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Talonflame is where pokemon design peaked in my opinion.

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« Animals might see crisp detail at a distance, or nothing more than blurry blotches of light and shade. They might see perfectly well in what we’d call darkness, or go instantly blind in what we’d call brightness. They might see in what we’d deem slow motion or time-lapse. They might see in two directions at once, or in every direction at once. Their vision might get more or less sensitive over the span of a single day. Their Umwelt might change as they get older. Jakob’s colleague Nate Morehouse has shown that jumping spiders are born with their lifetime’s supply of light-detecting cells, which get bigger and more sensitive with age. “Things would get brighter and brighter,” Morehouse tells me. For a jumping spider, getting older “is like watching the sun rising." »

— Ed Yong, An Immense World

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some butterflies avidly licking a pile of shit strangely resonates with my mood right now.

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Fast sketches of insects

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@geisterwolf submitted: this big moth looked completely black until i used the flash and TADA! such beautiful details!

BLACK WITCH MY BELOVED

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she could teach me a thing or two in masterful make up

Formosan Lynx Spider (Peucetia cf. formosensis), family Oxypodidae, Thailand

photograph by Tim L. Heller

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2024 December 21

A Year in Sunsets Image Credit & Copyright: Wael Omar

Explanation: A year in sunsets, from April 2023 to March 2024, track along the western horizon in these stacked panoramic views. The well-planed sequence is constructed of images recorded near the 21st day of the indicated month from the same location overlooking Cairo, Egypt. But for any location on planet Earth the yearly extreme northern (picture right) and southern limits of the setting Sun mark the solstice days. The word solstice is from Latin for “Sun” and “stand still”. On the solstice date the seasonal drift of the Sun’s daily path through the sky appears to pause and reverse direction in its annual celestial journey. Of course the Sun reaches a stand still on today’s date. The 21 December 2024 solstice at 09:21 UTC is the moment of the Sun’s southernmost declination, the start of astronomical winter in the north and summer in the south.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241221.html

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Come in, babe Across these purple fields The sun has sunk behind you Across these purple fields Winter Solstice Sunrise - Android Jones, 2015

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What does the inside of a Metapod look like?

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“Different mood. Different feels. Different locations.” by | Jay Johnson

Mt Rainier / Mt Tamalpais / Oregon Coast

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I found my first Hemileuca moth this year, one of my favorite local moths.

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I wish rainbow trout flew around in the skies so I could release them like doves at my wedding.

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This nice lynx spider stayed on the same snapdragon plant for most of June. Cochise County, Arizona, June 2023.

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If I had mandibles I'd clack them together like tongs all the time