god damn this is a QUILT ('late day shadows' by nancy messier)

I’ve decided that all bats fall somewhere on this horrid little graph I’ve devised. Here are some prime examples of the various Creature Varieties found in nature.

Hi OP no notes I just wanted to add some more guys because I have disorders

You’re so correct about all of these and it is our human right to be incredibly disordered about bats online. Thank you. Let’s go take ibuprofen together.

Lol my large and handsome pig didn’t find Anything of interest in your yard

bitches hate me for my earnest whimsy and my pathological degree of avoidant behavior

Angel

Shadow doing this "😬"

How’s this

was compelled to draw this 🙈🙈

once again thinking about this guy at the pigeon museum who was giving a little presentation about pigeon mating habits or something, and takes one look at me and my partner and immediately goes "oh and pigeons can be GAY, too!!!"

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

just give me 20 to 40 minutes to think on it and i can come up with the most passably human sentences you've ever heard so help me god

we could go back to telegraphs instead of social media. send your mutuals unspeakable strings of morse code at 4:30am

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personally i prefer semaphore

so prefacing this with the fact that I know that the fun is sorta taken out of this by me translating, but not everyone will have the energy to look it up themselves, so I figured I'd help out.

Morse code: AEEEEE FELL DOWN AND TROKE MY PENIT TODAY YEOWCE OUCH YOUCH!!!! SENT FROM MY TELEGRAPH

Semaphore: NO NOT YOUR PENITS

Two avian creatures native to the equatorial tundras and mountainous regions of birgworld. Jhujũjo (nicknamed “snowhoppers” by human observers) is a small, grouse-like animal that browses for feathervane fronds and seeds. The males gather in first spring to display in open areas. After claiming a mate, he will guard her fiercely and feed her larvae until they emerge as fledgelings in summer.

Wãbũitəha is an avian predator that features in many local legends. The Twowi name for this creature roughly translates to “Winter’s Soaring Knife”, a reference to beliefs in it being an incarnation of the blade that reaps life in early winter to prepare the world for new life in the spring.

This was actually a commission for @mfkayenne on twitter! And special thanks to @sirenafaculto and @primalmuckygoop for help with the names/script and the cultural lore, respectively

[Image ID: A picture of a bee and a wasp, both labeled. Both are colored yellow and black. Facts are listed about each one in their respective columns.

Bee:

Wasp:

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NO ANTI-WASP SENTIMENTS ON THIS POST

Though they're often referred to as "camouflaged loopers," these caterpillars are the larvae of the wavy-lined emerald moth (Synchlora aerata).

Camouflaged loopers deploy a unique form of self-defense -- they snip off tiny pieces of the flowers upon which they feed, then use bits of silk to attach the vegetation to their backs. This provides them with a kind of camouflage, enabling them to blend in with the plants that they eat.

Some of them create little tufts that run along their backs, while others fashion a thicker camouflage that covers their backs completely. In some cases, the camouflaged loopers will even build much larger bundles that surround their entire bodies.

Their range includes most of North America (from southern Canada down through Texas) and they can feed upon an enormous variety of plants -- so the disguises that these caterpillars build can come in countless colors, shapes, and sizes, incorporating many different flowers and other bits of vegetation.

And this is what the fully-developed moth looks like:

Sources & More Info:

@onenicebugperday

Some marine science/paleo illustrations I’ve been doing on twitter!

define hole // is a hole a real thing? // Marco Poloni, Black Hole, from The Majorana Experiment, 2010 // post // image // sinkhole in florida, usa // seperis, A Thousand Lights in Space // the entire observable universe // Door to Hell, Chloe Dewe Matthews // image // first simulated image of a black hole // messier 87 // image // art // post

Welcome. To Hole Wednesday.

Spring beauty miner bee, Andrena erigenia, Andrenidae

Spring beauty miner bees are a solitary, ground-nesting species that relies on spring beauty flowers (Claytonia virginica) to obtain nectar for themselves and both nectar and pollen for their larvae. The hairs on the female bee’s legs collect the striking pink pollen to bring back to her larvae. Found in the eastern United States and up into Canada.

Photo 1 by rileywalsh, 2 by chelsealynne, 3 by mmccarthy98, 4-5 by judygva, 6 by kristym, 7 by davidenrique, and 8 (don’t worry, she’s alive) by allenbryan

I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy

Everything is something’s habitat. You might as well not go outside for fear of stepping on some larval beetle.

This is hugely missing the point. The idea is to enjoy what’s left of our natural spaces while having as little an impact as possible. It’s not difficult to avoid intentionally destroying habitat. I recommend looking into the Leave No Trace principle which is very important for conservation. Cynicism doesn’t help anything.

You can read more about Leave No Trace here.

I just want to add that it’s actually not rare or unusual for a single seemingly ordinary creek to be the only known habitat of an entire species. Sometimes just one little bend or one waterfall in that whole creek. In fact this was possibly the norm at one time, but we just didn’t notice before settlers caused most of those species to go extinct.

It’s not something that only persists in far off exotic locales; there’s a stream near me that runs right through a parking lot for a developed park, and there are THREE invertebrate species that have never been documented anywhere in the world but that creek. Last collected from under the train tracks a little ways down from the parking. Last time I went, there were McDonald’s soda cups in it. The unique invertebrates have also been seen higher up the mountain where that creek begins, but those McDonald’s sodas alone could have decimated a major population for all I know. The last published report on those species is over a decade old.