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☘️ Nature lover 🪴
🍄‍🟫 Enjoyer of moss and ferns 🪲
🌾 Gay 🌱
🌳 He/they🌲
🪻 Woke botanist apparently 🌿
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Been too long since I've seen one of these children (spun glass slug moth caterpillar) 🩵
Pale blue translucent slug caterpillar like glass, lined with hair tubercules. Munching an oak leaf Top view of the creature munching is leaf. It's wide and flat and floofy Close shot of some of the tubercules and the hairs which line each one
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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gandalf1.bsky.social
So!! Love!! Bees!!🐝 🤩
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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dianef1224.bsky.social
I made a brief stop at Bombay Hook NWR on my way back to NY yesterday. Made a couple of new friends.
Maybe these can be part of #AnimalArtTuesday
#EastCoastKin
#photographersunited
#photography
#birds
#greategret
#greatblueheron
Great Egret and reflection Elusive Great Blue Heron Great Egret wading Beautiful day though a bit windy at Bombay Hook yesterday
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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beckarooobanzai.bsky.social
Got nice and close so I could really see how they got their name. #splitgill #fungifriends
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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marygemignani.bsky.social
Also saw a pair of local cranes this weekend as well.
#birds #SandhillCrane
A large gray bird with a red skin patch on it's forehead and amber eyes is walking about it's habitat on a beautiful Fall day.
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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margueriteturl2.bsky.social
This little swamp sparrow finally popped out long enough to get a shot! #birds
Little swamp sparrow in the reeds at the waters edge in cape May
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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jenzsky.bsky.social
A Spotted dove flaunting its #mottled beauty…

#BirdOfTheDay #birds
#birdphotography #photography
#EastCoastKin #doves #nature
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Finally, the specimen of Tupandactylus imperator, held at the Brazil's National Museum, has been published on. The goat-like beard is likely the plant matter.

scielo.br/j/aabc/a/6HvMmqXH7NmGvSHfrY7spjQ/?lang=en
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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chuck4242.bsky.social
Great Blue Heron just after it landed.

#Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin
A Great Blue Heron stands on a dead tree limb with blue shy and clouds in the background.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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paleobyliam.bsky.social
In "Ecology of the Brontosaurs" Robert Bakker describes adaptations of many ungulates, including the "elongate, banana-shaped" hooves of the swamp-dwelling sitatunga antelope. Surely, I thought, that's an exaggeration. But these are crazy!
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
One of my photos of a strange derpy gallfly now graces the Wikipedia article for the species, and this pleases me 🥹🧪
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosta...

Eurosta floridensis 🤎
Eurosta floridensis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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boesephotography.bsky.social
Another shot of a #HairyWoodpecker for #ToungeOutTuesday
You might really have to look to see it 🤪
#UrbanNature #Birds
#Woodpecker #Toronto
#Necropolis
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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cascoclauda.bsky.social
how it feels to be a short king transmasc approaching a tall beautiful woman
still from 'prehistoric planet' showing the sexual dimorphism in the extinct giant moa, where the females are over twice the size of the males
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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ausarchosaur.bsky.social
Here, have some megafauna with names that start with O. Olorotitan and Ocnotherium (the latter is the ground sloth in the foreground).
Prehistoric Planet Art by Paleo-Lee
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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jhmsparky.bsky.social
We fly home tomorrow, so sad. Our last new Costa Rica bird was a Hudsonian Whimbrel, which is my first since they were split from their Eurasian cousins. Panama Beach, Guanacaste, Costa Rica #birding
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
You could go to the tropics to see wild parrots, or you could go to, say, Pasadena 🦜🦜🦜
A photo of three green parrots in a tree, against a blue sky.
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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justagirl52.bsky.social
Bluesky #fungifriends have a very nice peaceful day on this #MossyMonday.
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
This octopus is giving real "leaning on the door frame with your arm raised" energy.

🥥🐙📷ajhg (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) sitting in an open clam shell. The shell is on its side, so one side is up vertically on the octopus's left, and the other side is behind the octopus. The octopus is facing forward. It has one arm up of the vertical left shell, so it sort of looks like a person raising their arm and leaning on a door frame. It has a fleshy "horn" above each eye, and its is a mist of brown and off white. The shell is white on the inside, light brown on the outside, and purple at the rim. There is an empty snail shell in the back and to the left. There is fine grey sediment on the seafloor.
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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jencross.bsky.social
Pileated Woodpeckers are the largest woodpecker in North America and are nearly the size of a crow. They excavate deep into rotten wood to get at carpenter ant nests and leave behind rectangular holes. This is a female busy looking for food. 🪶
A large black bird with a, black bill, red crest and a white head striped with black through the eye and across the cheek. She is clinging to a dead tree and looking toward with the tree.
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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ivannem.bsky.social
I paired my OM-3 camera with the OM 100–400mm II lens and a 1.4x teleconverter, and now I’m shooting herons handheld at a 560mm focal length 🤯

#photography
#birding
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Who up snackin after dark 👀

(Colonus sylvanus spood with a moth snack)
Small cream/speckly jumping spider dangling by a thread in the dark, with a very large moth snack
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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sblairart.bsky.social
A Great Blue Heron at Padre Island National Seashore strikes a defensive pose as another flies overhead. © Sandra Blair
#birds #photography #heron #greatblueheron #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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albluu.bsky.social
A same-sex Pteranodon pair doing a courtship display 😌
November 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Snail traveling via salamander express — specifically, a Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra) — not something you see every day.

📷 harukano on iNaturalist
📍 Bulgaria
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A brown snail with a cone-shaped shell sits on the head of a black salamander with yellow spots. A brown snail with a cone-shaped shell sits on the head of a black salamander with yellow spots. A brown snail with a cone-shaped shell sits on the head of a black salamander with yellow spots. A brown snail with a cone-shaped shell sits on the head of a black salamander with yellow spots.
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Enjoy this little demon, #Bugsky

At first I thought this was just a small fly, but when I got my macro on it I found this alien creature. I think it's in the genus Poppea, a type of treehopper. Found at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #nature #insects
Close-up macro of a tiny spiny red-and-black insect with horn-like projections and bright red eyes standing on a green leaf.
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM