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truly cannot overstate how important it is for everyone to do research into local insect species and just try to notice them when you go outside. there are beautiful metallic blue mud dauber wasps where i live and they’re common in the summer but i just never noticed them until this past year. there are so many dragonflies at the local park. in one walk this june i found ebony jewelwing damselflies and an enormous stinkbug and an emerald-coloured tiger beetle and there is honest to god so much beauty in the insect world if you are willing to look for it

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I dont know if there's a bug in the system - I'm getting notes with nothing there and I feel like I am getting ghost notes from the bots that are usually there for me to block...

Ghost bots anyone?

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I just met a man who has been on a life quest for an encyclopedia from before 1960 wherein the entry for Antarctica...he says something like, "the firmament was measured 1300 feet, but you know they took that out because we live on a...." as he walks away he finishes with air quotes:

"globe"

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Epistrophus white morpho butterfly, Morpho epistrophus, Nymphalidae

Found in eastern South America

Photo 1 by ulisesbalza, 2 by jjbonannod, 3 by deboas, 4 by vinicius_s_domingues, 5 by gabrielamsouza, 6 by fredericosonntag, 7 by sitiocandeias, 8 by laura-_-, and 9-10 by calydna

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Cano Cristales is said to be the most beautiful river in the world. It is referred to as the “Liquid Rainbow.” The color is caused by and aquatic plant species called Macarenia Clavigera.   

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RIP Jeremiah Green and his ingenious drumming v.v

For @mrcriscodisco

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Humpback Whale with Ancestors

“Look how much we’ve changed”

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One of the most important things I have learned today..

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the terrifying god saturn putting presents under a christmas tree

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Just discovered while researching Blue Jays for a commission that due to climate change, the Blue Jays' range has been expanding... which has led to instances of hybridization with Steller's Jays as their ranges overlap??

Look at you!! You are so goddamn pretty and cute!?

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A very famous moth, the African death's head hawkmoth :) Named after the skull shape on their back, though honestly i dont care about the skull, i care about the fact that they can SQUEEK!!!

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

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Well done ireland

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The comb says “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” I love that it’s something so obvious but also so deeply human, not a ledger or an inventory, or a grand exhortation, just a “sure hope you work as intended.”

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What popped into my head was "you think these mandibles is just for aesthetics?" Which I believe is a reference from something on tumblr ten years ago...real ones probably know....

*ANGRY BEETLE NOISES*

context: I rolled a log over and found a group of passalids (Odontotaenius disjunctus) so i put them in my hand to take pics. Then I noticed another one on the other side of the log, but that one must’ve been from a different colony because they did not get along

(Virginia, 10/15/21)

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