Dance Fly (Empis barbatoides) with a meal - or an offering? At the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, March 2024.
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Dance Fly (Empis barbatoides) with a meal - or an offering? At the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, March 2024.
Dance Fly (Empis barbatoides) with a meal - or an offering? At the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, March 2024.
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A Red Net-winged Beetle (Dictyoptera simplicipes). Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
A Red Net-winged Beetle (Dictyoptera simplicipes). Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
Based solely on a visual search on iNaturalist, this Morel seems to most closely resemble Morchella norvegiensis (Norwegian Morel?) But I don't know much about mushroom ID. At the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
A Red Net-winged Beetle (Dictyoptera simplicipes). Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
A Red Net-winged Beetle (Dictyoptera simplicipes). Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
A Red Net-winged Beetle (Dictyoptera simplicipes). Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
Based solely on a visual search on iNaturalist, this Morel seems to most closely resemble Morchella norvegiensis (Norwegian Morel?) But I don't know much about mushroom ID. At the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
Based solely on a visual search on iNaturalist, this Morel seems to most closely resemble Morchella norvegiensis (Norwegian Morel?) But I don't know much about mushroom ID. At the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
Based solely on a visual search on iNaturalist, this Morel seems to most closely resemble Morchella norvegiensis (Norwegian Morel?) But I don't know much about mushroom ID. At the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
A Red Net-winged Beetle (Dictyoptera simplicipes). Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, April 2023.
A mighty Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus), Lummi Island, WA, December 2, 2022. Taken at the Otto Preserve. The red moustache indicates a male bird.
A multicolored male Green Darner (Anax junius), at the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, August 5, 2022.
A multicolored male Green Darner (Anax junius), at the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, August 5, 2022.
Web of the Sierra Dome Spider (Neriene litigiosa) or one of its cousins - distinctive dome shape; very common in the woods on Lummi Island, WA, in the summer. August 21, 2022.
A female Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) - a dragonfly in the Skimmer family. Lummi Island, WA, June 6, 2022.
A female Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) - a dragonfly in the Skimmer family. Lummi Island, WA, June 6, 2022.
A moth clinging to a blade of grass, at the Otto Preserve on Lummi Island, WA, June 21, 2022. Specific ID unresolved.