Any specifics known on what fish species they're eating? I'm curious if they're eating more carrion from larger fish like Mayaheros/Cichla or if they're scavenging more on smaller fish

Schooling Sacramento pikeminnow, despite being minnows they reach impressive size (4+ft) and are top predators in the ecosystems they inhabit. Really bold fish too which is always welcome for photography.

lol one of my coworkers used to work for USGS NAS and kept telling me "yeah we really need someone to download the entire site before it all gets shitcanned"

we need ten thousand biollantes

two bean flowers and a bud on a long, loose raceme, difficult to get into good focus due to the lighting conditions within the deeply shaded forest holler where these beans live. the flower in the middle looks best though. its pale purple banner petal is held over the other petals like a hood. the two wing petals hang below and appear almost clublike because of how they curl along their length; their pink-purple coloration is darker than on the banner petal. the keels also have some of that pink-purple color, as well as a pale green patch at the tip; they are tightly coiled up on themselves.

a bean vine growing in a deeply shaded woods, with many pink-purple flowers in various stages of development growing on long, loose, sometimes-branching axillary racemes. the fully developed flower in the center has a pale pink banner petal hooding the rest of the flower; two pink-purple wing petals turned over facing the ground; and a twisted pair of pink-purple keel petals that turn pale green at the tip. the plant's dark green trifoliate leaves are blurry in the background.

a thicket bean vine twining its way through various forest floor foliage. the bean's dark green trifoliate leaves have broad, pointed leaflets on long leaf-stems. long, loose racemes of pink-purple bean flowers grow from the leaf axils; each one with a dozen or more flowers in various stages of development (many having already faded & fallen off).

🌸 thicket bean 🌿
Phaseolus polystachios

only native Phaseolus in eastern north america 🫘

#nativeplants #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #bloomsky

A cylindrical weevil sits on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length.

A cylindrical weevil sits on green leaflets on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length.

A cylindrical weevil sits on green leaflets on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length.

Side view of a cylindrical weevil sits on green leaflets on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length.

New fave weevil just dropped - an NC native! 🤗
This stunning insect is a sesbania clown weevil. Numerous were feeding on the leguminous host in a field; grower was happy they were eating the weed 😆

Thanks to Dominic Reisig for collecting them!
#Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Eudiagogus maryae #weevil

A red and white mite as as seen from the front, on a white background.

Forbidden strawberry...

A Giant Velvet Mite found during #BugShot Arizona #inverts
(Dinothrombium sp.) Portal, AZ

theres a tractor supply down the road from me I really need an excuse to go there so I can root around in the shittiest oldest bags of bird seed and chick starter and whatever and try and find Gibbium and friends

give that boy some dog kibble

Hotel had a complimentary Gibbium aequinoctiale in the bathtub

the gen 1-3 ghosts all feel pretty well balanced around it though tbh? Gen 3 ones all lean mixed or physical and gar just kind of trades reliable stab for all the coverage in the world with great offensive stats + 2 or 3 immunities. Misdreavus kinda only has perish trap going for it tho yeah

gen 2 learnsets are some ass but as time goes on I honestly prefer pre-split like way more. Interacts w/ movesets/natures/base stats a lot more interestingly than post split click stab moves w/ your higher attacking stat with like almost everything

Two small narrow fish with beige-brown bodies and single black stripes down their middles swim amongst twigs and roots.

This spectacular little fish, Rasbora jacobsoni, is endemic to central Sumatra — and right now, there are only a few iNaturalist observations of it!

📷 fishtse on iNaturalist
📍 Indonesia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

Hemaris thysbe and diffinis

also lol wait monodon is there I forgot. I was thinking of Potimirim but honestlyyyy im thinking those are natural occurences. Atya are around the atlantic coast now too lol

Yeah Tampa seems like the main holdout for em? all the historic fish farm activity around there. Apparently the creek running thru Sarasota is loaded with them lol

are there any records of either of the introduced shrimp lol

going off in the garden right now (Lobelia inflata, Clinopodium vulgare, Monarda fistulosa, Ratibida pinnata)

I finally got actual field boots a few months ago and one of them already has rubus pinpricks i cannot for the life of me actually find and repair so I just put up with my right foot being soggy

true I forget Normal People usually have multiple shoes and not one pair of sneakers and boots that get put through the Look For Plants And Bugs In A Seepage Wetland Squidward Torture Device

Is this not the profession that consists of at least more often than most people putting shoes through the worst conditions imaginable

male florida flagfish (Jordanella floridae) on a nest in my outdoor tub. This species seems to shift between active nest guarding and egg scattering based on environmental factors. This guy has clearly been successful so far though as theres several age classes of fry flitting around the tub

New favorite arachnid just dropped. We set up a Wind Scorpion in a habitat and she went to town digging. These animals dig burrows to get out of the desert heat, maintain humidity, and hide from predators. I think she's adorable.
(Solifugid) Southwestern Research Station, Portal, AZ

It’s been a warm summer and setting new mops may help kick the breeding season in high gear for Pachypanchax patriciae

I think we should force every college undergrad to take gen ento and field botany and I'm only like half joking

I've heard a kind of shocking amount of (professional!) people disregard collections/collecting and vouchering as "not *real* science" since its not hypothesis driven or whatever

Aplocheilus panchax looking good outside, he's currently paired with a female in a tub

mint collection, Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, incanum, virginianum, muticum

u would though thats the thing .....

Whatever. Triple scarab death barrage.