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[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 10TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Two photos of a beige and brown American rose chafer beetle on a small branch of small, bell-shaped flowers /End IDs.]
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Huamantlan Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus salvini), family Viperidae, Tlaxcala state, Mexico
Venomous.
photographs by Jose Machuca
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Rainbow Bee Eaters (Merops ornatus), family Meropidae, order Coraciiformes, Australia
photograph by Darren Stephens
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Callianthemoides semiverticillata, family Ranunculaceae, found growing amongst rock fragments on the sides of mountain in northern Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
photographs by Marcela Ferreyra
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Oh also got to see something neat. This is a fungus, Exobasidium arctostaphylii. Like the name implies, it is a parasite of members of the arctostaphylos genus. I’ve found the typical red leaves caused by it before but never infected flowers. I’m having a hard time finding much information about their life cycles and reproductive nature, but they likely use flies and other pollinators to spread their spores from these false flowers to other plants.
Yay fungi taxonomy
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Early August along J-Six Ranch Road, looking north toward Rincon Peak, Cochise County, Arizona.
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Anonymous asked:
bit too shy to go off anon, but here are two of my fave inat observations!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107591414
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103356401
ive been doing a lot of Strigopidae research as of recent so i have a lot more where that came from. i group them mentally in with kiwis too ive been doing a lot of conservation research abt them aswell
oh I like this one. harnessing her power. yeppp she laied an egg and that egg was the FUCKING SUN okay so be grateful?
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Striking footage of small wasp being a dick on purpose
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★! lets just appreciate these tide pools in today’s post…… 🪸🐚🌊
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Rain gardens filter runoff and protect groundwater, especially after big rains. They also add unexpected beauty to low spots that tend to collect water and draw wildlife. Here's how to make a rain garden in your own landscape.
Many landscape spots used to be covered in grass, scrub, and forest, but as metro areas have grown, those have been replaced by homes, patios, driveways, and other hard surfaces. Those hard surfaces prevent water from slowly seeping into streams and underground aquifers. What is a rain garden? It's one solution to those types of drainage problems.
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Common Loon or Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer), LEUCISTIC, family Gaviidae, order Gaviiformes, BC, Canada
photographs by Chris Whitty
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Looking southwest from the corner at J-Six Ranch Road, Cochise County, Arizona.
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i am so serious when i say dark and quiet are both human rights.
i don't mean like absolute silence. obviously in an ideal community, there would still be sound and noise from people and music and work etc. but it haunts me that when i camp in the forest i can hear the howl of semi trucks on the interstate miles away. and the people who live beside it never know quiet. it haunts me that many people will live their whole lives never seeing the stars in the sky that were fully visible with NO electric light pollution as recently as my great-grandparents' childhoods.
so much of our lives is bright bright unnecessary noise. neon mcdonalds signs 200 feet in the air so we can see it from the road. led lights over billboards. parking lots lit up like sports stadiums at closed office buildings. advertisements playing at gasoline pumps. streets lined with led porch lights and decorative garden lights that genuinely threaten entire species of wildlife. music blaring outside pharmacies to deter homeless people. everything always shining and wailing for no purpose but profit and cruelty.
obviously not everything can be turned off or made quiet and i wouldn't want it to be anyway and there is a lot of nuance and room for "but what about" here, but MANY things HAVE to change because none of us are supposed to live like this and we shouldn't have to!!!
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friendly reminder to not feed wild animals. “but they’re in the wild and alone so they must be hungry!” The wild animal is fine. It gets its own food. Please please PLEASE do not food condition wild animals, it is terrible for them. I can’t believe people still have to say this.
Adding to this (in complete agreement) to say that if wanting to feed animals is important to you- plant a wildlife safe garden and don't chase off the critters that do things like eat the seeds on your sunflowers or the ripe strawberries, blueberries or blackberries. Find out what native plants are missing from your area and put them in that garden if you can. Use a plant saucer and make a permanent puddle that you refresh and clean every week.
The issue is specifically that you do not want wild animals to see -you- as a direct source of food. That food cannot come from your hand, but you can use your hands to grow critter food that they can find by themselves on plants and in bird feeders.
Adding on in agreement, part of the issue can be that the foods bought from the store don't provide all the nutrients an animal needs. Sometimes bird feeders can be a means of disease transmission.
Planting native plants, especially willows, cherry-genus, and oaks helps a lot, because they provide habitat and both directly and indirectly feed birds by feeding the food web. But if you don't have space for a shrub or tree, herbaceous plants are also great!
If you don't know where to start, looking for keystone plant species is a great option. Here's some websites that tell you what's native to your ecoregion, at least if you're in:
North America:
Or specifically the U.S.: https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/pollinator-friendly-plant-lists
https://map.homegrownnationalpark.org/
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Turn Up Your Bill
American Avocet - Bosque del Apache NWR, NM
