A watercolour painting of two weevils, one reading and one on an old jelly macbook

A crop of their sweet faces

10 days since I realized I can paint whatever I want 🩷✨

Electric toothbrush makes a great artificial Bombus for hand pollinating blueberries

I've been fortunate to work on gov't science for a while. For what it's worth a lot of inefficiency & waste in gov't is a consequence of what society wants from gov't. A good example is travel. We are told the public hates the idea of public servants travelling on the public dime. I get that. 1/5

A small scarabidaeform grub that I dug up from the soil.

Springtime is grub time. Based on the raster (butt hair) pattern this looks like a European chafer beetle 🪲

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Knitted bag for holding mail. There's a snail pattern.

My latest project - a snail mail box. The pattern is my own, if you look close you can see I was workshopping it on the go.

I'm loving the treehopper inspired design!

Harry Belafonte - Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) (Live) YouTube video by Harry Belafonte Television and Video Archive

I was listening to Harry Belafonte's hit "Day-O," wherein he notes "a beautiful bunch of ripe banana/Hide the deadly black tarantula"

The obvious question: it's probably not tarantulas, they're terrestrial, so what kind of spider IS Harry Belafonte singing about?
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Man lying face down on the ground. I think this is actually a fiberglass sculpture called 'the death of marat'.

I really like this guy. Love the colours

Reading up on the history of corn flakes

Really impressive work, it looks great! Kudos

Different journals have different requirements, so if you have any in mind you could check their author guidelines. Generally I think 6-8k words is the norm, don't worry about number of citations.

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Ink drawing of a giant conifer aphid

Giant conifer aphid walking on a decomposing wood pile in the NJ pine barrens.

Giant conifer aphid walking on a decomposing wood pile in the NJ pine barrens.

Giant conifer aphid ink doodle!

These (true) bugs are all over the pine barrens of NJ. My husband and I found some in a decomposing wood pile and he snagged a few awesome macro shots.
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A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a newt with an orange belly poking its head out of the water, mouth open and with a splayed pose that makes it look like its humorously gasping for air.

A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features two desert ironclad beetles, a species with a rough gray shell, lounging on a small toy chair with a shotglass of beer placed beside them.

A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a medium sized dark gray bird with a long bill called a Great Cormorant in the midst of defecating.

A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a common raccoon at night clinging to a birdfeeder upside down. It is looking at the camera as if the viewer just caught it off-guard.

Just found out there's a group on Inaturalist, "Observational Comedy" dedicated to showing only the silliest observations

Sea apple. It's a type of sea cucumber. Looks awful.

Sea cucumber. A classic.

Sea gooseberry. To be honest I'm not sure about this one. Maybe it's a salp.

Sea lemon. It's a dorid, a kind of sea slug.

I'm assembling a team

Many people have seen the incredible 'courtship' of our Wood Whites (Cryptic in this case), where the male flicks his proboscis either side of the female's head, but this rarely leads to a pairing. Unlike other Pierids ('whites'), an unreceptive female just sits there, saving her energy!

A Merry Licemas Eve to one and all!

Looks like a Western conifer seed bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis

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This is a tumor-like growth that looks like a ball of moss. These galls are caused by a tiny wasp, Diplolepis rosae, which lays its eggs inside the stem of a rose plant. The wasp larvae produce a hormone which causes the gall to develop.

This is an old photo from 2022 showing a cross section of a gall with wasp larvae growing inside.

Went for a walk with @bonmotmilo.bsky.social and we found some mossy rose gall! One of my faves. The second photo is an old one, it shows the wasp larvae developing inside. #BestGall

This is a highly magnified image of a cranberry fireworm egg. The image is focus-stacked, a technique where multiple macro photos with thin focal planes are taken along a z-axis, then the focal planes are stitched together to make a single high resolution image. The egg is full of yellow fat globs and some vague shapes that look a little like a smiley face.

Happy little cranberry fireworm egg under the scope 🙂

Bird's nest fungus on a log.

Yellow mushrooms. Maybe sulfur tufts, maybe armillaria.

Orange mushrooms! I'll come back and ID these later

Shelf fungus on a nurse log. I don't know what these are, but they're cute!

Saw some really nice winter colour today at Pacific Spirit Park with @bonmotmilo.bsky.social!

I tried to make lavender infused whipped cream and accidentally made a sweet, floral butter. Still delicious!

I'm coming back to this because it's driving me crazy. I understand what the name means but, as a Jew, if someone called me a Setaceous Hebrew Character I would probably have them put on a watchlist

Screenshot of a Wikipedia page for the Setaceous Hebrew Character, a small brown moth.

Common names for moths are famously kind of weird, but for me this takes the cake.

It's named for the markings on the wing, which resemble the Hebrew נ (nun) and sure?? Ok?? I guess?? that's fine but why so nonspecific? "Setaceous" means hairy so just call it the Hairy Nun.

A tiny beaded katydid with red berries on a black background, with a festive green, white and red frame

Now she’s festive 🥳

I love the heartbeat! Mesmerizing