Western Black-legged Tick(Ixodes pacificus) haunted by their vanquished enemy

Wheeler’s Fungus-farming Ant (Cyphomyrmex wheeleri)

springtail blast

Subfamily Pseudachorutinae, Family Hypogastruridae Family Hypogastruridae, Dimorphic Springtail(Entomobrya atrocincta) Order Poduromorpha, Order Symphypleona Genus Ptenothrix, Genus Ptenothrix

So there's this currently undescribed Globular Springtail(genus Katianna specifically) species that I regularly photograph that's been informally classified by springtail identifiers on iNaturalist and it's important to me that you all know that they've apparently nicknamed it "mountain dew"

So I don't usually bother posting the pictures I take of really little inverts, because they aren't all that good and are cropped enough that the resolution is horrid.

I'm making an exception for this guy because he looks very polite

Hypogastrurid Springtails(Family Hypogastruridae)

huge day for absurd women

Genus Conura, Family Gasteruptiidae, Tribe Cirrospilini, Genus Chrysoplatycerus

let's find our way back to mama

Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)

Mothing sheet highlight: this guy! Recently had the joy to contribute an iNaturalist first, meaning the very first observation of this species on iNaturalist worldwide was by me. There are now 10 observations of it, because I proceeded to post 9 more, these guys seem to love my sheet. Not my first worldwide first, but the first one I've had actually local to me. I've typed first so many times it doesn't look like a real word anymore

Zyginama dentata

iNaturalist has opened up a feedback form for their poorly received genAI proposal. Go make your feelings heard

here is a forum thread regarding all of the problems the community has with it, including a very length response by yours truly if you want more information

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) observation by eleggua

happy pride

help people on the last post being like "who is possibly having drama on iNaturalist" buddy you have no idea. every single corner of that website is mired in drama that you cant even imagine. every identifier leaderboard is regularly having hatfield and mccoy level schisms. there are published experts getting into heated arguements dozens of comments long under a bad cellphone photo of a snake. every power user has a list of at least 3 other users who they would physically fight in an instant given the opportunity.

you took a bunch of people who are all insanely intense about extremely niche topics and put them in the same website, what did you expect? its a miracle we stop long enough to identify anything

and we're still not as bad as bugguide

Carolina Sphinx (Manduca sexta) + details

mothing sheet highlights 05/17/25 - 05/18/25

American Dun-bar Moth (Cosmia calami), Epinotia emarginana Subfamily Lithocolletinae, Genus Aristotelia Genus Parapediasia, Genus Leucania Genus Orgyia, Genus Nycteola