Erin LK McKay
@quailinthecity.bsky.social
the woods, art, food, science, and bugs.... Mostly bugs 🐾🪶🌈🍄🏴☠️🧸🦒🐦⬛🐜🪲🐝🦋🐞🪰🦂🪳🕷️🐛🦐
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Erin LK McKay
@quailinthecity.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Redirecting my social from Instagram to here! Quick intro: Eugene Oregon / CDA Idaho area; loves animals (especially bugs), nature, art, community, gardening, and all things outdoors!
Made (improved) a bunny suit, built a balloon arch. Easter over. 🐇 🐣 #easterbunny #balloons
April 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Made (improved) a bunny suit, built a balloon arch. Easter over. 🐇 🐣 #easterbunny #balloons
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if you tried to pitch A Bug’s Life today Disney would chop you up and feed you to Bob Iger
February 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
if you tried to pitch A Bug’s Life today Disney would chop you up and feed you to Bob Iger
youtu.be/Vq_BxPC1Aw4?... mmmmmhhh miss the past. I love a girl w a sense of adventure I love a girl w a dynamite temper I love a girl w a scar and a car and a dress that matches the both of them.
075 - The Whiskers - Ornithopters
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February 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
youtu.be/Vq_BxPC1Aw4?... mmmmmhhh miss the past. I love a girl w a sense of adventure I love a girl w a dynamite temper I love a girl w a scar and a car and a dress that matches the both of them.
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Check out this camo! It took me a minute to find the eyes and the abdomen and connect all the parts. Read the alt text for extra hints. Amazing! #inverts
One more from my Borneo archives, because frankly, living in the past seems like a good idea right now. See the grasshopper? Look for the "holes" in the leaf - they're actually solid but transparent exoskeleton. I've shared this before elsewhere, but I don't think here. Even if, worth a re-post. 🐙🌿📷
February 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Check out this camo! It took me a minute to find the eyes and the abdomen and connect all the parts. Read the alt text for extra hints. Amazing! #inverts
Yay! No more hoping the chickens are ok when I go on vacation. No more house sitters every day. Stoked to finally have an automatic chicken coop door! 🐔
January 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Yay! No more hoping the chickens are ok when I go on vacation. No more house sitters every day. Stoked to finally have an automatic chicken coop door! 🐔
Garden Prep. Taking advantage of the cold clear weather before Oregon rains for 3 months. I think the kiddo will enjoy it, added a covered area to hang out while they play.
#gardening #gardensky #ediblelandscape #babyhelper #baby #gardenbed #companionplanting #oregon
#gardening #gardensky #ediblelandscape #babyhelper #baby #gardenbed #companionplanting #oregon
January 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Garden Prep. Taking advantage of the cold clear weather before Oregon rains for 3 months. I think the kiddo will enjoy it, added a covered area to hang out while they play.
#gardening #gardensky #ediblelandscape #babyhelper #baby #gardenbed #companionplanting #oregon
#gardening #gardensky #ediblelandscape #babyhelper #baby #gardenbed #companionplanting #oregon
Set up my bug zoo last week for a community showing of Bug's Life by Eugene's Housing and Neighborhood Defence group.
Everyone was super curious and excited! I accidentally set the table up backwards; usually I don't put the spicy critters at the front 😂
#bugs #environmentaleducation #arthropods
Everyone was super curious and excited! I accidentally set the table up backwards; usually I don't put the spicy critters at the front 😂
#bugs #environmentaleducation #arthropods
January 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Set up my bug zoo last week for a community showing of Bug's Life by Eugene's Housing and Neighborhood Defence group.
Everyone was super curious and excited! I accidentally set the table up backwards; usually I don't put the spicy critters at the front 😂
#bugs #environmentaleducation #arthropods
Everyone was super curious and excited! I accidentally set the table up backwards; usually I don't put the spicy critters at the front 😂
#bugs #environmentaleducation #arthropods
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The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
December 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
December 22, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Beach Day 🌊 the Oregon coast was beautiful for the darkest days of the year. It was our kiddo's first time playing at the ocean and he loved it! Happy Solstice 💕
December 22, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Beach Day 🌊 the Oregon coast was beautiful for the darkest days of the year. It was our kiddo's first time playing at the ocean and he loved it! Happy Solstice 💕
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A Trek Through the Mountains 🏔️
December 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
A Trek Through the Mountains 🏔️
@hellbendermuseum.bsky.social can't wait to paint! My partner just got his 3D printer and this is By Far the best present I could imagine, Thanks! 💕 Little embarrassing fact; when I was lil I always said 'ordament' with confidence until I saw the word written. Anyone else have a total oops word?
December 13, 2024 at 10:34 AM
@hellbendermuseum.bsky.social can't wait to paint! My partner just got his 3D printer and this is By Far the best present I could imagine, Thanks! 💕 Little embarrassing fact; when I was lil I always said 'ordament' with confidence until I saw the word written. Anyone else have a total oops word?
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There's still time!
It's about that time of year- time to remind you all you can get your FREE christmas grub STL for 3D printing from either my MyMiniFactory or Cults3D pages. Enjoy and if you print one, I'd love to see pics! 🐡
December 12, 2024 at 6:32 PM
There's still time!
Haunting. It's so common to be surrounded by knee-jerk reactions and agenda-based rhetoric that clear reporting is a treat that leaves the listener examining other inputs being blasted their way. Thanks @iwriteok.bsky.social I did miss the btb crude jokes and gas station fueled side rants
December 12, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Haunting. It's so common to be surrounded by knee-jerk reactions and agenda-based rhetoric that clear reporting is a treat that leaves the listener examining other inputs being blasted their way. Thanks @iwriteok.bsky.social I did miss the btb crude jokes and gas station fueled side rants
Rally hopes your Saturday is full of emotional support 'babas'! Happy rescue pup loves her toys #dogsky #dog #rescuedog #pets #puppy
December 7, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Rally hopes your Saturday is full of emotional support 'babas'! Happy rescue pup loves her toys #dogsky #dog #rescuedog #pets #puppy
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Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
November 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
I'm really impressed with these lil lampeyes, tons of character in such a tiny fish!
December 4, 2024 at 7:41 AM
I'm really impressed with these lil lampeyes, tons of character in such a tiny fish!
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Pom-Pom Crab! (Lybia Tessellata) 🦀
- Also known as the Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab!
- These guys tend to carry sea anemones in each claw, resembling pom-poms!
- They use these anemones against predators, threatening them with the stinging tentacles.
- Very colorful!!
#crab #crustaceans
- Also known as the Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab!
- These guys tend to carry sea anemones in each claw, resembling pom-poms!
- They use these anemones against predators, threatening them with the stinging tentacles.
- Very colorful!!
#crab #crustaceans
October 26, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Pom-Pom Crab! (Lybia Tessellata) 🦀
- Also known as the Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab!
- These guys tend to carry sea anemones in each claw, resembling pom-poms!
- They use these anemones against predators, threatening them with the stinging tentacles.
- Very colorful!!
#crab #crustaceans
- Also known as the Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab!
- These guys tend to carry sea anemones in each claw, resembling pom-poms!
- They use these anemones against predators, threatening them with the stinging tentacles.
- Very colorful!!
#crab #crustaceans
First successful diy practical 3d print! Bought a 15gal elevated bin for a chicken feeder and after fiddling with some old school solutions was able to make a part that fit perfect on the first try, felt so good. TechnoFarming #3dprinting #chickens #backyardfarmer #diy
December 2, 2024 at 4:56 AM
First successful diy practical 3d print! Bought a 15gal elevated bin for a chicken feeder and after fiddling with some old school solutions was able to make a part that fit perfect on the first try, felt so good. TechnoFarming #3dprinting #chickens #backyardfarmer #diy
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I still laugh every time I think about this painting. It was so much fun to do. The domino cockroach actually mimics the beetle Anthia sexguttata, not a domino.
November 25, 2024 at 2:19 PM
I still laugh every time I think about this painting. It was so much fun to do. The domino cockroach actually mimics the beetle Anthia sexguttata, not a domino.
I love that wet season in Oregon means a mini mushroom fest right in your own backyard! #mushrooms #fungifriends #mushroomsky #backyardnature
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 AM
I love that wet season in Oregon means a mini mushroom fest right in your own backyard! #mushrooms #fungifriends #mushroomsky #backyardnature
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OTA | Bug Terrarium Mantis 🪲
October 18, 2024 at 5:06 PM
OTA | Bug Terrarium Mantis 🪲