#masternaturalist

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Get outside this Saturday. Let's go on a hike. 🤍

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Halloween Decorations... ✅ Done!

🕷️🎃🏚️

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I like to think this little honeybee is enamored with her reflection. 🤍

Likely, she's obtaining salts or something off of the window, but hey, she sure made a wonderful model. 📸🐝

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The Moths by Mary Oliver

There’s a kind of white moth, I don’t know

what kind, that glimmers

by mid-May

in the forest, just

as the pink mocassin flowers

are rising.

If you notice anything,

it leads you to notice

more

and more.

And anyway

I was so full of energy.

I was always running around, looking

at this and that.

If I stopped

the pain

was unbearable.

If I stopped and thought, maybe

the world

can’t be saved,

the pain

was unbearable.

Finally, I noticed enough.

All around me in the forest

the white moths floated.

How long do they live, fluttering

in and out of the shadows?

You aren’t much, I said

one day to my reflection

in a green pond,

and grinned.

The wings of the moths catch the sunlight

and burn

so brightly.

At night, sometimes,

they slip between the pink lobes

of the moccasin flowers and lie there until dawn,

motionless

in those dark halls of honey.

[theambermycophile]

I fell in love with the windows in this house. For a Naturalist, if I can't be outside, at least I can see outside. The cats feel the same way.

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Testing out places to place my bird buddy pole. This place looks good. What do you think? 😂

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Have you ever looked into the eyes of a bumblebee? 🤍🐝

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We did an Apivar treatment today, and checked to see where we stand, heading into the heat of the summer. We located Queen Victoria in Hive 1! 👑🐝

The second hive was MAD that we were looking at their honey stores though, and they were literally pelting us, and I pulled a few stingers out of my gloves. I have only duct tape covering some holes in my veil, so it was a bit stressful. 😆