seen walking up side of hanging bald-faced hornet nest, from one access hole to another. Assuning that if it is a different species, the bald-faced hornets would attack it.
Separate observation for the spider
in downed yellow birch in clearcut. collected for NS museum
Some sort of fungus that’s killed a bug, or is decomposing an old moult??
Shrubby, very low individual well established adjacent to pathway near main buildings. Not previously recorded on Sable Island.
Incidental catch, released, 3 individuals caught
Unsure of ID, washed ashore dead
On a multi trucked maple at edge of swamp maybe just above swamp
Washed ashore, still alive... barely... returned to the water :(
On red oak.
Near hilltop above extensive wetlands
In tight grouping of 5 trees along ridge
Previously burned site.
length 3 mm
in leaf litter; there's a whole new world of bugs in soil/leaf litter but needs some type of magnifier to appreciate it.
observation for ants: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173323945
Host plant: Chamaenerion angustifolium
1 thalus on red maple (30cm dbh) 5ft
(larva) length 17 mm
in leaf litter
Unsure of identification, maybe harbour seal?
On 4 or 5 red maples throughout this little cedar swamp
On small red maple beside lake edge
Came out of the woods behind the farm and went out into the fields to hunt. Seemed wary of me.
Leucistic deer herd.
Caught on trail cam at 2:05 pm, approximately 1.5 hours after the cameras were first put in place.
Corticolous on Fagus grandifolia in mixed woods. Wet photos in situ, dry photos from specimen.
Thick shell, found on sandy beach at low tide
Two bobcats were behind the building where I store my boat. I only saw one at first, then it started walking straight towards me. I jumped in the truck to be able to use it to stabilize my camera since the lighting was poor as the sun was setting. After the first turned around, the second appeared. Eventually, both quietly headed into the woods.
Image captured during 2014 field season for Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation and Atlantic Whitefish Recovery Project. Location obscured to Southern NS.
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Came across this beauty while looking for bears to photograph.
Very strange midden of mostly ten-ridged whelk with some Colus sp. (assume stimpsoni) mixed in.
Toad inside of pickerel
With a Cicada snack
Worker, 9.5 mm
Female. S. brachygaster? Katepisternum pollinose (pic 1 & 2), Tarsi all dark (pic 3). Firth tergum looks broader than long (pic 4) but does not look like S. flavimana (postpronotum dark, femur unicolored (pic 1 & 2)).
Both S. flavomaculata and brachygaster are supposed to have an apicomedial cleft on T5, I can see/find one (pic 4). Vertex pile long (pic 5), T2 broad, mesonotum pollinose (pic 6), femur unicolored - S. brachygaster? Using Coovert & Thompson 1977.
Mainland moose spotted Sept 27, 2019 near the St.Marys river, Glenelg Nova Scotia. Moose was on a logging road on the Liscomb River road. Sept 27, 2019 at 4:39pm
Leopard frog and a garden snake?
Lynx I think. Was a ways off but pretty good size. Two shots and camera was full .... arrrgggg! As it walked away no shot of tail.
Black cups found growing on exposed section of clay substrate along the Ukme'k trail in Kejimkujik NPNHS. Cups have a diameter of ~0.5cm, they appear to be completely black.
The rocks in the high intertidal had tens / hundreds of beetles (of various kinds).
It was very foggy, so maybe they somehow got confused & washed / blown ashore.
On a maple at lakes edge in “Old Growth policy” parcel
Confirmed by Stephen Selva
Found growing on rock
Potentially fungal infection on Aspicilia species? Or paint..
Two individuals - one with one in a headlock in a puddle of water at a quarry
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