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Hi, I'm Bruce. I make Scotland History Tours videos to tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scott

One of the best Scottish History content creators/tour guides is a mixed Black Scot :)

painted this while watching Action Mutante which is great and awful (these paintings have nothing to do with action mutante, this is just messing with acrylics)

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NOPE (Jordan Peele) / Regarding the Pain of Others (Susan Sontag)

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uh yeah no problem i literally live for this

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Something similar happened to me with a weird crustacean I posted and I was dancing on the wind for weeks

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OP can we see said caterpillar?

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Imagine seeing an insect - it happens all the time, not a rare or wondrous occasion by any general sense, yet... Between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, half of those discoveries being insects.

That spider in your home, could be unidentified, new. The flies on your windshields, fresh creations.

Years ago I found a huge grub in a friends garden. Took it home in a jar speared with a fork for breathing holes. Put it in a bowl of dirt - Moth larvae will bury underground to metamorphosize - I carefully dug into the dirt when the leaves were falling. A beautiful umber leathery cocoon sat, quietly greeting me. All winter I kept it inside, warm. Carefully moved from one room to another. Come spring, I thought they would not come out. Come summer, I was left with a casing I thought empty. One night, one breathtaking night, a moth larger than my partner's hand, or mine appeared. The Pandora Sphinx Moth was free, and she spread her wings and took to the night sky. I never knew a moth like her could exist in Colorado.

At any given moment, it's estimated there are 10 quintillion individual insects alive. Be curious! Who knows what we will discover next. There in your backyard, local park, leaflitter in the city, some new, wonderous thing lives.

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heres the first ever picture of an as-of yet undescribed leaf miner moth! featuring my dog! i just took him out for his walk one day and saw something on a leaf, i didnt even know it was evidence of a bug, i thought it might be a fungus or something. i posted it to inaturalist and after identifying the host tree, a leafminer expert informed me that that tree was not a known host of anything this might be, and it was almost certainly an undescribed species of moth.

i eventually collected some more leaves that still had larvae/pupae living inside to mail to him so he could raise them to adulthood and work on classifying them

look at that!! a whole new moth!!

theres just so many bugs in the world!! you just never know!!

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This is why you should upload your images of bugs (and other plants and animals) to inaturalist.org! It really does help scientists! It’s also helpful if you list those images as public domain or at the very least only require attribution to share.

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I love iNaturalist and have been uploading almost daily to it for over a year now. I do want to encourage anyone using it to make use of the "obscured" location visibility option, which gives your identifications a general radius rather than specific location. It protects both you from doxxing yourself, as well as the location of any rare plants or animals you find from being poached or trafficked. (iNaturalist will automatically do this for some particularly vulnerable species) Citizen science is so so valuable to our understanding of changes in the environment. As someone with an ecology background I cannot possibly overstate how useful it is to have people providing extra data points. We were constantly brainstorming ways to get the public involved in our research projects due to how invaluable it is. So far via iNaturalist I've identified 2 newly introduced insect species in my state which weren't thought to have spread this far until I IDed them, as well as a host of as yet undescribed native species (including a new species of blue banded bee which I'm still very excited about). And this is just in one year taking pics in my own backyard.

That's without even beginning to talk about the mental health benefits to being outside and involved in the natural world around you. I normally stop shot of recommending a specific app, but since this topic came across my dash I figured I'd jump in and vouch for this one.

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