Melanelixia subaurifera (Abraded Camouflage Lichen) which I’ve been wanting to see all year - when looking at the “lichen of ohio” project and sorting by most observed species this was the top one I had not seen myself. Last Friday night I was out in the rain and I think that was key - when it’s dry this lichen is completely dark brown and so on a branch it’s brown-on-brown and all you see are the other bright lichen around it. But when wet it gets brighter and its lobe tips turn green and I was finally able to find one!
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The Grey Pearl Moth. This guys was Camouflaged on a compound wall. Both the wall and the moth were grey. Glad my eye caught the wall, nature calls on the wall 
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I saw my lifer Vesper Sparrow two days ago! While not exactly common, they aren’t really rare either. So, this was a species that had somehow slipped through the cracks for me until now. Today, I saw two more and one even let me get a photo!
Vesper Sparrow | Observation: 151217258
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A few cold days in Denver. When the sun and warmth came back yesterday, I started to see wolf spiders all over. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151742277
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From today and already IDed :-)
Xylocopa iris, mating
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Well, I’m not going to link it again, because it’s on the Dandelions thread where I already linked it twice. It may not have been observed this week, but it became a lifer this week because it wasn’t identified as a lifer until this week. My mind is still blown that I am only the second iNat user to observe Taraxacum Section Mexicana – and I didn’t even have to visit a nature place.
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My first jelly! I found it on some dead logs last month and finally got around to uploading it. It was really eye-catching!
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A good moth to start the year. My first time seeing this one:
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The red-topped capsules of the Schistidium crassipilum are the cutest detail I’ve found this week:
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Common Hedge Blue Butterfly. Found this buddy in an empty site next to my house. Had to make my white pant brown for him, a clear shot is always from the wingside that gives a clarity on what specie is this.
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5 days in Lycia last week with a bunch of nice lifers.
Favorite was probably the most widespread of the bunch, green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas
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Every week I think I must have seen all the lichen that grow here by now. But then Friday night after work I went for a quick walk along the beginning of one of my usual forest trails and right along the trail spotted this Pycnothelia papillaria, a lichen with just 132 observations on inat. No idea how I could have missed it all the times I walked there before since it’s one of the most unique lichens! Sometimes I think lichen can secretly move around when nobody is looking 
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This very elusive Juvenal’s Duskywing https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152074481
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I was in Malawi for a couple days. It was my first time in Africa, and the Southern Hemisphere, so I amassed a good many lifers.
Some of my favorites include this Specke’s Hinge-back Tortoise (Kinixys spekii)
Flap-necked Chameleon (Chameleon dilepis). First ever Chameleon I’ve seen in the wild!
and Schalow’s Turaco (Tauraco schalowi)
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That Chameleon photo is beautiful!
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Finally! My first springtail. They were all dancing around the end of a cut tree and I finally have the gear together to get a decent shot. Just the genus (Hypogastrura) but I’ve been looking for some time now.
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What did you use to get this picture? Its great!
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Wow! Wonderful photo!
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