Latest posts tagged with #iNaturalist on Bluesky
A dark colored butterfly on a window
Mourning Cloak butterfly and its reflection and shadow on a bright and hot San Jose afternoon, Mar 2026
#inaturalist #wildlife #nature #bloomscrolling #butterfly #insects #SanJose #California #sfba #ALT4you
A side-on photo of a large brownish fluffy moth with elegant sweeping blotches of yellow and pinkish brown and dark brown on its wings.
A photo looking down at a large brownish fluffy moth with elegant sweeping blotches of yellow and pinkish brown and dark brown on its wings. It is sitting on stones.
Here's another elegant NZ moth for you. This one's called the Alpine Treasure Owlet (*Ichneutica maya*).
It's mostly seen up in the mountains in the South Island but also in the mountains of the lower North Island. I saw this one up at Boyle Village in the North […]
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A large wasp with a stout, dark body with a reddish abdomen tip. The wings are also dark. The head is bright orange.
A Scollid Wasp, Regiscolia azurea, spotted at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on 15 March 2025. A large wasp, and seldom seen. It hunts for the larvae of beetles to parasitize.
On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Wasps #Hymenoptera
My photo of a man, Mike Bowie, at night taking a photo of a winged insect resting on a wooden post. You can see the white ring flash around the lens on Mike's camera.
Mike Bowie's photo of an adult antlion, which is a blue-grey insect with long wings. It's sitting on a green painted wooden post and I'm in the background out-of-focus smiling. This photo is CC-BY Mike Bowie.
Here are two views of one adult of NZ' antlion species, *Weeleus acutus*. It's predatory larvae live in Sarlacc-like pits in sandy ground where they catch unwary passing insects.
I uploaded my photo of Mike Bowie photographing the antlion to #iNaturalist and […]
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A small spider dangling from a web. Sharp spines line the edges of the body. The body is white with a pattern of dark patches.
A Black-and-white Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha kuhli) spotted at Ulu Sembawang Park Connector, Singapore on 8 March 2025. A small spider with a lovely patterning on their back.
On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Spiders #Araneae
Beginning #botanists, a free opportunity to learn how to join this citizen science effort and learn cool #plants in the process. #iNaturalist #Botany There's a lot more to it than just snapping a photo and using an algorithm ID.
Four light brown egg sacs of impressive size (each a couple centimetres long) hanging in a row from an ornamental shrub branch.
A large light brown spider with a net-like pattern on its abdomen and fuzzy legs curled up tight between two egg sacs.
Australian spiders continue to surprise and delight me. I thought these egg sacs were chrysalises and had to go back to find the parent Ordgarius spider after getting an #iNaturalist ID.
#WildOz #entomology #ecology
A close-up photo of the patterns on the wings of a NZ Green Carpet Owlet moth. They are swirling and looping patterns of greens and browns and creams. You can clearly see all the coloured scales that make the patterns.
Here's another NZ moth wing for you.
This one is from a particularly elegant colour morph of a NZ Green Carpet Owlet (*Ichneutica plena*). Usually they're greener than this.
(I'm continuing to have fun uploading my big backlog of moth photos to #iNaturalist […]
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A couple of arthropods out on the sand in the evening. I went for one very short stroll at night while in Mexico. Would have loved to spend more time seeing what comes out at night.
A wolf Spider (maybe Schizocosa) feeding on a beetle. And my first Solifuge.
#iNaturalist #Lycosidae #Solifuge
A small spider with yellow legs and a yellow body. Two brown strips run down the sides of the body.
A side view of the spider, showing that the bottom of the body is speckled with small dots.
Another view of the top of the body.
A remarkable tiny spider, Zealoctenus cardronaensis, spotted in Queenstown, New Zealand on 2 Jan 2026. My iNaturalist link has interesting comments about spider.
On iNaturalist [ www.
inaturalist.org/observations/333073673 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #NewZealand #Spiders #Araneae
@inaturalist.bsky.social wants help adding annotations to observations, which can be done at iNaturalist.org, to track phenology- seasonal changes and when they occur.
#inaturalist #phenology #CommunityScience #science #climatechange #ClimateData #ClimateResearch
A pigeon with blue-green wing feathers and a purple-bronze iridescence on the neck. The underparts are white, and blue-green on the upper breast area.
A Kererū or New Zealand pigeon (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) spotted at Kiwi Park, Queenstown, New Zealand on 2 Jan 2026. Endemic to New Zealand, this one is a permanent resident at the park.
On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #NewZealand #Birds #Aves
Exciting to see a bucket-list spider while in Mexico!
An Ogre-faced Spider that I think must be an Asianopis sp. it also looks like there might only be one species present in Mexico? If that is the case this should be Asianopis aurita.
#Asianopis #iNaturalist #Spider
Finally got an ID (thank you Stephen Luk) for a crane fly I photographed eight years ago in Florida: Nephrotoma suturalis suturalis. The subspecies determination is due, in part, to the black-tipped femurs. #insect #diptera #tipulidae #flies #macro #inaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Here's a chance to get involved in some important #citizenscience.
If you spot any tagged Bogong moths over the next few weeks or months, report them to the Bogong Watch website (www.bogong.org) or record them on iNaturalist.
#mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #communityscience
Side view of a small lacewing standing on a pale surface. The lacewing has long antennae stretched out in front and wings that are a brownish grey with a delicate pattern across them
Such a beautiful, delicate lacewing, seen in early February in the Perth Hills. I think is one of the Beaded Lacewings (Family Berothidae) but I'm not sure of the species.
#ausinverts #wildoz #Neuroptera #lacewing #inaturalist #nature
A funky Pholcid from Mexico. I had no idea that there were Cellar spiders with weird heads. Weird heads are one of my favourite features a spider can have. Modisimus sp.
#Pholcidae #CellarSpider #iNaturalist
A long, dark insect on a wet rock. It is black with long feelers.
Another view of the stonefly.
Spotted what I think are Black Stoneflies (Austroperla cyrene) at the Rob Roy Glacier Track, Wanaka, New Zealand on 1 Jan 2026. They were moving on rocks near a stream.
On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #NewZealand #StoneFlies #Plecoptera
Picture of a medium-sized dragonfly resting on a piece of dry grass. The dragonfly has black and yellow markings along its abdomen, translucent wings, and reddish, black eyes
Archaeosynthemis leachii - Twinspot Tigertail
A dragonfly endemic to Western Australia. The Twinspot Tigertail is most likely found near streams and swampy areas.
#ausinverts #wildoz #Odonata #inaturalist #nature
Close up of a delicate, pale yellow flower against a darker background that has numerous, blurred green stems
Drosera subhirtella - Sunny Rainbow
One of the scrambling, carnivorous sundews endemic to Western Australia. The Sunny Rainbow's delicate yellow flowers can be seen between August and October.
#ozflora #wildoz #fierceflora #sundews #Drosera #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling
another one on the wings:
One of those species with winged males and wingless females:
The spring usher, Agriopis leucophaearia.
#springusher #Agriopisleucophaearia #Svartbandadfrostmätare #geometridae #lepidoptera #mothphotography #insectphotography #INaturalist #naturephotography #TG6 #macrophoto
Life is awakening!
The pale brindled beauty, Phigalia pilosaria is now awake
#tpalebrindledbeauty #geometridae #Phigaliapilosaria #INaturalist #mothphotography #insectphotography #naturephotography #bjärenature #macrophoto #TG6
Top view of a moth with cream forewings speckled trees and black marks. The hindwings are showing, white with black marks at the edges
Utetheisa sp.
The best of the visitors to the moth light in our Perth Hills garden tonight was this this lovely Utetheisa sp. moth (likely U. pulchelloides). First time seeing this moth resting with its hindwings visible.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
A white flower with five pointed petals. An insect is sitting inside the flower.
A wider view of the plant, showing the surroundings.
New Zealand Harebell (Wahlenbergia albomarginata) spotted on the Rob Roy Glacier Track, Wanaka, New Zealand on 1 Jan 2026. A small plant found only in New Zealand.
On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #NewZeland #Plants #Plantae
A photo of a translucent yellow slug-like weevil larva on a leaf covered with scraped holes.
A photo of a planted buddleja bush with its leaves all covered with scraped holes.
On Friday I saw my first Buddleja weevils in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. This is a biocontrol agent purposefully introduced into NZ to control butterfly bush, *Buddleja davidii*, which had been spreading out-of-control through much of the country.
Until recently […]
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Guy in an iNaturalist tshirt with a camera holding a sign that says “Free Rodney Taylor, Free them all!”, standing on a patch of dirt and grass with another protestor in the background and many cars passing by.
Bee among dead leaves; bee is dark with blond hairs on her face (pronounced facial foveae), thorax mostly bare on top but with lots of hair on sides, and combs of blond hair on legs.
Pop-up protest at Clairemont and N Druid Hills yielded lots of supportive honks and the discovery of a nesting aggregation of miner bees (likely Andrena barbara) on the traffic island. Fortunately I had my camera in the car to document it for #iNaturalist.
#bees #abolishICE #bugsky
A photo of a tiny orange springtail, with a fat round body and a big round head. It’s on a moth wing and you can see the moth wing scales in the photo.
A photo of a white moth on a white sheet. There’s a tiny orange spot on one of the wings.
Sometimes a moth is more than it seems.
I looked twice at this moth photo I was uploading to #iNaturalist. There was an orange spot on one wing. A parasitic mite?
No! It's a globular springtail!
I'm not sure if it hitched a ride into the moth light on this […]
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Close up picture of an orchid’s labellum showing a small spider with brown and grey stripes hunkered down on the right hand side
Pollinators beware 🕷️
An Orbweaver (Araneidae) patiently lies in wait on the labellum of a White Spider Orchid (Caladenia longicauda)
#orchids #ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #arachnids #inaturalist #nature
A spiky shrub with many zig-zagging long flexible twigs bearing long green spines interspersed with small oval dark green leaves. The bark is rough and grey.
A closer look at some of the branches, showing the numerous spikes.
A Matagouri or Tūmatakuru (Discaria toumatou) spotted along the Rob Roy Glacier Track, Wanaka, New Zealand on 1 Jan 2026. A native shrub with many spiky branches. A common shrub on the track.
On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #NewZealand #Plants #Plantae
