Date Added
January 19, 2022
08:25 PM SAST
Description
Just another 'typical daisy'. Fluffy white buds open to vivid pink flowers
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April 11, 2019
07:32 AM SAST
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July 2, 2023
12:54 AM MSK
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July 4, 2020
09:06 PM SAST
Description
Found on bare ground between rocks.
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May 12, 2023
12:55 PM SAST
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May 13, 2013
10:20 AM SAST
Description
Red Disa
Thousands of plants, hundreds of blooms all along the river. Spectacular!
Not one pollinator seen ...
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December 22, 2022
08:33 PM SAST
Date Added
March 4, 2023
01:57 PM UTC
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March 3, 2023
01:13 PM SAST
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February 7, 2023
01:44 PM SAST
Description
Small pebble clusters attached to rocks in a stream. This cluster had 2 openings. When the larva peered out of the top opening and realised it could get no purchase, it retreated and quickly reappeared at the bottom hole.
The video is speeded up 2X.
Date Added
May 25, 2019
08:54 AM AWST
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November 2, 2022
06:56 PM GMT
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October 14, 2022
08:26 AM MDT
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August 9, 2016
07:04 PM UTC
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October 4, 2022
08:31 PM CEST
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September 17, 2022
05:22 PM SAST
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August 18, 2022
08:53 AM BST
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January 10, 2022
02:51 PM SAST
Date Added
January 10, 2022
05:42 PM UTC
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December 14, 2017
02:40 AM CST
Description
You know you’ve found a large moth when…
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After a 40 year career as a wildlife biologist, you can’t believe what you’re seeing is real.
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Your ruler isn’t long enough to get a good measurement (2nd image), so you go back to get a longer ruler (3rd image) and that isn’t long enough, so you scramble around to find a carpenter’s measuring tape to fully span the wings (4th image).
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Your astonishment is like the joy of a child on Christmas morning; you start laughing and giggling uncontrollably.
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The largest moth on your sheet has a wingspan 40X the size of the smallest one.
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You stay up until 3:30 a.m. journaling about one moth.
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You start taking selfies...with a moth (last image).
To the best of my ability to measure this critter, the wingspan (with a bit of the tip of the right FW missing) is about 27.8 cm, so it would probably be about 28.5 cm (11.2 in) if it were intact. The species is said to have the largest wingspan of any Lepidopteran in the world.
The moth was initially discovered on the sheet by Mary Kay Sexton. I had overlooked it.
To read more of the story, see:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/gcwarbler/13211-mothing-in-panama
[See also: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218581553]
Date Added
February 4, 2020
11:00 AM SAST
Description
a few plts in peaty sands, to 50cm
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December 26, 2020
10:46 PM AEST
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October 10, 2018
10:40 AM CDT
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January 31, 2021
05:28 AM UTC
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March 16, 2021
06:14 PM SAST
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March 16, 2021
06:14 PM SAST