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#1 Pipa pipa (Surinam Toad) photographed near the Tuichi River in Bolivia. These toads lie flat and look just like a dead skin in the water.
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#2 Striated Heron (Butorides striata), living at the Amazon river, Peru
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#3 Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythraea) living around Beliche stream, Portugal
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#4 Procambarus clarkii
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#5 Brown Rat Rattus norvegicus. Not everyone's most-liked stream life (!), but uses streams surprisingly often
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#6 Reisenbach brook: Urtica dioica & Scrophularia umbrosa, two common and ordinary plants, accompanied by Alnus glutinosa:
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#7 Mayflies are the most primitive of all flying insects. It passes almost all its life as larva under the water, and when it moult it lives as an adult for few days only. This one is Ephemera glaucops, resting in a forest near a water stream.
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#8 Nile monitor, Varanus niloticus, by a stream in Lake Manyara NP, Tanzania
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#9 Crimson Marsh Glider (Trithemis aurora) Male
It is a medium sized dragonfly that is commonly found in weedy tanks and ponds, marshes, channels, and slow flowing streams and rivers in the lowlands and mid-hills. It breeds in streams, rivers, canals, ponds and tanks. It is found commonly and widely distributed in the Oriental region throughout the year.
The male has a reddish brown face, with eyes that are crimson above and brown on the sides. The thorax is red with a fine, purple pruinescence. The abdomen, the base of which is swollen, is crimson with a violet tinge. The wings are transparent with crimson venation and the base has a broad amber patch. The wing spots are a dark reddish-brown and the legs are black.
He was struggling to manage the excessive heat!
Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India
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#10 Caddisfly larva (order: Trichoptera)
The larvae of the caddisfly live in streams and ponds and use debris from the bottom to create a protective "shell" that they hide their soft bodies in. This one I have unidentified beyond its order and it is recently deceased in the photo.
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A common skink in our area always beside creeks to which it will retreat, Eulamprus quoyii.
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#12 - Orb weaver spider (Gasteracantha falcicornis) encountered on the banks for the Lukaya river near the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the outskirts of Kinshasa.
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#13 Water Strider - Aquarius sp.
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#14 Skittering Frog (Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis)
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#15 Yet another dragonfly: Common Whitetail Female, Libellula lydia
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It's time to pick your favorites! This is going to be difficult!
Submissions are now closed and Voting is OPEN! You may only vote once, and the photo with the most votes is the winner. When the voting week has closed, an administrator will change the thread status from VOTE to CLOSED. See Voting Instructions
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Awesome variety again!
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Who would have thought that both the winner & the runner-up of a stream life contest would turn out to be bright red?
WINNER:
Procambarus clarkii by Michael Bok
RUNNER-UP:
Under Fire by kadavoor
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