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“This Earth Week, Grab a Friend and Go Bugwatching for Conservation” Several Firefly Atlas volunteers gathered around, looking at photos of a firefly they have just found.

Nothing brings people together like the joy of finding a cool bug. You and your friends can be part of real conservation research, all while meeting the wildlife you can help protect.
➡️Get started 🔗 xerces.org/community-science
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22.04.2025 20:12 — 👍 44    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

Wild fish can tell humans apart when they dress differently, study finds Researchers say study, which involved training bream to follow a specific diver for treats, could change the way we treat fish

From @theguardian.com, “Wild fish can tell humans apart when they dress differently, study finds.” 🌍🧪🐠

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07.03.2025 15:49 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I’m in the middle of five books so of course all my library holds have become available at once

04.03.2025 23:32 — 👍 441    🔁 23    💬 33    📌 0

Sérgio Henriques from the Global Center ✨

03.03.2025 21:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right back at ya! 🦋

26.02.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

URGENT: tomorrow, the House Committee on Natural Resources is holding an "oversight hearing" on the implementation of the ESA and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. There's about 15 hours left to bombard those involved with emails and phone calls. Info in description.

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26.02.2025 00:01 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Done! That was SO easy sending a letter to my representative, only took a minute. Thank you for sharing and taking action! 🫶🏻

26.02.2025 01:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sometimes the best medicine is dissapearing into the woods

17.02.2025 13:44 — 👍 82    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1

Hope your week doesn’t stink! 🫶🏻✨

17.02.2025 02:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's not just ladybugs! Spider & scorpion venom, plus countless other arthropods, could hold life-saving treatments we haven't even discovered yet. If we destroy their habitats, we lose those possibilities forever. The answers to tomorrow’s medicine exist—we just have to let them survive. 🌎🕷️✨

12.02.2025 18:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Scientists have tried to infect ladybugs with bacteria, fungi, & parasites—but they just don’t get sick. Their secret? A compound called harmonine, which fights everything from TB to malaria.

Nature holds the key to future medicine—we just have to protect it. 🌍🐞✨

12.02.2025 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

09.02.2025 14:21 — 👍 27915    🔁 6422    💬 186    📌 233

Yellow Sac Fun Fact! 🕸️
In 2011, Mazda recalled over 65K Mazda6’s because yellow sac spiders were spinning webs inside the fuel system, creating a fire hazard. A similar recall happened in 2014 for 42K cars. Why the Mazda6? No one knows! These spiders are harmless and help control pests! 🙌🏻✨

10.02.2025 03:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just read this to my son this morning 💖 Thank you for sharing your story, and all you do to make the world a better place!

06.02.2025 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." — Viktor Frankl

01.02.2025 15:02 — 👍 106    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0

Mosquitoes may be vectors for diseases, but they also pollinate and I must admit the larvae can be kinda cute. Here's a video I created and call "The Dance of the Mosquito Larva"
Enjoy!
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04.02.2025 19:41 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Walking through the #library while looking at all of the new releases and deciding which book to rent is the closest I’ve come to recreating that nostalgic Blockbuster feeling. #booksky

28.01.2025 03:42 — 👍 293    🔁 21    💬 5    📌 2