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M2 Student at Sorbonne Université Taxonomist, specialised in Hymenoptera🐝
Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real.
Easy.
Scorpionflies (Panorpidae family).
(Pictured is a P. helena from Carderock, Maryland - taken by Judy Gallagher www.flickr.com/photos/52450... )
And there finishes #Hymathon2025. This was an amazing experience which allowed me to discover amazing subjects and meet awesome people. I can't wait for its next edition (and maybe this time, I won't be devoured by stress for my presentation)!
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An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants.
Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage
A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out.
Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
