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Today at the Woodlands Garden of Decatur. Shown are: Goldfinches, a Pine Siskin, a Tufted Titmouse, a White Breasted Nuthatch, and a Pine Warbler. #finch #nuthatch #warbler #birding #bird #slomo

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Spitting spider, so fancy. #fancy #spider #Olloclipmacro #popnature

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Spitting spider (Scytodes thoracica) found inside a 2011 Dell desktop I was dismantling. Curious bit: "Scytodidae catch their prey by spitting a fluid that congeals on contact into a venomous and sticky mass. Remarkably, though it is produced in venom glands in the chelicerae, the fluid contains both venom and spider silk in liquid form." #spider #Dell #Olloclipmacro #insectagram

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The return of the long-legged cellar spider, accompanied by Tracy Morgan

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Here's a ladybug and a paper wasp (Polistes annularis) getting excited about the final Hobbit movie. #hobbit #ladybug #wasp #Olloclipmacro #macro #popnature

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Our lab has diversity. #arabidopsis #medicago #brachypodium #science #scienceart

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What resides within the spiky pod are bean-like seeds (I mean, technically, beans ARE seeds). #medicago #alfalfa #science #Olloclipmacro

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Green bottle fly, Lucilia sericata. #insectagram #insect #fly #Olloclipmacro

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Thousands of Sandhills around me and I focus on this little thing. #ladybug #Olloclipmacro

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#tvotr #carefulyou #slowmo @julia_scott_

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Serendipitous dead moth makes for easy shooting. #Olloclip #Olloclipmacro

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And inside our apartment? A long-bodied cellar #spider. Just don't make a pouch of hundreds of baby spiders and we'll be all good.

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Medicago truncatula Seed Germination

Time lapse of Medicago truncatula (alfalfa) seeds germinating. This is a three day time lapse, with only days two and three shown. The music is a piano and violin cover of Taylor Swift...

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A 2 day (first skipped) time lapse of #Medicago truncatula germinating. #alfalfa #gopro #timelapse #nature #plant #biology #macrolens #taylorswift

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Today's outreach involves demonstrating #epidemiology and the transmission of disease. To do this we are using pH strips to monitor the transmission of 0.1 M NaOH across cups of water. The liquids are clear and indistinguishable by the senses, and that's why we use the pH strips to see the basic liquid (blue) and the neutral water (clear). #Olloclip #olloclipmacro

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Eastern #Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) looks a lot like the Southern Yellowjacket, but there's a clear absence of two yellow stripes on the thorax posterior. This one was cleaning itself in the warmth of the sun. #Olloclip #olloclipmacro #macrolens

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Three months since the seed was put in water. The #avocado seedling has an emerged stem. #macrolens #Olloclip #olloclipmacro