Stalactite

they/she/he || 26 - idk what i’m doing y’all (follows from @/walmartkitty)

[spiny-ant]

My favorite thing about bugs is there will always be one you've never seen before

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

june in the catskills

[takingoffmyshoes]

they told me not to get lost in the weeds, but these are lush, beautiful, and ecologically necessary native plants so it's probably fine

[wild-shaped]

be gay, go trespassing. happy pride

[magickon]

felt the sun on my face [phone]hp

[darkandstormyranger]

finally some relatable content on ig

[pixierainbows]

[stainedinink-deactivated2026041]

reblog to give the pervious person a nice rock

[jangling-girl]

i just became a brand ambassador for a 1,000 year old sacred grove

[geopsych]

A walk through the woods this morning. Birds were singing including some lingering warblers and the wood thrushes, scarlet tanagers, ovenbirds, and wood peewees that are staying for the summer.

[ilostmygh0st]

[alphabetizing-posts]

a good I just leaf. love

[amnhnyc]

Did you know? Fireflies aren’t flies at all: they're beetles! Of all of the insects in the world, fireflies are among the few to have evolved an extraordinary language of light. Many fireflies use a system of flashes in some of the same ways we use words: to attract, to say, “Here I am,” even to deceive. They emit light from a tiny organ, called a lantern, on the underside of their abdomen, where a biochemical reaction takes place within specialized cells called photocytes. The reaction releases energy in the form of light.

Photo: Jessica Lucia, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

[enchantedbook]

Τhree Frogs Beneath the Moon From Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s Animal Life), c. 1890–1900 Artist: Schmidt Wood engraver: K. Jahrmargt

[captainhaterade]

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

“More than fifty research and development facilities across thirty-one states. Gone. Consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins, Colorado. And ‘consolidated’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, because what it actually means is that decades of place-based, long-term ecological research—the kind that literally cannot exist anywhere else because it depends on specific forests, specific watersheds, specific ecosystems studied over generations—will be snuffed out.

You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die. The datasets end. The partnerships with universities that took generations to build collapse. And the institutional knowledge of the scientists who ran those programs walks out the door, because the administration damn well knows most of them won’t follow a forced relocation to a single consolidated office that has nothing to do with the ecosystems they’ve spent their careers studying.”

[arianaderalte]

The U.S. Forest Service, Dismantled

Nine regional offices. 57 research labs. 193 million acres. An interactive map of what was lost.

[aetherograph]

Call your senators. Both of them. Tell them the Forest Service reorganization is proceeding without the congressional approval required by Section 716 of the Agriculture Appropriations Act and Section 421 of the Interior Appropriations Act. Use those numbers. Say them out loud. Staffers write down what they don’t recognize, and these are the provisions their bosses voted for.

If your senator is a Republican, the question is simple: you voted for a law that requires USDA to get committee approval before reorganizing or relocating any office. USDA didn’t get that approval. Their own lawyers declared your law unconstitutional. What are you going to do about it?

If your senator is a Democrat, the question is just as simple: the legal basis for stopping this already exists. Where are the subpoenas? Where are the hearings? Why is USDA’s general counsel allowed to declare a duly enacted law unconstitutional by internal memo and face no consequences?

Make them answer. Make their staff write it down. Call back next week and ask what happened.

(source)

5 Calls

[vulpinesaint]

alright my dear ones. it's quiz time once more. i can send you into a fairy tale if you open the storybook for me ✨

[cedar-glade]

Still can’t get over just how small this species is.  Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens.

This species prefers acidic rocks typically; but this smaller subspecies is really only associated with dolostone outcroppings that retain moisture or stay fairly wet. The divisions of the maidenhair spleenwort is really not by size necessarily, but is associated directly with substrate and separation by long distances between prefered habitats. Although this speciation event isn’t traditional allopatric speciation(speciation by large scale geographic divergence and separation) this species is definitely one exception that had been funnelled under that cause, micro-allopatric speciation for quite some time due to the presence of this species in many countries that span the northern hemisphere of the globe. The truth later was found that Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens was far more rare overall than its acidic sandstone loving lineage, and it was more associated with North Eastern North America. Thus it was due to edge niche shift in a place that shared both habitats(like RRG for example). This then referred this speciation event to  Parapatric Speciation; the specific way it has been phrased is really “Gradual speciation by habitat splitting” 

The more common acidic/sandstone loving lineage is referred to now as A. trichomanes subsp. trichomanes. 

I’ll be posting more calcareous maidenhair spleenwort in the next few posts.

[the-muppet-joker]

Heh. I'm in the Bug Leagues, Kid. No, not the Big Leagues. The Bug Leagues. I'm kind of a Bug Deal, you could say. I'm covered in bugs. I'm covered in bugs