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Dipteran larvae from dead Prickly pear infected with Iridovirus.
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março 13, 2020
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junho 17, 2021
09:08 AM PDT
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@jameskdouch says there is a virus causing the blue markings. This duplicate observation is for the virus.
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agosto 6, 2021
09:19 PM EDT
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Is this blue from an iridovurus infection?
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fevereiro 20, 2023
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The colouration on the photo is brighter than it appeared in real life. Still, the colour is brighter than what I have seen in any other normal Porcellio
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dezembro 18, 2023
09:44 PM EST
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Strikingly purple isopod under a log.
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setembro 6, 2023
12:32 AM PDT
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novembro 4, 2023
01:07 AM UTC
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maio 6, 2024
11:25 PM UTC
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setembro 17, 2023
11:21 PM UTC
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novembro 28, 2022
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setembro 3, 2022
01:33 AM UTC
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03:46 PM UTC
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dezembro 19, 2023
10:34 PM CST
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dezembro 13, 2021
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fevereiro 5, 2023
08:48 AM UTC
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fevereiro 7, 2023
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novembro 20, 2017
04:50 PM SAST
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2.75 to 3.5 mm long; overall yellowish brown. The flattened antennae have only six segments [scape + five]; the two apical segments form a strong club. Mandibles darker brown with a strong apical tooth that appears worn away in older individuals. Small oblong eyes in front of the midline of the head. The alitrunk or thorax is box-like, the segments fused, and without any spines, but strongly grooved. The legs are extraordinary: the coxae of the middle and hind legs are enormously enlarged, as is the femur of the hind pair of legs. What’s more, the upper tarsus of each leg is greatly swollen, especially the middle and hind legs, and terminates in a ring of teeth or scales that resemble nothing so much as finger nails!
These thickened upper tarsi give the legs a bee-like appearance, hence the name, from the Greek melissa = honey bee, and tarsus = leg. Bizarrely, the ants walk with the fore- and hindlegs on the floor in the normal fashion, but with the central pair of legs walking on the ‘ceilings’ of their tunnels.
The ants are fairly hairy, with shorter and longer fine, long, pale yellow hairs.
Almost impossible to find, these extraordinarily bizarre little ants live under the bark and in the heartwood of living trees and shrubs, never emerging except perhaps to see off alate reproductives – males and females – on their way to mate and establish new nests. We were lucky to find some in a broken branch of their favourite host plant [in the Cape at least] - Leucospermum praemorsum. Sadly it was a very dark, rainy day and macrophotography was out of the question; the samples collected all died and curiously disintegrated before photos were taken. These drawings are reconstructed from our remnants and with a look at the [very distorted] specimens on AntWeb.
The ants seem to rely upon coccids - scale or mealy bugs - that they introduce into the shrubs, for their food. How the coccids get into the nests is unknown, but it seems possible that, just as in the case of the Yellow Forest Sugar ant [Acropyga arnoldi], a few coccids fly away attached to the hairs of the alate reproductives and so are present when the new colony starts.
These ants are true wood-borers [unlike the so-called ‘carpenter’ ants, the favoured common name for Camponotus in America] and it seems likely that the curious 'teeth' on the lower legs as well as the strong apical teeth on the mandibles are used in tunnel construction.
I have discovered that the ants have also been found in Maytenus oleoides, on the Pakhuis Pass, suggesting that they might inhabit a much wider range of plants than was previously thought.
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06:39 PM UTC
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4.5 Whorls
2.5 mm long
Collected off cobble stone
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abril 23, 2024
03:57 AM UTC
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dezembro 3, 2022
06:48 PM HKT
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julho 19, 2023
07:08 AM UTC
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Host plant: Celtis sinensis
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agosto 23, 2023
05:51 AM UTC
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09:31 PM CST
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outubro 30, 2023
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02:56 AM UTC
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Faisão
(Phasianus colchicus)
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outubro 9, 2023
10:36 PM UTC
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Faisão
(Phasianus colchicus)
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maio 18, 2021
09:27 AM PDT
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Faisão
(Phasianus colchicus)
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maio 27, 2022
08:09 AM PDT
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abril 8, 2024
07:30 PM PDT
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Faisão
(Phasianus colchicus)
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abril 8, 2024
07:31 PM PDT
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abril 8, 2024
07:57 PM PDT
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abril 11, 2024
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abril 11, 2024
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dezembro 13, 2022
05:29 AM UTC
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From the type location of the paper outlining the hybrid.
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dezembro 13, 2019
10:35 AM PST
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abril 15, 2019
12:48 PM PDT
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abril 10, 2022
02:55 AM UTC
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dezembro 11, 2022
06:38 AM UTC
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Growing close to Sooke River with nearby populations of both species. Maybe just a dark oregonum but the characteristics check out for being a hybrid.
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abril 12, 2024
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abril 11, 2024
09:19 PM PDT
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abril 11, 2024
09:22 PM PDT
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abril 11, 2024
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abril 11, 2024
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abril 11, 2024
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04:27 AM UTC
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02:14 AM UTC
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11:58 AM PDT
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11:50 PM UTC