[nightcalicos]

Actually the MOST cottagecore thing is fighting for indigenous sovereignty and then working communally on the land to support each other as well as the environment while not upholding colonial ideologies

[ari-nemera]

World’s largest bee, thought to be extinct, found in Indonesia

World’s largest bee, thought to be extinct, found in Indonesia

The giant bee was first discovered in 1859, but since has only officially sighted once. Now, researchers have found a specimen alive and wel

In 1859, while exploring the remote island of Bacan in the North Moluccas, Indonesia, the renowned naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace made an astounding discovery: the Megachile pluto — the world’s largest bee.

Wallace described the bee, which is about four times the size of a honeybee, as a “large black wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle.” But for more than a century, that was the only known sighting of the Megachile pluto, and some feared that deforestation had rendered the giant insect extinct.

“It was absolutely breathtaking to see this ‘flying bulldog’ of an insect that we weren’t sure existed any more,” Clay Bolt, the photographer who captured the first images of the species alive, told the BBC. “To actually see how beautiful and big the species is in life, to hear the sound of its giant wings thrumming as it flew past my head, was just incredible.”

Yo guys.

Also @bogleech Look.

[mossworm]

[humblegrub]

drink it, Trinket

[libutron]

Allantus cinctus by Kliton Hysa

The Curled Roseslug

[pens-swords-stuff]

There's a tumblr post floating around somewhere that says "We think that if we get better at writing, it will someday stop sounding like we wrote it" or something along those lines.

Does anyone happen to have a link handy? I want to reference it in an advice post.

[pigtailsmccully]

Was it this one? 🤗

[pens-swords-stuff]

Yes, thank you so much!!!!!

[800-grader]

[ID: a tweet by elicia donze that reads "People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art. /end ID]

[centuriespast]

A fossilized spider, found in goethite rock in New South Wales, Australia, and dating to the Miocene Epoch, 15 million years ago.

Credit…Michael Frese

[lifeinpoetry]

i am no god,

only woodworm, only termite burrowing like a light in the flesh. i am no insect,

only an ache on loop in the window. be honest. the wounds have been bearable

thus far. & who isn’t bruised around the edges, peaches poured into the truckbed, receipts

faded to white?

— Franny Choi, from “& O, bright star of disaster, I have been lit.” published in The Paris American

[banksalec]

[ancientsstudies]

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

[jimhenson-themuppetmaster]

Fraggle Rock Back to the Rock Characters

[ftcreature]

The Featured Creature: Sea Sapphire: the Most Beautiful Animal You’ve Never Heard Of

This is the Sea Sapphire, an absolutely STUNNING marine copepod. Japanese fishermen would call a gathering of these creatures “tama-mizu”, or jeweled water. Make sure to watch the VIDEO in the article!!

photos: Stefan Siebert, http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/bluemuseum, CIOERT, .gif from liquidguru vid

[byjove]

There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

[utopians]

nothing like stepping outside while the seasons are changing and suddenly feeling a change in the weather that knocks you back in time by several years

[utopians]

sorry professor I'm going to have to miss class today bc when I walked outside in the morning it was cold and sunny in a very specific way and suddenly I was struck with a nostalgia for years past so vivid and potent that I had to sit down

[90377]

Misty oaks. Crane Creek Regional Park, Sonoma County . by alice cummings

[onenicebugperday]

Isopod Portraits by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Photos shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

1. Pseudarmadillo spinosus 2. Porcellio flavomarginatus 3. Cristarmadillidium muricatum 4. Armadillidium gestroi 5. Porcellio bolivari 6. Protoradjia insularis 7. Armadillidium nasatum 8. Porcellio haasi 9. Porcellio werneri 10. Reductoniscus costulatus

[yesilrengy]

[manifestsoul]

Meditate