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This distinctively warty lichen is Melanohalea exasperata (with several friends) on a lushly populated oak twig.

It can be tricky to find as it mostly grows high up in the tree canopy - so far I've only enountered it on branches that have recently fallen to the ground.

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𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

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Get his ass

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The sushi-shaped isopod is a crustacean like no other.

(Image credit: Aquamarine Fukushima)

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zoology is so fucking funny. what do you mean we’ve never seen a baby great white shark. what do you mean we’ve never documented a single melanistic cougar despite it being entirely possible. I dunno man. Anyways a new amphipod was just discovered 92639273947294729 meters beneath the sea

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Walasse Ting, Grasshoppers, 1964

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weevil 380

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Yesterday 21/01/24 I went and practiced German in spoons for like two hours cam home and re dyed my hair and dyed up till 1 am playing cult of the lamb

Today 22/01/24

I’ve put on another load of washing I’ve done the washing up taken the bins out I desperately need to clean the bathroom after my friend destroyed it dying her hair yesterday some how there’s pink dye everywhere but ngl I just wanna play cult of the lambs but I’ll use it as a reward

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Giant Siphonophores really out here doing the most, and somehow also the least

Love to sea it

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I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

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Well, I got so carried away by writing The Everyday Naturalist manuscript tonight that I didn't even realize that it was coming up on midnight. In spite of the fact that I didn't get started until around 6pm after all my various other errands, tasks, and so forth were done, I managed to knock out 3,232 words. The chapter on slime molds, lichens, and other oddities is almost done, and the manuscript now stands at 52,582. My plans for heading to Portland have been put on hold at least until things thaw out in the mountains, so I'm sticking around home tomorrow and giving myself another dedicated writing day.

In the meantime, here: have a photo of some nifty chocolate tube slime molds (Stemonitis splendens.)

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Before life on our planet exploded in diversity, Earth was once a 'wormworld', dominated by wriggling tube-shaped creatures. One of the earliest rulers of this ancient animal kingdom – a giant carnivorous worm – has now been found in fossil form. More than 518 million years ago, the roughly 30-centimeter-long critter would have been one of the largest existing swimming animals. Its relatively gigantic jaws, long antennae, and rippling fins would have made it a formidable enemy.

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midge resting amongst Trichia decipiens

by Jeremy Lintott

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17/01/24

I have kept up with what I said I cleaned my whole room put on the washing cleaned out all my clothes and sorted through them.

Tomorrow I aim to clean the front room and keep doing loads of washing till I’m done I’ll empty out the fridge of stuff we don’t want

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I’m gonna try to be productive but aiming to do at least one task every day extra like on top of everything I’m doing because I feel like I’m going through life doing nothing all day everyday other than getting high doing exams and eating because I’m lonely

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Groundselbush Beetle (Trirhabda bacharidis), larva, family Chrysomelidae, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

photograph by Efram Goldberg