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This Trichiosoma triangulum, a larva from the family of Club-horned Sawflies, was observed by masonmaron in the United States, and is our Observation of the Day!
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Our Observation of the Day is this exquisite Lavender Sphinx Moth (Batocnema coquerelii) spotted by laurentdemada in Madagascar on Wednesday.
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#SphinxMoth
#Madagascar
#Biodiversity
In
#Malaysia
, shannru_wei saw this group of newly-emerged Himantopterus fuscinervis long-tailed burnet
#moths
- it's our more-than-
#TwoferTuesday
Observation of the Day!
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This striking beetle from Indonesia spotted by dikiarissetiawan29 is the Observation of the Day! It's in the descriptively-named "Leaf Rake-like Antennae Beetles" genus Callirhipis.
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#nature
#biodiversity
#entomology
#macro
#OOTD
The Observation of the Day is a... grasshopper! thilinahettiarachchi photographed & identified a pair of Phyllochoreia equa in Sri Lanka.
It's the first observation of this species on iNaturalist! Details:
#insect
#naturephotography
#macro
#biodiversity
"We kept as quiet as we possibly could, with the only noise being the digital clicking from the cameras"
Students & Research Director at
@earthwatch_org
see a melanistic
#Serval
#cat
in
#Kenya
- it's our Observation of the Week!
Read our blog post here:
Our Observation of the Day is this Insect Destroyer
#fungus
(potentially in the genus Pandora) infecting a springtail, seen in
#France
by macroblaster2000.
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#nature
#insect
Our
#TwoferTuesday
Observation of the Day is this Serrognathus titanus sika stag
#beetle
(臺灣扁鍬形蟲 in Chinese (traditional)) w/ a Black-bellied
#Hornet
(Vespa basalis, 黑腹虎頭蜂 in Chinese (traditional)) on its back! Seen in
#Taiwan
.
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Our Observation of the Day is this Chilean Birthwort
#plant
(Aristolochia chilensis, Oreja de zorro in Spanish), seen in
#Chile
by geofita_del_bosque!
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#botany
#nature
#biodiversity
Our
#MarineMonday
Observation of the Day is this Spinner Shark, seen by veld_mens off the coast of
#SouthAfrica
!
Named for their feeding behavior, these
#sharks
spin along the axis of their body while chasing fish and can propel themselves out of water.
"After taking a few photographs, we moved on with our nature walk, exhilarated by the beauty of the bat."
A Nigerian biologist & his friends stumble upon this small, Yellow-winged
#bat
-it's our Observation of the Week!
Read more:
#nature
#biodiversity