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(via Man Discovers A Family Of Mice Living In His Garden, Builds Them A Miniature Village | Bored Panda)

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Wolf’s milk | Lycogala epidendrum

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Hummingbird clearwing (Hemaris thysbe- reddish) and snowberry clearwing (Hemaris diffinis- black and yellow).

two species of day flying sphingid moths with a knack for confusing the uninitiated

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an academic article: *has a title that begins with ‘a reply to…’*

me:

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Pflanzenformen: vorbildliche Beispiele zur Einführung in das ornamentale Studium der Pflanze - Moritz Meurer - 1895 - via University of Heidelberg 

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Like something from oot 😯

An Arachnid with the head of a black dog, is neither a spider, nor a dog. 

Photographed by Natural Scientist Andreas Kay, this relative of the daddy long legs has evolved (for unknown reasons) black protrusions on the top of its body. 

It can be found in the Amazon Rainforest and is a type of Bunny Harvestman and a relative of the daddy long legs, meaning that is does not posses venom glands and is actually harmless to humans - despite looking so scary. 

(@ecuadormacro on Twitter)

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Invasive species management: before and after stem cutting.

Species: Japanese knotweed | Fallopia japonica

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Rubus parviflorus | thimbleberry

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So apparently archaeopteryx flew like a pheasant…

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Hands down the funniest thing I have ever heard at college was overhearing the following sentence at a conference:

“I asked him what his pronouns were and he said ‘uh, PhD.’”

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Tetraopes tetrophthalmus | Red Milkweed Beetle 🐞

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Sometimes I’m like “ancient greek plays are so old, how am i going to relate to the characters?” but then 

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Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH

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Found at the field site 🐛