The bad trade meme of a man with long hair and his hands steepled in front of him. Above it says "trade offer". On the left it says "I receive: no more thrips" and on the right it reads "you recieve: lots of thrips".
Me @ the free spiders
Even if I didn't already love spiders, I have had houseplants long enough and dealt with houseplant pests so much that I appreciate free biological controls that are also cute
A view under the leaves, if you look closely you can see a tiny spider hanging down
A close up on the tiny spider under the leaves
Yes I did look at ones with nicer leaves but THEY didn't have free spiders
A philodendron in a white pot on a table, the leaves are dark velvety green with much lighter green along the veins.
A very close zoom on the edge of one of the leaves, there is a tiny brown spider making a web
What a steal, home depot is offering philodendron verrucosums that come with free spiders
I think I would also be scared of them if I was a dog, they're like in the uncanny valley of size compared to regular dogs
Another view of the harbour, showing the way out to the ocean between two arms of land. Lots of fog is coming in. A little shed sits on the end of the pier in the foreground.
Like I'm just saying, the entrance to the harbour aka The Narrows is named appropriately, but you could certainly fit a medium sized kaiju through there for sure
A further back view of the same scene, but now we are behind two bronze dog statues, one is a Newfoundland and the other is a Labrador.
A front view of the Newfoundland dog statue, it has its mouth open and tongue hanging out.
A photo of the Labrador dog statue, it is standing at attention with its tail up.
You'll never guess what was behind me while talking this photo
If you guessed statues of dogs though, you'd be right (a Newfoundland and a Labrador, for obvious reasons)
A view out into a harbour, showing a peninsula of steep land with colourful houses nestled into it. The water has a low layer of dense fog partially obscuring boats and houses.
Do you ever look out at a beautiful day with the sun shining and the ocean releasing an ominous fog and think to yourself ah, there's definitely going to be a kaiju emerging from there any minute now
speaker: look at this crustose lichen
me: omg they look like bryozoans
speaker: they often act as a novel substrate on stones, creating pockets of sediment for other organisms to grow in
me: ๐ผ๐บ๐ด ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฎ๐ป๐
A screenshot of inaturalist, it shows a species of lichen called Surprise Lichen, which looks like blobs of dark goop on a rough surface.
anybody who starts a conversation with me for the next month now that I've gone to one (1) public talk about hybrid colonies of fungi and algae/cyanobacteria better be ready for
How are you supposed to go watch it three times like you're supposed to!!!!
A path through evergreen woods, with a bright blue sky above. The path is completely snow and frozen
A close-up on the side of the path, it's frozen along the puddles along the sides and looks like shattered panes of glass
April fools!! I invited my friend on a walk a few days ago because it was "sunny" and "warm" and we had to go back to her car for crampons!!!
A snowy backyard, with snow still falling
Haha april fools! I thought it was spring!! I'm the fool!!!!!!
we call em astrounauts, eh
I was talking to someone about how much we both like pothos, and then when she left to go home half an hour later she just gave me like two feet of reverted lemon meringue pothos vine. I am not to blame for some of these
A small table with way too many little plants in water or soil.
Two variegated alocasia frydek, one is half white and half green, the other one is splotched with white.
Two little cups with soil, one has tiny cacti in it and the other has a tiny butterwort.
I went to a houseplant cuttings swap yesterday and I think I blacked out
Look, should I have trimmed it up a bit before it came to this? yes. Did I? no obviously not why are we having this conversation
As tragic as it was to clip off the leaves, I personally find I have better luck propagating philodendron nodes (i.e., what's in the takeout container) without leaves, and particularly without GIGANTIC leaves. I don't have space to propagate five nodes that need a 2-4ft diameter area for leaves!!!
A counter with a huge pile of large, tropical-looking leaves that are green with red stalks and red veins. Chunks of stem are cut up and put into a takeout container full of dirt and moss.
Pour one out for my enormous philodendron that decided to snap off at the root under its own weight
This is why it's so important to keep making friends. So that you always have more people to give away spider plants to
A spider plant that is putting out many babies on long vines, they look like little spiders on the vine.
You should never spend money on a spider plant because chances are you know someone who is overrun and desperately trying to get rid of spider plant babies (photo from www.gardenstead.com/simple-spide...)
A photo of a small pot with two little green spider plant babies, labeled 1 and 2. A third plant in the pot is labeled ?
A hanging pot with striped spider plants in it, labeled 3, 4, and 5.
Last summer I had to throw out my spider plant (gift from my thesis supervisor) because of thrips and a friend asked if I would buy another one. I said no, because no one has ever bought a spider plant. Eight months later I now have two pots containing five gifted spider plants I did not ask for
Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.
Exactly what I have been thinking
right ๐ญ
I think instead, give me the house. I'm not good at outside plants yet but I will take care of the bugs
A house partially hidden by trees, in front is a luxurious green field with colourful wildflowers.
Another field of the field in another season, with different flowers, all light blues and yellow.
There's this house I have coveted for years that has the most incredible little glade of flowers that change throughout the seasons, and I have just learned that it was the home of a botanist, Dr. Penny Allerdice, and after she died last year it has now been sold to condo developers. I am SO SAD
Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice
2028 could be the year of all-invertebrate Pokemon if we play our cards right
Some days it was a nice, satisfying zen hour and other days it was vertigo or nausea or a minor panic attack, you win some, you lose some you know