sunflower dance

Nature blog. Aspiring botanist | Australia | he/they | 🌷💖 | main account: @lyriumrain

[infloresence]

These pale salmon daffodils are my favourite variety, unfortunately can't peg down the exact cultivar. My best guess is "pearly dawn".

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Find the joy, find the baby birds.

Mönchsgrasmücken 🐣 (blackcaps) auf der Karlshöhe, Stuttgart-Süd.

[hannahlockillustration]

Nettlecats :3

[hannahlockillustration]

Fringed Iris

[michaelnordeman]

Blackbird/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (14 June 2025).

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Chaffinch/bofink. Värmland, Sweden (14 June 2025).

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The larvae of Slender Brindle/Apamea scolopacina/gulhalsat ängsfly. Värmland, Sweden (14 June 2025).

[apokrify]

Massive fossilized Sea Lily and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

[mlleclaudine]

Embroidered Sculptures Recreate Lifelike Mushrooms, Lichen, and Fungi in Thread

by Grace Ebert - Colossal, February 25, 2022

Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. As a scroll through her Instagram reveals, the resulting sculptures are so realistic in color, shape, and size that it’s difficult to distinguish the artist’s iterations from their counterparts.

Currently, Cobbett is preparing a collection that will head to the Artful Craft exhibition at Make Southwest, which opens on April 2.

[michaelnordeman]

Common Long-horned Bee/Eucera longicornis/långhornsbi, Spiny Mason Wasp/Odynerus spinipes/mörk lergeting, Early Bumblebee/Bombus pratorum/ängshumla, and Western Honey Bee/Apis mellifera/honungsbi. Värmland, Sweden (12 June 2021).

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Eurasian Bullfinch/domherre. Värmland, Sweden (12 June 2022).

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Early Bumblebee/Bombus pratorum/ängshumla. Värmland, Sweden (12 June 2022).

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Värmland, Sweden (12 June 2022).

[inianmoon]

oaks bottom

august 15th

2014

[michaelnordeman]

Jacob's Ladder/Polemonium caeruleum/blågull AKA Jakobs stege; Siberian Iris/Iris sibirica/strandiris; and Rhododendron/Rhododendron, not sure which species/rododendron. Värmland, Sweden (1 June 2024).

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