[thegleamoftheknife]

Had to label the old trash barrels so the collectors would know to take them

[sabrecmc]

This should be the last post on tumblr before it is shut down.

[hope-for-the-planet]

How One Man Singlehandedly Repopulated a Rare Butterfly Species in His Backyard

Long gone from their home in San Francisco, the California pipevine swallowtail is back thanks to one man transforming his yard into a habitat for them The iridescent blue wings of the California pipevine swallowtail are considered by collectors to be among the most magnificent in North America. For centuries …

As the California pipevine plant was displaced from San Francisco by urban sprawl, the California pipevine swallowtail, which relies on the pipevine plant to feed its caterpillars, also disappeared. That is, until a biologist named Tim Wong made it his mission to repopuplate the species in his own backyard.

Armed only with a cutting of California pipevine from the San Francisco Botanical Garden, Tim created a screened in butterfly enclosure in his backyard and began to reproduce California pipevines.

As new butterflies were born, Tim would donate them to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens where their pipevine host plant could still be found.

“At first he brought them in by the hundreds. Now he brings them in by the thousands every few months.”

While most of us don’t have the power to create habitat for endangered rhinos or tigers, anyone with a little bit of outdoor space can help create habitat for endangered insects!

You can:

-plant a pollinator garden with native nectar-producing plants

-plant host plants of local butterfly species

-leave piles of fallen leaves or sticks in your yard as habitat for native bees

-avoid using pesticides (or use them as sparingly as possible) around your home and yard

“Improving habitat for native fauna is something anyone can do. Conservation and stewardship can start in your very own backyard.” -Tim Wong

[shinygolisopod]

Have one (1) singular meme.

[theonion]

Beating himself up over a lifetime of wasted energy, a local hummingbird confirmed Tuesday that he felt like a huge fucking idiot after he saw a hawk gliding above him with close to no effort all. “What the hell am I doing continuously flitting around like a complete maniac?” said the male hummingbird, adding that his life would be so much easier if he simply let an air current carry him hundreds of miles and barely moved his goddamn wings at all.

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[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,424:

AI generated images sold in the artist ally, or in general, at comiccon.

I am here for art, not the thing AI shits out.

[dear-ao3]

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

Princess girls and Puppygirls are both different manifestations of wanting to be loved in a way you haven't felt without having to kill yourself to earn it.

"Villainess" princess girls on the other hand can't accept they actually deserve that love or admit that they need is so they dress it up as something they are taking from you.

Cat girls want to be loved but don't want to be overwhelmed

Knight girls and maid girls are convinced they have to earn the love they're missing by becoming essential to someone else.

Being raised with the expectation that we would perform masculinity left us all with a hole in our hearts that nobody taught us to patch and we're doing the best we can.

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

I love you, trans women.

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

I need you to not make a post where a trans woman is talking about trans women's experiences about you. I need you to just not fucking do that for once. Can you just fucking not.

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

Transmascs I need you to recognize that things can just not be about you sometimes. I promise you will survive letting trans women have literally anything without you shoving your nose in.

[farewell-to-lorien]

Art by Sofiatroni.

[chicar]

[fthgurdy]

Re: the last post, the article mentions that some places use clams to test the toxicity of the water. It’s like that in Warsaw- we get our water from the river, and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city water supply automatically.  

The clams are just better at measuring the water quality than any man-made sensors.

Edit: check out this documentary trailer : https://vimeo.com/408820791

[zvaigzdelasas]

God Bless Our Troops

[looksmokin]

They hot glued a spring to a clam and gave it full control over the water supply

[sindri42]

No of course not, that would be ridiculous.

They hot glued springs to eight clams and gave them collective control over the water supply.

[strangetikigod]

No of course not, hot glue would kill the clams.

The used silicone adhesive to attach springs to eight clams and gave them collective control over the water supply.

[emily84]

[twenty-of-your-minutes]

Toomin finding out his character that he grinded for 21 years and exploited time/space glitches for got trapped in morph on the first mission:

“Fuuuuuuuuuck…. Oh my god, how do I save this run? How do I save this run? Shit! Whyyyy?!”

[swarnpert]

i think even if someone lives there right now they should let you go into your childhood home like once a year just to check it out

[swarnpert]

"my childhood home was traumatic" don't go then. this post is about me

[memeuplift]

[captain-price-returns]

I didn't realize how desperate the Navy was for new recruits

[quasi-normalcy]

It is kind of funny to read literature from the first red scare in the 1920s and the evil, conniving, traitorous left-wing extremists that the heroes need to stop are, like, the Labour Party

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Remodeled bath and the only way to get to the toilet is through the tub.

[chicar]