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MichaelBedingfield wrote:
2 min ago
Hi SaloteCottrell, thanks for your sighting. It looks like the location information you provided is incorrect. This sighting is not near the ocean or a marine rock pool. Please review and update the location of this record when you get a chance.
Dicathais orbita
MichaelBedingfield wrote:
2 min ago
Hi SaloteCottrell, thanks for your sighting. It looks like the location information you provided is incorrect. This sighting is not near the ocean or a marine rock pool. Please review and update the location of this record when you get a chance.
Bembicium nanum
MichaelBedingfield wrote:
2 min ago
Hi SaloteCottrell, thanks for your sighting. It looks like the location information you provided is incorrect. This sighting is not near the ocean or a marine rock pool. Please review and update the location of this record when you get a chance.
Nerita atramentosa
WendyEM wrote:
31 min ago
I'm inclined to agree BUT I have seen an emerged female Lymantriinae on her cocoon in a needle leafed plant looking like this. In leafy plants they wrap the cocoon in the leaves. Maybe all the webbing provides protection the leaves would. I can 'see' (vivid imagination?) the 'toothbrush' many Lymantriinae larvae have on their backs in the 1st shot.
I think you will have to set up camp and stake it out until it hatches/emerges! (joke!)
Unverified Insect
maznee wrote:
35 min ago
Thank you. I’ve always wanted to see a slime mould but never knew what I was looking for. Exciting to find two different species almost in the same spot. Probably only 20m apart! Thanks for your identification.
Physarum compressum

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