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Destroying invasive plants, giving natives a chance to thrive. Enjoying 🦋 and plant chemistry. Wandering in hardwood hammocks in South Florida. ❤️ Art, lit, travel. Amateur in all.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely the only Monarch for us.

Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 7h

Horrible. Vile indifference.

Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 7h

Deeply restful.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Tangy, healthy, and delicious. Cheers!

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 1d

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

🐸 Bravo to this handsome frog.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“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? 🐸 🏆

Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

This shows that the process of getting great shots is not only due to excellent equipment. It’s crawling around in itchy stinging nettles and sand, staining or tearing one’s clothing, lying on the ground waiting, adjusting, tracking, more waiting . . . .

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Who could have predicted? 🤷🏻‍♀️Alternative facts had NOTHING to do with his confirmation./s

Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

The time-traveling power of genes! Great respect to the biologists/horticulturists who carefully grew such ancient seeds.
(A remotely related botany/classics/archaeology question: palm fronds awarded for victory in the ancient world were from which species? Various? 🤔 Is knowing even possible?)

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Both sexes are day-flying, so yes, it did cooperate. 🌟
www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Anis....

Pink-striped oakworm moth Anisota virginiensis (Drury, 1773) | Butterflies and Moths of North America

www.butterfliesandmoths.org

Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so perfect that it must have been newly eclosed. And maybe in daylight its natural behavior is to stay still(?)
(Looking for more species info now . . .)