Favoritos de gcsnelling

In 365 nanometer UV light

Info on what makes it blue:

https://www.nature.com/articles/211855b0

known locale for this species.

On road cuts in oak forest, very small and fast. Female glossier than male.

Collected w Chris Hamilton, OL Chavez Torres, K Silvestre Bringas

Taken in ethanol/red wine-baited jug trap placed in a xeric dolomite prairie remnant.

On lower trunk of gum bumelia (Sideroxylon lanuginosum) in xeric dolomite prairie.

Mixed hardwood/pine woodland. Growing on rotting log.

With a leech on its tail

Very large red jaws, three white patches on each side of abdomen. Approx. 3-4cm. Feeding on nectar.

Planta carnívora en turbera pulvinada de Astelia pumilia

Trachyzulpha fruhstorferi (Leaf Katydids). Photographed in Kinabalu Park, Sabah, East Malaysia on 25 September 2011. Endemic subspecies borneo.

This beetle has a unique adaptation: the terminal segments of the antennae have evolved a scorpion-like sting!

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-007-0316-1

Large iridescent blue. Temp 72. 1 hr to sunset. Next to Jemez falls