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For #BlueSkyArtshow #Sky and reflection
A picture of the sky reflected by water. Green fields in background, bare branches in foreground
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Physcia species #lichen
A grey lichen with large black apothecia on a twig with green pine needles in the background A close up of the same grey lichen with black apothecia Another shot of the same grey lichen
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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not-klaatu.bsky.social
This seems like kind of a big deal given the tumultuous history involved... www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Journal retracts influential glyphosate safety study from 2000 | CBC News
An influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environmental groups in Canada to ask the federal government t...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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kristinamuise.bsky.social
Day 5 #BatMas: Pied butterfly bat (Glauconycteris superba) 🦇🌎🧪

This bat is very rare! It’s been captured a few of times, but after the 5th time, the species was put in the genus ‘Niumbaha’, named after the Zande word for ‘rare’. However, it is now part of the genus ‘Glauconycteris’

📸: Jacob Fahr
A light brown gloved hand holding a black and white bat, which is looking towards the camera.
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Break down on the forest floor #fungi #lichen
Brown leaves lower left, upper left cut branch with pinkish and light brown fungi, mid picture- narrow branch almost completely covered with reddish and light brown fungi, right side pale green lichen on a fatter branch.
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Ascocoryne species #fungi and growing with Stereum hirsutum
A pink-purple coloured, rather gelatinous looking fungus A different specimen of the same pink-purple coloured fungus. Lots of the pink-purple coloured fungus growing on the cut edge of a tree branch. Some brown dead leaves are on the lower left of the picture. The pink-purple fungus growing on the cut edge of a tree branch with some light brown fungus on the right side of the same cut edge. Brown leaves on the lower left.
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Stereum hirsutum growing on a dead oak branch #fungi
Light brown coloured fungus that is rounded in appearance with wavy edges growing on a piece of dead wood surrounded by brown dead leaves and some green ones. There is grass and a shed in the background.
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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gsew.bsky.social
“Leaf Woman”
Fiber art. 2019

#blueskyartshow #warmth
Collage quilt in blues and yellows.
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
For #BlueSkyArtShow a #small mushroom surrounded by a field of moss and a forest of thorny looking lichen
A pale mushroom growing among bright green moss in the middle and bottom of the picture with pale green lichen at the foreground at the top of the picture and some dark green moss in the background.
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
For #BlueSkyArtShow #small is relative. Small lichen surrounded by moss, with a teeny, tiny invertebrate on the lower left of the picture. I think it’s a springtail.
Pale green lichen with black apothecia growing on rock that has a rusty colour and surrounded by moss which is green and purple at the top of the picture and purple coloured to the bottom left of the picture. A tiny grey invertebrate is on the bottom left of the lichen between the bottom two black apothecia and the purple moss.
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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ahaberski.bsky.social
Look at those eyes! #flyday #bugskye #entomology #macro
A macro photograph of a robber fly on a blade of grass
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
#Lichens #Snail! #hotstick
A stick with at least 2 different types of lichen and a snail that looks like it’s lit from within Same picture as before slightly different angle
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
I think this stick is hot #lichens #hotstick
A small stick with adjacent crustose lichens with different coloured apothecia.
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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thisiscolossal.com
With her new book, ‘Lo—TEK Water’, Julia Watons wants to reshape the aquatic world through Indigenous technologies.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/lo-t...
an aerial photo by Peter Yeung of lush gardens and waterways an aerial photo by Toby Harriman of floating gardens
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Reflected Vista, 2018 by contemporary Impressionist US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
Sunrise or sunset over a rocky beach with sea and cliffs in the background
July 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Sicus ferrugineus on Centaurea nigra. Ferruginous Bee-grabber on Knapweed.
A purple flower with a small fly Close up of the fly on the purple flower, showing the head and thorax mostly A close up of the fly on the purple flower showing the wings mostly A close up of the fly on the purple flower from the other side showing the front end mostly
July 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Lobelia dortmanna #aquaticplants
A plant growing between stones covered by clear water. The plant is flowering. The stem is red and the blossoms are white.
June 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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biologizing.bsky.social
I found a barely moving click beetle ready for death after being trapped in my house for who knows how long, but life hack: if you give dehydrated bugs some water you can watch them drink it and then get better
June 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Pretty shrooms growing on the river bank. Coprinellus diseminatus with Pellia sp. liverwort in the background. The #fungi were growing at the bases of Alder trees Alnus glutinosus.
Small pale coloured mushrooms growing with a bright green coloured liverwort. Gravel and soil are at the bottom of the picture along with dead leaves. A close up of the pale coloured mushrooms and the green liverwort. A zoomed in photo of the pale mushrooms. The caps appear pleated and they closely resemble lampshades.
June 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Calyopterx virgo, Beautiful Demoiselle. #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant
A brilliant turquoise damselfly with sparkling brown wings perched on a blade of green grass and surrounded by more grass
June 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Wild strawberry yumminess jackpot
A picture of some wild strawberry plants with ripe and ripening fruit.
June 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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aukeflorian.nl
NEW PAPER, NEW THREAD! 👀

We collected insects in creeks polluted with raw sewage. 🤢 Microplastics in caddisflies were once rare. But now, in some creeks, more than half of all cases include artificial material! 🤯

A shitty thread on plastics and poop, thankfully, without the smell of it 💩

1/x 🧵👇
A sewage overflow valve in Simpelveld, the Netherlands. One of our sample locations where raw sewage mixes with the Eyserbeek stream. Yes, it smelled. Photo: Auke-Florian A caddisfly casing, Chaetopteryx villosa, with green flat particle (RMNH.INS.1658129). On the left, beneath the specimen, a colourised SEM photograph of the artificial particle, and on the right, EDX mapping visualization showing the chemical elements found, in this case titanium, chloride and sulphur. This casings is retrievable in jar BE.2289652 in the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Images credit: Isabel van der Velden and Auke-Florian Hiemstra.
May 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Graphomya maculata #fly on Heracleum sphondylium.
A fly with big brown eyes and a striped thorax and abdomen on a white flower head with many individual florets. The background is green vegetation and another white flower head is at the top of the photo.
May 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
hawkbutterfly.bsky.social
Lovely script #lichen in bark
A white script lichen with black elongate apothecia that look like abstract cave paintings
May 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM