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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · May 7

Reminder that garlic mustard is edible and beneficial (both raw and cooked), and very easy to ID!

💚 rich in vitamins
💚 aids digestion
💚 antimicrobial
💚 supports immune system
💚 possibly anti-cancer

I suggest cooking and seasoning because I personally think it tastes bad.

#garlicmustard #forage

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · May 7

Quebec forest moss haul 💚

#moss #macro #nature #Quebec #forest

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · May 5

Cylindroiulus caeruleocinctus

An Ontario species of Barrel millipede ❤️❤️ 🪱

#millipede #macro #bugpic #bugpics #julidae

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 28

Yesterday's Ontario plant finds! 🌿🌿 Still tenative on the ID for the last two

💙 Siberian Squill (Scilla siberica)
💛 Colt's Foot (Tussilago farfara)
💚 Red Berried Elder (Sambucus racemosa)
💚 Yellow Archangel (Lamium galeobdolon)

#plant #plants #flower #flowers #Ontarioplants #wildflower #nature

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 20

First Ontario and Quebec flowers! 🌹🌷🌹🌷

🌼 Crocus sp. (Purple crocus)
🌼 Galanthus nivalis (Common snowdrop)
🌼 Scilla siberica (Siberian squill)

#flower #flowers #plant #plants #spring #ontario #quebec #canada

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 20

Lichens!! 🤍🤍🤍

#lichen #lichens

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 20

Armadillidium vulgare ❤️
roly poly, isopod, pill bug!
whatever you may call them they're adorable little balls

not insects, they're tiny land crustaceans!

#isopod #isopods #bugpics #bugsky #pillbug #pillbugs #Armadillidium #rolypoly

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 8

💚 i live for #moss 💚💚
(not my photo of moss)

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 8

"April showers bring May flowers" am i right

#canada #snow

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

☘️ St John's Wart and Lichens

#plant #plants #stjohnswart #lichen

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

moss haul from 4 hours of hiking 💚💚 feat. a fern

#moss #hiking #foraging

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

🐞 Blood-winged Blister Beetle (Tricrania sanguinipennis)

#beetle #coleoptera #insect #bugpics #insectpic #beetlepic

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

I've done it... I mossed the yard. When collecting moss from the wild, do not take entire patches! I take less than a third of each patch I want.

Once the moss perks up from being transplanted it'll get nice and green and happy 💚💚💚

#moss #mosslawn

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

yes!! It's leafy_andleo

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

ya like bugs? 🤓

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

im so excited that my whole family DESPERATELY wants me to collect patches of moss to cover the back yard with

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

i keep finding cute things in the woods 🌳🌲

🕷️ Spider (Hibana sp.)
💚 Green stink bug (Chinavia sp.)

#spider #arachnid #shieldbug #stinkbug #pentatomidae #bug #insect

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

wooly bear 🐻 aka Pyrrharctia isabella 🦋 aka Isabella tiger moth

#Pyrrharctiaisabella #moth #tigermoth #woolybear #caterpillar

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

my variety of mosses are starting to perk up and look really happy 👍👍

#moss #mossarium #terrarium

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 7

if i were you I'd be jealous of my handful

#millipede #millipedes

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 2

moss
#moss

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 1

you only posted exactly one post 💔

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Apr 1

Beetle found in forest, genus Alobates. (Alobates pensylvanicus, false mealworm beetle?)

#bugpics #beetle #coleoptera #insect #insectphotography #canada

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Feb 25

How do those traps work?? I agree that is a LOT of bees, & there was probably more that aren't in your photo

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Leaf 🇨🇦 @strayyleafy.bsky.social · Feb 25

My current collection of the invasive agriculture pest, Halyomorpha halys the brown marmorated shield bug.

Dorsal and ventral view.

(ventral view has 2 additional specimens on the left)

#insect #pentatomidae #insects #entomology #bug #bugpics #bugcollection

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