A woodpecker peeking out of its tree hole
An acorn woodpecker peeking out of its cavity nest in an old tree surrounded several smaller holes used by its ancestors as a grainy to store acorns. San Jose, California, April 2026
#inaturalist #birds #Woodpecker #nature #wildlife #birdsofmastodon #SanJose #California #sfba #ALT4you
Also, a Pheasant Coucal doing its weird, skulky thing on my street. Love them. Weirdos. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1692 #auswildlife #inaturalist
Pacific Baza in my hood the other day. A lovely bird of prey. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5261 #auswildlife #inaturalist
A medium-sized bird with yellow-green feathers. It has a long, curved black bill and black streaking all along its body. The wing feathers are olive.
Another view of the bird.
Another view of the bird.
Another view of the bird.
A Streaked Spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna) spotted at Cameron Highlands, Malaysia on 2 April 2026. It was busy feeding, giving me time to get some lovely shots.
On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Malaysia #Birds #Aves
A light cream colored butterfly on pink flowers on a bright day
White Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, San Jose, CA, April 2026
#inaturalist #butterfly #bloomscrolling #nature #wildlife #SanJose #California #sfba #ALT4you
Top view of a moth with wings that are generally an emerald green and which have a pattern of brown and white markings around the wing border
Eucyclodes buprestaria - Bordered Emerald
An Australian Emerald moth found across the southern half of Australia.
The caterpillars of this species are known to feed on the delightfully named Slender Snotty-Gobble (Cassytha glabella)
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Dragonfly perched on a brown stem, has mostly transparent wings with dark patches at base of hind wings, black body with orange marks, some brown and white fuzz on thorax.
Black fly on a piece of dead plant matter, small head that is mostly round black eyes, antennae about the length of the head, cigar shaped body.
I love #iNaturalist. How else could I learn:
-this lovely #dragonfly visiting my yard is a Epitheca cynosura, Common Baskettail
-I last saw one in 2020
-the swarms of black gnats it’s hunting are minute scavenger flies, Family Scatopsidae, Tribe Swammerdammelini - magnificent name! #insects
Top view of a moth with satin white wings that have thick reddish orange lines down and across them
The change of the season was marked this morning by the arrival of the first Angled Satin Moth (Thalaina angulosa) of the year.
We see these stunning moths in the Perth Hills between April and June.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Just over a year on from the bushfire that burnt through 5,300ha of bushland north of Perth, regeneration of the area is continuing. Autumn flowers are starting to bloom and butterflies are visiting 🦋
#ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #butterflies #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
An extreme close-up of a jumping spider, staring directly at the camera while holding a dead ant. The spider is mostly fuzzy grey, with fuzzy pale brown palps, greenish black eyes, and red markings just visible on its abdomen.
I used to be very scared of spiders; nowadays I'm fine with most of them, and I actually love jumping spiders. They're just so cute. This little one (Phidippus johnsoni) checked me out while I was out doing photography the other day.
#spider #invertebrate #phidippus #macro #inaturalist #canada
Top view of a moth whose wings have a a bold black and creamy white pattern across them
The autumn nights are definitely getting cooler in the Perth Hills… down to a rather chilly 11°C last night 🍂
Still a few brave moths about though, including this rather lovely Scoparia exhibitalis.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
I cut down the huge CA pipevine plant I had been growing in my backyard because there have been so few sightings of pipeline swallowtails in my neighborhood on #iNaturalist.
Guess what I just saw on the plant that started to regrow while I was out of town?
#pipevine #natives #surprise
A new #Ecoseek version! This is a big one! I revamped the Discover page to get your motivated to explore through dynamic content (thanks #iNaturalist!); added support for multiple photos, added achievements, improved the map, and more.
#appdev #buildinpublic #ecology #nature #conservation
A photo of a small dark black fly with an orange head and black eyes.
There's a new fly in town.
While out for a run yesterday, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, I noticed this unusual orange-headed black fly. I uploaded my photos to #iNaturalist when I got home and learned that it's the Australian Soldier Fly, *Inopus rubriceps* […]
[Original post on mastodon.nz]
There has to be a way to report people who insist on making biological records of potted plants in their houses on #inaturalist. Right?? More than just mark as casual observation.
Picture of a beetle which is generally blueish in colour and which has largish mandibles
Top view of a beetle which is generally blueish purple in colour and which has largish mandibles
Carenum sp. (possibly Carenum occidentale)
A beautifully coloured predatory ground beetle which is endemic to arid regions of Western Australia. This guy was hanging out under our moth trap last night 🪲
#ausinverts #wildoz #Coleoptera #Carabidae #beetle #inaturalist
Side view of a large moth hanging from a dry stem. The moth is green with brown markings on the sage and across the middle of the forewings. She has long green scales resembling hair at the back of the head
Aenetus djernaesae - Marie’s Splendid Ghost Moth
Spotted this stunning female Ghost Moth (Hepialidae) in a coastal area around 150km north of Perth last night. This species appears to be endemic to Western Australia.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Sunrise over a coastal dune showing a peachy pink sky over gently rolling green covered sand dunes with low lying smoke from a bushfire visible
Grammodes ocellata, the Large-eyed Box-owlet
Armactica conchidia
Armactica conchidia
Currently in an area characterised by coastal dune systems and we’re seeing a good diversity of moths including:
Grammodes ocellata - the Large-eyed Box-owlet
Armactica conchidia - both female (bottom left) and male (bottom right)
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Eucyclodes buprestaria - emerald green moth on a beige stone wall
Large plume of smoke and clouds over a controlled bushfire
Just had the biggest number of moths visit our moth trap that we’ve ever seen. There must have been 400+ moths along with several new species.
There was a large bushfire near us yesterday, not sure if that contributed to the bumper numbers 🤔
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Butterfly I took a picture of.
#lovenature #butterflies #butterfly #photography #photo #iNaturalist
#wabi-sabi
Gänsesäger / engl. goosander / Mergus merganser
Gänsesäger (Mergus merganser).
#iNaturalist ID:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/347056925
#BirdsOfMastodon #VogelFotografie
#iNaturalist 神戸女学院の生き物マップ/Biodiversity in Kobe College、開設から4か月で観察記録が500件を突破しました㊗
冬が終わり様々な生き物が目覚め始めたので投稿が加速することを期待します！！
www.inaturalist.org/projects/bio...
Side view of two moths, one much larger than the other. The larger moth has white wings with a pattern of black and red patches across them. It is facing a much smaller moth that is brown in colour. Zooming in shows that the much smaller moth has several patches of raised scales making it look quite spikey.
It's always nice to bump into a friend
This beautifully coloured Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) was sitting face to face with a very tiny and rather spikey looking Leptozestis sp. moth at our moth light recently.
#teammoth #mothfacefriday #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Pixelart illustration of a rodent-like marsupial on a large sausage-shaped bunch of flowers. The flower bunch sticks upright, but the top, where the marsupial sits is bent downward from the animal's weight. The individual flowers are a creamy white against a dark brown background. The light brown marsupial sits with its tail wrapped around the flower bunch while holding one of the flowers in its hands. The artwork has a colour palette of browns and creams with some green between the flowers.
Marsupial on Grasstree Flowers.
Inspired by:
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
03/04/26
six petaled yellow flower sticks out of dirt
photographing and identifying some plants, figured out this was a lily but someone online suggested (correctly) that its "Gagea pratensis" #inaturalist #berlin #flowers
April is #CitizenScienceMonth, and we are shining a spotlight on #iSeahorse, our very own citizen science project hosted on #iNaturalist 🌊🍃
Full story here: projectseahorse.org/iseahorsecitizensciencem...
#SavingSeahorses #ProjectSeahorse
Curita payoyo, en el parque forestal Ciudad de Málaga: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/346568561
Top view of a large moth whose wings are a bright lemon yellow with a variable black serrated line near the bottom and with each forewing having two black spots.
Anthela inornata
We are seeing quite a few of these lovely moths at the minute.
They are quite large, with a wingspan of 6-7cm, and can be seen in early autumn in Western Australia and South Australia
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a moth with ochre brown forewings that bold white stripes down the. The stripe in the middle is forked towards the base of the wings
The wild weather over the weekend has certainly mixed things up with an influx of different moths into our Perth Hills garden.
This lovely moth is Hednota tenuilineata, a species endemic to Western Australia and a new observation for us.
#teammorh #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
