Tell me the species and what costume they are wearing?
For example: Procyon lotor is dressed up as Zorro.
This Pterotaea cariosa moth is wearing a ghoul costume with terrifying face paint.
This Hydnellum cyanopodium fungus is going to the party as a Phlebotomist.
The Sesia pacificum moth is dressed up as “Barry B. Benson” from The Bee Movie.
All members of the lichen moth genus Eudesmia sport Halloween colors year-round!
This sea squirt (Clavelina ossipandae) is dressed as a skeleton.
If you are a slug, you can dress up as witch’s finger
Obviously:
Southern Jack-O’-Lantern
The Netty Ladybeetle is dressed as a brain/skull: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/332661-Heteroneda-billardieri
And of course, this guy doesn’t need a costume; he’s already a great Halloween symbol: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8010-Corvus-corax
with atleast 6 people engaged and nearly 80 views, and the fact that the title is visible in “topics”, this is a perfect example of inattentional blindness.
Remember the gorilla going through the scene when a few planes were passing and we were told to count the passes? and how one team member of the other side left? Well…
You guys were so engaged with the topic, you didn’t notice that Halloween was misspelled!!!
Not insulting anyone, but just pointing out… how it works…
since I don’t celebrate Halloween and I’m not aware of examples I’m not posting any species here.
Hal-boo-ween?
We don’t celebrate it anymore since moving to a condo where it’s not allowed, but I do enjoy spooking things up for the younger ones. (Hello granddaughter!)
Plus, it’s also my father’s birthday. And he truly enjoyed trick-or-treat season, so I like to keep that alive too.
It’s also a fading mini-social custom that once brought neighbourhoods together much more than it does today. In a world of cocooned digital convenience and growing levels of epidemic loneliness, anything that can help move the needle the other way is good, in my books.
Happy Hallowe’en!
(old fart spelling)
You might also enjoy this thread from a couple of years ago:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/seriously-spooky-species/57648/3
Same.
In fact, this is something I noticed as soon as I saw the topic as English and grammar are things I hold in high regard. I didn’t think that mentioning this would really add anything helpful to the topic nor did it seem terribly important to me. I see typos in lots of posts, including mine, so I tend to notice them and then move on instead of calling attention to them.
But this was in the title so it felt a bit weird to see it.