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Remy
@toomanylocusts.bsky.social
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I'm mostly just here to look at cute bugs, plants, + cool art, don't mind me 🏳️‍🌈
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jumahl.bsky.social
#birds
Do Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers count for woodpecker Wednesday?
December 11, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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mybirdcards.com
Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds | #EurasianMagpie #CommonMagpie | #Magpies #Corvids #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Georg_Wietschorke 🌍🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌍🌏 Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) The Eurasian magpie (Pica pica), also known as the Common magpie, is a medium-sized bird with a long, graduated tail. Its plumage is a striking black and white, with a metallic green and violet sheen on its head, neck, breast, and wings. It has a long, black beak and a white belly and scapulars. This bird is found in a variety of habitats, including woodlands, grasslands, and urban areas. It is a social bird that often lives in pairs or small groups. Magpies are omnivores and feed on a variety of foods, including insects, seeds, fruits, and small mammals. GG 2024 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by Georg_Wietschorke via Pixabay YMVA
December 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
Lady Organ Pipe Dauber carrying a mud ball to her nest. She looks like she’s just coming back from the grocery store. #WaspWednesday
(Trypoxylon politum)
A black wasp with yellow at the end of her back legs. She is flying in from the right with a mud ball held between her front legs. There is a mud nest on a brick wall in front of her.
December 11, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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perfectorb.bsky.social
Late fall mushrooms found along a mountain path
Brown inky cap mushrooms with the edges of their caps starting to curl up Frozen orange orange peel mushroom growing through gravel Black orange and cream colored artist’s conks growing out of the end of a log
December 11, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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orchids.bsky.social
Flowers on this Paph is quite 3 dimensional. The dorsal petal makes a circle looking from the top.

Paphiopedilum tranlienianum

#orchid #orchids #flower #houseplants #photography 🌱🌴🪴sky
Couple slipper orchid flowers with white dorsal petal and olive brown lateral petals with curls on the edges.
December 11, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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chrisdipiazza.bsky.social
Stygimoloch (Pachycephalosaurus?) in watercolors. #paleoart #sciart
December 11, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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banditelli.org
The moon from the laundrymatte parking lot.
The first quarter moon, which actually is half lit. Weird.
December 9, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Another migrant species has decided to visit our little town of Bijagua, a rare visitor to this part of Costa Rica: the Black-throated Blue Warbler. Escaping the cold of the eastern US, it was enjoying many worms in the forest today.

#birds #warblers 🌿
A small bird perched on a moss-covered branch. The bird has a dark blue back and head, a black throat and face, and a white belly and chest. Its bill is small and pointed and its legs are thin and a light pink. The background is softly blurred, featuring shades of green and brown of the forest.
December 8, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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mphiuma.bsky.social
The range maps say Snow Geese don't occur in Florida. Apparently these geese don't know how to read maps. #birds
December 9, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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mollybangles.bsky.social
happy monday, please enjoy this cardinal being absolutely perturbed that a downy woodpecker invaded her personal space 🪶

Winston-Salem NC, November 2024
A bare horizontal-ish branch in the bright afternoon sun. On the far right side sits a female Northern Cardinal, back to the camera, but looking intently to the left, where a female downy woodpecker is perched, facing right towards the Cardinal. Close up of the same Northern Cardinal and Downy Woodpecker on the same branch. In this frame they are much closer together - the woodpecker is upside down on the underside of the branch, and the Cardinal is almost directly above her, beak ajar, looking exasperated. The same Cardinal and woodpecker on the same bare branch. The woodpecker is still upside down on the branch and the Cardinal is still right side up, and has moved a little further to the right, away from the woodpecker. She is, however looking angrily in the woodpecker’s direction The Cardinal and woodpecker in the same position on the branch as the previous photo, however in this one, the Cardinal is looking out, mid-chirp, beak ajar, the crest feathers on her head fully extended up into a point
December 9, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
Grand Teton National Park in Autumn
#ArtAdventCalendar
Sun breaks through dark clouds, the jagged peaks of Teton range can be seen in the distance, there is a line of evergreen trees and larches in the middle ground and grass and still water in the foreground. Small plants with gold and red leaves fill the bottom and left of the frame.
December 7, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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squidpastry.bsky.social
Merry day seven of #fishmas! This is a naked goby, the same species and individual in my profile picture.

Naked gobies are so named because their bodies lack scales, instead covered in a thin layer of slime. These gobies are euryhaline, equally comfortable in both marine and freshwater conditions.
A close-up photo of a naked goby, turned towards the camera. She is perched on her pectoral fins, sitting in a pale rock. Her body is smooth, scaleless, and cigar-shaped, colored dark greyish-brown with thin pale stripes. Her head is lighter than the rest of her body, taking on a subtly yellowish mottled hue. Her eyes are positioned on the top of her head and bulge outwards, somewhat like a frog. Her mouth is held slightly open. The same naked goby, now facing directly towards the camera. She is a slightly lighter color, and is sitting amongst red branches of algae and green filamentous algae. Her dorsal fins are held upright.
December 7, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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trailreverie.bsky.social
#fungifriends
December 7, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
Red Swamp Crayfish mom and babies! Appropriate #Crustmas colors🦞

Females will carry eggs & early-stage young under their tails; after certain size they detach!
December 7, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
A freshly-molted Zammara smaragdina cicada in the forest last night at my house. These were plentiful a few months ago when it was warmer, and I was kind of surprised to see one now.

#costarica #bugsky #invertebrates #cicadas 🌿
A dazzling insect clings delicately to a vibrant green leaf, its translucent wings resembling finely crafted stained glass. The wings shimmer with hues of aqua and emerald, crisscrossed by intricate, vein-like patterns outlined in silvery white. Its luminous green body glows with an almost metallic sheen, highlighted by subtle flecks of gold. Two prominent, jet-black eyes glisten under the light, adding a sense of mystery to its elegant form. Behind it, the blurred background of foliage creates a natural frame, accentuating this delicate yet otherworldly moment in the heart of the rainforest.
December 6, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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ravenphotography.bsky.social
The crows yelling at everyone who walks by in my neighborhood 😆

#birds 🪶 #photography
December 7, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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marwellaspaceart.bsky.social
The first time I saw the moon since the new moon.

Waxing crescent 38.2% illuminated at 8.23 PM (UTC 1.23 PM) tonight.

#moon
December 7, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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missybbbobtail.bsky.social
Not sure where the photo went but gorgeous sunset. Take 2.
December 7, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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stickyfrogs.bsky.social
Tonight’s Smiliest Dinner Guest is Voigt! She is here to assist with her Face and with her Stealing!
December 5, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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silverseraphina.bsky.social
Working on my shading by painting from life! Did this orange yesterday. Painted with gouache and watercolour. #watercolour #gouache #art #plant #citrus #orange #stilllife #nature
December 6, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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frdvil.bsky.social
I have quite a few nice things in my greenhouse!
Tea tree flower ( #camellia sinensis ) #abutilon flower, #lemon, and #bougainvillea 🌱
#gardeningfeed
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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birderbro.bsky.social
Yellow-billed Kite trying to freeload off an Osprey.
Interestingly & quite appropriately, the Kite's name in German translates to "Parasitic Kite". Nomen est omen...

#Dakar, #Senegal Technopole RN
#raptors #raptor #bird #nature #naturephotography #photography #outdoorphotography #gonefishing #fish
December 5, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
Here is a side view of the beetle. This is a second observation which I should post to iNaturalist too. Check out those antennae!
(Stenolis dulcissima) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador
A beetle viewed from the side. It has grey and black legs, silver elytra lined with black, a yellow pronotum, black eyes, and very long antennae curving back over its head. It is standing on a leaf.
December 5, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
There is a project on iNaturalist cataloging first known photos of live specimens. I've got a couple that might qualify so I submitted two observations today. Here is one, a fantastic little longhorn beetle found in the Amazon rainforest.
(Stenolis dulcissima) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador
A beetle with silvery elytra with black and yellow stripes at the end, a yellow pronotum, and black eyes, and very long antennea. The beetle is standing on a slender leaf.
December 5, 2024 at 11:19 PM