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i'm mar 🐞 23, he/him or mirror pronouns (aka use your pronouns for me) 🌲 pictures of #art, and green stuff. other tags i love: #birds, #bears, #fave

likes: meandering, plants, writing letters, spirals in nature, the hungry caterpillar, novelty teapots

i reblog pics of insects and etc tagged #bugs, i'd recommend blacklisting if you don't wanna see that

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One of my favorite things about loving someone or developing a closeness or fondness towards someone is also loving and developing a fondness for the things they care about. When you learn to see the world in a new way, or you learn to appreciate the things you’ve previously overlooked, or they become your excuse to get into an interest you always thought was cool but thought you didn’t have time for. When a connection makes your world bigger and warmer and fuller and more beautiful.

#love this post #the only way i know how to show interest in other people is getting into one of their hobbies and then talking to them about it #so i got 99.9% of my interests like this

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everyone be quiet. marsha with her snoopy.

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Coyote | Misty Oneil Epstein

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patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

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'Full Moon'. Kazuyuki Sutoh.

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not today...

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7.75" Carboniferous Fossil Fern Frond - France

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at the center 🌀

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It's go away Sunday everyone go away now

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Joe Brainard, Pansies, 1968.

Watercolor and collage on paper, 28 x 22 inches.

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Common Green Lacewings: these tiny insects build loosely-woven cocoons that measure just 3-6mm (about 1/8 to 1/4 inch) in diameter

Each lacewing spends about 5 days maturing inside its cacoon, and then it cuts an opening in the top and emerges as a fully-developed adult.

Above: a common green lacewing emerging from its cocoon

Green lacewing larvae (genus Chrysopidae) are also known as "aphid lions," because they're voracious predators that often feed on aphids. They've also been known to prey upon caterpillars, leafhoppers, planthoppers, thrips, spiders, mites, and insect eggs, which is why they're widely used to help eradicate pests in agricultural contexts.

Once the lacewing nears the end of its larval stage, it builds a small cacoon out of silk and then tucks itself inside, allowing the pupal phase to begin. Its tiny green body is often partially visible through the thin, loosely-woven walls of the cacoon.

Above: a lacewing developing within its cocoon

These breathtaking photos of a lacewing climbing out of its cacoon were taken by a Danish photographer named Frederik Leck Fischer.

Above: the lacewing preparing to emerge

When the insect initially emerges, its wings and antennae are still compactly folded down against its body, and the wings have a dark, shriveled appearance that makes them almost unrecognizable.