not too “new” for iNat, but last week I went out to the mountains and saw THIS: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133360629
mass flowering of Erythrina velutina (red)! and mass fruiting of Eriotheca ruizii (white)
the hills were absolutely covered in red and white and red and white… it was breathtaking driving through there…
We’ll it’s Thursday Sept 8th, and I was supper happy that I found a new species of moth today. it was sitting on the wall of the women’s shower room at John Jay Pool.
Finally again a terrestrial lifer for me (if the ID is correct): a velvet ant Smicromyrme partita. Now I have observed 6 species and another 13 species are unobserved in Andalusia by me. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134233428
Finally found a beetle species that I’ve seen in 2014 on summer practice (a female on the stairs of our builduing we lived in and one male was caught by other students, they likely lived in hives that stood on that university property), I remember it so well because spent a full day trying to id it, it was abcent from the large key guide of the region and even with elytra it hardly looked like a beetle, especially confusing were mouthparts, not seen to be ided, so I only found it after hours of looking at my specimen in Google search. Of course I lost my phone that had photos of it. So when I saw Wasp Nest Beetle today I was really happy! And I saw it because I just photographed another lifer, Field digger wasp female, so two in one! All of that because I decided to go to a second short walk today, I spent last two weeks with covid and likely missed most of late summer species. =/
Yesterday I was snorkeling again and I still find lifers - even at the same beach in Málaga town. :-) I am not done with identifying, but there are at least 4 or 5. My favourite is probably this light-bulb sea squirt, because it is even a new subphylum (Tunicata).
As it’s gonna be a raining week (or more) I don’t expect to go outside much and see anything else, so my lifer for this week is this fungus living on Tussilago farfara.
