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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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alala55.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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To walk in this forest is transporting. The huge, ancient trees produce such pure oxygen—and are so awe- inspiring—that a relatively small human breathing in their beauty is overwhelmed with joy.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#MorneDiablotinNationalPark #Dominica #LesserAntilles
View up to the sky in a dense, leafy forest. The truck of an immense tree reaches to the sky.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
wikidgarden.bsky.social
Looking for a healthy home enhanced with gardens full of life?
🦋🐝🐞🐛🐜🪲🐧🦉🐦‍⬛🪺🦅
#naturalists #Nativeplants #plantconservation #ecology #ecosystem #houseforsale #Massachusetts #pollinators #birds #Gardening #invertebrates #foodweb #habitat
elisnativeplants.bsky.social Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 8d
Our house will be listed today. I'm going to miss the gardens that I poured my heart and soul into for the past three years. I will definitely consider who will keep the birds and the bees safe and fed when considering offers.

#nativeplants #ecoregion59 #actonMA #houseforsale
Hibiscus blooming by the path along the walkway, with sedges, Cardinal Flowers, Echinacea, and Jerusalem Artichokes in the background. Along the steeply sloping driveway is the main pollinator garden and budding food forest. Swamp Milkweed, Bee Balm, Little and Big Bluestem and young Jerusalem Artichokes are growing up in front of the Canadian Elderberry and Pokeweed Eastern Prickly Pear cactus with yellow flowers, over a loose rock retaining wall by the driveway A full view of the gardens and Sugar Maple in front, with Bee Balm blooming. This is last year, before the Elderberries were so large.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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graves13.bsky.social
Also, his wife is Gabby Giffords who was shot point blank in the head at a political event outside a grocery store and barely survived. Mark sttod by his wife through all of her rehabilitation - their love was a thing of beauty. That's another reason why AZ stands behind Mark Kelly. Hell of a man.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
wikidgarden.bsky.social
Attempting to incite violence; challenged to spell.

Standard American English is not so difficult.

Rather than “Conservative’s” (🙄 possessive), the plural would be conservatives.
nickturse.bsky.social Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 4d
Meanwhile on TruthSocial...

Shared today by President Trump
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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#Butterflies #Naturalists #Birds #Nature #Conservation #Rewild
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wikidgarden.bsky.social Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 4d
☀️Butterflies—and birds—powered by the November sun today:
Northern Tropical Buckeye, Tropical Checkered Skipper, Cattle Egrets, White Peacocks.
(near Everglades National Park, Homestead entrance)
Perched on a white flower is a brown- gray butterfly with white marks across its forewings, orange stripes (as if for military rank) on its “shoulders,” and eyespots of different sizes—two on the forewing, two on the hind wing. Each eyespot shines blue in the center with a tawny outer ring edged in black. Lower wing edges have a wavy rick-rack pattern and a fringe of scales. Tiny butterfly with speckled with white on dark gray is perched on a blade of grass, antennae spread wide. Close to its darker body its scales appear long and furry. Its broad head and large eye are visible, as are its tiny suggestion of “tails.” Apparently it is freshly eclosed, as its wings are pristine. White birds with long necks and yellow beaks stand on a grassy, weedy bank, one with wings open. Three are warily looking toward the camera. Low in close-cropped weeds, two butterflies have landed. They are bright white with wavy, tawny markings and eyespots on their wings. Sun highlights their brown eyes, tawny legs and antennae. The larger butterfly’s wings look slightly crimped, as if she had trouble escaping her chrysalis. The smaller butterfly, likely a male trying to court the larger female, seems to have suffered a bird strike. Part of his lower wings are missing. No matter—the sun is shining, and the species must continue.
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
wikidgarden.bsky.social
☀️Butterflies—and birds—powered by the November sun today:
Northern Tropical Buckeye, Tropical Checkered Skipper, Cattle Egrets, White Peacocks.
(near Everglades National Park, Homestead entrance)
Perched on a white flower is a brown- gray butterfly with white marks across its forewings, orange stripes (as if for military rank) on its “shoulders,” and eyespots of different sizes—two on the forewing, two on the hind wing. Each eyespot shines blue in the center with a tawny outer ring edged in black. Lower wing edges have a wavy rick-rack pattern and a fringe of scales. Tiny butterfly with speckled with white on dark gray is perched on a blade of grass, antennae spread wide. Close to its darker body its scales appear long and furry. Its broad head and large eye are visible, as are its tiny suggestion of “tails.” Apparently it is freshly eclosed, as its wings are pristine. White birds with long necks and yellow beaks stand on a grassy, weedy bank, one with wings open. Three are warily looking toward the camera. Low in close-cropped weeds, two butterflies have landed. They are bright white with wavy, tawny markings and eyespots on their wings. Sun highlights their brown eyes, tawny legs and antennae. The larger butterfly’s wings look slightly crimped, as if she had trouble escaping her chrysalis. The smaller butterfly, likely a male trying to court the larger female, seems to have suffered a bird strike. Part of his lower wings are missing. No matter—the sun is shining, and the species must continue.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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lizetkruyff.bsky.social
It's time that we all come together and #support #Ukraine again, so restarting my daily paintings and pictures of #Sunflowers. Let's keep our focus on this.

Henri Matisse - Vase of Sunflowers
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
wikidgarden.bsky.social
Tree of souls
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Ficus aurea: In a Miami hammock remnant, a Field Biologist looks up in reverence. Of all tropical hardwood hammock trees, studies show this species best provides for migrant neotropical birds.
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Gift article:
#Butterflies #Conservation🌎 #Rewild #NativePlants #StingsandWings
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
wikidgarden.bsky.social
A beautiful day in the neighborhood gets more beautiful when you discover Atala eggs in your South Florida urban swale garden. edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/...

#NativePlants #Butterflies #Gardening #Rewild #Conservation
On a ridged green leaflet are 10 cream-colored eggs shaped like fat discs. Ornamented with spiky red-brown scales from their mother’s body, they are protected by Cycasin, a toxin sequestered from the host plant, Zamia integrifolia, North America’s only native cycad.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
👉
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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It a balmy 75°F, and the Keys Blackbead—Pithecellobium keyense—has decided to turn a Miami “landscape” into paradise.
Honeybees and a Hammock Skipper (rare in this hood) revel in a super-abundance of pinkish powderpuffs. #NativePlants #Naturalists #Rewild #Invertebrates #Butterflies #Gardening
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
wikidgarden.bsky.social
Leaders of the free world.
wartranslated.bsky.social WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 15d
Zelensky arrived at the front in the Zaporizhzhia region.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Zelensky arrived at the front in the Zaporizhzhia region.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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thebeeguy.bsky.social
Bee

Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep.

In these tawdry times, dream elegant dreams…

#bee #goodnight #dream
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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arepublicif.bsky.social
PLEASE TELL ME @democrats.senate.gov how we can be nine years into this dumpster fire and you still have a less nuanced understanding of our plight than my children do?

You are elected and paid to know better.

DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.

#GOPShutdown
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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eddsmitty.bsky.social
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 When we hear "Black Panthers", the first thought that comes to mind is the militant political party that came into existence in the mid-1960s.

They were not the first.(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

www.history.com/articles/761...
The Original Black Panthers Fought in the 761st Tank Battalion During WWII | HISTORY
These African American heroes battled the Nazis, but were still treated as second-class citizens in their home country.
www.history.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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boghuma.bsky.social
If you read and watch one thing today it should be this pice accompanying @agawande.bsky.social documentary.
"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention.

THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
Africa's natural wildlife 'power' has nearly collapsed
Scientists warn that losing Africa’s large animals is draining ecosystem energy and reshaping the continent’s biodiversity.
www.earth.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
wikidgarden.bsky.social
The Faithful Beauty, a day-flying moth, in a Key Largo, FL, coastal hammock preserve today. Thanks to @rmj827.bsky.social for spotting, camera, lens, and 📸processing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composi...

#Butterflies #Moths #Naturalists #NativePlants #Habitat
On dark green leaves rests what appears to be a butterfly—actually a moth. Its wings are black and spangled with brilliant red and white dots. Iridescent blue lights its abdomen and central wing surfaces. Its head and thorax are black dotted by white. Its spectacular appearance signals that it’s toxic. As a caterpillar, it fed on Devil’s Potato. 💀
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Important work by Oversight.democrats.house.gov
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM