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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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