Nimblenewt
@nimblenewt.bsky.social
🇨🇦Nature nerd by the Salish Sea. Lichen enthusiast; nudibranchs, liverworts, tiny mushrooms, seaweed, plankton, authors and cats. Also amphibians! And invertebrates...
(Note: any newt-handling photos are only to remove them from roads or other dangers.)
(Note: any newt-handling photos are only to remove them from roads or other dangers.)
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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A few weeks ago I attended the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival. I went as someone who is interested in most everything in the world, lives in a wet, fungi filled temperate rainforest, and is mostly ignorant about fungi. Here are some things I learned:
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
A few weeks ago I attended the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival. I went as someone who is interested in most everything in the world, lives in a wet, fungi filled temperate rainforest, and is mostly ignorant about fungi. Here are some things I learned:
Passiflora quadrangularis throwing out a hidden slightly mangled flower at floor level - I found it via the pretty fragrance, it filled the greenhouse. The photo doesn't do it justice, potting soil on the sensor again. My favorite weirdo giant flower/ anemone mimic! It's about 15cm across.
#botany
#botany
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Passiflora quadrangularis throwing out a hidden slightly mangled flower at floor level - I found it via the pretty fragrance, it filled the greenhouse. The photo doesn't do it justice, potting soil on the sensor again. My favorite weirdo giant flower/ anemone mimic! It's about 15cm across.
#botany
#botany
we're snailposting, post your snails!
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
we're snailposting, post your snails!
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This would work for lichen and moss also? Or seaweed? Or cool beach pebbles!
Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This would work for lichen and moss also? Or seaweed? Or cool beach pebbles!
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A CME has arrived! There is a sharp spike in magnetic field data, and Bt is near 20 nT currently. Bz is trending negative, but it may oscillate around since the CME has just impacted. We'll see if conditions get more intense, but for now, mid-latitude chasers should paying attention now.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
A CME has arrived! There is a sharp spike in magnetic field data, and Bt is near 20 nT currently. Bz is trending negative, but it may oscillate around since the CME has just impacted. We'll see if conditions get more intense, but for now, mid-latitude chasers should paying attention now.
Darn it! I meant to post this on Hallowe'en - a huge lichen with a sinister expression! At Esquimalt lagoon, 3ft from the high tide line, next to the invasive green crab ID sign. I like its jaunty toupée.
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Darn it! I meant to post this on Hallowe'en - a huge lichen with a sinister expression! At Esquimalt lagoon, 3ft from the high tide line, next to the invasive green crab ID sign. I like its jaunty toupée.
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
Everything interesting in one article!
Some stinkbugs’ legs carry a mobile fungal garden
A dedicated organ grows the fungus, which deters parasitic wasps.
arstechnica.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Everything interesting in one article!
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POCKET OWL
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
POCKET OWL
A boulevard Beech tree brightening this grey day. It's searing my eyes with colour!
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A boulevard Beech tree brightening this grey day. It's searing my eyes with colour!
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“Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?”
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?”
Shout out to the bluesky slime mold photographers tonight, everyone's finds had me grinning with fascination and delight! If anyone is feeling glum their multitudinous manifestations are an excellent way to relight your spirit with the wonderous glow of the universe.
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Shout out to the bluesky slime mold photographers tonight, everyone's finds had me grinning with fascination and delight! If anyone is feeling glum their multitudinous manifestations are an excellent way to relight your spirit with the wonderous glow of the universe.
Next year's Sarracenia feature pots at work had a late season burst of growth and are looking peppy in the low autumn light. I filled in tbe bare spots with lichens that blew down in the storm, with anti-wind-gust twigs for support; putting them out on display, for fun, for the last frost free days.
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Next year's Sarracenia feature pots at work had a late season burst of growth and are looking peppy in the low autumn light. I filled in tbe bare spots with lichens that blew down in the storm, with anti-wind-gust twigs for support; putting them out on display, for fun, for the last frost free days.
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Insane substorm happening now over Toolik Lake, Alaska (above the Arctic Circle)!
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Insane substorm happening now over Toolik Lake, Alaska (above the Arctic Circle)!
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We just had a substorm a little bit ago, so it may be an hour or two until we see another burst of activity.
Webcams: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
GOES Mag: go.theauroraguy.com/goesmag
Substorm info: go.theauroraguy.com/substorm
Webcams: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
GOES Mag: go.theauroraguy.com/goesmag
Substorm info: go.theauroraguy.com/substorm
Webcams
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October 31, 2025 at 4:16 AM
We just had a substorm a little bit ago, so it may be an hour or two until we see another burst of activity.
Webcams: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
GOES Mag: go.theauroraguy.com/goesmag
Substorm info: go.theauroraguy.com/substorm
Webcams: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
GOES Mag: go.theauroraguy.com/goesmag
Substorm info: go.theauroraguy.com/substorm
Trying to ID some nifty seaweeds in my new seaweed book, and having the same problem I have when I try to look up a word in a dictionary: I start reading, lose track of time, forget what I was looking up to start with, and then annoy people with weird trivia for the rest of the day.
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Trying to ID some nifty seaweeds in my new seaweed book, and having the same problem I have when I try to look up a word in a dictionary: I start reading, lose track of time, forget what I was looking up to start with, and then annoy people with weird trivia for the rest of the day.
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025
SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025
SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Close-up of a Black Bear on my hillside trail camera from the Spring. I think this is a male, as it's quite large and alone (no cubs). I also caught it from farther away on a nearby trail camera. #bears #wildlifevideo #trailcam #naturevideo #blackbear #parrysound #canada
Parry Sound Hillside Trail Camera: Black bear close-up!
YouTube video by Charles Johnston
www.youtube.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Close-up of a Black Bear on my hillside trail camera from the Spring. I think this is a male, as it's quite large and alone (no cubs). I also caught it from farther away on a nearby trail camera. #bears #wildlifevideo #trailcam #naturevideo #blackbear #parrysound #canada
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Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
The trees kept their leaves through the first storm! Yay for being in the rainshadow of the Olympics, it blunted the wind.
October 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The trees kept their leaves through the first storm! Yay for being in the rainshadow of the Olympics, it blunted the wind.
Wild sky tonight as the front rolls in. Feeling lucky to be in the rain shadow of the Olympic range; up Island they're going to get 140mm in the next few hours, with huge winds. Goodbye bright fall leaves! Hello westcoast storm season.
#SalishSea #BCStorm
#SalishSea #BCStorm
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Wild sky tonight as the front rolls in. Feeling lucky to be in the rain shadow of the Olympic range; up Island they're going to get 140mm in the next few hours, with huge winds. Goodbye bright fall leaves! Hello westcoast storm season.
#SalishSea #BCStorm
#SalishSea #BCStorm
I see Cladonia, so many Cladonia species...with slime molds frothing amongst them! Do I have Licheneidolia?
#fungifriends
#fungifriends
'Avatar Reef' teapot by UK based ceramicist Delfina Emmanuel, who creates work often inspired by marine life #WomensArt
October 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I see Cladonia, so many Cladonia species...with slime molds frothing amongst them! Do I have Licheneidolia?
#fungifriends
#fungifriends
October 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Deep sea residents! Feeding on the gelatinous drifting creatures, very nifty.
#cephalopods #SalishSea
#cephalopods #SalishSea
Rare 'septopus' believed to have been found on shore of B.C.'s Pender Island | CBC News
The creature was discovered in August when Pender Island resident Kathleen Durant was walking her dog and came across what looked like a big, red jellyfish on the beach.
But then, she saw an eye.
www.cbc.ca
October 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Deep sea residents! Feeding on the gelatinous drifting creatures, very nifty.
#cephalopods #SalishSea
#cephalopods #SalishSea