This is by the Dock Master on the extreme right hand side and the first dock that extends.
JJ de Wilde & Jongkind 9561
c. 30 km SW of Doussala
Large liana
It woke up in the (heated) garage. Outside daytime temps have been around -5F the last few days.
Butterfly sitting in the sun on our car today - not sure of the species.
march 20 in meyers chuck alaska
Tentative. I am a little baffled by this and will have to do more microscopy. What I thought could be Taeniolella was found growing on a population of Umbilicaria americana. Upon closer examination the structures found on the cortex seem structurally similar also to the lichen's own rhizines. I am left confused, however, as I do not understand why a lichen would partition precious resources for rhizine growth at such an unusual location and while apparently going unused in securing the lichen to the substrate and while being morphologically similar to the suggested genus. I have also seen aquatic members of Taeniolella, associated with Verrucaria, on the underside of submerged rocks at Falls Creek nearby.
Brown bear chasing after something which appears as a blur in the beginning of the video. Minutes later a large bull moose walks past with no apparent concerns.
Date stamp on photos is incorrect
Date stamp on photos is incorrect
Gulo smelling the tracks of two mountain goats that passed less than one hour prior. If any predator can match the cliff-worthiness of mountain goats, it's the wolverine!
Slime mold is a placeholder. On the ground beneath boreal forest dominated by white spruce and paper birch. (2nd photo has a granola bar for scale).
Recruited in open-flow aquaria. First time seeing this species.
same individual and location as Muir's observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197285097
Heavy browsing on quaking aspens (Populus tremuloides) on a gentle ridge. Moose are the only wild ungulate in the area.
Suillus variegatus (Sw.) Richon & Roze
Photo: N. Andreeva
Obtained a subsistence permit for pike, successful ice fishing trip
Inside chinook salmon stomach
Observation duplicated as per comments by
@nmhernandez
"This is a mix of Chaitophorus and Pterocomma. The smaller darker ones, and the one with the dark wing veins look like Chaitophorus, but the one behind the ant and the reddish ones look like Pterocomma.
https://influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Pterocomma_aphids.htm
https://influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Chaitophorus_aphids.htm "
Inside chinook salmon stomach.
Note larval wolf eel on lower left of first image.
Inside chinook salmon stomach.
This will be the 2nd time I've found them inside a chinook stomach. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148666783
Feeding on Dianthus
Ludicrous record but makes sense given the past 11C weather. Snowy as hell and flew out in front of @kaiden and I. Habitat pic and field sketch. Brown body with pale yellow outer wings, nothing else it could have been. Chased to get a photo but we were unsuccessful.
@aiva @thyggen thanks for the memo about incidentals / field sketches, I hope you’re proud of yourselves
Recruited in open-flow aquaria. Several millimeters long in large colonies. Been there for a long time, but I've been unable to ID.
Please see this observation for context on visitors to the remains of a hunter's moose kill: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197200592
The trail cam was installed on Sept 12, 2021. The magpies and ravens showed up on the 13th, the first wolf on the 15th.
Please see this observation for context on visitors to the remains of a hunter's moose kill: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197200592
The trail cam was installed on Sept 12, 2021. The magpies and ravens showed up on the 13th, the first wolf on the 15th.
Observed at Echo Lake Lodge, Chicago Creek Road, Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, CO, USA
Edited to add: the silly story that I posted on the forum, which was inspired by this photo set.
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This is not something that I do all of the time, but every once in a while, a photo – or a series thereof – suggests a snippet of dialog, a movie scene, or something of the sort to me. For instance, this photo set reminded me of all of the various “how to survive a horror movie” lists out there. The script goes as follows:
Bird on right: “Did you hear that?”
Bird on left: “I didn’t hear anything.”
BoR: “Come on, you have to have heard that noise!”
BoL: “I didn’t hear anything, and if you’re smart, neither did you.”
BoR: “I’m going to go check it out.”
BoL: (looking up as her companion flies away) “Fine. If you run into a Loggerhead Shrike with a rusty fishhook, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
My brain can be a very strange place, somtimes. :laughing:
WARNING! Photos show a partially-eaten animal and may be disturbing for some people.
This moose was killed by a wolf. A local dog musher came up on it with his dog team and saw a lone wolf feeding on the moose's head. He described the encounter when he saw me and I went there with my camera and trail-cam. The moose was a young cow, probably almost a year old, and was extremely thin. I examined the tracks where the wolf chased the moose out of the woods onto a trail, then up the trail a short distance. The moose was lying in the trail. The wolf had eaten the tongue and a portion of the haunch. There were probably 50+ ravens nearby and I surmise that they got the eye and maybe the cheek. The first photo in the series shows a puncture wound above the hock. I put the trail cam on a nearby tree and left it overnight but no wildlife showed up besides ravens. This trail is only a mile or two from a rural residential area and is used by dog mushers, fat-bikers, skiers, and snowmachiners. Photo of the wolf tracks is in a separate observation (link is in comments).
Please see this observation for the beginning of a series on scavengers on a kill: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197200592
As Lehmannia valentiana in Burke 2013 (Land snails and slugs of the PNW).
This specimen was found deep in the dirt of a potted plant purchased from True Value.
Please go to this observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197200592 for the backstory on this. This big, white adult first came to the moose kill on 9/15/21 but didn't return until 9/18. The long sequence of photos shows that it seemed to be very spooked by the camera. But it also returned several times as you can see by the time stamps.
My husband and I were hiking in the Alaska Range in September 2021 when we came across the remains of a hunter’s moose kill. There was little left except the gut pile, head, hide, and lower legs. On a subsequent trip through the area a few days later we put the trail camera up and left it for almost a month. This is the first in a series of observations. All will be linked back to this one in an effort to present a more holistic impression of the activities of scavengers over time.
Most of the observations are of a small family of wolves but there were also ravens, black-billed magpies, a lynx, coyote, and even a moose that wandered through. I’ve examined the photos numerous times and there are 3 wolves for sure but possibly 4. One is a big white adult and two are subadults, one black and one with white markings on its face (I call it White Cheeks), and possibly a 4th one with a dark back that I never got a clear photo of.
Most of the photos are at night and fog and snow sometimes obscured the view. The moose kill is a dark brown mass in the center foreground visible in this first observation. The trail cam was set to take 4 shots at once, then wait 10 minutes. The wolves came and went repeatedly over many nights. Sometimes they appeared together or within a few minutes of each other and sometimes not. I separated the observations by date but unfortunately that doesn’t show how connected they really were.
As of Jan. 25, 2024 there are 12 additional observations connected to this one.
The splotchy color happens after death. In life they are more uniformly silver.
From specimen collected from open w-facing roadside cut 8.5 miles S. of Wrangell, AK by I. A. Worley
Host: Picea mariana
Reared specimen: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197495082
Galls found at the base of last year's growth (lateral and terminal twigs). Collected by pulling twigs away from the scales at their base.
Gall phenology not reliable as host was collected with a holiday tree permit and stored indoors for about a month.
Similar to this gall https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/diptera/nematocera/cecidomyiidae/cecidomyiinae/lasiopteridi/lasiopteridi-unplaced/piceacecis/piceacecis-abietiperda/
Observed on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Expedition in May to June 2023. Look below for a link to the observation video, and check out the expedition website for more info at https://www.oceannetworks.ca/expeditions/northeast-pacific-deep-sea-expedition/
This observation is for the dead Cormorant.