WWT Monkwood. SO 802607 May 4th 2015

settling Mag8 . flower power

A variable species whose distribution extends from Laos to Moulmein, Burma southward through peninsular Thailand, to Malaya, Sumatra, and western Java and northward into Borneo and the Philippines.

A very nice species that doesn't like wet roots. Best grown mounted so the roots can dry off between watering. This species is from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Species from eastern North America

Common name: False Foxglove

Photographed adjacent to the riding stable fields, Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Found in Sai Kung Country Park.

WWT Monkwood. SO 802607 May 4th 2015

At Las Tablas, around the farm, 1800m

Bulbophyllum johnsonii - Orchid Species Plus

Photographed in Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, USA.

Dendrobium lichenastrum - Orchid Species Plus

Cortinarius species, most likely in the Cortinarius speciosissimus group. The literature does not mention these mushrooms occurring in spring. The Cortinarius speciosissimus group contains some of the deadliest fungi known, and they can take as long of 4 weeks to cause death if consumed. Photographed at Box Butte Reservoir, about 25 miles south of Chadron, Nebraska on May 8, 2017.

It's increased its mass noticeably since I put it outside this spring.

Planta de Jardim.

Restaurante El Mapi - Urubamba – Peru.

mute swans (orange beak) are taking the place of trumpeter swans.

October 2010

Species from Guatemala

Una especie rara vez observada

A rarely spoted species

Species from western North America

Photographed at Strybing Arboretum

Species?

Maxillaria anacatalinaportillae - Orchid Species Plus

Porroglossum dejonghei - Marni Turkel/Mostly Species Flasks

Bulbophyllum levyae - Orchid Species Plus

10/20/06

Boulevard Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Possibly a newly molted Tegenaria duellica, Greater European House Spider

If it is T. duellica, it is an introduced species.

Found underneath a wooden pot under Cherry Tree.

Very common in Seattle area.

Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)

Phylum: Arhtropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum: Chelicerata

Class: Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order: Araneae (Spiders)

Suborder: Opisthothelae

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

Entelegynae

Family: Agelenidae (Funnel-web Spiders)

Genus: Tegenaria

Lepanthes mulleriana - Marni Turkel/Mostly Species Flasks

Vjose-Narte Salinas near Berat, Albania

is anyone able to identify this wildflower?--it appears to be of the hawkbit family but is much more orange than the usual

it may of course be a garden escapee which has naturalised

the previous picture shows it's location and context

Dendrobium senile - Orchid Species Plus

Species from California

Common name: Popcorn Flower

Photographed on the North Peak Trail, Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa County, California

Found on the island of Luzon in the Philippines

blue species butterfly

Pleurothallis marthae f. - Orchid Species Plus

Species from Spain

Species from Western North America

Common name: Western Labrador Tea

Photographed along Tioga Pass Road, Yosemite National Park

Scientists have discovered 850 new species of invertebrates living in underground water, caves and micro-caverns across arid and semi-arid Australia. This is Phreatomerus latipes, from Coward Springs, South Australia. Previously thought to be a single species, the group had been split into eight different species that evolved in geographically isolated springs in South Australia.

Photo credit: University of Adelaide

www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/850-new-species-discover...

The appropriately named Wrap-around Spider (Dolophones species), a native. I only saw this brilliantly camouflaged spider because it moved slightly when I bumped the branch. On a Forest Red Gum in Rifle Range paddock, Dungog Common