Posted on August 26, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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Gracefully snaking through the water as if under the control of a rhythmic gymnast, the Ribbon Eel is quite the spectacle.
Category: Animals, Fish, The Wild Life BlogTags: earth, eel, Fish, fishes, Ichthyology, indo-pacific, marine, marine biology, naturalist, nature, Ocean, Rene Martin, ribbon eel, sciart, Sea, SundayFishSketch, thewildlife
Posted on August 18, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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Ever have a butterfly land on your skin and start licking you and thought “Awe, I’ve got a new best bro!” Well, you were wrong. Butterflies have a dirty secret!
Category: Animals, Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life BlogTags: animals, biology, butterfly, butterfly drink urine, butterfly eating poop, butterfly in mud, butterfly on poop, calyptra, carrion, devon bowker, devonthenatureguy, entomology, environment, Gluphisia crenata, hematophagy, Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica, insect, lachryphagy, lepidoptera, life, moth, mud puddling, naturalism, naturalist, nature, nature nerd, puddling, vampire moth, wild, wildlife
Posted on August 15, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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If you’ve ever seen a gelatinous blob of ick floating in the water and wondered what type of alien life you were seeing, it was probably a Bryozoan, and they’re honestly pretty neat.
Category: Animals, The Wild Life BlogTags: animal, aquatic, asexual, biology, blob, blob in lake, bryozoan, clones, colony, ecology, egg sack thing in lake, environment, freshwater, gelatinous blob in lake, invertebrate, jelly blob in lake, lake, life, marine, moss animals, science, water quality, wildlife
Posted on August 9, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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Most know them as seagulls, a name which implies a proclivity for life at sea. Yet this familiar moniker is neither accurate (scientifically speaking), nor seems to fall in line with a universal observation—gulls love parking lots, whatever their distance from the salty sea
Category: Animals, Birds, The Wild Life BlogTags: animal, animal behavior, ask a naturalist, bird, bird watching, birding, discover, gull, herring gull, lakes, laughing gull, learn, naturalist, nature, nature nerd, Ocean, omnivore, optoutside, ornithology, outdoors, parking lots, ring billed gull, Sea, seagull, the wild life, thewildlife, why do seagulls love concrete, why do seagulls love parking lots, wild, wilderness, wildernessculture
Posted on August 3, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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This is circle of life—or at least an ugly, albeit necessary, curve of it. This is the life of the American Carrion Beetle.
Category: Animals, Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life BlogTags: american carrion beetle, arthropod, beetle, biology, bugs, carrion beetle, circle of life, decomposition, ecology, entomology, environment, Insects, life, scavenger, thewildlife, wild, wildlife
