Yes! Also remember that a lot of people resistant to getting rid of their entire lawn are open to shrinking it. Evaluate what is actually needed for a play surface etc. and then expand native plant beds outward over time :)
It’s earth day!!
🌎 plant a pesticide free native 🌱
🌎 switch your energy supplier to a renewable
🌎 take transit instead of an uber
🌎 then make fun of your friends (lovingly) for taking Ubers when the train is right! there!
🌎 heckle your family members. About whatever you want! It’s earth day!!!
About to be run out of Maryland by a mob wielding pitchforks and crab pots for saying this, but celery salt is disgusting and so Old Bay is also disgusting. Love crab though!
When it's bad it's execrable, but it's incredible when done right. Cincinnati chili on the other hand only ranges from terrible to inconceivably bad IMO
Ah yeah sometimes dragonflies take a couple of days to get an ID but unlike most bugs they do get a solid ID in the end (a lot of damselflies are stuck at genus due to needing genitalia etc.) Feel free to tag me on iNat any time (@\shauna1)
Great shot, SK! It appears to be a Lancet Clubtail (P. exilis). The gray-green eye color indicates ♀. Congeners can be ruled out by range and the pale mark on S9 (final large segment) which is dark in the similar Ashy Clubtail. Hope this helps (& I recommend posting your bugs on iNat if you're not:)
You can tell not to trust that book bc the author had the goal of stopping himself from frittering away all his time on Reddit and Twitter but failed, so a lot of the sources cited in the book are just random Reddit and Twitter posts instead of research articles! If you can't get YOURSELF to focus..
Yes exactly, I think solitary rugose corals. Love finding fossils on buildings
A tiny metallic shiny green and gold bee hangs upside-down from urn-shaped coral-colored flowers. The bee has white pollen all over its little face.
Someone is at work making sure there are blueberries later :)
This is incredibly cool, reminds me of how the disturbance regime caused by Native American fire management increased biodiversity by creating and maintaining longleaf pine savannah in the Southeast
I am so sorry to hear of her passing and for the loss to your lab and community. She gave a tremendous talk at Evolution 2024 (Montréal) on the Joshua Tree Genomic Inventory. It was so good that it is one of the few I remember in the general academic conference blur.
The innumerable articles about Lammergiers/Quebrantahuesos being hit by vehicles or receiving other injuries and being taken into rehab (shoutout to wildlife rehabbers!) are really making this likely nonexistent needle really disappear into a haystack
I also have Florida Man killed by pet Cassowary and San Diego doctor claiming to have been repeatedly attacked by hawks (no proof, but apparently he said it convincingly to make it onto ABC 10 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dt9...)
*16 years ago I mean...
Snippet of text from The Guardian article. A photo caption (photo not shown) says "Cern: View from the central axis of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) tunnel of the ATLAS underground facility with the eight toroids surrounding the calorimiter" Main text: "It is the machine that scientists hope will recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time. But scientists at the 3.6 billion British pound Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into the machine, causing it to overheat."
Second best I can do is apparently 10 years ago, a gull shut down the Large Hadron Collider by dropping a piece of baguette into its power supply. www.theguardian.com/science/2009...
Best I can do is a person on reddit who claims to have been conked by a chicken bone dropped by a raven (I'm skeptical of this claim--it was probably a crow ;)
Recent evidence does not support pap smears at a higher frequency. ACOG recommends once every 3 years 21-30, once every 5 years 30-65, and no further testing after age 65 if no recent positives. www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
ORCIDs having so many digits is beautiful. They envision a future where our knowledge rests on the shoulders of up to nine quadrillion nine hundred ninety-nine trillion nine hundred ninety-nine billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine giants
reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like
margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum
define term “eplungulate”
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
I am curious about this question but this post is ALSO a humblebrag that I managed to find blooming jeffersonia yesterday. Not easy to do when the flowers only last a couple of days!
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). Two large, white-petaled flowers with golden stamens growing from the leaf-covered forest floor. Each flower rises on a pink stalk with a single, elaborately-lobed leaf reminiscent of Monstera.
Rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides). A single dark pink stalk rises from the leaf-covered forest floor. The stalk has two clusters of three-lobed, paw-shaped leavs and two flowers atop it. The flowers are large and white with golden stamens.
Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla). Two large white-petaled flowers with golden stamens around a large globe-shaped ovary rise from the forest floor, framed between two fallen logs. The flower stalks are pink, and each has a folded, pointed twin pair of leaves attached to it.
These flowers are from 3 families, but they look quite similar. Do any #botanists, #entomologists or forest-floor enthusiasts know if there's some kind of spring ephemeral #pollination syndrome? (1: bloodroot - Papaveraceae; 2: rue anemone - Ranunculaceae 3: twinleaf/jeffersonia - Berberidaceae)
NA & tropical: reintroduction failure of Thick-billed Parrots to Arizona, also rediscovery of Cozumel Thrasher in 2004 followed by its extinction.
Most "people key to story" that comes to mind right now is Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Worm people HELP!! Any idea what this beauty might be? Collected in a tide pool in Eastern Taiwan.
Has anyone figured out why if you want to warm a cinnamon roll at home it takes 15 seconds in the microwave but if you say yes to having your pastry warmed at a café they will place it into some kind of arcane warming contraption that takes 47 minutes?
Introduction: Economic Importance of Ducks: It is difficult to overrate the economic importance of ducks, and undoubtedly their estetic and recreational worth is fully as great.
Maybe I should just do a thread of text screenshots that amuse me. For instance, this is big if true (from a 1939 US government report):
"Mic-UK: Safe microscopic techniques for amateurs. Lactic acid is not a forbidden substance. It is a clear liquid which has a"
I googled "lactic acid insect microscopy" and this was the mysterious result
A small toy orca sitting atop a full-sized orca skull replica
He has vanquished a much larger foe
