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Native succulent, San Juan Island

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going for that 70s čsr hobby book about cactus but with way too good film

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16.3.25

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a beautiful smorgasbord for the lichen lovers

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dude lichens on a coastline will just look like this and nobody says anything and the trees will just drop full branches that look like this into the mcdonalds parking lot and STILL nobody says anything. the ramalina in the first pic has praying mantis geometry. its just alien flora moments like i just dont know what to say about branches like this

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Lobaria anthraspis

Dimpled specklebelly

I have been saving this lichen for a special occasion because I am so incredibly in love with her that I haven't wanted to free her from my drafts folder. But today is the day. This gorgeous weirdo is a tripartite (has both a green algae AND a cyanobacteria as photobionts) foliose lichen which grows only in the cold, humid forests of western North America. It has leathery, reticulated lobes which vary in color from dark brown (melanized) to gray blue to olive green in color. It produces lots of apothecia which also vary in color from orange to red to brown to black. Like other Lobarias, L. anthraspis prefers old-growth, isolated forests far away from pollution and disturbance. So my current retirement plan is to wander into the forest and settle wherever I find her and live out the rest of my life in peace and joy (the rest of my life not being very long due to the harsh winters of the region, but at least I will go out happy in the presence of the one I love).

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Lituites hiding from a eurypterid

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probably one of the nicest looking moths I've found yet, Joseph's Coat Moth! I'm back from a trip to the northern tropics, and the wildlife did not disappoint.

Joseph's Coat Moth (Agarista agricola).

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The clear autumn sky is reflected in the blue wake of the lake sliced by a moulting smew, Mergellus albellus, came from the north.

北からやってきた換羽中のミコ��イサの切り裂く湖の航跡は、秋晴れの空を映して青く染まる。

Nagano Pref. 長野県 2023-11-22

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Xylena vetusta | Les Papillons dans la Nature (1934) | Paul-André Robert (1901-1977)

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I am leaving now. I am required elsewhere

two seconds of a Pystira ephippigera glitch-stepping away from me. Singapore, 2023

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a very creative spider decided to wave a 3d model of a mountain

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hey it's the moominhouse

he's living there

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All the different stages of Tawny grisette (Amanita fulva), on Dartmoor today! 23/07/2023

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“Hausa building with molded low-relief decoration, Zaria, Nigeria.”

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Welcome - Speak in Korean (Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1989)

Purchased in Pyongyang, DPRK in February 2019

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i’ve discovered a website that has easily the best dachshund images i’ve ever seen. i’m starting a collection

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Adult male Phidippus Putnami

Another set in my series of recently prepped macro. Possibly my favorite species of jumping spider. The very first Phidippus i ever shot was a stark white adult female Putnami that was living in my garden at the time and would hang out on my wooden handrail. Those first few sessions with her led to years of catching, raising, housing, photographing, and learning everything I can about Salticidae - and the Phidippus species in particular.