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Questions looking to find the name of a specific organism. Please include as much information as possible on location/habitat, size/characteristics and behavior. Ideally, you should provide images.
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Did my wildlife camera take pictures of coyotes?
Short Answer
Yes, these are likely coyotes.
Long Answer
Your options of dog-like carnivores (i.e., Canidae) in BC include the following:
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Grey wolf
British Columbia Wo …
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Beautiful blue enigmatic insect (mantid?) in Kenya
I'm converting my numerous comments into an "answer" -- I don't currently know the exact species, but I can at least explain some of my thoughts more completely.
Your specimen looks a lot like Gonatis …
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The biggest underground living animal
Key Words:
To aid in your search, you might want to try searching the term "Fossorial."
Fossorial animals are animals that are adapted to digging and life underground.
Though note: Lessa et al (2 …
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Mystery Plant ID
This is possibly some species in the subfamily Scilloideae. (sometimes considered as separate family called Hyacinthaceae). This group of plants is a subfamily of bulbous plants within the family Aspa …
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What is difference between "Syngonium" & "Pothos"?
Pothos is a common name for Epipremnum aureum, which, like the genus Syngonium, is in the monocot family Araceae.
From Wikipedia:
E. aureum is an evergreen vine growing to 400 m (1,312 ft) tall, …
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Identification of an alpine blueberry type
Possibly Vaccinium gaultherioides (sometimes considered a subspecies of Vaccinium uliginosum), which are present throughout the Alps.
For example, see InfoFlora*:
Vaccinium gaultherioides Bigelow …
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Can anyone (urgently) tell me if this is a bed bug
This is not a bedbug. This is a hemipteran called a leaf-footed bug in the Coreidae family. (Note: bedbugs are also in the order Hemiptera, but in a different family).
Species similar to yours found i …
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What is this red mushroom with the "inverted" cap?
Looks like Sarcoscypha Austriaca (scarlet elfcup). It's actually used in many textbooks as a representative species for the Ascomycetes.
Details from Wikipedia and Messiah.edu both confirm that this …
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Help identify this insect with a fan tail
This is the nymph stage of a planthopper, an insect in a suborder of the hemipterans.
The "fiber-optic-like" tail is actually made out of wax! From Wikipedia
Nymphs of many [planthoppers] produce …
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Insect Identification - Black Cicada
Short answer
This is Magicicada septendecula, one of the three species of 17-year cicada (colloquially, "17 year locust") native to the Eastern United states.
Credit: C. Simon, Fontaine et al (200 …
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What is this plant in the Butler, Pennsylvania area?
Short answer
I would also guess it's Smilax herbacea, but let me go a step further and explain why...
LEFT: NC State Extension ; RIGHT: SEINet
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This does indeed appear to be a species o …
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Mushroom Identification: Brown gilled mushroom in Ohio lawn near rotting stump roots
Even though I ID a lot on this site, I'm rather unqualified to ID mushrooms (even with the help of sites like urbanmushrooms.com).
Can anyone help me ID this mushroom species?
Attributes:
Morpholog …
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Mushroom Identification: Brown gilled mushroom in Ohio lawn near rotting stump roots
I was advised by Walt Sturgeon, author of Appalachian Mushroom: a Field Guide as well as members of Poisons Help; Emergency Identification For Mushrooms & Plants Facebook group that this is likely Mar …
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Identifying insect in Sri Lanka
This appears to be a springtail (Collembola). I'm not familiar with Sri Lankan fauna, but the overall body plan (kind of oval, pudgy, short-legged) reminds me of a subgroup of springtails, the Podurom …
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