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Clausiliidae Door Snail. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

Three Small Turritella Shells located in Colleges Crossing, QLD

A forest-dwelling Common Posy resting on a stalk. It often observed with its tails in motion to serve as a decoy to fool predators into mistaking the tails for its antennae.Taken in Singapore.http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2382/lycaenidae/ravindra.htm

Zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, grown on a painters mussel, in sandy sediment and shallow water.

Barnacles grow on coastal rocks in North China

A Common Checkered Skipper sitting on a leaf.

Fossil tooth of a predator fish lived in the jurrasic period. The fossil was found in the canton of aargau inside some limeatone.

Tiny leafhopper, Allygus, resting on the wall of the building.

Orange butterfly drinking nectar from flower

Peristome of the hair cap moss, Polytrichum, in a polarizing micrograph taken at 200x. There are spores visible on the left and between the teeth. The peristome teeth are hygroscopic, moving with changes in humidity and helping to disperse the spores.

Aquatic snail Tylomelania - Poso Rabbit Snail

air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk, in the family Onchidiidae. Marine species. Found on intertidal mudflat, Thailand.

$The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia. The species is named for its similarity to hummingbirds, as they feed on the nectar of tube-shaped flowers using their long proboscis while hovering in the air; this resemblance is an example of convergent evolution. \nLife cycle:\nTwo or more broods are produced each year. The adult may be encountered at any time of the year, especially in the south of the range, where there may be three or four broods. It overwinters as an adult in a crevice among rocks, trees, and buildings. On very warm days it may emerge to feed in mid-winter. Unlike other moths, they have no sexual dimorphism in the size of their antennal lobes.\nHabitat and host plants:\nHummingbird hawk-moths can be easily seen in gardens, parks, meadows, bushes, and woodland edge, where the preferred food plants grow (honeysuckle, red valerian and many others). \nTheir larvae usually feed on bedstraws or madders (Rubia) but have been recorded on other Rubiaceae and Centranthus, Stellaria, and Epilobium. \nAdults are particularly fond of nectar-rich flowers with a long and narrow calyx, since they can then take advantage of their long proboscis and avoid competition from other insects. Flowers with longer tubes typically present the feeding animal a higher nectar reward. Proboscis length is thought to have been evolutionarily impacted by the length of flower feeding tubes.] Examples of such plants include Centranthus, Jasminum, Buddleia, Nicotiana, Primula, Viola, Syringa, Verbena, Echium, Phlox, and Stachys. \nDistribution:\nThe hummingbird hawk-moth is distributed throughout the northern Old World from Portugal to Japan, but it breeds mainly in warmer climates (southern Europe, North Africa, and points east). Three generations are produced in a year in Spain. \n\nThis Picture is made in my Garden in Summer 2023.$

Silver-washed Fritillary - (Latin: Argynnis paphia) in Termessos National Park

Clausiliidae, also known by their common name the door snails

Aerial overhead drone view of Scolpaig Tower, a Georgian folly on the Outer Hebridean island of North Uist on the northwest coast of Scotland. Built around 1830 in the middle of Loch Scolpaig. The abandoned monument stands on an exposed area of North Atlantic coastline.

Rockskipper also known as combtooth blenny, resting on rocks on ilot sancho island, Mauritius

Resting Lythria cruentaria in the sunlight.

a fly larva clings to a roack in the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, Montana

Mallorca, Spain - 8 Oct, 2023: Puig de sa Marisca archaeological site, Santa Ponsa, Mallorca

$The clouded border (Lomaspilis marginata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed across most of Europe to the Urals, western and central Siberia, Transbaikalia, Kazakhstan, Tian-Shan, northern Mongolia and parts of the Near East.\nDescription:\nThis is a very distinctive species with white wings marked with black blotches around the margins. The amount of black varies, with the males usually (though not always) having more extensive black areas than the females. Occasionally almost entirely white or black individuals are seen, although this is rare. The wingspan is 24–28 mm. Lomaspilis marginata is extremely variable. Linnaeus's form has complete black border to both wings, also on the forewing additional spots or patches at base and middle of costa.\nLifecycle:\nThe egg is yellow green, with hexagonal reticulation. The larva, pale green with darker dorsal lines and a purplish anal spot, usually feeds on aspen and sallow but has also been recorded on birch, hazel and poplar. The species overwinters as a pupa, sometimes remaining in this form for up to four years (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a Walk in a Nature Reserve in the Province of Limburg in 2015.$

Box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis). Insect in the family Crambidae, introduced into Europe and a pest species of box (Buxus sp.)

Spoladea recurvalis, the beet webworm moth or Hawaiian beet webworm moth, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae.

Aerial view of Seydisehir (Seydişehir) lake in Konya, Turkey. Taken via drone.

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