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iNaturalist - Observations

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The same species, hump-backed ( gibbosus) is common in my garden every summer, July through September. In some years, I've seen them as early as June, and as late as October. They visit a wide variety of flowers, preferring and .

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Also saw a lot of new bee species this year. When I visited family in Alabama my sister and I went out bug hunting and found this shiny flea beetle. Also meant to include the thorn mimic treehopper from CR.

That sums up my year in bugs, added 213 new species of insects to my iNatualist life list. My year in birds was excellent as well. Species life list counts for the year:
Birds: 610, started 515
Insects: 336, started 123
Lepidoptera 162, started 54

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Some Random Person · @some_random_guy
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Two especially fun ones for me, we saw a few sphinx moths, but got a good look at a titan sphinx moth. And this year I spotted a few Texas wasp moths (a moth that mimics a wasp).

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Some Random Person · @some_random_guy
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I also tracked the fall Lepidoptera and insect migration this fall fairly closely. Many insects migrate overland (butterflies aren't going to survive a Caribbean flight) and they funnel in Texas, so Austin gets a lot of bug migrants.

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Some Random Person · @some_random_guy
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Interesting hemiptera, tiger beetles, leaf-cutter ants - so many amazing insects in Costa Rica.

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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@MarianneDenton
My peak month this year was June: over 7,000 files, ~3,000 photos.

I have 649 iNat observations from June, many with multiple photos. Most of those are

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John Wares · @johnwares
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A Harmonia axyridis larva Im told on our lone outdoor holiday ornament

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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Frank Ashwood · @frankashwood
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Here’s a couple of unique-looking Prostigmatid mites for ! The bright yellow Eupodid mite was moving so fast I could barely get a good shot of it, and the same with the antennae-like long front legs of the Linopodes sp.!

#InverteFest #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Mitestodon #MiteMonday #Acari #soilecology #Macrophotography #mites #invertefest2022

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Bob the Traveler · @bobthetraveler
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Toilets of the World - Latrines and Lübeck: Toilets Reveal Hanseatic History

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Bob the Traveler · @bobthetraveler
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Toilets of the World - The Kosher Crustaceans of New York

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Bob the Traveler · @bobthetraveler
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Toilets of the World - The Worm-Riddled Friars of Medieval Cambridge

Possibly not the sort of thing wanted for but:
toilet-guru.com/blog/61.html

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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#invertefest #invertefest2022 #squid #cephalopods #art #clothing #knitting #knittingart #fabricart #Hat #christmas #decapidiformes

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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Another of my favorite species is our largest , Eastern cicada killer, speciosus. Ground-nesters, females dig out impressive mounds of dirt, often the only evidence of their presence.

Males of this species also emerge before females in the Spring. Territorial, they will also fly right at you! Again, harmless; males have no stingers.

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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Our largest , the Eastern carpenter ( verginica ssp. virginica) is well-known to those in proximity to outdoor wooden structures. Females carve out long tunnels underneath protected wood, e.g. porch rails, eaves.

Males emerge first in Spring. Territorial, they will fly right at you! Harmless to us.

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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This year, my most commonly observed species was the spotted ( delicatula, ), an introduced (, ). Spreading rapidly since its 2015 introduction in , it's now the 3rd most commonly observed in on .

The red blobs are antennae, the black eyes just above those.

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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iNaturalist - Greater Anglewing (Microcentrum rhombifolium)

@loren @jencmars
Most of my () observations are nymphs of the introduced Meditteranean katydid ( nana). I have one nymph observation of our native greater anglewing ( rhombifolium). The antennae!

I hear a lot of them in the trees during the summer. I'll have to upload some recordings.

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