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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! ☺️

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 2d

Dorsal view of spider hunting #spiders #nature

Spider features red back and grey ventral coloring. Cute spider crawls on zinnia leaf

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 2d

Cardinal jumper’s are mimics of mutillid wasps (like velvet ants). This one was came out of hiding to see the camera
#Arachtober
#spooktober

Spider features red orange coloration on dorsal side and grey ventral size. Fuzzy like the velvet ants that they mimic. Spider waits for pollinator to visit red zinnia flower (not yet in bloom)

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 3d

Trying out #spooktober and #spiders #nature

Spiderweb with green colored spider in center. Foliage in the background. Nearly ran into the web while hiking!

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 3d

Sulfur cosmos flower for #yellowsunday #gardens #flowers #nature native to Mexico, northern South America, and Central America.

Yellow sulfur cosmos flower features slight red coloration on the anther with other smaller flowers in the background. Monarch butterflies love these flowers, though I have yet to photograph any foraging

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 9d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 10d

Another angle of yellow flower pot mushroom #fungi #fungusamongus

Top of yellow mushroom appears like an umbrella. Pine cones surround it. Why can’t I have an umbrella that looks like a mushroom that would be so cool

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 10d

Yellow mushroom (flower pot parasol?) that was a surprise #yellowsunday #fungifriends #mycology

Yellow mushroom with long gills. Pine cones in background. My camera wouldn’t focus on anything else and it kept getting blurred. Have mercy my phone was covered in dirt

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British Beekeepers Association @bbka.org.uk · 10d

Bees, fruit flies, and other insects used in research are often excluded from legal and ethical guidelines designed to protect other laboratory animals.

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Insects aren’t ‘little robots’—so scientists are rethinking their welfare

Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects

www.science.org

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10d

Censorship is the mark of a weak regime.

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 11d

#FlowerFriday featuring pearl crescent (Phyciodes tharos) on an aster #inverts #nature #flowers

Butterfly features orange wings with black and white markings. Flower is white with yellow

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 14d

For Jane.
RIP.

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 14d

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall

Rest in peace.

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 14d

Eastern black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on orange marigold. Sometimes these butterflies are so shy it’s nearly impossible to photograph. Other times they’re friendly (like this one)! #inverts #butterflies #insects #gardens #naturephotography

Papilio polyxenes features black body with yellow dots and orange dots on hindwing. Marigold is orange.

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Steven J Cooke @sjcfishy.bsky.social · 14d

Thinking about all of my US colleagues today that work for USGS, USFWS, US Parks Service, NOAA and the EPA. From front line environmental practitioners to scientists and policy makers, these folks ensure that waters are swimmable, fish are edible, that natural areas are accessible, etc, etc, etc.

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 14d

Migratory monarch butterfly on goldenrod #inverts #monarchbutterflies #butterflies #insects #naturephotography

Orange monarch features black markings and white dots on wings. Goldenrod features small yellow flowers

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15d

Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 16d

Mushroom (common bonnet?) for #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mycology and moss for #mossymonday #nature

Brown mushroom on green moss covered log. Smaller mushrooms in background

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21d

Okay, I warned you yesterday but SPIDER POST SPIDER POST SPIDER POST. Look. Spiders are great! They're our friends. They do good work out there and in our houses. I love spiders and how can you not love THIS spider, who is both a work of art *and* wildly successful at this game of hide-and-seek?

I DON'T SEE ANY SPIDER HERE DO YOU SEE A SPIDER HERE GOSH I SURE HOPE THAT ANYBUGGY WHO WANTS TO COME VISIT THIS FLOWER DOESN'T SEE A SPIDER HERE okay fine there's a spider here. This landscape-oriented photo is a black-eyed susan except tucked against the middle of the flower is a perfectly blended-in crab spider. A white-banded crab spider, maybe? Even though there's no white band -- this spider is yellow as the flower's pedals, with reddish Rorshach test ink blots on its plump crabby body that also blends into the center of the flower. It's really something else. You can barely see it. Spiders are so cool. They're great. I am admittedly glad they're not human-sized, though, though I guess that's true of all bugs, even the cute ones. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

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Nick @gardenwizard.bsky.social · 23d

I grew those dill plants just for you little chonk. Enjoy! #bugsky #gardening #nature

A black swallowtail caterpillar feeding on a dill plant

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 26d

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #mycology

Orange yellow mushroom with porous gills

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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 26d

Holding on to my sanity while the country falls apart around me.
#stressed #NatureIsMyHappyPlace #photography

Close up of a neon green Snowberry Clearwing caterpillar holding on to a vine with it's tiny feet.

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