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🌍 Welcome to Nature With Dilyn
I share facts about wildlife, plants, and just general facts about our beautiful planet. Follow for bite-sized nature content!
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TIL that hawk moths pollinate night blooming flowers 🥹🌙

#hawkmoth #moth #biodiversity
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Rainbow lorikeets are beautiful parrots that live in Australia. They’re typically monogamous and mate for life!

#rainbowlorikeet #animals
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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#WorldScienceDay for Peace and Development.

Science lets us understand the wonderful universe we live in.

It allow us to find answers to emerging challenges so we can create a more just and fair global society.

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #ScienceDay #Science

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November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Did you know that 85% of the earth’s bacteria live deep beneath the earth’s surface in rocks, sediments, and aquifers??? #bacteria #nature
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
June beetles get their name from when they’re most active — in June!

#junebeetles #wildlife #nature
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
TIL that invertebrates make up 97% of all animal species!!!!

#invertebrates #animals #biology
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Radiolarians are microscopic ocean drifters with skeletons made of silica! They also happen to be beautiful.

#radiolaria #microbiology
October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Diatoms are incredible and I never even knew about them. They are microscopic algae that make 20-50% of the oxygen on the planet!!!! ✨They also happen to be STUNNING!
#diatoms #microbiology
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tardigrades are also known as water bears or moss piglets and they can survive extreme conditions in many places on planet earth!
#tardigrade #microbiology
October 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Saigas are incredible animals who survived the ice age! They used to live alongside mammoths and saber toothed cats!

#saiga #animals #wildlife
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Jane Goodall will always be one of my top role models. From her groundbreaking discoveries with chimpanzees in Gombe to her lifelong fight for animals, forests, and our shared planet, she worked hard to transform how we see the natural world.

Rest in peace, Jane.

#janegoodall #nature #wildlife
October 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
How to differentiate crocodiles vs alligators:
-U shaped snout for alligators, V shaped snout for crocs
-bottom teeth more visible for crocs
-alligators are usually darker in colour, crocs more tan or green
-crocs are saltwater and freshwater dwellers, alligators are freshwater specialists
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Meet the secretary bird: the bird of prey with an eagle like body and stilts for legs!!
#secretarybird #wildlife #biodiversity
September 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The dumbo octopus 🐙 is a deep sea dweller - often found 3 - 4 km below the surface of the water!!!
#octopus #marinebiology #wildlife
September 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Stoats will sometimes leap, twist, and tumble in an odd dance to distract prey like rabbits before pouncing! 😬
#stoat #biodiversity #conservation
September 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The chambered nautilus is sometimes called a living fossil because it’s barely changed in more than 480 million years - long before dinosaurs were here!

#chamberednautilus #wildlife #biodiversity
September 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Goblin sharks are deep sea dwellers, living 1200 meters below the surface, and can detect electric fields from prey!!! #goblinshark #shark #nature #biodiversity
September 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The Hainan gibbon is the rarest ape on earth with fewer than 40 individuals existing! Fortunately, their numbers have been slowly increasing since the 1970s.
#conservation #wildlife #biodiversity
September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The reddish-gray mouse lemur is a primate but is only about the size of your hand!!!

#reddishgraymouselemur #wildlife #nature
September 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Did you know there is a caterpillar that lives in the arctic and takes up to 7 years to become a moth??? I present to you: the arctic woolly bear moth
#wildlife #moth #caterpillar
September 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Polar cods have proteins in their blood that act like anti-freeze and can live under sea ice at temperatures as low as -2 celcius!!!!
#polarcod #wildlife #biodiversity #nature
September 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Blue whales are the LARGEST documented animal ever on earth!!! This includes when compared with dinosaurs!!!! They are roughly as long as 3 school buses!!!! #bluewhale #wildlife #biodiversity
September 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Komodo dragons are the worlds largest lizard and grow up to 3 meters long, weighing up to 150 lbs!!!!🎉
#komododragon #wildlife #nature
August 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is an Antarctic krill — their digestive system is usually visible and is often green from the microscopic plants they eat!! Can you spot it??
#antarctickrill #nature #wildlife #biodiversity
August 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Meet the staghorn fern - the plant close to being eusocial! They grow in colonies where some fronds are fertile and reproduce, and some are infertile but collect water and nutrients for the rest of the plant!
#plants #eusocial #nature
August 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM