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Bert

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Without downloading new pictures, describe your gender

November 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

If you know you know. If you don't, sorry.

#wildgreenmemesforecologicalfiends

Tetrapod with text taken from a badly made house ornament that says BEACH... Bscape Enyone Aan Can Have

November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Meta AI can recognise a good doggo when it sees one...

A wolf spider. Meta AI helpfully offering advice on how to identify the breed and age of the dog

October 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

The lost exciting photos of basically nothing I've ever taken. Look super closely for the Hesperilla flavescens, yellowish sedge skipper butterfly (critically endangered) on the Gahnia filum that is their obligate habitat.

Washpool Lagoon. Aldinga CP. Kaurna. SA

#entomology #bushcare #nature

A big sedge in a large wetland. There's also a tiny critically endangered butterfly somewhere in the leaves. Don't be surprised if you can't see it, it's tiny and camouflaged

The triangle in the middle is Hesperilla flava, yellowish sedge skipper butterfly. There's about two dozen in this wetland, and a couple of hundred across the entire range

October 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Ever wondered what the senator with the most absences from parliament last year does with all her free time?

Answer, make crappy rage bait at the taxpayers' expense.

October 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

I hate the fucking #AlgalBloom

Chelmonops curiosus (the western talma, squareback butterflyfish or truncate coralfish)

Scobinichthys granulatus also known as the Rough leatherjackets is a species of filefish native to the coastal waters of southern Australia

Thamnaconus degeni (Bluefin Leatherjacket)

September 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM

Bert

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Little guy decided to remind me it's becoming reptile season just in time that when I almost stood on an Eastern Brown moment later I only slightly overeacted

Tiliqua rugosa impersonating a bumpy stick. Some green ground covers. White limestone hill side.

September 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Starting a petition to change the name of Goodenias to Bestenias because naming them after someone named Goodenough just isn't good enough

Cool little plant with bright yellow bilaterally symmetrical flower

Cool little plant with bright yellow bilaterally symmetrical flower and scale bar

September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

That feeling when you get a new worksite and it's incredibly steep with loose limestone so it's hard to walk or use a chainsaw, and you have to tiptoe through a critically endangered paper daisy that's spread through the site. ☺️

Panaetia muelleri, Kauna Yerta

#nature #NativePlants #CoastalEcology

Tiny yellow daisy with inflorescence on very thin stalk

September 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Why are Myrmecia the most photographic of ants?

Myrmecia rufinoides. Kangaroo Island, SA

A very large ant that wants to eat my camera on a termite mound

September 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

My gorgeous little friend here, Pultenaea insulara, is at risk of extinction due to casual neglect, swallowed by weeds, road and fence line widening, broken fire patterns and browsing by macropods. We need a real EPBC act that forces and funds action for threatened plants. @albomp.bsky.social

September 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Working in ecological restoration is so good for the soul because most days I pack up after work I can see a tiny (or not so tiny)corner of the world I've made a little bit better

September 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM

Bert

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Have a problem that needs one of at least 74 practicing shark researchers to comment on. We know olives don't have Ampullae of Lorenzini, but can Lorenzini store olives in an ampulla?

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Screenshot of nonsense about olives and smooth sharks from Wild Green Memes

September 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Lichen subscribe... Ralph Illidge Reserve Victoria

August 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM

Bert

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Is it too late or too early for #SundewSunday ?

August 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM

Bert

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Murray-Sunset National Park, Lake Becking, no sunset photos as I was still driving... So quiet, almost spooky

Tiny white and purple flowers. Genus Wurmea, Early Nancy

August 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM

Bert

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This entire timeline is a @christopherbrown.bsky.social novel

Cover image of Christopher Brown's novel Failed State

August 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Looks like Damnation Alley (1977)

August 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Another day wandering around slowly trying to get my hip to behave

August 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM

Bert

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Back was sore so I went for a forest walk. Ended up hunched over crawling on the pine needles... Pterostylis and Corybas in bloom

#orchids #nativeplants #pterostylis #corybas

August 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM

Bert

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Doing the Lord's work (translating wild green memes into Australian english)

#wgmfef #wildgreenmemes #grass #sedges #rush #plants #nature #australia #botany #ecology

Cross sections of a sedge with text "sedges have edges", a rush with "rushes are round", and a grass "and grasses like arses, have holes". The "r" in "arses" is a different font and misaligned to appear jammed in. The entire image is upside down if viewed from the northern hemisphere

August 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM

Bert

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For these purposes bugs can include myriapods, arachnids, small verts, and flies

Austrian House Centipede chilling in dirt

Out of focus trapdoor or wishbone spider on secateurs (yes seckies are dirty please don't judge me, not used for garden pruning but as general woody weed tool, if I'm cutting a plant it has bigger worries than plant pathogens)

Tiny fly or huge thumb. No banana for scale

August 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Bert

@coffeeslot.bsky.social

Was anyone going to tell me that liverworts could make little umbrellas, or did I have crawl around on a hillside myself?

Asterella drummondii
Kaurna Yerta

#nature #moss #bushcare #liverwort #mutualism