Jade Earth

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"Setting Free The Captives" | Pamela Greene-Jones

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Blue Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa caerulea

Undoubtedly the Blue Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa caerulea (Hymenoptera - Apidae) is one of the most striking among the carpenter bees. It is a large bee, close to an inch in length, with a hairy blue thorax, black abdomen, and long black eyes.

These Asian bees are non-aggressive. They nest in wood, and are semi-solitary, it is that they don’t have hives like honey bees do, but sometimes several queens will share a common entry hole to their nest. Since carpenter bees nest in dead wood, they sometimes do damage to the leaves of old houses, and can be pests. However, they are important pollinators of both native and agricultural plants, which more than makes up for the occasional damage they do to already-rotten wood. Being large and strong bees, the flowers pollinated by these bees may have an especially strong architecture.

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Photo credit: ©folicallychalled | Locality: Cimahi, Jawa Barat, Indonesia (2013)

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Photographer Lalage Snow takes pictures of soldiers’ faces before, during and after the war in Afghanistan.

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this is forever my favorite picture  

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Love this

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just look at the amount of wisdom this man has acquired. This is truly powerful.

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I’m back on the low-lying all sand little island in the Mentawai, Indonesia. YAY for gardening in winter!!  Different challenges here, like a lack of soil, no garden centres nearby for supplies, this cute monkey swinging from all trees, giant grasshoppers, next to no bees in sight….it’s a fun challenge and I’ll start posting pics tomorrow!

For now, please have my favourite new photo of Beaker from yesterdays rafting adventures <3

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plant and pale

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Speciesism /ˈspiːʃiːzˌɪzəm/

noun 

1. a belief of humans that all other species of animals are inferior and may therefore be used for human benefit without regard to the suffering inflicted. Will also choose which species he will love and consider as family, and which other will use to get profit or any other benefit. 

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Give the earth back to the animals, they deserve it infinity more than we do.

Eric David Harris. 5/6/98 (via ungodly-little-whores)

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Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Seen in a Dancing performance.

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BEHOLD

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He’s named the King Bird of Paradise for a reason.

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Jiulongzhen, China

Seen in the country.

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The Huli Tribe - Papua New Guinea

Not to be confused with neighboring tribes that are still in conflict over resources. The Huili tribe can be distinguished by face paint of  their colors white, yellow and red. Also known for tradition of making ornamented wigs from their own hair.

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Papua New Guinea woman during a Singsing celebration in Mount Hagen

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awesome

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Papua New Guinean kids (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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Papuan Tribe father and son.

Over 700 tribes span across Papua New Guinea to the Indonesian islands. New posts coming!