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Destroying invasive plants, giving natives a chance to thrive. Enjoying 🦋 and plant chemistry. Wandering in hardwood hammocks in South Florida. ❤️ Art, lit, travel. Amateur in all.
It a balmy 75°F, and the Keys Blackbead—Pithecellobium keyense—has decided to turn a Miami “landscape” into paradise.
Honeybees and a Hammock Skipper (rare in this hood) revel in a super-abundance of pinkish powderpuffs. #NativePlants #Naturalists #Rewild #Invertebrates #Butterflies #Gardening
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In case you haven’t seen this article, it might be worth looking at. A physician friend shared it recently.
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Faithful Beauty, a day-flying moth, in a Key Largo, FL, coastal hammock preserve today. Thanks to @rmj827.bsky.social for spotting, camera, lens, and 📸processing.
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#Butterflies #Moths #Naturalists #NativePlants #Habitat
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
If you fit into a curled leaf, it makes a dreamy wind shelter.
#SquirrelTreeFrog #Naturalists #Habitat #EvergladesNationslPark #Frogs #SoithFlorida
October 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Today started rainy but turned beautiful (if breezy) for butterfly hunting. In its small, drab way, this Ocola Skipper drinking nectar stole my 💚. What a face.
#Butterflies #Habitat #Rewild #NativePlants #Insects
October 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Ok—you may be too far North, but climate change(?). Here’s Chiococoa parvifolia in a dry/mostly shaded swale in Miami. It has a gentle mounding habit and this one has had beautiful fruit for over two months now:
October 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Hannah Arendt—on civil disobedience, totalitarianism, Eichmann as “the banality of evil”—lately all worth thinking about.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Hope this Ficus counts for #ThickTrunkTuesday.
Deering Estate
Miami
October 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Mangrove habitat by Biscayne Bay, Miami.
October 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Slo-mo of today’s Longtailed Skipper. 💚 It almost looks like a bird here.
#Butterflies #Wildlife #FlowerReport #Gardening #Naturalists
#Bloomscrolling #Miami #NativePlants
October 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Today in our mostly native street-side swale: a Longtailed Skipper drinks from Pentas (exotic). Maybe it hosted on the invasive Desmodium I can’t bring myself to pull (?)
#Butterflies #Wildlife #FlowerReport #Gardening #Naturalists #Bloomscrolling #Miami #NativePlants
October 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Is it possible for a people to value flowers more than the Dutch?
With the Blumenstilleben, flowered brocades, and Delftware vases inside the building, this October garden suggests not.
#Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Gardening #art #nature #Amsterdam #Rijksmuseum 🌷🇳🇱
October 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
October 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One for #ThickTrunkTuesday.
A poplar(?)
Whimsically, a tiny bird house has been placed high on the trunk.
#Beatrixpark #Amsterdam🇳🇱#nature #gardening #Naturalists
September 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Plus coffee.
September 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Glorious cool, foggy morning in an Amsterdam park—if only you could hear so much bird song, chatter, life.
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
From a distance, I thought I was seeing a new species of butterfly. It’s my beloved Giant Swallowtail ovipositing on Zanthoxylum fagara with her entire hind wings bitten off!
September 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I’ve not seen any chatter about it. It’s definitely not weird that when wealthy murders, traitors to the US, and pedophile sex traffickers need defending, a high-profile criminal defense attorney suddenly begins broadcasting the accused’s rights to the best representation, bla, bla.
September 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Case in point:
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Yes! Their eating is described as an arms race in this book that explains their amazing use of the toxins in milkweed.

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September 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Dear Bluesky,

I don’t know what to say—other than thank God you gave us the nuclear block:
September 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Slow-mo of Giant Swallowtail ovipositing on Wild Lime, Zanthoxylum fagara, in a hell strip wildlife garden. Miami’s daily rains bring new growth, and a new wave of Autumn butterflies. This species can use citrus as a host and adapts to the urban-scape.
#gardening #nativeplants #butterflies #rewild
September 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In Miami we have to build cages to give some endangered natives a chance.
August 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM