Gavy Swan
@gavy.bsky.social
Kind of obsessed with fossils. Polymer clay artist. Native plants. Pet rats. Long Covid. 🇨🇦
Probably hasn’t had enough tea today.
They/Them
Probably hasn’t had enough tea today.
They/Them
Every time I post anything on this site I feel the need to say: I’m completely overwhelmed by all the crap going on in the world, and don’t know what to say or do or how to respond to it, so…here, have some cool bugs/plants/pets/ whatever.
August 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Every time I post anything on this site I feel the need to say: I’m completely overwhelmed by all the crap going on in the world, and don’t know what to say or do or how to respond to it, so…here, have some cool bugs/plants/pets/ whatever.
Bicolour Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens) on Nodding Wild Onion (Allium cernuum).
Every time I step out the door there is something interesting to see in the garden.
#nativeplants
Every time I step out the door there is something interesting to see in the garden.
#nativeplants
August 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Bicolour Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens) on Nodding Wild Onion (Allium cernuum).
Every time I step out the door there is something interesting to see in the garden.
#nativeplants
Every time I step out the door there is something interesting to see in the garden.
#nativeplants
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Little Ruby Sunday and the great big blueberry 🫐
August 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Little Ruby Sunday and the great big blueberry 🫐
Our sweet little Raven passed away last weekend. We miss her so much. She was one of our standard-sized ratties and loved to come out for snacks and snuggles.
August 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Our sweet little Raven passed away last weekend. We miss her so much. She was one of our standard-sized ratties and loved to come out for snacks and snuggles.
Yaaaaaas! ☺️@cepheusradio.bsky.social got me When The Earth Was Green by @restingdinoface.bsky.social for my birthday! 🌱🦕
August 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Yaaaaaas! ☺️@cepheusradio.bsky.social got me When The Earth Was Green by @restingdinoface.bsky.social for my birthday! 🌱🦕
Was trying to photograph a bee when this lady swooped in and posed for me.
July 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Was trying to photograph a bee when this lady swooped in and posed for me.
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I love that plants were included here! 🌿
I wonder what this would look like for Canadian provinces. I think catalpa trees are what I notice most because they’re my favourite.
🌾🧪
I wonder what this would look like for Canadian provinces. I think catalpa trees are what I notice most because they’re my favourite.
🌾🧪
![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I love that plants were included here! 🌿
I wonder what this would look like for Canadian provinces. I think catalpa trees are what I notice most because they’re my favourite.
🌾🧪
I wonder what this would look like for Canadian provinces. I think catalpa trees are what I notice most because they’re my favourite.
🌾🧪
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Ahem! I am trying an experiment. I listed several sets of my itty-bitty #sciart paintings on Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044... Choose from viruses, neurons, algorithms, blood cells, and more
July 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ahem! I am trying an experiment. I listed several sets of my itty-bitty #sciart paintings on Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044... Choose from viruses, neurons, algorithms, blood cells, and more
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Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
June 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
Look at this bitty lil’ bee (Genus Ceratina?) covered in pollen from Coreopsis lanceolata! 😍
June 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Look at this bitty lil’ bee (Genus Ceratina?) covered in pollen from Coreopsis lanceolata! 😍
Raven loves tummy tickles. It’s her new favourite game.
June 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Raven loves tummy tickles. It’s her new favourite game.
Never discount the power of visibility.
We have a “Protect Trans Rights” sign up in our yard and a large pride flag on our balcony.
Today someone knocked on our door just to thank us. She saw the sign and had a little cry in her car and then came over to say thank you.
That matters a LOT.
We have a “Protect Trans Rights” sign up in our yard and a large pride flag on our balcony.
Today someone knocked on our door just to thank us. She saw the sign and had a little cry in her car and then came over to say thank you.
That matters a LOT.
June 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Never discount the power of visibility.
We have a “Protect Trans Rights” sign up in our yard and a large pride flag on our balcony.
Today someone knocked on our door just to thank us. She saw the sign and had a little cry in her car and then came over to say thank you.
That matters a LOT.
We have a “Protect Trans Rights” sign up in our yard and a large pride flag on our balcony.
Today someone knocked on our door just to thank us. She saw the sign and had a little cry in her car and then came over to say thank you.
That matters a LOT.
We had to say goodbye to Harley last weekend. She was our faux hawk-sporting drama queen who took exercise very seriously and lived to be just over 3.5 years.
June 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We had to say goodbye to Harley last weekend. She was our faux hawk-sporting drama queen who took exercise very seriously and lived to be just over 3.5 years.
Blue-eyed grass is blooming.
June 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Blue-eyed grass is blooming.
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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
And I am pretty sure the American Lady ‘pillars are back too! ☺️
June 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
And I am pretty sure the American Lady ‘pillars are back too! ☺️
The everlasting tebenna moths are back at the pearly everlasting.
June 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The everlasting tebenna moths are back at the pearly everlasting.
Metallic Green Sweat Bee and unidentified bee on golden alexanders.
Guys I had no idea there were so many types of native bees and now that I want to identify them they will not stay still for photos. 🤣
Guys I had no idea there were so many types of native bees and now that I want to identify them they will not stay still for photos. 🤣
June 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Metallic Green Sweat Bee and unidentified bee on golden alexanders.
Guys I had no idea there were so many types of native bees and now that I want to identify them they will not stay still for photos. 🤣
Guys I had no idea there were so many types of native bees and now that I want to identify them they will not stay still for photos. 🤣
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Yf tech billionaires reallye reade their Tolkien thei wolde understande that it was the obsessive searche by Sauron for selfish immortalitye and individual power above all othir thinges that broughte disaster to Middle Earthe.
May 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Yf tech billionaires reallye reade their Tolkien thei wolde understande that it was the obsessive searche by Sauron for selfish immortalitye and individual power above all othir thinges that broughte disaster to Middle Earthe.
Baby bunny disappeared into the foliage just after this photo. I’m loving that our native garden is finally dense enough in places to provide hiding places for wildlife. Robin fledglings are also hiding in there.
May 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Baby bunny disappeared into the foliage just after this photo. I’m loving that our native garden is finally dense enough in places to provide hiding places for wildlife. Robin fledglings are also hiding in there.
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium) and Zizia aurea (Golden Alexanders) are throwing a PARTY in the garden right now.
Native plants ftw.
Native plants ftw.
May 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium) and Zizia aurea (Golden Alexanders) are throwing a PARTY in the garden right now.
Native plants ftw.
Native plants ftw.
