#unidentified photo

[fatchance]

Celadon.

I found this recently-molted cicada outside my home yesterday. The green color of its wings darkens quickly as the wings stiffen and harden for flight. In Sierra Vista, Arizona.

[ornithorynquerouge]

Sarah Charlesworth - Unidentified Woman, Genessee Hotel, 1980

[cthoniccripple]

My porch was rife with critters while I had a picnic this afternoon

spider and bug under the cut

[pnwfunguys]

Random friends

[arachnophanatic]

I GIVE UP I can’t figure out what genus this jumping spider is. I’m not even sure if it’s a juvenile or an adult; it’s very small.

WHAT ARE YOU??

[paranormal-xfiles]

[epoque-victorienne]

[vines-mansion]

It has begun.

[unidentified-funky-organism]

Throwback to when my mother decided to have an impromptu parent-teacher conference with one of my teachers in the schoolyard and i made a new friend

[aquatic-insects-enthousiast]

To be honest I have no idea who these guys are beyond identifying them all to Ephemeropterans. I’d need a microscope on the skinny ones because they could be Baetidae, Siphlonuridae, Isonychiidae, Leptophlebiidae, or like five more families. The chunky one though I’m sure will be easier to figure out. The labrum is a diagnostic part of their head area and these pictures do not show it well. I’d love any assistance on identification.

Those three little strings on their butts are a characteristic of mayfly larvae that are hard to see unless they’re spread out. When you’re catching them, they’re often all stuck together as a weird long tail. They can flick that tail around and move it, which is very cute to watch. I had some videos of it but I spoke in them so I feel weird posting them.

[fatchance]

The cicadas have been quieter here this year, but on any evening when we get monsoon rain some will emerge and begin to sing in the treetops. After our last rain I found a late-stage nymph crawling across my doorstep and brought it in to watch its final molt. Almost as soon as its exoskeleton began to split it lost its grip on its perch. Then its wings failed to unfold. This kind of emergence failure – and the consequent wing and leg damage – is fairly common with cicadas. The process of ecdysis is fascinating to watch. It is normally hidden from us, taking place high in the trees in darkness. But the transformation is miraculous, even when it goes wrong.

[ornithorynquerouge]

Sarah Charlesworth - Unidentified Man, Unidentified Location

[hislopchino]

[gendzl]

world's shittiest photo of a bird in flight <3

[meep--tm]

somewhere i shouldn’t be

[sephs-ghost]

i still have mixed feelings about this trip two years ago but at least i really like how the photos turned out