I’d give anything to hear you say it one more time, that the universe was made just to be seen by my eyes
whos ur fav design, out of all ur chars? :D
These two. Really hurt me having to remove them from the main cast.
Sketch Party time!
I'm doing my monthly Sketch Party! Any amount gets a sketch.
I've set a ko-fi goal to help with some snake-related expenses (snekspenses). Check it out here!
The Day We Met - Page 10
Emperor gum moth, Opodiphthera eucalypti, Saturniidae
Found in Australia and New Zealand
Photo 1 by a-j and 2 byy andrew_allen
@bigborger submitted: I SAW A HUMMINGBIRD CLEARWING MOTH FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER AND I WAS SO EXCITED!!! they landed on my finger for a moment when i put it under him but they were so lost in the nectar sauce that they didn’t stay for long lol seen at a Lowes garden center in Columbus, Ohio
Yes!!! Look at them!!! I wish I could give them a gentle smooch
@fellty submitted: Could you help me ID what bug this is? It’s pretty small. Seemed attracted to my light but otherwise very still. I think it’s cute.
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Green lacewing :)
Hi!! I'm trying to get over my overwhelming fear of crane flies, is there any way you could supply some fun facts about them? Specifically pedicia albivitta but there's so many species and not a lot of information I can find about them
Well for starters all crane flies are entirely harmless. They don't have mouthparts capable of biting and can't sting or pinch or anything. If they fly at you it's because they don't see you or register you as something to avoid, not because they're attacking or have any reason to land on you.
Despite common belief and sometimes being referred to as mosquito hawks or skeeter eaters, they do not eat mosquitoes, and are in fact incapable of eating them because they don't have the right mouthparts.
Most adults don't eat at all, but if they do, they eat nectar, pollen, or sap, or just drink water. They really only live long enough as adults to breed (1-2 weeks), so there's not much need to feed.
Some aquatic crane fly larvae are thought to eat mosquito larvae, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a reliable source on that. Larvae can be either aquatic, semiaquatic, or terrestrial and what they eat depends on their environment, but mostly I've seen that they're detrivores, so they help with soil health like other decomposers. They're also a big source of food for other animals like predatory insects, spiders, frogs, fish, and birds. Probably bats, too, I imagine. So they do play an important role in ecosystems!
Also they can be really beautiful! Some of them even mimic wasps with pretty black and yellow stripes. I'll show you my fav species, though, the eastern phantom crane fly:
What a beauty! Look at those stripey socks. Adorable.
Also they sometimes hang from foliage in the cutest way:
Lol. Silly.
Photos by ianmanning and germain_savard
In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”
If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.
This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:
If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I'm not hearing about that, so... Tree law!
The Studios: *speak*
Botanists and other Tree Experts:
My mom said when she used to go to business meetings at GM in Detroit in the 1980’s, they would close the sidewalks to “repave” them whenever the unions were preparing to strike, making it more difficult or impossible for them to protest outside. This is a thing, this has been happening for decades. They know what they’re doing.
Sleepy fox in the garden, sketched from life (a welcome distraction from my work yesterday).
I see Hollywood is now very into the idea of buying something once and then owning it forever and being able to make infinite copies. Which. Isn’t quite the message they imparted upon me in my childhood. In the spirit of their own long-held stance: