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This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Very large dark red mayfly with wings held up straight, and giant two-toned compound eyes, orange in the upper third and dark blue below. She's holding her 1st leg pair forward and up like antennae

Top down view of the creature's head, giant eyes protruding out like a drum set

Face of the creature, big blue/orange eyes peering at everything everywhere all at once

Extremely close shot of the creature's compound eyes

Throwback to the time This Thing appeared 👀 (giant mayfly, from 2021)

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Two assistant banders needed for the upcoming spring banding season at Presque Isle State Park.
#birds #ornithology #migration

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Plus yeah the actual filming of it, like you'd have to have a whole camera crew to pull this off and I don't see how or why that could have happened here when it's meant to be a random lucky thing someone happened to catch on camera.

Yeah, I read the comments on the post and the OP was saying that the fox was "playing dead" and got up and ran away after and like... they don't do that I'm pretty sure. Just feels like so much bullshit.

Take the win, people.

Breathe it in.

It doesn’t matter that there’s a different job awaiting her. It doesn’t matter if the new guy sucks, too.

She lost. They caved. Take the win.

Digital painting of an Orange-cheeked Waxbill. This small bird has a thick, glossy, cone-shaped bill for cracking open small tough-shelled seeds. The head is gray except for a bright orange cheek patch, the back is brown, the belly is white, the wings are short, and above the black tail is a bright flame-red patch of rump feathers. This bird is illustrated as standing in profile, perched on a small bare branch.

Orange-cheeked Waxbill. Every time I see these tiny birds, they're in groups of 30-60, filling the air with a chorus of cute little beeps. 🎨🪶🐡🌏

Rare Hawaiian Monk Seals Keep Getting Eels Stuck Up Their Noses A relaxed-looking juvenile Hawaiian monk seal lounges near a sandy white beach on some green foliage.

it's a whole thing with them, apparently!

Illustration of a woman in a green floral skirt and white floral cowgirl boots walking through a field of desert flowers lit by sunrise. They glow brilliant orange-gold in contrast to the dark cool blue shadows. The sky is a pale blue, and the background mountains are jagged and barren.

A second #LordHuron Secret Santa piece, done as a backup after someone bailed. Leigh is such an underrated character and I really wanted to give her a chance to experience a Death Valley superbloom, I think she'd find it pretty meaningful.

🎨 #fanart

See Death Valley covered in an ethereal blanket of wildflowers This year’s Death Valley flower bloom is the greatest since 2016, according to the U.S. National Park Service. See it for yourself

This year’s Death Valley flower bloom is the greatest since 2016, according to the U.S. National Park Service. See it for yourself

It's honestly so hard for me to tell anymore, especially with this kind of highly edited video. It *feels* like bullshit though, I agree.

an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’

i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)

open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

5 to 10 inches of rain is going to be fascinating to watch out the windows, honestly. My crew have all been busy getting as much done this week as we can, knowing the rain is gonna be silly very quickly. We might have to swim to the grocery store.

your moment of calm: sea potatoes! potatoes of the sea!

omg we can certainly hope and dream

I will manifest all day at work today and maybe when I get back it will be true!!! With your help we can do this!!!

I had a dream last night that they abruptly released a cool video project that explained some of the lore of CSV1. What a bummer to wake up and realize it was all just a dream 😭

Digital drawing of a squid in profile with bright blue light along its tentacles and ventral surface. Text says “we don’t know why firefly squid use bioluminescence. But the squid know.”

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay
🐡

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Très gros plan sur l'œil, le front et le haut du bec d'une spatule rosée, bien bel oiseau dont on ne voit pas ici le plumage éclatant ni le vol gracieux, mais au contraire la texture complexe, presque reptilienne, des replis de peau jaune, gris, noir et vert clair et du bec gris. L'œil forme un anneau cuivré dont le centre est d'un noir d'encre.

Regard

#Photos2026

Digital illustration of a nosa' luta, a small yellow-green songbird with a white ring of feathers around the eye, and an orange beak and feet. This bird is drawn with its wings spread and feet held at the ready, about to land on an unseen branch. The background is a loose blur of colors similar to those in the canopy on Rota - bright yellows and greens, with hints of blue from the yoga berries abundant in this species' habitat.

Nosa' luta (Rota White-eye, Zosterops rotensis), illustrated for future use in my own reports/publications/whatever involving this species and other birds of Rota, CNMI. Endemic to the island, critically endangered, and full of boisterous energy 🎨🪶🐡🌏

Realizing I should include the main things you should do to support native bees/other insects

1) Plant native plants
2) Don't use pesticides, and tell your friends and neighbors to stop using pesticides
3) Leave fallen leaves in the winter
4) Leave dead stems over winter for overwintering critters

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?

Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.

The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

Digital painting of a Saipan Reed-Warbler. This brownish bird has a long curved beak, short wings, and long tail. Its head and throat feathers look loose and ruffled while this bird sings at full volume. It clings sideways to a stalk of bright green reed grass.

Ga'ga karisu, Saipan Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus hiwae) is a critically endangered species found in the Northern Mariana Islands. Though few remain due to habitat loss, they fill the air with their rich melodic songs in those places where they can still hold on. 🎨🪶🐡🌎

The reason the Pacific Northwest has such lush forests is because of salmon! They bring nutrients from the sea inland, and when they are eaten by predators or die upstream, the nutrients get redistributed to the plants, promoting more growth.

if you tell an artist "i want a print of that!" and then you actually DO buy the print when they put it up for sale, you WILL enter the kingdom of heaven. this is, in fact, the only way to get in

Recluse spiders (Araneae: Sicariidae): contesting myths on distribution, bite behavior, and medical risk in Florida Abstract. Recluse spiders are arachnids of potential medical significant due to their necrotic venom. However, in areas populated by the brown recluse, Lox

Brown recluse spiders exonerated! In Florida, recluses are rare, much less likely to bite than other spiders, even when provoked, and the one verified bite did not produce necrosis.

Digital painting of a Golden White-eye, a yellow bird with an orange beak and legs, perched on a tree branch. It is facing left and looking slightly downward as if curiously eyeing a delicious berry or unknown insect.

Before I head back to Rota, I will be on Saipan for a few days. Canario here (Golden White-eye) is an endangered species found only on Saipan and Aguijan, though it probably was also on Tinian and Rota in the past. Their thrush-like habits and songs are very unlike most other white-eyes. 🎨🪶🐡🌏

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