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Benoit Blanc
@factsnotfiction.bsky.social
Political detective. True crime. Psychology.

💯 against fascism

National parks‼️

Turned my yard into native plant and monarch butterfly habitat. Plant milkweed🌱. Plant nectar sources 🌻. #GrowMeadowsNotLawns #NativePlants #Permaculture
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What is this all about? 😲
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My spring wildflowers reseeded and are sprouting in fall to get ready for spring.

#CaliforniaNativePlants

Birds-eye Gillia, Lacy Phacellia, Elegant Clarkia, and California Poppy
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I want to know who did this
October 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Who did this? 🤬

#ReleaseTheFiles
October 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A new species to my yard. The purplish copper on great valley gumweed

#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#Butterflies
#bugsky
October 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I have only seen 2 of my favorite butterflies this year. Thats 2 more than last year. So thankful to see any. A little tattered

The common Buckeye on rabbit brush

#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#Butterflies
#Bugsky
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
September 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A carpenter bee clinging to a passion flower, which will close around it when it gets dark and create a perfect little bed. #Bugsky #NativePlants
September 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Seed pods of the endangered and endemic Hibiscus lasiocarpos (California Hibiscus - Hairy-fruited Hibiscus)

#CaliforniaNativePlants
September 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A gulf fritillary caterpillar hitching a ride on my hat. Lol

#bugsky
#butterflies
September 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Visitors in my #CaliforniaNativePlants garden.

Late arrival orb weaver, a kadydid and a furrow (sweat) bee.
August 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Visitors in the #CaliforniaNativePlants garden today. Male California mantis on sacred datura, Grey hairstreak on CA Goldenrod and a skipper on Coyote Brush. 🦋🌱🦟

#NativePlants
#BugSky
#PollinatorGarden
August 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I still find weeds here and there in my #CaliforniaNativePlants garden but year 3 after removing my lawn, I'm finding that #NativePlants are volunteering via seeds💚🌱

Desert globemallow, CA wildrose, western redbud (i dont grow this, welcome), western vervain.
August 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I decided to grow some of these straight Zinnia species this year (zinnia peruviana, native to Arizona as well as the Americas) and I just got my first Bloom. It's the little yellow guy on the bottom. Put the other zinnia in for size comparison. Cute! 💛

#NativePlants 🌱
August 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I raise some gulf fritillary butterflies to save them from the European paper wasps and they mate seconds after I release them....🦋#BugSky
August 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Bladdarpod is surviving the central valley heat. First flowers. Planted in spring. I pinched and pinched and pinched for the bushy appearance

#CaliforniaNativePlants
August 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ok #BugSky, what are these?
August 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Seek app identified my green rug 🤣🌱🍄‍🟫 🍄 Will have to look up "puffballs" 🤣
August 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I did some deadheading on my cobweb thistle and threw the flowers on the ground. They looked like the first photo when I threw them on the ground and then made seeds anyway, second photo. So cool. Remind me of milkweed seeds.

#CaliforniaNativePlants
August 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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August 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM