[image] What is your favorite species found in North Carolina? One species I’ve heard often but not seen is the chuck-will’s-widow. What is a species that you wanted to see for the longest time, and then you finally saw it? Maybe you heard it, maybe you saw tracks . . . but it was your white w…

[image] zee_z: I’m going to be trying my hardest to find Ticks next year, I’ve been wanting to see them for a while and just haven’t had any luck Wait, what? Ticks as in ticks ? Why? I would happily donate all the ticks I might encounter for the rest of my life to anyone who wants them. (I ap…

There are some quite interesting ones, such as possibly this one , that are quite host specific. In this case feeding mostly on these tortoises, attaching themselves in the ‘hinge’ of the shell. I’ve always struggled with ticks, for good practical reasons! But I’ve actively tried to learn more and l…

[image] spiphany: Wait, what? Ticks as in ticks ? Why? They’re fascinating! I’ve heard people talk about how they stand on the ends of plants, waving their front legs around and following you to grab on, and how they’ve accidentally stumbled into grass that has millions of babies in it, I’ve …

I don’t like ticks, but they are definitely fascinating. I even chose what I thought was a particularly striking tick as an observation of the day . [image] zee_z: I’ve heard people talk about how they stand on the ends of plants, waving their front legs around and following you to grab on I’…

I had been wanting to see an ichneumonid wasp in the genus Gelis ever since I mis-identified a similar wasp as belonging to that genus. At the beginning of fall, I noticed a small red insect crawling on the wall of our house, and I recognized it almost immediately. The observation hasn’t been conf…

Since a lot of people are posting species they haven’t yet seen, I want to add the very obscure and rare animal taxon Loricifera. I don‘t know if I‘ll ever see one, but I really would like to.

Wow! I looked those up. What on Earth are they? They look strange jellyfish.

I was followed by ticks for the first time this year - it depends on the species. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210894375 is one that actively seeks out hosts - it can smell humans up to 10m and then follow them for 100m. As far as I’m concerned, it turned our orchid hunting trip into a b…

Wow! Do you know what group they typically use for hosts?

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oksanaetal January 12, 2025, 3:12am 83

Exactly! Same for me too (except for the cinnamon teals).

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