Este organismo presenta un tamaño de alrededor de 1.5 cm de largo, con un patrón de color café con rayas de color negro, demostraba unos prominentes colmillos.
Este organismo se encontraba buscando algún tipo de material u alimento, incluso presentaba una alta agresividad con otros insectos.
Blacklighting at Bill Baggs with permission. I set up several sheets and this was on a sheet near an open area, lit by two blacklights hooked up to USB battery packs.
Full moon and windy conditions limited how many insects I got (there were almost no mosquitoes, a bad sign when it comes to blacklighting). See link at the bottom for details about my various set ups for the night and my 2024 CNC in general.
My blacklighting observations from Baggs:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-26&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo
Video showing the lights I use for a typical setup:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk
Blacklighting project for Florida: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida
More details in general about my 2024 City Nature Challenge here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/93673-city-nature-challenge-2024
Fighting a war between colonies, they were so involved in fighting they did not attack a beetle that wandered into them
Beetle obs is here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212425256
Marine Park, Brooklyn. Path from Nature Center trail to Lenape Playground. Under log. Ant host of Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii (see separate observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212120838).
Video clip (with Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii) here:
https://x.com/elaphrornis/status/1785368975230005358