Mar Menuda, Tossa de Mar. 15ºC. 10m.
the famous bike tree
With egg spirals. Several adults on the same blade.
Knobbed whelk laying its eggs!!
ID is a guess based on similar finds on the Kaua'i northern shore.
shells are on a paper towel
Tentative ID at the moment, need to revisit the key.
Key: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34046888
Description w/ map and pronotum variation diagram: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34047109
Lytta pronotum diagram: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34047150
These are eggs of some snail on a mucus structure of some kind
Looking at what I’m guessing are eggs on the Crepidula
Occupied by a hermit crab
Snorkeling. Total mystery. Eggs? Sponge? Less than 1 cm long.
ID verified by Octopus expert Dr. Chelsea Bennice. Lovingly named "Octo Mom" by the local divers.
^my reaction upon seeing this
Moth caterpillar
Limacodidae (Slug Caterpillar Moths)
Olona
Early instar as small size and more pale in colour
Some said it look like gummy.
It look like Ikura Sushi to me.
Gall with exit hole on huckleberry oak (Quercus vacciniifolia).
Found in Sanya, Hainan, China. In intertidal zone.
Lays distinctive "corn cob" egg towers.
Thousands of these tiny discs in the water pools of the reef. No clue what they are.
Maybe? The whole patch was about 1.5 inches in diameter
Odd egg mass #2 of 2 - on kelp, about 10-12 mm across. @jeffgoddard does this one look familiar to you?
Some kind of eggs? About 3 mm wide.
Happy birthday!!!!
This little whelk had hatched out of the egg case in image 3- prior to this, I had no idea there were little snails inside, and definitely not mature enough to leave. Very, very cute- I would have never imagined I would be able to say confidently that "i've watched a snail being born"!
What kind of eggs are these? I am thinking a kind of fish egg. Found on some kelp!
Found another one of these egg sacs floating near the shore.
maybe Bryozoan? Soft, lost some structure when removed from water. Photograph colors are a bit dull in comparison to real life.
Maybe some sort of soft coral or sponge?
Almost looks like someone knit-bombing.
Was attached to a rocky surface that also had sea squirts (tunicates). Shallow water, potentially exposed at extremely low tides.
More of these eggs. This time on floating ulva near shore. Still wouldn't be exposed.
~1cm diameter
<1m depth
This was a single sac secured to the sediment with a mucous (?) string. The eggs are aligned in rows. It was ~1in in length. The sac was not coiled.
Empty shell (16 mm long) I found shifting sand near the egg mass pictured. I was unsuccessful finding a living adult, but a recent swell had shifted the sand some in this area compared to a week earlier, when we first spotted the egg masses.
associated with rabbit brush on dunes
Eggs...but whose 🤷🏻♀️ I’m so excited to get my cell phone microscope later this month to get better shots of things like this! Found inside wrack high on the beach.
Egg case on a Zostera marina leaf.
This observation is for the clear/red egg capsules attached to the horse conch egg case, NOT the horse conch case itself.
Tidepools. Eggs attached under a rock.
Caracol poniendo huevos en el acuario. Se tardó al rededor de 3 horas desde que comenzó hasta terminar de poner los huevos.
I have no idea what this is. There's entire orders of tiny arthropods I'm not familiar with beyond name and general morphology, but still, it's strange to get good clean shots of a thing and still have no idea what I'm looking at.
Edit: We have a professional ID! https://bugguide.net/node/view/1977688/bgimage
While investigating snow leopard kill sites, we (@otocolobus) encountered two ~5 week old cubs at a secondary den site. Cubs were well hidden in a rock hollow beneath an overhanging Lonicera shrub.
Wonderful to stumble upon concrete signs of successful reproduction springing from Kyrgyzstan's continued commitment to meaningful snow leopard conservation.
Small egg capsules on Fucus in intertidal. Eggs at 4cell stage.
With egg coils
This is a picture of a Spun Glass Slug Moth caterpillar at Patapsco Valley State Park in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Attached to floating weed. No idea what this is. Could be eggs but looks more like an ascidian or something?
Snorkeling.