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@handrawing
I was at the pool and saw a spider riding some of it's silk on the wind until it landed on my towel. I'm no entymologist but I remember the mechanics of that still being under debate to this day! All I know is, it was stinking adorable. Little buddy was flying to a new destination haha
Awesome! Here are some cool resources for you:
How Spiders Use Silk to Fly - The New York Times
Ballooning (spider) - Wikipedia
Great Grey Owls (Strix nebulosa), mother with chicks, family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, northern China
photograph via: Ornis Birding Expeditions
But by 2023, just two years of letting "nature take the lead" one can find 4,000 bees, with the number of different bee species doubling.
"A Scottish field once home to mono-crop barley has become a pollinator’s paradise after intervention from a local trust saw bumblebee numbers increase 100-fold.
Entitled Rewilding Denmarkfield, and run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the project has also seen a sharp increase in the number of species passing through the rolling meadows after they were reclaimed by dozens of wildflower species.
The area north of Perth is about 90 acres in size, and surveys of bumblebees before the project began rarely recorded more than 50. But by 2023, just two years of letting “nature take the lead” that number has topped 4,000, with the number of different bee species doubling.
“This superb variety of plants attracts thousands of pollinators. Many of these plants, such as spear thistle and smooth hawk’s beard, are sometimes branded as ‘weeds’. But they are all native species that are benefiting native wildlife in different ways,” Ecologist Ellie Corsie, who has been managing the project since it began in 2021, said.
“Due to intensive arable farming, with decades of plowing, herbicide, and pesticide use, biodiversity was incredibly low when we started. Wildlife had largely been sanitized from the fields. Rewilding the site has had a remarkable benefit.”
Similar increases have been recorded in the populations of butterflies, with a tripling in the number of these insects seen on average during a ramble through the field.
The numbers of both insects are now so high that Rewilding Denmarkfield offers bee and butterfly safaris to visitors.
Local residents told the Scotsman that on spring and summer days, the field is awash with color, and hums with the sounds of bees and birds. Even as multiple housing developments expand around the Denmarkfield area, the field is a haven for wildlife."
-via Good News Network, December 2, 2024
Basilosaurus, a genus of archaeocete whale from late Eocene North Africa.It could reach a length of about 18 to 20 m. and had a skull of about 2 m. long.
Artwork by Heitoresco
Bloodborne (2015) | Platform: PlayStation 4
On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."
As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.
As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.
I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.
May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.
hey bestie i think ur post might be charmed 'cause you aren't gonna fuckin believe what happened today
are u guys hearing this
(This is a Great Golden Digger Wasp - Sphex ichneumoneus - doing what its name implies, digging. But you may also notice, if you turn the sound on, that she’s making some incredible noises as she does so.)
this is the best tag I’ve ever gotten in my notifs actually
I love you Jimothy 🦝❤️
This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:
Source is here for those who are wondering!
looking. at you
12-day old corncrake chicks from a local reintroduction project I've been helping with.
Man After Man, the speculative evolution work of Dougal Dixon, 1990
The third speculative evolution book by Scottish geologist and paleontologist Dougal Dixon, Man After Man explores the future of humanity hundreds to millions of years from now. It imagines how human descendants could evolve through genetic engineering, environmental adaptation, and evolutionary changes driven by future conditions, including climate change. The book presents a vision of possible human futures across a timeline stretching up to five million years.
via: dougal-dixon.co.uk
dueling tigers 🍊
Here's some more of my paintings and their respective reference photos! murphysletsdraw on inprnt if you want to buy prints!! It's my bday month so if you buy some prints I could maybe buy myself a lil gift hehe
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I've added more prints now!!!
Man After Man, the speculative evolution work of Dougal Dixon, 1990 (Ocean)
The third speculative evolution book by Scottish geologist and paleontologist Dougal Dixon, Man After Man explores the future of humanity hundreds to millions of years from now. It imagines how human descendants could evolve through genetic engineering, environmental adaptation, and evolutionary changes driven by future conditions, including climate change. The book presents a vision of possible human futures across a timeline stretching up to five million years.
via: dougal-dixon.co.uk
When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship
This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read
This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so
He says, “I’m still the same person.”
I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”
Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people
