Category: Harvestman

White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica) in the trees

6/7/2017

This year there is a big pack of white-nosed Coati (Nasua narica) on the Firestone Center property. Lots of adults and juveniles and babies all trolling around together. When up in the trees feeding, they make quite a racket. I got a chance to spend about 10 minutes watching all this until they decided for one reason or another (maybe they spotted me) that it was time to head down and move on.

A young white-nosed coati (Nasua narica) working its way down a tree

More young coati moving down the tree

These are very good-looking animals, and happy to have had a chance to watch them doing their thing in the trees. As a side note, these are in the same family as raccoons, Procyonidae, and a large pack like this (likely 20 individuals) is composed of females and all young up to about two years of age. Older males are mostly solitary.

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Some Borneo pics

9/18/2014

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A harvestman from in the Gomantong caves

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Harvestman vs wasp

5/22/2014

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And, the harvestman wins.

This from Melrose Caverns property in Virginia, USA

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ID update

3/18/2014

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On 3-11 I posted a photo of a Harvestman (daddy long legs) in Grand Caverns, Va.
Bill Shear was kind enough to send along a proper ID after project coordinator Carol Tiderman sent my pic to the specialists. I thank Bill and Carol for helping me out with the species ID.

Identifying photos is worthy science

A second look at Erebomaster weyerensis.

This is a Harvestman (Erebomaster weyerensis), photographed in it's type locality (that means the original site from which it was found). Grand Caverns used to be called Weyers Cave before it was commercialized and hence the name.

Pretty cool find and hope you enjoyed the background info.

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Non-animals, and then back to animals at the FCRE

6/1/2013

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Mostly I am interested in animals. But plants and fungi at the FCRE can be interesting...to a point. A couple pics of such.

Bracket fungi of some sort.

Really funky-looking stuff.

These fungi are pretty common, quite attractive, and hard to photograph well.

A plant wiith a neat-looking cup.

And that's all I have on that for now. So next up is a more interesting exercise. You have thirty seconds to figure out what this is...

mystery blob

So do you have it figured out? I'll give you another moment.

This lump is...

Another planthopper (two more obvious ones have been posted recently). This is one furry critter, and is facing right. An eye can just barely be seen at full size.

So, after that, time to see some millipedes, more obvious than the previous.

A large, common millipede at the FCRE. But the keen eye will notice that millipede poop is also present.

Possibly the same species of millipede, but with pale colors. It is also pooping as it goes. But if you look really, really close you will see a great number of mites on the legs.

A while back I published a pic of a bee looking out of the nest. And to continue that bit, I have found more similar pics.

Wasps at the entrance to their nest.

Here the young wasps are again peeking out, but likely they will fly off soon.

And now just a few more pics

I don't yet have the name for this one.

Planthoppers R us

Sloths are omnipresent on the FCRE property, but mostly three-toed sloths like this one.

And to finish tonight.

A beautiful harvestman spider.

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August 04th, 2012

8/4/2012

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A harvestman spider feeding on a critter that seems almost the same size as the spider!

Harvestman spiders, mostly known as daddy long-legs, are very efficient predators. Harmless to humans, they take an amazing amount of prey given their small body size.

Photo from Ohio, US. With luck and time, I will open my first US galleries from some work I did recently in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica) in the trees

Some Borneo pics

Harvestman vs wasp

ID update

Non-animals, and then back to animals at the FCRE

August 04th, 2012

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