Fungi or slime mold?
Spectacular! I've never encountered a snake that let me get so close. This felt like it was on the larger end for a garter snake, at least as far as I've seen them; I placed my hand near it for comparison.
Six baby skunks were meandering around on our driveway! They were so adorable! But they were very bold! They just walked right up to us! My dad and I sat down, and the skunks began to climb on my dad’s legs. It was a little bit unnerving! But they were super cute! They even made of strange noise. Notice that there is only one primarily black skunk with stripes. The rest are mostly white. Also they seemed to find refuge by hiding behind this tree.
I was very excited to see this one! It was larger than I expected.
A quick note that this species produces a toxin, and the amount of it varies across its range. Unfortunately I can't find data on the toxicity levels of the Whyte Lake population. The toxin is usually only harmful if ingested, but some individuals do report skin or eye irritation after handling.
I did not experience any symptoms after being near this or the other animals I saw today, and the ones in my hands are only there after swimming up to me.
For the spider. Good job little buddy!
Absolutely stunning find - I can't believe my luck! I've only just started finding this rarely-observed species, and here two of them are, mating. I don't think I've ever found millipedes mating, let alone this species.
Accidentally collected in the process of collecting a water sample for microscope viewing.
Underside photo taken 3 days later, same individual.
Atrapada en el baño de una finca
found under a big sheet of plywood lying on dirt in a street tree lot
My friend took this photo of a coyote sleeping on his patio. The coyote looks very relaxed.
Appeared inside a residential building. With human help, narrowly escaped predation from one Felis catus.
Bartram Trail, Franklin, North Carolina
Lulu, our Southern Flying Squirrel eating a Periodical cicada that made it into our screened porch. I'm guessing there will be a bunch of fat squirrels running around Anderson this year.
Inside receptacle (puffed out end of thallus) of rockweed - looks like nest of hyphae, and where fungal hyphae meet the rockweed cells, it looks like fungal haustoria within the cell?
Could this be lichenized rockweed? (Other examples of this: Mycophycias ascophylli lichenizes brown seaweed ascophyllum nodosum) See also Verrucaria observations in the area and this paper https://www.jstor.org/stable/4123679
unknown (in swamp on top of water)
Photographed on the hairs of my own arm. I don't know when I picked this up; the location is where I was when I noticed it.
Found in a store that sells houseplants. We had just received new plants from a greenhouse in Burnaby.
Location obscured
Found in a heated, enclosed indoor space on private property.
I spent a while on Cycadlist.org trying to find a match, but vanishingly few species were listed as existing in Peru. Z. urep might be local but had no photos, so I can't compare, and Z. encephalartoides is an Andean species and looks visually like the closest match. I wish I'd taken closer photos!
Outside a tank at the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre.