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What

Bela-Dama (Vanessa cardui)

Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Maio 15, 2024 03:45 PM PDT

Descrição

One more species now coming to the "Butterfly Meadow" I've been working on for some years now! I only see Painted Ladies in Seattle on good years. Hopefully this is the start of a good year!

This one briefly landed on one of the native Short-styled Thistles that I brought back to Seattle about 20 years ago, after it was listed as "extirpated" / lost from Seattle, brought back largely to improve habitat here for Painted Ladies, and Mylitta Crescents, that might lay eggs on them, and for other butterflies, that might drink nectar from the flowers. There is now a healthy colony of Short-styled Thistles - Cirsium brevistylum that has grown my "Butterfly Meadow"), so the butterflies should have no trouble finding them! This is also a fulfillment of prediction of sorts, of Painted Ladies flying around my Short-styled Thistles in a painting a friend Kent Daniels did of me, honoring my efforts to bring back locally lost, or lesser seen, native plants and butterflies to this meadow.

This is one of 3 butterflies in the last month that I have now been seen in my "Butterfly Meadow" for the 1st time, including the Margined White, the first record for Seattle for at least 78 years, and the Juba Skipper - not my photo, generally a rarity in western Washington.

Fotos / Sons

Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Abril 19, 2024 02:26 PM PDT

Descrição

First Margined White I’ve ever seen in Seattle! Previous Seattle records were mentioned in a 1946 publication, but none for Seattle since then. And it visited the butterfly meadow I’ve been working on to create better butterfly habitat in for some years now! At first, I assumed it was going to be a cabbage white, which I actually don’t see very often in this opening in the woods, but with darkened veins and no dark wing tips, I think I indeed got a margined white here! I already have a lot of our native Tower Mustard - Turritis glabra (formerly Arabis glabra) growing here if it wants to come back to lay eggs.

The Tower Mustard is a species that I had found on a list of Seattle's lost native species 25 years ago, but then found one colony of the plant still in Seattle, and I established 2 new colonies here with seed from that first colony I found here, including this one in Lincoln Park.

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Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Fevereiro 25, 2024 11:53 AM PST

Descrição

Hard to see, but some tiny teeth on the edge of these hairy leaves distinguish this species from related Madia species.

I've long wanted to get this species started both in Seattle again, as it was on my 1999 list of Seattle's lost ("extirpated") species, this one last recorded in Seattle by the herbaria in 1889 (Alki Point), or 1892 (location not clear) and the flower looked beautiful. I moved these 2 plants to Lincoln Park from the South Puget Sound area a few months ago, and chose a promising mossy forest edge for them, and they were both looking great, until a presumed Eastern Cottontail rabbit chewed one down to the top of the root, but the smaller rosette is what grew back after the Leporine (rabbit caused) setback! I tried the species in the park once before, and that plant didn't get far before dying, but I'm optimistic with these 2!

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What

Almirante-Vermelho (Vanessa atalanta)

Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Junho 30, 2023 02:57 PM PDT

Descrição

This Red Admiral is perched on its host plant Stinging Nettle - Urtica dioica. I've only now seen a few Red Admirals at Lincoln Park this year, a species I never see that many of, and one I am monitoring because I started one patch of Stinging Nettles for them in a sunny spot where the butterflies can find them, and for 4 other butterfly species, that need them to lay eggs on, or that can lay eggs on nettles, as well as other species. After seeing one lay eggs on the plants, I am now looking for the shelters of their caterpillars that I call "tacos", the nettle leaves, with their sides curled up, their edges silked together, their undersides exposed, to make what I think of as a "taco shape". And a second butterfly species laying eggs on this patch of nettles.

Fotos / Sons

Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Junho 4, 2023 01:18 PM PDT

Descrição

I only had seen one broken growing tip of a phantom orchid this year, and I've never seen a Phantom Orchid grow a new flower stalk after the initial growing stalk was broken. I was then afraid we would have none this year. I then checked the spot where I first discovered the species in the park, but where I hadn’t seen any in years, and found this one!

I will add that one almost surely can't successfully transplant a Phantom Orchid, as it is attached to a fungus that feeds it. The microscopic fungus mycelia is spread through the soil, and the fungus likely depends on a tree that couldn't be dug up with the fungal mycelia spread through the soil around the tree roots.

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Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Abril 27, 2023 02:18 PM PDT

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Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Abril 29, 2023 03:51 PM PDT

Descrição

The butterfly is in the middle, under a leaf, mostly obscured by the shade, where it is laying an egg!

Two years ago, after someone dug up the nettle patch in my growing butterfly meadow, where I often see Satyr Commas, I planted a nettle root in this sunny spot, which grew into this nettle patch. I was very happy to see this one landing on the nettles, laying an egg on the underside of a leaf, taking a flight, land on the nettles again, and lay another egg on the underside of another leaf. It repeated this about seven times. I look forward to seeing the caterpillars!

The caterpillars will stay on the underside of the leaf, and make a tent by pulling the sides of the leaf down, and together with silk, leaving the front half of the leaf open, and will feed from the tip of the leaf to the petiole, leaving a petiole with no blade when they are done, then go to a new leaf, and do the same. In the 4th photo someone has pulled open the tent, the caterpillar was hiding under, to expose the caterpillar.

My journal post of how the egg laying on these Stinging Nettles was my first observed success in 27 years of working to get butterflies to lay eggs on plants growing where I started them growing!

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Fotos / Sons

Observador

activatedk

Data

Julho 10, 2022 12:33 PM PDT

Descrição

Head is large, distinctly wider than body. Head length is about one-third of the total length. Gills are usually held out at 90° from body.
SVL is about 12 mm. Found in water 7” deep.

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Observador

activatedk

Data

Julho 10, 2022 12:36 PM PDT

Descrição

The body is slender and the head is large, distinctly wider than the body.
The body and head are tan and speckled but the gills very reddish in color.
The feathery gills fan out and up to the back at 45°. SVL length is approximately 15 mm.

The visible scale in photo shows inches.

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wastedwasp

Data

Maio 15, 2021 03:38 PM PDT

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Salmão-Rosa (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)

Observador

ernestkeeley

Data

Outubro 19, 1995 08:29 AM CST

Descrição

Spawning pink salmon, adult male and female

Fotos / Sons

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stewartwechsler

Data

Agosto 5, 2020 04:58 PM PDT

Descrição

Roughly 7 generations growing in this spot, all self seeded since I brought three seeds here from the foothills of the Olympic Mountains 15 years ago. Thousands of plants here now. The ground is now covered with pappus hairs from this year’s seeds. As all of these plants are self-seeded it fits the iNaturalist definition of "wild", but I also thought people should know this is not part of a population that has persisted here since before European contact.

(Update 3/24 these thistles are no longer so dense here, but are still numerous.)

This species was on a list I found 21 years ago of those native species that hadn’t been recorded in Seattle in decades when I started studying how to identify them all, and just what habitats they naturally grew in, and looking for where I could find wild seed of the species on that list from sites physically and ecologically close to Seattle, to try planting in the most promising spots here.

I started with the goal of helping the recovery of butterfly species that had become rare in, or had disappeared from, Seattle, and knew thistles to be important as both butterfly nectar, and host (caterpillar food) plants, and had learned that all 4 of Seattle's native thistle species were on that list of our lost species. So I am pleased to see a bit of improved butterfly habitat in this spot where this native thistle species is thriving again!

I’ve since spent 15 years weeding this site and controlling the Artichoke Plume Moths https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/319034-Platyptilia-carduidactylus, the best I can, as the mother plants sent their offspring to occupy the growing patch of land vacated by my weeding around them. I also have a significant problem with non-viable seed, more later in the season, than with the initial crop, which I believe is due to predation of the receptacles, where the seeds develop, by the introduced Rhinocyllus conicus - the Nodding Thistle Receptacle Weevil https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/229899-Rhinocyllus-conicus .

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Fotos / Sons

Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Maio 14, 2020 01:55 PM PDT

Descrição

About my 5th or 6th Anise Swallowtail in Seattle in 20 years, and my first in Lincoln Park.

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Observador

stewartwechsler

Data

Maio 13, 2020 01:35 PM PDT

Descrição

Not 100 percent sure of the species of Hesperia. This was the only photo I could get, but before I got my camera, I saw what I call the "zig-zag" silvery spots on the ventral hind wing that I distinguish Hesperia genus Skippers by. My first Hesperia in Seattle in over 20 years of looking. I saw it nectar on Tellima grandiflora - Fringe Cups. Also a species of plant I don't know I have seen a butterfly nectar on before. Hesperia colorado - Western Branded Skipper seems the most likely. While it didn't seem any bigger than our other than our common local orange Skipper of the same size and shape, the Woodland Skipper, that species wouldn't fly until July, and wouldn't have the silvery zig-zag marks on the ventral hindwing that I saw. The size suggests that it would be too small for a Juba Skipper.

I'm adding an edit on a subsequent year of another observation of mine of a Juba Skipper, also in Lincoln Park, the following year, on May 18th 2021.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/79307501
A series of recent records in West Seattle and Vashon suggest they may have been breeding in this area.

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sarka

Data

Janeiro 26, 2020

Fotos / Sons

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harsiparker

Data

Novembro 25, 2019 03:08 PM PST

Descrição

Discovered while turning over wet leaves on the ground in an open area adjacent to a small pond and mixed coniferous-deciduous forest. Width of the shell was less than .5 cm. (I did not have a ruler with me, but the last photo shows my index finger for scale -- the width of my nail at the widest point is 1 cm.)

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Fotos / Sons

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aromatisse

Data

Maio 6, 2019 08:06 AM PDT

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aromatisse

Data

Maio 30, 2019 12:28 PM PDT

Lugar

Camp Long (Google, OSM)

Descrição

Difficult to get a good pic of those long twisted looking stems

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marcoschmidtffm

Data

Maio 5, 2017 11:14 AM CEST

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What

Cobra-Liga-Do-Noroeste (Thamnophis ordinoides)

Observador

ajablu

Data

Agosto 27, 2019 12:52 PM PDT

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aromatisse

Data

Abril 22, 2019 11:18 AM PDT

Descrição

Feather shaped with new "feathers" growing out from the middle of the "feather" below.

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What

Trevo-Cervino (Eupatorium cannabinum)

Observador

aromatisse

Data

Julho 31, 2019 08:59 PM SAST

Fotos / Sons

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Julho 28, 2019 11:23 AM PDT

Fotos / Sons

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Julho 27, 2019 01:58 PM PDT

Fotos / Sons

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drudanae

Data

Julho 23, 2019 08:10 AM PDT

Fotos / Sons

What

Cardo-Roxo (Cirsium vulgare)

Observador

donkeykong91

Data

Julho 21, 2019 08:10 AM PDT

Fotos / Sons

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mortenddhansen

Data

Julho 17, 2019 01:35 AM CEST

Descrição

spiniger to the right, stercorarius to the left

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Erva-Pessegueira (Persicaria lapathifolia)

Observador

vi-curt

Data

Julho 17, 2019 11:41 AM PDT

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Licranço (Anguis fragilis)

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mortenddhansen

Data

Junho 17, 2019 06:54 PM CEST

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carbonmike

Data

Julho 14, 2019 11:02 AM PDT

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maddie_b

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Junho 6, 2019 04:58 PM PDT

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dcoldren

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Julho 25, 2017 12:15 PM CDT

Fotos / Sons

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thomas98

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Maio 18, 2019 05:44 PM PDT

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What

Ansarina-Malhada (Conium maculatum)

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dlr_xxl

Data

Julho 4, 2019 04:18 PM PDT

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Serralha (Sonchus oleraceus)

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swainsonsthrush

Data

Julho 3, 2019 06:20 PM PDT

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kurtsteinbach

Data

Julho 1, 2019 06:13 PM PDT

Descrição

Found on red alder. Grid is 1/8"

Fotos / Sons

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chlorophilia

Data

Junho 24, 2017 12:13 PM MST

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Bela-Dama (Vanessa cardui)

Observador

redwolf

Data

Junho 29, 2019 01:50 PM PDT

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guyfix2020

Data

Junho 28, 2019 07:16 PM PDT

Fotos / Sons

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Feto-Pente (Struthiopteris spicant)

Observador

harsiparker

Data

Junho 22, 2016 02:32 PM PDT

Descrição

While this species does grows wild on the island, this particular fern was on the edge of a trail on conserved land and may well be intentionally planted.

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Feto-Pente (Struthiopteris spicant)

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alisonnorthup

Data

Junho 16, 2019 04:22 PM CDT

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Corriola-Das-Balças (Calystegia sepium)

Observador

natureguy

Data

Junho 25, 2019 01:13 PM PDT

Descrição

Flowers of Field Bindweed only about 1" across. Pictures of flower side view (showing bracts) and leaves included.

Source: DSC01144x

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gbk

Data

Junho 16, 2019 03:06 PM PDT

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bellaormseth

Data

Junho 3, 2019 07:36 AM PDT

Descrição

Small white moth, about 2/3 inch in length, found by porch light in morning with 4 identical moths.

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Morango-da-Virgínia (Fragaria virginiana)

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derekkillby

Data

Junho 21, 2019 08:43 AM PDT

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beaharrison1

Data

Junho 19, 2019 01:08 PM PDT

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What

Sabugueiro-Vermelho (Sambucus racemosa)

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astyring

Data

Junho 9, 2019 08:06 AM PDT

Fotos / Sons

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sarahjane2

Data

Junho 2019

Fotos / Sons

What

Azevinho (Ilex aquifolium)

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northvandad

Data

Junho 3, 2019 11:11 AM PDT

Fotos / Sons

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Cobras-Liga (Género Thamnophis)

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ameliam

Data

Junho 3, 2019 02:06 PM PDT

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Erva-de-São-Roberto (Geranium robertianum)

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swainsonsthrush

Data

Junho 2, 2019 05:20 PM PDT

Fotos / Sons

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kurtsteinbach

Data

Maio 30, 2019 02:40 PM PDT

Descrição

4 to 5 foot tall on a dry sunny slope.

Fotos / Sons

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benkeen

Data

Fevereiro 14, 2019 09:25 AM PST

Fotos / Sons

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mrfish33

Data

Maio 13, 2019 04:30 PM PDT

Fotos / Sons

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tomerler

Data

Maio 14, 2019 03:03 PM PDT

Descrição

Stewart Wechsler find! This is the one with the protective fence surrounding it.

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sierra57

Data

Maio 10, 2019 06:22 PM PDT