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Squawking

@squawking.bsky.social

Yesterday I mistook this bullseye-shaped fungal leaf spot on hart’s-tongue fern for a leaf miner, so today I searched until I found one, likely a fern-specialist micro-moth larva.

Very scarce compared with the widespread fungal leaf spot.

#fungifriends

Close-up of a hart’s-tongue fern frond showing a round, bullseye-shaped brown fungal leaf spot with darker outer margin and paler centre on the glossy green leaf.

Hart’s-tongue fern frond showing a narrow, winding serpentine leaf mine within the leaf tissue, with a pale track contrasting against the green surface.

January 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM

Big Meadow Search

@bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social

Black Spleenwort, Asplenium adiantum-nigrum. Triangular frond shape, typically up to 25cm long. 2-3 pinnate. Dark brown-black stipe. Linear sori

January 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM

Evan May

@gianttourtiere.bsky.social

I'm sorry, frond.

The world is a butt.

January 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM

MobiQuotes

@mobiquotes.bsky.social

El remanso de airebajo la rama del eco.El remanso del aguabajo fronda de luceros.El remanso de tu bocabajo espesura de besos.*The still waters of the airunder the bough of the echo.The still waters of the waterunder a frond of stars.The still waters of your mouthunder a thicket of k

January 8, 2026 at 7:29 AM

Daniel Golson

@dsgolson.bsky.social

Living in near-constant fear of being killed by a falling palm frond was not something I expected to have to deal with in my life

January 8, 2026 at 5:40 AM

EarthSky

@earthskyscience.bsky.social

You never know what you'll see when you look up! Teresa Raines in Buckeye, Arizona, captured this great view of a #moon halo, #Orion and #Jupiter on Sunday. Jupiter is peeking through the top tree frond. Thank you, Teresa! 🌕🌌🌴🔭📸
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Looking upward at 4 palm trees at night. A bright white spot, the moon, is above one of the trees and has a diffuse ring around it.

January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM

Premee Mohamed

@premeemohamed.com

Timeline cleanse: throwback to the summer of '24 when Fiasco met my frond @katelechler.bsky.social and was immediately like "TIME 4 GROOM NEW FRIEND DIS IS PROSOCIAL BEHAVUR"

a fluffy grey tabby on the top level of a beige carpeted cat tree, licking the head of a person standing next to him with short blonde hair (it does sort of look like a bite but it was not, i swear)

a fluffy grey tabby on the top level of a beige carpeted cat tree, licking the head of a person standing next to him with short blonde hair (lick lick, proper this time)

January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM

encountersltd

@encountersltd.bsky.social

"Somebody Has Sabatoged the Power in My Own Home"
Acrylic paint and acrylic marker on canvas, 2025-2026

A small canvas about 7 inches long and 5 inches wide, is covered throughout by a bluish-black coat that is intentionally slightly uneven and somewhat messy on the edges. From the right edge of this scene, an anxious, armless cartoon creature walks in, timidly clutching a lit flashlight in their frowning zig-zag mouth. This creature also sports a blue pallor, a somewhat long and rectangular head/body, striped legs ending in fin or frond-like feet, three ears like a cat's, freckles, and an antenna sprouting from their leftmost ear. From their flashlight emits a host of various shapes, dots, lines, and patterns, that all come together to form a golden ray of light.

January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM

Emma Lewis

@petchary.bsky.social

Unsettled weather, suits my mood.

Grey sky with gathering clouds and a palm
tree frond in the lower corner.

January 7, 2026 at 9:21 PM

UN CORAZON DIGITAL Stephen Ray Garza

@stephenrgarza.bsky.social

Fuck it, I'll do it while waiting for the doctor.

Frond and back.dash cam deal on woot. Free shipping if you have Amazon prime and you log in via Amazon at checkout.

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January 7, 2026 at 8:37 PM

Sizzlin' Snakes

@taphonomenon.bsky.social

Dryptosaurus aquilunguis

#pencildrawing #paleoart #dinosaur

Dryptosaurus aquilunguis side view. Next to it is a palm frond

January 7, 2026 at 7:48 PM

jan hayashi (me)

@sailracer808.bsky.social

On my beach walk this morning, saw this and thought it was some kind of mythical creature!

Was just a planted, upright palm frond.

January 7, 2026 at 4:27 PM

Stone Cold Jane Austen

@abbyhiggs.bsky.social

Any single palm trees out there looking to go on a date?? Asking for a frond…

January 7, 2026 at 3:12 AM

Blue ÖSHA Cult

@toytowns.bsky.social

Mr frond from
Bobs burgers is my type

January 7, 2026 at 12:34 AM

Un oeil sur la Terre

@unoeilsurlaterre.bsky.social

[January 7, 2026 - Photo of the Day]

🇬🇹 Photo taken on November 7, 2018.

Ferns reproduce via spores, often in sori on frond undersides. This thrives in humid cloud forests like Biotopo del Quetzal. 🌿

https://unoeilsurlaterre.com/en/guatemala-2018/biotopo-del-quetzal#20314

January 6, 2026 at 11:02 PM

Ruurd Jansen

@ruurd.bsky.social

The Bevis Frond is heel tof! Gezien op Roadburn.

January 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM

Brenna

@iamowls.bsky.social

Finally have the 3rd (and last) book of the series.

#booksky #emilywilde #heatherfawcett

Book Title: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
Author: Heather Fawcett
Cover is a pale pink with lavender mushrooms to the bottom left, a snail on top of a green book stacked on a purple book on the bottom, 2 pink mushrooms, 3 magenta flowers, a sewing need, and purple thread and a button to the bottom right, yellow and purple bell flowers to the middle left, a long green fern frond to the middle right, and a green leaved ivy with yellow flowers, purple buttons, 2 sewing needles, and yellow thread to the top.

January 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM

TINY

@tinydragon.art

Also look at this festive fern frond friend!

January 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM

paulschwarte.bsky.social

@paulschwarte.bsky.social

Heb even de Bevis Frond disco doorgewerkt en de popsongs in een hitlijst gesleept (Nick Saloman heeft ook een Hendrix/psych-kant). Het debuut was een grote hit in Groningen in '87 via de Vera Krant. Een hometape-plaat gemaakt middels verzekeringsgeld na een ongeluk. open.spotify.com/playlist/3SR...

Spotify – Web Player

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January 6, 2026 at 12:03 PM