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Nature photographer, amateur naturalist & arthropod enthusiast. Florida natives, here. Pics my own. Dead Name Walking. Man't. They/Them (she/her even, if you're not creepy about it) IG: @apsciencebylyn Discord: evelyndroid Tumblr: apsciencebylyn
Mr Maevia intermedia, a handsome pale blue-grey leggy boy found in our savannahs. Shy, and very likely they see you much more than you see them
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Autoerotic vulcanization
If you find yourself following someone who is called woke ginger or pissed off nurse or whatever, they’re not your ally. Your ally is someone with an obscure Pokémon avatar called like ant piss aficionado
Lupine time again 💜
I drive a gas-thirsty giant van for work and my MAGA-loving employer pays for the gas and I cannot resist an evil chuckle every time I put $100+ in gas into the tank
Y'all come get your potato-brain boy, he can't stop warring
Piglet Bug 🥹
(Bruchomorpha jocosa)
And now, DnD scorp dice!
Omg this pleases me ❤️
It was so delightful and crafted with love all the way through
Elfo: "Speak no more of Crypto, Speako!"
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Courtesy of a tiny Naphrys bufoides boy on a single pine needle 🖤
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Enjoy a minute's worth of video of one of our smallest jumping spider species, Naphrys bufoides, spooding around and being very excited about everything 🖤
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Very small man, lord of all he surveys
(Naphrys bufoides, tiny perky lump of a salticid, endemic to Florida and Georgia 🖤)
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Also in Living Dangerously: a leafhopper catching a ride on a damselfly
Tiny beetle living dangerously
(native froggle is always welcome on the porch 🥹)
I love him
Mud turtle? 🥹 Just a little mud guy
I almost walked past this because I thought it was a coffee lid
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I can't process this shit anymore
He derped out like this for nearly a minute before resuming the wavy legs antics 🥹
I love these boys so much
#EmotionalSupportSpood #HappyWavyLegs
Fungus farmer ants (Trachymyrmex septentrionalis) harvesting some blackberry petals for the garden
I made Scorp Dice! For my game-loving younger brother's birthday. Very pleased with how they turned out.
(no scorpions were harmed in the creation of these, I carefully poke through pine bark to find their old molted exoskeletons) 🐡
standing at the edge of the vast canyon between rubio's heel and the back of his shoe, shading my eyes against the sunrise
Hey what is we just poured all the oil into the water and let it float on the surface past the strait and then have a bunch of guys with shop-vacs suck it up from the surface on the other side
Literally me on any social media platform
Fungus farmer ants (Trachymyrmex septentrionalis) harvesting some blackberry petals for the garden
He derped out like this for nearly a minute before resuming the wavy legs antics 🥹
I love these boys so much
#EmotionalSupportSpood #HappyWavyLegs
The happiest little nugget man you'll ever see (Zygoballus rufipes) 🥹
#EmotionalSupportSpood #HappyWavyLegs
today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason
NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week
the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪
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