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[newtgat]

[atlas-cedar]

Banble.. bee

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Napier Nose by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: RAF A400M ZM421, call sign NAPIER62, growls through Cad West in the Mach Loop on a low level sortie from Brize Norton. Aircraft: Royal Air Force Airbus A400M Atlas C.1 ZM421. Location: Cad West, Gwynedd, Wales.

[zilluzion]

sparks flying~ monthly reward for Dani!

[sadsouvenaunce]

mi manchi sempre, e credo ora e sempre che non posso stare senza di te, e mi viene quasi voglia di fare un piccolo fagotto di tutte le mie cose terrene e mettermi in cammino per ritrovarti.

ma nulla ti dimentica, non un fiore, non un'ape; perché nel fiore più allegro c'è un'aria pensierosa, e nell'ape più attiva una pena - nelle loro faccine c'è la tristezza, e nei loro occhi miti, le lacrime.

[sticktwiggg]

I resigned her because I've had horrible art block and the only thing I can draw when I have art block are redraws or redesigns

old version for those who are curious ↓↓↓

bonus silhouette thingy

[jenfoundabug]

Such beautiful red eyes <3 Unidentified fly in the family Anthomyiidae (root-maggot flies) Northeastern Pennsylvania, US

[teal-sharky]

Thinkin' about thos bees

I've recently happened upon some really Reddit discourse over how unethical it is to keep bees and take honey from them as clearly it wasn't "meant for us".

And it just dawned on me recently that we're talking about a species here, that literally domesticated a fuckton of plant species to the point where like, the natural ecosystem now relies on these gay little bees to exchange their sex work (cross pollination) for the nectar they conditioned all these plants into producing.

If all humans vanished off the face of earth overnight, the biosphere would pretty much instantly begin healing and doing better and better. If bees vanished, there would be massive species die-off and ecological collapse and loss of diversity that nature wouldn't recover from for tens of thousands of years.

Did we really domesticate bees, or are bees successfully domesticating us? Getting us to to develop better and better habitats for them for millennia, shaping much of our cuisine around their honey, and recently, even getting us to change how we use pesticides and how we are legally allowed to handle the bees.

This isn't really like, any deep moral appeal or argument for unbound consumption of animal products or anything but just, I think bees are neat and I like them around. I hope they successfully survive their little human domestication experiment and thrive again as we scurry to take better care of our bee masters.