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@leahcuthill.bsky.social

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Biologist who posts nature pictures from hiking trails and gardens. Currently researching native bees and beekeeping. Photos via phone 🪲🐝🌻

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 9h

Common checkered skipper (Burnsius communis) to make Autumn better #inverts #insects

Grey and white spotted skipper butterfly on white and yellow aster flowers. Family Hesperiidae.

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 22h

Moss to help increase your sanity in trying times #mossymonday #moss

Green yellow moss with smaller plants and crimson fall leaves scattered. Found this near a parking lot out of all places. Camera didn’t want to focus on some of the plants. Oh well

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 2d

Bee highlights from September to make your day better #inverts #pollinators #insects #bees

Common eastern bumble bee on white and yellow aster. Thorax features yellow coloration and fluffy hairs.

Eastern bumblebee foraging a purple new England aster. Flower features yellow core. Bumble bee features yellow fluffy thorax and a long tongue

American bumblebee on bright pink zinnia flower. Bee features yellow coloration on upper thorax and lower abdomen

Honey bee on pink rose flower. While important for agriculture, they can complete with native species for flowing resources in South and North America

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

#A_NewHope ✊

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

THIS IS WHY WE MARCH…

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive overnight, it creeps in while we stay silent.

The window to use our voice is closing.

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noblatatious.bsky.social @noblatatious.bsky.social · 3d

Seen @ No Kings in Chicago:

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 3d

Bullfrog of the day!
Saturday, 18 Oct 2025

Bullfrog with fierce side-eye while sitting in fascist duckweed

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

Frogs Together Strong 🐸 #nokings

Cope’s Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)

American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus)

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! ☺️

LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 8d

Dorsal view of spider hunting #spiders #nature

Spider features red back and grey ventral coloring. Cute spider crawls on zinnia leaf

LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 8d

Cardinal jumper’s are mimics of mutillid wasps (like velvet ants). This one was came out of hiding to see the camera
#Arachtober
#spooktober

Spider features red orange coloration on dorsal side and grey ventral size. Fuzzy like the velvet ants that they mimic. Spider waits for pollinator to visit red zinnia flower (not yet in bloom)

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 9d

Trying out #spooktober and #spiders #nature

Spiderweb with green colored spider in center. Foliage in the background. Nearly ran into the web while hiking!

LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 9d

Sulfur cosmos flower for #yellowsunday #gardens #flowers #nature native to Mexico, northern South America, and Central America.

Yellow sulfur cosmos flower features slight red coloration on the anther with other smaller flowers in the background. Monarch butterflies love these flowers, though I have yet to photograph any foraging

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11d

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 15d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 16d

Another angle of yellow flower pot mushroom #fungi #fungusamongus

Top of yellow mushroom appears like an umbrella. Pine cones surround it. Why can’t I have an umbrella that looks like a mushroom that would be so cool

LC @leahcuthill.bsky.social · 16d

Yellow mushroom (flower pot parasol?) that was a surprise #yellowsunday #fungifriends #mycology

Yellow mushroom with long gills. Pine cones in background. My camera wouldn’t focus on anything else and it kept getting blurred. Have mercy my phone was covered in dirt

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British Beekeepers Association @bbka.org.uk · 16d

Bees, fruit flies, and other insects used in research are often excluded from legal and ethical guidelines designed to protect other laboratory animals.

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