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/386118761 The gull was so close.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/382419736 So was this snail.

Both were first evers.

But this one is my favorite.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/382703770

And this one. Not first time seeing the species, but first time seeing the species as a cottontail rabbit kit.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/386726708

I hope you don’t mind that I have snagged your gorgeous snake for my things-that-are-red project. More red snakes, please! :heart_eyes:


First marsh or maiden fern: a New York fern.
First Araneus, the oldest genus of animals, defined by Clerck the year before Linnaeus started naming animals.
And I have two new moth lifers: a Melanolophia from Moth Week, which CV identified as Boarmiini but I already had a Boarmiinus of a different genus, and a Gelechioidĕs from before Moth Week.

I had to look this up. I knew Diplura (sg. Diplurum or Dipluron) are hexapods, but did not know that Diplura (pl. Diplurae) is a spider. Both have two tails, hence the name.

Found my first Corybas. Corybas grumulus. Very exciting

Nice finds! Say, you might want to consider using some cropping on some of your obs pics. Even if that means losing some overall appearance crispness, it might gain you some appreciation from the IDers as it saves them the time it takes to zoom in.

After learning to crop, you can move onto some basic image tuning. Like this?

I’ve recently come back from 5 weeks in a biological station in Ecuador. Of course everything was a lifer. But I want to draw attention to this big beautiful caterpillar that still lacks a name:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/379188240

It’s RED! I love it!

Wood Stork in Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge. My photo is subpar at best, taken through my binoculars on my too-old iPhone. Luckily, another inatter logged what I believe to be the same pair, the same day, visible if you look at the map for the location. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/387348988

found my first pseudoscorpions ever, two of them with eggs, very exciting!! on the farm, France
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/387958325
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/387959128
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/387960583

Of course.

I dont have a huge number of red snake

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/383532643

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/320995890

Dont know about this one, maybe its more burgundy? https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/257780840

Huh, never thought about that, but makes sense.

When i think of two-tailed spiders, usually I think of “two-tailed spiders” https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47784-Hersiliidae