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Butterfly of the day #187
Butterfly of the day Arachnis picta
Come back tomorrow for another cute butterfly! (Source: Arachnis picta de 7806 Ney Ave, Oakland, CA, US le 10 Oct 2016 à 16:49 par flea. Found by a neighbor early afternoon on Oct. 10, 2016, hanging out on an outside wall of an apartm... · iNaturalist)
Art Nouveau seahorse staircase banister in Rotterdam.
A timelapse of the Chickadee nest, from building until tonight. She has spent the night in the box from day 2. I am not sure if she has started laying eggs but it is possible since she has stopped bringing moss in and is mostly furnishing with more fuzz. Apart from the raccoon hair I also see some alpaca wool that I put out for the birds. Pet and human hair, dryer lint and yarns are not recommended, they can harm baby birds. (Audubon has a great list of things you can put out as nesting material.)
A tragic scene:
My turtle notices the blueberry I put out for him but in his excitement he drops it into his pond. He considers a recovery mission on his own, then turns to me for assistance instead.
Fear not- the berry was retrieved and the turtle was able to enjoy it as intended
Eaglets were observed in a Chicago cemetery and at a Southeast Side park this spring, marking a historic milestone.
BABY EAGLES IN CHICAGO!
It's been over a hundred years and they're back, they're nesting here, there's enough healthy food in the water to support breeding pairs, there's enough space for them. Eaglets in city limits again. I'd never considered this was something we could have.
red breasted nuthatches are my favorite nuthatches that live in my area but that’s not a hard contest to win since we’ve only got two nuthatch species
Happy 24-6-01!
some kind of amphibious two-stroke engine
A Harlequin hen is joined by her mate to feed in the fast-moving waters: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
(c) gifs by riverwindphotography, May 2026
I wanted to share that I got your fantastic little monk shrews in a cuff around my arm about a month ago!! They bring me so much joy. All of your art does. Thank you from one entomologist to another
HOOTING & HOLLERING
big fan of when animals creche. Love to see so many fucking babies in one place
So a creche in ecology is a group of animals that take care of their offspring as a group. Grouping together like this can help with protection against predators, finding food, enduring the weather, and gives the parents time to "rest", as sometimes the parents will alternate who's being the primary watchers while others get to hunt by themselves for a bit, like a baby animal daycare.
But ye lions do this once cubs each a certain age. A decent amount of birds do it (for example: flamingos and a lot of penguin, duck, and goose species). Gharials (a type of South Asian crocodilian) form creches with hundreds of babies from multiple nests (they lay under 100 eggs each and sometimes as few as 20). Feral hogs tend to form groups of mothers and young like this, and I saw 3 sows and like 15+ tiny babies the other day and they were so cute
But ye that's how you get pictures like these
Rattlesnakes will creche!! In some species mature adult females will hang out together (they're friends!) in shared dens and even birth their clutches together. Then one will babysit while the others go get food. Adult females have been seeing caring for their young like shooing young back into the den when a predator approaches. You can watch LIVE rattlesnake den mothers and all their babies on Project Rattlecam!!!!
A question I get asked a lot while working at a public library is "how do you deal with homeless people?"
And the answer is, we don't.
The unhoused people who come here seeking refuge 99% of the time understand that they will be kicked out if they misbehave.
The people you have to watch out for are Jessica, who only came because the kid she didn't want had to visit for a homework assignment and she just *needs* to yell at her child for asking to borrow two books or stay an extra five minutes, or Michael, who came in to look at porn on our computers for whatever fucking reason, or Karen who just wanted to come by to throw a fit that the particular book she wanted was checked out and harrass our staff about our collection being too limited.
99% of the time, the people we need to ban are middle to upper-middle class white people while the homeless and mentally ill/disabled people mind their own damn business and are honestly some of the best patrons we have.
I bring this up because today we had a man come in. He stopped at the desk, pulled up a chair and said "I'm newly homeless and was living in my car. I'm disabled. It was impounded. It's raining. I don't have a phone and I don't know where to go tonight."
And we did what we could to help. He was incredibly kind and patient despite his obvious anxiety and stress, more than most able bodied, housed patrons are to us under much less dire conditions. I liked knowing that we were the first place he came.
We have so many people like this who come in everyday. Many are quiet and keep to themselves, but sometimes they talk to us.
They tell us about how they're taking a few courses on a scholarship they applied for from our library's computer at the local community college to get their diploma. Or ask about a manga or dvd or book we might have to help them pass the time.
One woman, who comes in daily with her tattered walker always says hello to me and likes to work on the new jigsaw puzzle with me when we set one out.
So like, treat unhoused people like people. Treat disabled people like people. I don't want my library to feel like the only safe space in the world, but I'm glad it can be one of them.
I'm so sick of hearing about how "the homeless are ruining everything" when they are some of the kindest, most respectful people here. Sometimes they mutter, might not have had a place to shower, and might need a little extra space for their backpacks but that's FINE. It Doesn't Matter Actually. None of that is a problem or any of my business to care about (unless they request help/services), and I also don't think it's any of yours.
Planet Earth (2006) Season 01 Episode 11 “Ocean Deep” Directed by Alastair Fothergill
how it started:
how it ended:
The most important land protection measure of our lifetimes — the Roadless Rule — is under attack
The Roadless Rule has protected 58 million acres of our wildest national forest lands from clearcutting for more than a generation. The Trump administration now wants to throw these forest protections overboard so the timber industry can make huge money from unrestrained logging.
Learn more: https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/earthjustice-responds-as-trump-administration-takes-aim-at-longstanding-rule-protecting-national-forestlands
