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I got some adorable stickers and pins from Fossil Forager!

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two wonderful things i saw online today

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quick check in 🤎

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a rehousing for my new Texas Brown, Hermes Costello 💋

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a quick rehouse for my grammastola pulchra 🕷️🛠️

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Two millipedes kissing on a rock ❤️❤️❤️

(Ft. Snolie who is also a bug)

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the true self lives in the false self

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This captures something I don't think I'll ever be able to put in to words.

Oh how I love shaun tan.

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some Meryl for the soul 🤎

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hi i know “don’t believe everything you read on tumblr” has been said enough times at this point in the website’s tenure but i want to specifically say that there is a problem on tumblr and other social media where well-known science enthusiast accounts basically build trust as Knowing Things and then they can say anything they want about those things & everyone just believes them. this is especially a problem among ppl posting about ecology & animal science in my experience.

i’m absolutely throwing stones in my own glass house bc i almost never used to include sources on my wildlife science posts on my old blog but these days i try to make a point of it & i think others should too.

i don’t even think anyone is lying or making things up on purpose. i think they’ve just heard it from another source they consider reliable & they’re spreading incorrect or incomplete information without questioning it, to a much larger platform. about ten years ago I myself made a post repeating something a wildlife professor said to me, which turned out to be outdated info and mostly inaccurate. i trusted him as a source, but i should have looked at the data before sharing it to a wider audience. it was an important lesson!

basically idc how many times popular content creators on here or any other site/app have been correct about other things in other posts. you should still make a habit of asking yourself “what’s the source?” even when it’s a blog you like & trust. bc let me tell ya, i have seen some doozies lately

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Beetle study <3 🪲