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Tips to support backyard wildlife, native plants, pollinators & biodiversity. 📸 from our Carolina property. Scientific Name IDs. © Mostly iPhone, sometimes Canon, & occasionally F bombs. Repost things I like. No AI. No DMs or blocked

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 19d

Autumn 🍂 #AutumnEquinox

A collection of various items from our woodlands and gardens to celebrate the Autumn Equinox. Photographed from loosely left to right: butternut squash , goldenrod , Turk’s Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii) , tomatoes , mushrooms , Rudbeckia triloba , amaranth, Redbud leaves, American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) , red flower of Hibiscus coccinea , okra , muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia) , persimmon ( Diospyros virginian), dried beans , Scuppernongs, and fruit/seeds of hearts-a-bustin (Euonymus americanus)

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 18h

Saturday’s post for #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme #Glow A moment captured from the NC Blue Ridge Parkway overlooking the mountains in autumn #wnc

A photo overlooking the NorthCarolina Blue Ridge Mountains in autumn. Autumn colors are gold and orange under a Carolina blue sky with puffy clouds. blueridgeparkway autumncolors

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Mistflower
#NativePlants

Clusters of small purple flowers surrounded by green leaves

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 1d

Evening Cleanse.
A moment during summer in Nova Scotia, Canada. 🇨🇦

Overlooking water and the green tree canopy in Nova Scotia, Canada. capebreton novascotia peace

Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 1d

Monarch Butterfly’s scientific name: Danaus plexippus #danausplexippus

A monarch butterfly perched on a tithonia orange flower backdropped by a blue sky and a tree canopy mixed with autumn deciduous trees and evergreen pine trees. The side of the monarch’s wing is visible showing revealing its orange and black patterns. butterflies monarchbutterfly pollinator pollinatorgarden

A monarch butterfly perched on a tithonia orange flower backdropped by a blue sky. The camera lens is pointed up revealing the underside of both the flower and the butterfy’s wings. #bugsky backyardwildlife bloomscrolling gardening mexicansunflower monarchwatch

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

There is nothing an authoritarian fears more than peaceful, organized people power. That’s why the White House is now turning its sights on us. 🧵

www.reuters.com

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 2d

Afternoon cleanse.

A butterfly resting on a yellow colored leaf. Perspective of camera lens is looking up revealing underside of both the leaf and butterfly. autumncolors goldenhour

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 2d

☺️ Lovely photo!

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 2d

I hope they keep the time unannounced to deter 🍊 from doing fly overs.

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 2d

Pomfret Vermont
📸 Ngoc Minh

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 2d

Snowberry Clearwing Caterpillar (Hemaris diffinis, aka Hummingbird Moth) feeding on host plant, Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) #hemarisdiffinis

Snowberry Clearwing Caterpillar (Hemaris diffinis, aka Hummingbird Moth) feeding off of a leaf of its host plant, Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) SnowberryClearwingCaterpillar CoralHoneysuckle LoniceraSempervirens nativeplants wildlifegarden #bugsky inverts invertebrates

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 2d

Morning snap from the garden

Asters and native bees. wildlifegarden sweatbee nativebees nativeplants aromaticaster #bugsky SymphyotrichumOblongifolium

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 3d

“We took the freedom of speech away” would be on every media channel and headline if Biden said that.

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 3d

It is quite wild to encounter and looks out of place on the leaf debris.

Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t find a time either but maybe this is intentional so 🍊 doesn’t have fly overs like he did in their September press conference.

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 3d

What an encounter!

Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 3d

NC’s largest caterpillar, the Hickory Horned Devil (Citheronia regalis, 15cm long)! Finding one at this maturity is rare due to birds, parasites, and disease. It will burrow under ground and emerge as a Regal Moth next year! #CitheroniaRegalis #bugsky

A pale green Hickory Horned Devil caterpillar on top of leaf debris. It is approximately 6 inches long! Each end is golden in color. One end has horn like structures. Even though it looks dangerous, it is harmless to humans. hickoryhorneddevil regalmoth caterpillars inverts invertebrates biodiversity ecology wildlifegarden ecosystem backyardwildlife

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 3d

I sure hope you get the rain. I have family there and hear about it. I can’t believe how dry it has been. Plus the hurricane a few years back dropped so many evergreens down. It’s like a tinder box. 😢

Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 3d

What a gorgeous sky, Kathy!

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 4d

mute the noise

#landscape #photography #nature #skyblanket #lifeisbeautiful

Mid frame tall skinny trees all but touch the low cloud covered sky. A dash of sun illuminates the clouds and in the distance a sliver of blue. Taken in a meadow of bramble & bush, muted colours mesh together in a quiet scene. In the distance a thick dense forest is barely visible.

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Bill in Portland Maine @billinportland.bsky.social · 4d

As the leaves do their autumn turning, Janet (and the rest of the porch roof regulars) starts packing on her winter "insulation." It's always quite a sight to see how quickly they fill out, but during Maine winters the extra padding serves them well...

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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 4d

#rocks in Crystal Creek below the #waterfall for #RockinTuesday

#nature #creeks

Crystal Creek Falls drops 48 feet down a cascade of rocks into a great swimming hole before continuing down the rocky creek.

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Mary D @marybooknerd.bsky.social · 4d

My wife took this great picture of the moon Sunday evening. I appreciate the patience it took to capture these migrating Canada geese. Rodman, NY
#birds

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 4d

Each fallen leaf has its story of birth and decay. Biodiversity. Balance. Hope. Autumn colors of American Persimmon leaves (Diospyros virginiana) #DiospyrosVirginiana

The yellow, autumn colors of American Persimmon leaves (Diospyros virginiana) Most leaves have holes denoting their significance and impact in its surrounding ecosystem. Take time to breathe. Be outside in nature. It will provide peace and mental health. americanpersimmon fallcolors autumncolors nativeplants

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