Ate just about the whole tree and was working on another
Moose dung donated by Bruce Welkovich via Alison Pollack
Found inside the stomach of a halibut off the coast of Montague Island.
Black & white photo is of same location in 1953, taken by Lowell Sumner
Head had been cut off. I don’t know if this was part of a free ranging population but this one had apparently escaped captivity.
pod of humpback whales setting up to bubble net feed
There were many humpbacks in Stephens Passage. One of them, whom we dubbed "White Ridge", used our boat for their entertainment. They executed repeated torpedoboat-style runs toward us, surfaced next to us and dove under the boat. At times, the whale was joined by a companion.
Some of the action can be watched at https://youtu.be/kqWJPX7AXP4.
Two days later, during our return from Tracy Arm, White Ridge was back with "torpedo attacks".
For a long time, I looked past the large intertidal anemones, assuming they were just different colors of Urticina grebelnyi. Actually these "snakelock" anemones are more common than I realized.
iNat needs more parasites so I'm delving into my backlog. These ectoparasitic monogeneans were removed from a kelp greenling by freshwater bath in the Sitka Sound Science Center aquarium.
Found on free-floating bull kelp snagged while winter trolling.
131 Portage Rd, Otahuhu, Auckland 1062. On Eucalyptus sp.
Griffith Park mountain lion (P-22) about one year after he was discovered by the Griffith Park Connectivity Study.
Attached to red algae that was attached to free-floating macrocystis that got hung up on our stabilizer.
Warm enough in December for bugs to come out on top of the snow
I think
Scraped adult sea lice off a king salmon and I noticed approximately 100 others at different stages of development when I looked at the adults in the sea water I had kept them in under a microscope.
Figure 10 in this article had some helpful images.
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/1/47
Scraped adult sea lice off a king salmon and I noticed approximately 100 others at different stages of development when I looked at the adults in the sea water I had kept them in under a microscope. The stress of capture may have caused the female to release the eggs strings prematurely.
Figure 10 in this article had some helpful images.
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/1/47
Gray-cheeked Thrush (Catharus minimus)
Thought it was plastic but touched it and it was definitely a plant!
Yellow antennae, yellow legs with black femur
Looks like https://bugguide.net/node/view/416485
This is a species recorded from nearby in ARCTOS
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Since @briozoan was shooting macro and was thoroughly startled by this big male steller, the best she got was this cryptid-esque photo
Unfortunately the body had been decomposing beyond species identification
It's horrifying and disgusting to see these mites on the ears of a mice caught by my kitten. I knew such mites could be found on the living bodies of some insects but didn't realize that they could live on a living mammal, in this case a mammal that might be alive just one or two hours before.
Poor mice, what a terrible life it lived...Everybody has its own 计生委 (Family Plan Committee) . For this mice, 计生委 were such mites and my kitten. For human beings, Hitler and Xitler are the most powerful 计生委, far more powerful than the mites, far far more disgusting than them.
This species has no records in ARCTOS for Alaska. I based my identification on the description in BugGuide which says: "Wings: Dark brown, covering about 2/3rds of the wing, lower dark margin step-like. The dark extends to the inner margin or anal cell. Three sets of cross veins have a light mark on each side of the vein, called aureoles. One near base, one about mid-wing, and another small one below (or R4 + R5, M2 and CUP)." On the second photo I have pointed out what I believe to be these aureoles.
I am not an expert, so I would love it for others to weigh in on this.
Chased the previous bear off the carcass
Only visited for a few seconds
Will correct location when I know it. Unusually large specimen approx. 400 microns across. Due to the unusually inflated test, it may instead be an undescribed species. [edit: was actually a known species I hadn't previously encountered].
21 m depth.
Saw a hare using the bridge on a nighttime walk
Brown bear fur on the base of a tree where it ate a wasp nest. Chewed up the tree pretty good too.
Spotted this Sitka Blacktail taking a break from swimming on an iceberg from the LaConte Glacier
Found on a wild duck my husband hunted
Growing on an alder leaf. I don't think it was a fruiting body, didn't see spores. I think the hyphae were septate without clamp connections. Texture cottony, like tufts of mycelium
Bird my friend found, flew into wall several times. Not window- concrete walls. No injury- unknown if bird flu or not
10-15 mm
Found with Onchidoris bilamellata (coincidence?) under rocks at low tide. Quite common.
According to https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/14990 there are 7 species of free swimming flatworms recorded from Alaska. Of these Nexilis epichitonius and Nesion arcticum do not reach this size and can be ruled out, as can Kaburakia excelsa which should be considerably larger. Acerotisa arctica seems to be known from only one species collected at Utquiagvik at the Arctic Ocean. I was not able to find any information about Notocomplana sanjuania or Notoplana longastyletta even under any of their synonyms.
Pleioplana atomata (also known as Notoplana atomata) seems like the most likely candidate. It is 9-28mm; found under stones and weeds in intertidal zone and matches iNat photos well.
Outside of Resurrection Bay near Seward, Alaska