Pink salmon are the "fun size" snacks.
Eating a Giant Pacific Octopus!
Not much plankton but it was nice to see one of these. I also saw a small Lampea Ctenophore.
I believe both are Barn Swallows
Parasitizing miner still in mine (Phyllocnistis populiella) observed separately: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54323504
Three pointing every which way together as they munched a single sea fan down to the branches.
Dive site Randy's Gazebo. Max depth 81ft/25m, avg depth 46ft/14m, avg temp 82F/28C.
Surrounded by an incredible fishsplosion at all times.
Dive site Coconut Walk. Max depth 62ft/19m, avg depth 36ft/11m, avg temp 82F/28C.
Not sure what's going on with these buckeye branches.
Dive site Emerald Cove, max depth 61ft/19m.
Lots of arms poking out of the sand/gravel.
Lifer!!!! I've never seen a scorpionfish before!
Dive site RMS Rhone (stern section), max. depth 65 feet / 20 meters.
Isopods riding on a Squirrelfish.
Cooing with all its might.
Snorkeling at Governor's Reef (max depth less than 20ft/6m).
In Humann & Deloach there's a matching photo for Paguristes punticeps, but it has the note "There are two other species with similar coloration and appearance, P. grayi and P. wassi."
Snorkeling at Governor's Reef (max depth less than 20ft/6m).
Underneath artificial cover.
Tidepooling.
Extremely cute. Perched on @dpom 's finger.
Amazon River Dolphins or Botos (Inia geoffrensis) Mother and Calf underwater in Flooded Forest, Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil
Paracephaleus hudsoni (Myers, 1923)
On Apodasmia similis.
Magnificent beast! I found many of these.
under bare and very damp California bay laurel logs; adult in fourth image has unusual morphology with asymmetrical collum and non-converging final paranota
Small elegant jumping spider with extra long tufted forelegs. Predominantly black body and legs. Each leg tipped with 3 bright white bands. Black pedipalps. Tufted forelegs are elongated with long fluffy furred ends, striped prominently with white. Spinnerets are small and white on a short rounded abdomen.
Specimen moved these legs in a deliberate waving motion.
Specimen roughly 1cm in length.
This was the second and bolder individual of a pair that I spotted while eating my lunch. I immediately dropped everything to take pictures, got some good shots, and went back to eating my lunch. This cutie kept going about his business, munching on the lawn, for over 30 minutes while I watched from a distance.
Beautiful, gentle fish. Under a rock. Pestered briefly and released under an overhang.
Dive at Molokini, from Mid Reef to Slide (back wall). Max depth 74ft/23m, avg depth 50ft/15m, avg temp 79F/26C.
The least shy eel in the garden eel patch.
Dive site Old Airport/Kahekili Beach Park. Max depth 30ft/9m, avg depth 22ft/7m, avg temp 79F/26C.
I went to check out a school of excited mixed triggerfish & wrasses, and discovered large snake-morays ripping up an octopus!
Photos 1, 2, & 5 are the largest individual, ~twice as large as the other/s. That one was stretched out across the coral at first to get bites of octopus, but retreated into its hole when I approached. Way down in the hole with the octopus was 1 (possibly 2) smaller eels of the same kind.
Dive site Old Airport/Kahekili Beach Park. Max depth 30ft/9m, avg depth 22ft/7m, avg temp 79F/26C.
Hopping across the sand in a really funny way! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBqnAB_CEOY
I recommend muting the video since there's some loud scuffling at the beginning from me struggling against the surge a bit.
It was crossing the small sand channel that everyone uses as a dive entry. The photos are from when it reached reef again and swam up and settled in. Sand explosion at 0:59 in the video of a hidden lizardfish moving out of the way.
Dive site Old Airport/Kahekili Beach Park. Max depth 30ft/9m, avg depth 22ft/7m, avg temp 79F/26C.
Tube of shy worms.
Night tidepooling.
Saw it catch and eat a rock crab! It hung out in a corner of rocks in camo-mode for a long time and let me take a bunch of macro photos, then eventually turned all red and smooth and jetted off, leaving behind a pile of perfectly-empty crab. No puncture/bite wounds in the carapace anywhere, just completely free of soft tissues except for the tips of the legs.
While in Madagascar, we got into the habit of naming the tamer day geckos that would hang out around the cabins and rooms in which we stayed. This one earned the nickname "Beery".
Dive site Iro (wreck), on the mast. Max depth 105ft/32m, avg temp 82F/28C.
Watched this turtle walk to the apples and eat an apple
Water hyacinth-like flowers, but no water hyacinth-like leaves as far as I could tell. In a fallow taro patch.
Leafminer on Lantana. Couldn't get underneath it, but you can see a bit of the mines on another leaf in the second photo.
This image is a frame grab from a video shot by Johnny Gaskell and provided with his permission. This video was analyzed as part of the below scientific study on sea turtle flipper use. Serving the broader interest of open-access science, and as senior author on this study of which Johnny was a coauthor, I am archiving these images here, using iNaturalist as a third-party repository.
https://peerj.com/articles/4565/
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4565
Curious shot taken by my friend Vinícius Ferarezi (who's agreed with this publication) on the Kiss concert. A katydid (Phaneropterinae?) landed on the MIC hahahaha
Translated from Dietel, Hedwigia 32: 30 (1893)
Uromyces aureus: aecidian and teleutospore beds erupt gregariously on either side of the leaf surface. Sometimes they cause only a slight yellowish discoloration, sometimes they are surrounded by a reddish-brown halo bordered with dark green. The aecidia are in very irregular groups, they often form elongated rings with many interruptions. The peridia are low and have an irregular slashed edge. The accidiospores vary greatly in size and shape, mostly elongate oval or ovoid, often irregularly polyhedral due to compression. They are 29-48µm long and 24-37µm wide and have a colourless, densely warped membrane. The teleutospore camps occur within and between the groups formed by the aecidians. They flow together in irregular groups and remain covered by the gray shimmering epidermis for a long time. The teutospores are mostly ovoid to spherical, often somewhat irregular, their membrane is smooth, uniformly thick everywhere and of an intense golden brown colour. The length of the spores is 29-40 µm, the width 22-32 µm. The stalk is of moderate firmness and about as long or slightly longer than the spore. On Allium validum. Kings River Canon, leg 12 July 1892. E.W.D Holway.
Caught by/photos by Devin Silva
Caught in shrimp trap~ 1000-2000’
Location inaccurate
Doesn’t the shell look like laulau??
Tidepooling. Potential new species found by @chloe_and_trevor and collectively collected.
In the collection container it seemed to munch on some hydroids (photos 4-7).
Same individual as: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107604567
Specimen captured with a surface light trap at night. Within the framework of the Life BIODIV'OM mission with the Nature Reserve of Saint-Martin.
Bay shore. Cute little eyes and claws.
Tidepooling.
Incredibly tiny little guys that I wouldn't have noticed if they weren't next to nudibranch eggs I was taking macro photos of. Zoodling around on the surface of the seaweed leaf.
Baby chiton? Very small, less than 1cm. Had a distinct top and bottom side, and no sign of gills, tentacles, rhinophores, etc.