Vi Greene
undervioletskyes.bsky.social
Vi Greene
@undervioletskyes.bsky.social
North Carolinian student of zoology and primatology, photography enthusiast, fiddler crab lover, opportunistic birder, and nature liker!
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Saw a pair of male Atlantic Sand and Red-Jointed(Minuca minax) Fiddler crabs fighting at the marsh! Saw lots of M. minax aggression, which is high stakes for the other crabs; M. minax has developed the ability to eat their peacefulish cousins!
#wildlife #Northcarolina #obx #nature #crabs #marsh
June 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
okay I'm bored have a fiddler crab on the house
June 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Finally getting around to posting some of the crab shots from last week! Here is Uca/Leptuca pugilator, the Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab!! I love these lil dudes SO MUCH! At Cedar Point Tideland Trail, NC!

#NC #OuterBanks #wildlifephotography #crabs #nature #invertebrates #crab #naturephotography
June 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Went down to coast (Swansboro/Outer Banks) and got a TON of crab photos, but I think I'm gonna start it off with a Carolina Saddlebags (Tramea carolina)! Shiny lil bud

#NC #nature #insects #wildlife #wildlifephotography #dragonflies
June 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Today I was at the coast photographing crabs and got out of a cyclist's way (i was sitting on a lil bridge thing) and they said "Have a good walk!" and then I said "You too!"
June 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
May 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
he screm

(Green anole, sometimes called the Carolina Chameleon!, #NC) #lizards #reptiles #wildlife
May 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I was today years old when I learned that the Magic Schoolbus was an NSF-funded project.
May 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is me and my dog whenever he insists there is space on the couch. The one on the left was visibly teeter-tottering 😆 From Huntley Meadows, #Virginia.

#wildlife #photo #naturephotography #nature #animals #reptiles #herpetofauna #naturephotos #dcarea
April 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
An extremely vocal Osprey this past month down at Cedar Point Tideland Trail in the #NC #outerbanks! There's usually a full family down there but this buddy was a ways away from their nest, maybe moving out?

#birds #sonyalpha #nature #naturephotography #photo #wildlife #animals #raptors #birdphoto
April 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Mountain Laurel in bloom last May at Poor Mountain Trail, #VA. Took some proper one-lane mountain roads to get there!

#plants #Virginia #BlueRidgeMountains #Mountains #photography #naturephotography #photo #flowers #eastcoast #spring #wildflowers
April 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Despite knowing, intellectually, that waking early enough to catch the birds' dawn chorus will be amazing, it still manages to breathe new life into me every time I remember to.
April 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Coming out of hibernation to share this; Needlerush at the salt marsh. Taken on Hoop Pole Nature Trail on the #outerbanks a while back. When you look into it in person, the visual noise kills all sense of depth, it's really quite mesmerizing.

#nature #photography #NC #naturephotography #plants
April 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Dropped my phone 3 inches today and now the right 1/4 of the screen is a light blue rectangle so if y'all could please stick to haiku-length lines that would be al peak.
November 20, 2024 at 8:03 PM
I keep clicking on pls profiles to see more of their stuff, forgetting I have done so, and later wondering why what I think is my home feed has so much of one person's stuff
November 20, 2024 at 12:57 PM
OH also morning science thingyy!!!! Aye-ayes, a type of freaky lil lemur dude (a scientific term), do echolocation, but in wood! They tap on a tree and listen closely and can tell from how the sound waves interact if there's an insect bored in that piece of the tree; it's called percussive foraging!
November 20, 2024 at 11:38 AM
It's #Oldworkwednesday, so here's a shot I took probably in '21, '20, back before I switched from my PixPro to a DSLR, and when I was still very much learning! This was taken at Cedar Point Tideland Trail, NC.

Love when nature presents comical little tableaus like this.

#photography
November 20, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Science fact of the morning time! Marsh periwinkles (a kind of snail) DO LIKE LEGIT FARMING BEHAVIOR. they eat fungus, but most of the time you see them on salt grass blades, where there is none. So they scrape open the grass, "drop" fungal spores into the wound, AND EAT THE FUNGUS THAT GROWS IN IT
November 19, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Fell asleep on the couch and woke up this morning to find my dog's face ~4 inches from mine, illuminated only by the TV light. I made a very brave noise. /j
November 19, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Sciencey fact of the afternoon: fiddler crabs can see the polarization of light, making harder for birds to blend in with the sky (since light from the sky has a different polarization than light bounced off the ground)! They do this by having compound eye segments polarized in alternate directions!
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Fun sciencey fact of the day: ring tailed lemurs have spurs on their wrists, which then have many tiny tubes leading from the spur surface to the skin below. The skin excretes oils and stuff, which moves through those tubes, and then the lemur rubs the spur on its tail to get proper stinky.
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
This #cute harbor seal is a pinniped (group w/ #seals, sea lions, walruses, etc) that lives in northern ocean waters. They've tons of cold-water adaptations, including SPECIALLY HEATED WHISKERS. Whiskers need to be warm to work; here's how they do it: (thread) (1/3)
#marinelife #wildlife #funfacts
November 18, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Hi all! Just joining #bluesky and LOVING IT!!! I'm a student and amateur photographer, and hope to post cool #science stuffs here!! I have a special interest in fiddler crabs and salt marshes!
This #bird is a Red-and-Green Macaw I saw this weekend, who nanoscopically manipulate light! (thread)
November 17, 2024 at 5:59 PM