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Jules of Nature
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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@msfauna
Imagine if sometimes some fucking Ț̷̡͂̀̎͠h̸̜̅͐̄ì̸̩̮̃̃̆n̸̗̰̟͉͐̑͋͆͜g̸̮̻͔̼̬͌ could just crash through the shimmering veil of reality with a trail of fragments from the suffocating void enveloping it, grab whoever's unlucky enough to be closest, and swoop back out like it was nothing. And this was just one of your everyday hazards to worry about. Incredible cosmic horror concept
so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig
red fucking alert if you’re currently experiencing a beautiful spring day after a long and brutal winter DO NOT TRUST IT this is NOT spring it is FALSE SPRING we still have SEVERAL WEEKS OF COLD do NOT let your guard down
Southern hemisphere version: red fucking alert if you're currently experiencing a beautiful fall day after a long and brutal summer DO NOT TRUST IT this is NOT fall it is FALSE FALL we still have SEVERAL WEEKS OF HOT do NOT ler your guard down
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by Maksim Mozzhukhim
oh log we’re really in it now
Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis). They do this fairly often, straddle reeds as a spot and catch fish and insects without having to fly.
An idiot robin has built a nest on top of our garage door motor. The nest was constructed so the chain that drives the door is actually a part of the nest, and if we open or close the garage door, the whole thing is going to get torn apart. So I guess the garage door is staying open for as long as it takes for these eggs to hatch and these birds to leave the nest.
My wife has set up a camera to continuously monitor the situation.
Wife: Maybe we should set up some padding beneath where they'll fall out of the nest? Normally they fall onto grass, not concrete. Me: Seems like we're really coddling these birds. Wife: Well, yeah. Me: I just don't want you to get invested. Wife: Way, way too late for that. I'm all in.
So we're keeping the garage door open for a few weeks, I guess. Whenever I go to use the car, the robin flies away from the nest and watches me cautiously to see whether I'm going to kill her babies, and I can't help but find that a little bit rude of her.
Pictured here, the robin hopping into her nest to settle in for some egg warming.
Two of the three eggs have hatched, these are some ugly babies.
Feeding the babies!
All three are now hatched, here's more feeding time.
And here they are up close, in their resting state.
Apparently there are four. Surprise bird! No idea why they're laying like this, I assume they're just derps or scared of me.
Almost fully fledged, the nest is getting quite crowded. We've moved the cars out of the garage and set down some cushions from outdoor chairs to provide a landing pad for them. They'll be out of the nest within the next few days.
wet dinosaur just playing around.
I recently watched a video of a pair of Sandhill Cranes raising a Canada Gosling, and it seems that it isn't the first example of it in the last few years. Are cranes like penguins where they will steal eggs/hatchlings if they had an unsuccessful breeding season, or is there some other reason that they 'adopt' baby geese?
If you follow enough birding groups in Sandhill crane territory, you’ll eventually see someone post a baby duckling or goose that is following around a pair of cranes. It’s not common, but it happens enough to be a thing!
Sandhill cranes don’t seem to steal babies, but they have an extremely strong parenting instinct. If they find a baby that needs taking care of, you can bet they’re going to take damn good care of it. There are documented cases of Sandhill cranes adopting unrelated crane chicks as well as geese and domestic ducks. They just love babies. There has even been some research into using Sandhill cranes as foster parents for endangered whooping cranes in order to re-establish a non migrating population of the latter. Sandhill cranes are super parents!
For my fellow Sandhill craniacs interested in this phenomenon you’ll be delighted to know another cross-species adoption has been spotted in Madison WI this spring! Unknown how this happened but folks in my birder groups are saying the cranes took over an abandoned Canada goose nest with a single unhatched egg left behind. No way to know the backstory for sure but hopefully this chick is able to figure out life with his new eccentric parents
Hilariously, this baby is growing up to have the best posture I’ve ever seen on a Canada goose- look how tall he stands!
Atlantic Puffins. The adult puffins return to the cliffs around 21:00 to bring food back to the nests, and the golden hour light is perfect for photographs.
photos by me. 2025-06-07, Runde, Norway. Our trip was so, so wonderful.
by Onidaiko
May I interest you in some lichen? Moss even?
Firefly Squid by TokyoViews
Every now and then you also need to do a bit of gymnastics...
Been working in pest control for 3 months now and i can confidently say that nobody on earth seems to understand that sometimes You Will See A Bugs and that's Normal if you live literally anywhere with oxygen
Unfortunately it appears you have a garden that is growing several important pollinator food sources you will be seeing wasps sometimes. You want us to spray your flowers? That'll stop the wasps but only because your flowers will be Dead
I just think everyone would benefit from living in the woods for a week and having their bug tolerance forcibly increased by being forced to share a showerstall with a wolf spider the size of a half dollar everyday
(Life hack: if you consistently put out safe water sources for bees, the wasps will see you and they WILL eventually recognize you. And once you become The Bringer Of Water, they will become your own little goon squad. I used to get stung if I startled them by my compost bin, but now I have banged doors open just to realize a wasp was chilling right on the lintel, but all it does is wave its antennae at me. They see me carrying watering cans to my flowers and follow me. When I go to other places, the wasps there will also be friendly. Wasps are fucking amazing yall.)
Just leave them be, y’all. They’re doing their thing; you do yours.
Every year we have several nests of yellow jackets on my property, and usually at least one paper wasp and bald faced hornet nest (this isn't wasptopia I just have acres of land). Every year I leave them alone. Every year I leave some dead fish out for them in the spring and they go hogwild over it.
Every year, I walk through grass every day with dozens of yellow jackets buzzing around in my path, and they ignore me. I open and close pen doors with bald faced hornets chewing away at the wood for their nests. Every year the paper wasps hang out by my back door where I park my car.
I have been stung once in 12 years, and it was the year I stepped directly on an underground yellow nest I had not seen yet. This nest was in a spot I walk over nearly daily, and I had only moved to the side to get around a bird that day. I had to have been walking within a couple feet of it all summer and never noticed.
And I stepped *on their home* and only received one warning sting for it.
One.
Not even repeatedly by the same wasp!
It is very possible to live in harmony with them.
Spiders as well. House rules here are we don't kill spiders. If it's in the way I might relocate, but if there's predators then there's prey, so if I see spiders I can be relatively sure they're hunting something I want less. Same goes for house centipedes.
They're all just little guys. If they're not actively causing harm just leave them alone.
