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#inaturalist

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Jon Sullivan

Check out Aotearoa's five-finger looper moth, Xyridacma alectoraria. It's a big, elegant, yellow moth with a fringe of *hot pink*.

This one came into my home moth light in January, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, and I uploaded it to #iNaturalist today.

My best guess for why it looks like this is that the older leaves of its host plant, five-finger, often turn yellow before they fall. I'm not sure why the hot pink works (but it does).

inaturalist.nz/observations/26

A cropped close-up of the head a yellow moth with a line of hot pink along the front edge of the wing and across the forehead, and orange mouth parts.
A face on photo of a yellow moth with a line of hot pink along the front edge of the wing and across the forehead.
A photo of a yellow moth with a few pale spots on the wings. The front fringe of the wing is lined with a thin strip of hot pink.
#mothodon#moths#nz
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InkySchwartz

@ascentale @MartyCormack @bikenite
A2. I often notice nature when I'm out for a ride sometimes like the a young hawk hanging out really close to the trail, or the watersnake warming themselves on the sunlit trailbed, or the chipmunk that bounced off my foot while riding last summer, or all the plants flowering in their cycles throughout the year.

To record my observations I use the #iNaturalist app or sometimes just take photos.

#bikenite
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Daniel 🐅🏔

I've been seeing both of these species popping up on iNat back in Louisiana, and it's got me daydreaming about spring ephemerals and wondering what I might find and learn here in Oregon as we have our warmest day of the year so far.

I wrote this last year about a little plant and a little butterfly & being surprised by the little things that can just pop up if we let them be here and take the time to appreciate them when they are.

daniel.observer/journal/bitter

daniel.observerBittercress and Butterflies
#insects#NativePlants#iNaturalist
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Hacker News

First Known Photographs of Living Specimens

inaturalist.org/projects/first

iNaturalistFirst Known Photographs of Living SpecimensThis project is designed to showcase the first known photographs of living specimens of any species. Note that by 'first known' I'm referring to the first known photographs of a species anywhere, not just the first photographs to be submitted to iNaturalist. Two types of observation will be included: 1) First photographic records of undescribed species e.g. this Gasteracantha sp. 2) First photographic records of already described (but obviously relatively uncommon or cryptic) species e.g. this wasp fly. If the male and female of a species are sexually dimorphic, then both are valid to be added to the project. So too if a species has distinct life stages (eg caterpillar/chrysalis/butterfly), they are all valid to be separately added to the project (assuming the other rules apply). Please only add observations depicting live organisms; this therefore excludes specimens such as pinned insects. If you see an observation currently in the project that you know is not the first photograph ...
#HackerNews#FirstKnownPhotographs#LivingSpecimens
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Jon Sullivan

Little-humped spiders have reached Oxford! #iNaturalist user flamingtofunz posted a photo yesterday.

This Australian spider was found in NZ in 2016 in #Christchurch and has spread southeast (Little River by 2022), south (Leeston by 2024), north (Pegasus by 2024), and now west to Oxford.

It's a small, distinctive social spider. A few 100 spiders work together to build large messy webs that catch a lot of insects.

inaturalist.nz/observations/26

iNaturalist NZLittle humped spider (Philoponella congregabilis)Social House Spider from Oxford 7430, New Zealand on March 16, 2025 at 03:23 PM by Richard Smale. Small quick spider with 'pyramid like' abdomen, light sides, dark middle.
#NZ#spiders#BiologicalInvasions
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Nelson

I can tell it's spring because the Unequal Cellophane Bees (Colletes inaequalis) are out and about in my neighbor's yard! Please enjoy this bee investigating a crocus. (Sadly these flowers are introduced and may not help this native bee, but this bee is determined to find out.)

If you're wondering why they're "Unequal", inaequalis in Latin apparently also means "impermanent"; they only emerge briefly.

:inaturalist: inaturalist.org/observations/2

A small fuzzy yellow bee is climbing out of a somewhat closed bulbous white & purple flower, face first. One of its antennae is askew, as if it is scratching its head
The bee's butt, as it sticks its head in the flower
The bee entirely inside the flower, curled around the flower's reproductive parts
The bee perched on the edge of a flower petal, spreading its wings to fly away
#bees#flowers#insects
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Climate Jenny 2.1

@ai6yr This topic just dropped on :inat: iNaturalist about two hours ago. The privacy risks of iNat were always obvious to me, but I also figured it was obscure enough that only someone very focused and determined would look at the location data there. Not true any more. This is really weird, unanticipated collateral damage from the times we live in.

#iNaturalist
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