Taraxacum fulvum Raunk.
• In poorly irrigated lawn
• Plant 19cm across
• Longest leaf ~9cm long
• Lateral leaf lobes mostly triangular and recurved, the proximal ones thinner and often dentate
• Interlobes darkened
• Terminal leaf lobes small and triangular
• Midrib dull pink to pale green
• Petioles purple-green
• Outer involucral bracts corniculate, pale grey-green to suffused purple in color, recurved, with thin hyaline margins, ~7mm long by ~3-4mm wide
• Pollen absent
• Cypselae distinctively cinnamon in color.
Identified with help from Curtis Randall Björk.
Relevant sources:
• https://www.gbif.org/species/5394654
• https://www.artportalen.se/media/taxon/230625
• https://herbarium.nrm.se/search/specimens/?query=taraxacum+fulvum&name=&family=&basionym=&continent=all&year=&collector=&collectornumber=&group=&createddate=
• Richards, A.J. 2021. Field Handbook to British and Irish Dandelions. BSBI Handbook 23. Durham: Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.
AC2-13.002
E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area. Voucher 20759
Osservazione di prova per verificare cosa suggerisce l'intelligenza artificiale.
NB: non è Taraxacum officinale, né appartiene alla sezione Taraxacum.
This is a test observation in order to test what the artificla intelligence would suggest as the most probable identification.
NB: it is not Taraxacum officinale and it does not even belong to section Taraxacum.
Extremely rare vagrant to Alaska from Eurasia. Seen here resting on the jawbone of a whale carcass.
Libando flores de Emilia sonchifolia
10-12 mm long.
These are apparently the last images I took on this morning before I slipped, fell, and broke my left wrist. I had departed from the present spot and was returning to the campground, about 100 yards away, when...Oops! A version of the story can be found here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/gcwarbler/87377-reflections-on-my-10-year-inat-iversary
may 2011
and seriously check out this ridiculous road!
this is really visible on the air photo
aberrant --- so excited to see a bird like this :|
This has been reported to CFIA and they are taking action.
Spotted on the way to work one morning!
This was in an Industrial area and had no Collar. So I'm not sure if it was feral or someones pet.
Extra foot on Taricha torosa. The rest of the discussion is here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2641024#activity_comment_73ece484-b655-4dd7-9d4d-39e6e0b7696b Thank you @upupa-epops for your help!
This one, I couldn't even get to a section. Unlike the others, which grew in lawns, this one was in landscaping beds among the bark mulch. It is very different from any of the other dandelions.
If you know of additional resources, or see traits that I missed, please comment me.
Update 4/17/2023: another of the same kind was observed at the same location: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155400760
Inside dried fig from Turkey. More details on my blog: https://colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some-insects-i-found-inside-dried-turkish-figs-from-trader-joes/.
Hundreds accumulated at cracks in the foundation!
This is a disambiguation of an original post, as it was brought to my attention that this might be the first observation of a Worm Slug in Ottawa.
It was pretty active browsing near the ground and tree roots after it rained all day.
About 4 cm long, on Silver Maple. Still alive, but its egg-laying days are over. Pulling back to get a wider shot, I noticed that its ovipositor was still stuck in the tree, but no longer attached to the wasp. I suspect it had finished egg-laying and refused to die in the humiliating position with its butt in the air. Noble.
This one is blowing nectar bubbles in the wind, to evaporate the water
Foraging on Eriogonum fasciculatum
Seminole Ranch Conservation Area
First known wild observations and discovery of natural fluorescent in an old world mammal or any mammal outside of North and Central America, images of the Springhare taken in August 2019. Incredible to see it’s orange and pink glow firsthand, especially when it wasn’t expected! Accidental discovery whilst out photographing scorpions under UV light
Shot using a Nikon D850 Handheld with a Nitecore Chameleon C6 ( 365nm ) torch.
For anyone interested in February 2020 a Scientific journal was released by a American research group ( no relation to me ) about this UV trait and science behind it from research in museum & zoo specimens in the US.
There are a few more images, but you might be able to imagine photographing a rather skittish nocturnal creature on foot with a UV torch in one hand and a large DSLR in the other during a unexpected encounter whilst also trying to expose a camera correctly for UV light isn’t the easiest thing to do the split second.
@ozzicada Apparently rental properties are in short supply!!