#Red spotted newt

[delphianactuallydoodling]

Red Spotted Newt (2024) acrylic paint on panel

[forestfeeling]

Literally cried over the first critter

[anim-otd]

Animal of the day: Eastern red-spotted newt! (Notophthalmus viridescens) These small amphibians inhabit the streams and ponds of Eastern North America! They are known for their red eft stage (pictured above) during which they exhibit a bright orange coloration meant to warn predators of their toxicity! They are in fact poisonous, and anything that eats them will subsume their highly potent neurotoxins into its body! Image source: https://mlbs.virginia.edu/organism/notophthalmus_viridescens

[judgeitbyitscover]

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Cover art by Fumi Mini Nakamura

Milkweed Editions, September 2020

As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted—no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape—she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts.

[rainbowtoyspattern]

Red spotted newt 17 " plush crochet salamander, crochet Eastern newt, Red eft toy crochet amphibian

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[samepictureofanewteveryday]

A red-spotted newt

(Image ID: A red-spotted newt standing on what I'd guess is wet pavement)

[long-lost-soul]

my favorite wildlife sightings from recently :]

[sivon-acidwyrm-collections]

What do you mean that a fun mod for Madness: Project Nexus made me create an oc out of a fucking hammerhead worm

Say hi to Mellow.zip...

idk if I want to keep zip as an oc separate from the arena combat lore, because fucked up planarian grunt, but also..... Creature..... To be stuck in a time-loop.... WAIT THAT ALSO MEANS THAT Mellow.zip CAN EXIST SEPARATELY, SINCE PLANARIANS REGENERATE WHILE FRAGMENTED, so yayyy!!!! One Mellow.zip doomed to be in the loop, the rest can freely wander :3

Also look at this silly Bipalium Vagum, also known as Wandering Hammerhead Worm...

[marie-12205]

So i finally finished with bothe older version of ant and sophie along side their daughter kila.i will admit am not super in love with the way i drew them but i wasn't going to redraw them so i kept them like that.

Lets start with ant,ant is a engineer in robotics but also still carries alot on both oceangraphy and marinebiology thanks to his parents and mostly his childhood.when jacques unfortunately passed away he left on his will that the marine sanctuary would be given to his children (will and his sister jenny) but ant wanted his parents to rest after a long life of adventures and he didn't want his parents to carrie that kind of resposablity,so he told them that he and and fontaine would take the sanctuary and become the new owners of the marine santuary.ant and fontaine still used the aronnax but not as much since it mostly used to get to the santuary,rescues,and marine resreach.Fontaine and ant go to the santuary at least 1 entire week, returne on the weekends and stay in their house 1 entire week.the only reason they would stay longer is because of emergencies and important stuff. Unfortunately ant had an accidente while working with some machinery,mostly a piece of metal had stad him on the right arm but luckley it wasn't that deep but he did had to get stitched afterwards.when kila was born he always wanted to always be there for his daughter but he knuw he couldn't abandoned the santuary,so he put a communicator in Kila's crib and he would always talk to her at night until she fell asleep sometimes when ant would check his communicator to see how kila was doing in the middle of the night he would sometimes hear Kila's cooing or snoring in her sleep.

Sophie works in a hospital as a nurse along side her college friend niki who is also a nurse.Sophie is the doctor of the house when ant or kila get sick she always gose and takes care of them but when she is sick ant has to stop her from trying to go to work or from doing any house chores.mostly on the day that ant had his accident she was sent to help assist but nobody had told her she would be assist her husband and when she had arrived to the room and saw ant and his injury she could hardly believe it that she was overwhelmed by the situation she had passed out right infront of him,she did eventually woke up but in a seperate room so she wouldn't get overwhelmed again by her husband state.when ant and Sophie were dating instead of talking on the phone and had given her a communicator and every night they would call each other using the communicator she still has it and keeps in on her nightstand and when she about to go to sleep ant would use his communicator to ask her how she's doing.the day that kila was born sophie had said she had given brith to a copy and paste of a female version of ant since kila ended up looking and acting like her father.

Kila is very much a daddy's girl but in a good way she was very much always with ant but she would sometimes get picky with her parents or other family members and most days would cling on to Sophie rather than ant some days but she has wean from her pickyness over the years as she got older so she alot more sociable with people.kila owns a pet hermit crab name newt and a hermit crab named pearl they both lived together in the same tank and they get along pretty nicely.mostly like ant when he was younger they both loved to bluild thing and ant had teached her many things about robotics and since then she has wanted to be like her father.her grandfather will had given her a locket necklace with the family crest on in.kila has gone on the aronnax several times and she sometimes wishes she could live their like her father did.like ant kila is also super stubborn and hardheaded so when Sophie deals with her she feels like she's dealing with her husbands.unfortunately jeffrey did passed away but ant has always told kila many of his adventures with jeffrey and had showed her many photos of him.kila also has a communicator and she uses to talk to her father when his working.

[swampwizards]

OUTTA THE WAY

Important guy coming through!

[alex51324]

Newts & More!

By popular demand, here are more vacation photos from the "Flora and Fauna" category.

Newt #1:

This one was on the road in the cabin area; his color is so bright that he looks like a toy.

After taking his picture, I returned him to a safe spot beside the road:

These little guys are the efts, or juvenile life stage, of the Eastern (Red Spotted) Newt. The first (larval) and third (adult) stages live in the water, but during this middle stage, which can last several years, they go up on land to explore the streambanks and damp parts of the forest floor.

Second little dude was near the Wolf Rocks overlook, where we went on Wednesday:

He was pretty far from any stream--apparently they can travel quite a bit when it's damp enough for them, which it certainly was. I hope he made it back somewhere nice and moist before it got warm and sunny on Thursday afternoon.

This one we found on Thursday, at the Powder Mill Nature Preserve, next to a little stream called Powder Mill Run. I'm not sure what the little thing on it's side is--could just be a bit of leaf that stuck on there, but I wondered if it's a vestigial bit of gill. (I took this closeup of it because I meant to ask someone at the nature center, but I forgot.)

This one is noticeably less orange than the others! I don't know whether that's an individual variation, or if perhaps this one is older than the others? This is what the adult ones look like:

(Photo: Smithsonian National Zoo; I didn't see any of this stage in person.)

On to flora! Here are some small mushrooms:

Tiny conifers growing in the shade of waist-high ferns:

A pitcher plant--one of Pennsylvania's three carnivorous plant species--growing in the Spruce Flats Bog, a unique high-altitude bog in the park:

The bog is near the summit of Laurel Mountain, which is an unusual place for a bog! High-altitude wetlands are a thing, but apparently this one is scientifically A Bit Weird. Most of the other ones are located at higher latitudes where their formation is explained by glacier activity; according to the park signage, this area is not believed to have been glaciated in the last Ice Age, so it isn't entirely clear how this bog came to be.

Anyway, here's a picture of it:

The trees are not spruces--the name apparently comes from a misidentification by early-19th-century settlers--but I don't remember what kind they actually are. The park has a boardwalk going out maybe 10 or 15 meters--30 or 40 feet--into the bog, so that people can get a good look at the unusual plant life without damaging the fragile ecosystem.

And finally, some Mountain Laurel:

Our state flower, mountain laurel is a shrub that grows up to about two or three times the height of a person, and for a short time in early summer--right about now, in fact!--it's covered in these big clusters of delicate little flowers. The color ranges from white to light pink, and they were everywhere. I guess that's why the marketing term for the region is called the Laurel Highlands!

[forestfeeling]

[chunkula3]

Woe.

Newt be upon you.

[jaserp]

im TRYING to do a local wildlife piece but im having trouble doin my usual outrageous shapes

[cobyrabbit]

Pictures of salamanders I took while at spring break.

[rainbowtoyspattern]

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