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The Wheel Bug (ARILUS CRISTATUS), is a large assassin bug found from Canada to Central America. It is a prized garden resident with a voracious appetite, especially for caterpillars. It can inflict an extremely painful bite, considered worse than a wasp. #insects #wheelbug #assassinbug #arthropods
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The Wheel Bug (ARILUS CRISTATUS), is a large assassin bug found from Canada to Central America. It is a prized garden resident with a voracious appetite, especially for caterpillars. It can inflict an extremely painful bite, considered worse than a wasp. #insects #wheelbug #assassinbug #arthropods
Laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla). This new world gull exhibits, like many shore birds and conservatives, kleptoparasitism. Laughing all the way. #gulls #shorebirds #floridabirds #laughinggulls
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla). This new world gull exhibits, like many shore birds and conservatives, kleptoparasitism. Laughing all the way. #gulls #shorebirds #floridabirds #laughinggulls
And fight with what exactly? These?https://www.etsy.com/listing/1661348871/pew-pew-pew-gun-fingers-funny-svg-png
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
And fight with what exactly? These?https://www.etsy.com/listing/1661348871/pew-pew-pew-gun-fingers-funny-svg-png
In reality:
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December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In reality:
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Limpkin (Aramus guarauna). These birds are related to cranes and rails, but are the only extant member of their family. They are mollusk eaters that specialize in aquatic snails. Very approachable birds. #limpkin #wetlandbirds #floridabirds #wadingbirds #floridawildlife #birds
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna). These birds are related to cranes and rails, but are the only extant member of their family. They are mollusk eaters that specialize in aquatic snails. Very approachable birds. #limpkin #wetlandbirds #floridabirds #wadingbirds #floridawildlife #birds
White Peacock butterfly (Anartia jatrophae). Found throughout SE US, Central and much of S. America. Gainesville, Fl #butterflies #butterfly #whitepeacock #floriadainsects #floridabutterflies #floridawildlife
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
White Peacock butterfly (Anartia jatrophae). Found throughout SE US, Central and much of S. America. Gainesville, Fl #butterflies #butterfly #whitepeacock #floriadainsects #floridabutterflies #floridawildlife
Tomb of Frédéric Chopin in Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris France. It depicts Euterpe, muse of music, weeping over a broken lyre. Actually, this the tomb of most of him. His heart is in a jar of alcohol in Warsaw Poland. He was afraid of being buried alive, so asked his doc to remove it on his death.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Tomb of Frédéric Chopin in Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris France. It depicts Euterpe, muse of music, weeping over a broken lyre. Actually, this the tomb of most of him. His heart is in a jar of alcohol in Warsaw Poland. He was afraid of being buried alive, so asked his doc to remove it on his death.
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis pratensis). Paynes Prairie State Park. Gainesville FL. #cranes #sandhillcranes #floridacranes #floridabirds #wetlandbirds
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis pratensis). Paynes Prairie State Park. Gainesville FL. #cranes #sandhillcranes #floridacranes #floridabirds #wetlandbirds
Double breasted cormorant (Nannopterum auritum). Looks to be a juvenile. Gainesville, FL #cormorant #aquaticbirds #divingbirds #floridabirds #floridawildlife
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Double breasted cormorant (Nannopterum auritum). Looks to be a juvenile. Gainesville, FL #cormorant #aquaticbirds #divingbirds #floridabirds #floridawildlife
Indian blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) flower is also known as Sundance flower or Firewheel.
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Indian blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) flower is also known as Sundance flower or Firewheel.
Delta scarab beetle (Trigonopeltastes delta) breeding on an Arrow arum (Peltandra virginica) blossom. #scarab #scarabbeetle #wetlands #arrowheadplant #arrowarum #florida #floridawildlife #insects #floridainsects #gainesvilleflorida
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Delta scarab beetle (Trigonopeltastes delta) breeding on an Arrow arum (Peltandra virginica) blossom. #scarab #scarabbeetle #wetlands #arrowheadplant #arrowarum #florida #floridawildlife #insects #floridainsects #gainesvilleflorida
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And at the very end, Trump was like
Here's an idea.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Here's an idea.
Cloudless sulpur butterfly (Phoebis sennae) on a cobbler pegs flower (Bidens pilosa).
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Cloudless sulpur butterfly (Phoebis sennae) on a cobbler pegs flower (Bidens pilosa).
An adult American white ibis (Eudocimus albus). Do you know when the they are foraging together they make a low muffled grunts? #ibis #wadingbirds #wetlandbirds #marshbirds
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
An adult American white ibis (Eudocimus albus). Do you know when the they are foraging together they make a low muffled grunts? #ibis #wadingbirds #wetlandbirds #marshbirds
Monument Valley Tribal Park, Navajo Nation. View is also called Forrest Gump point.
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Monument Valley Tribal Park, Navajo Nation. View is also called Forrest Gump point.
Another that would, due to the poverty and debt of France, eventually contribute to the end of a royal lineage.
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Another that would, due to the poverty and debt of France, eventually contribute to the end of a royal lineage.
Amen! There has been so many, I've seen memorials to them all over. I even took pics. 1. Omaha Beach, Normandy, France 2. Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Normandy, France.
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Amen! There has been so many, I've seen memorials to them all over. I even took pics. 1. Omaha Beach, Normandy, France 2. Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Normandy, France.
Golden domed city hall in the background and the docked Georgia Queen in the foreground. Savannah, Georgia.
October 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Golden domed city hall in the background and the docked Georgia Queen in the foreground. Savannah, Georgia.
October 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sunbeams on fabric.
October 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sunbeams on fabric.