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Yan Fernandez
@yanfernandez.bsky.social
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Hoopy frood, companion to rabbits, astronomer
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The night-blooming Cereus that's blooming right now, tonight!, at #MeadGardens . For one day only only only (well maybe tomorrow too).... With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Closeup of the yellow fuzzy pistil of a cereus flower, with several beads of water. Yellow stamens are in the background. There are also white feathery petals in the background. Cereus cactus flower with feathery white petals and several delicate beads of water, and with a pale yellow pistil & stamens, on a dark brown background
May 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Lots of things blooming now at #LeuGardens in #Orlando! Here's a skipper working on some globe amaranth today. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Orange skipper butterfly with dark wing markings facing slightly away from view with proboscis extended, on a pink fluffy amaranth flower, and several more such flowers in the background.
May 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Simpsons stopper is blooming in #Orlando now! And the pollinators do enjoy it. Really fragrant stuff. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Honey bee with much fluff and fast beating wings works on a bright whitish yellow cluster of Simpson stopper flowers A pair of love bugs, each with a bright red spot below their head, and connected in the usual way, simultaneously show they can do two things at once by working on a cluster of white Simpson stopper flowers
April 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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yanfernandez.bsky.social Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · Feb 22
I love the week or so in late winter here in #Orlando when the Tabebuia are blooming! Lots of trees around town right now dressed in such bright bold fervent yellow. So gorgeous. These pics are by Casa Feliz in @winterparkfla.bsky.social . With @terpsinoe.bsky.social
Pair of clusters of yellow tabebuia flowers with their branches coming in from the left, and a bit of Spanish moss hanging. Mixed blue and cloudy white sky in background Oodles of bright yellow tabebuia flowers on a tabebuia tree , brown branches, cloudy sky at the top
February 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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I love the week or so in late winter here in #Orlando when the Tabebuia are blooming! Lots of trees around town right now dressed in such bright bold fervent yellow. So gorgeous. These pics are by Casa Feliz in @winterparkfla.bsky.social . With @terpsinoe.bsky.social
Pair of clusters of yellow tabebuia flowers with their branches coming in from the left, and a bit of Spanish moss hanging. Mixed blue and cloudy white sky in background Oodles of bright yellow tabebuia flowers on a tabebuia tree , brown branches, cloudy sky at the top
February 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Our very happy Carolina jessamine is blooming! It's been pretty consistent for us showing off the yellow flowers in the garden every late winter/early spring for many years now. And the vine sure isn't shy about growing over everything. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Thick chaos of many trumpet-like yellow jessamine flowers among its green vine leaves. Three yellow jessamine flowers looking straight at the viewer from out of a dense field of green leaves and vines
February 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Are you a nature enthusiast who uses an app to help you identify species? I’m conducting a research study to understand how people use nature ID apps, what role apps play in observing, and what users like or dislike about apps. If you’re interested in participating, see terpsinoe.com/study
Nature ID app study
I am conducting a research project to study how people use nature identification apps, which are tools whose main purpose is to help people identify species of plants, animals, or fungi. For exampl…
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February 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Herons here love a good car roof. Seen at @ucf.bsky.social today. #ClassicFlorida 🌿
Little blue heron enjoying the view from a white car roof, with brick buildings in the background and a stark blue cloudless sky
January 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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This was a few days ago at big #LakeApopka here in #Orlando, super calm with a mirror for a lake. This gator was lazily swimming on a beautiful day. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Lake reflecting the pale blue sky and puffy clouds, distant shore splits the scene in half, with foliage in the left foreground, and an alligator in the middle distance.
January 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Chillin barred owl at #MeadGardens here in #Orlando! Sees all, knows all, wants a snack. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Photo of a barred owl facing left sitting on a tree branch in woods with lots of Spanish moss
November 27, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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FULL TIME: Orlando Pride 1-0 Washington Spirit. THE ORLANDO PRIDE ARE 2024 NWSL CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!! #ORLvWAS
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Really tough week this week. Thankful for the distraction of getting to watch this sweat bee, paying me no mind as it goes about its business on garberia flowers. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social at #WekiwaSprings 🌿
Green sweat bee with beautiful metallic body working on a group of light pink garberia flowers
November 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Enki wants to know why the new box of hay hasn't been opened yet.
A black and orange rabbit expectantly sits on a box of hay.
November 5, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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Was going to swing over to UCF to do this, but I see someone just did today 🤣
November 2, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Saw a few degrees of tail too, faintly through binocs, even from Orlando! ☄️🔭 #C2023A3
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Saw the comet! It's hazy out but we got it through the spotting scope. With @yanfernandez.bsky.social
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas through a spotting scope. Can see the head and part of the tail.
October 14, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Lake levels are kind of high here in Central FL after #Milton came through last night. Here're a couple of juvenile little-blue herons taking advantage of that. Still have their white feathers! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Two still-white juvenile little blue herons hunt for snacks at the shore of a lake, with woods and a building seen far on the opposite shore
October 10, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Getting in just under the wire with an Enki photo for International Rabbit Day! @yanfernandez.bsky.social
A brown and black rabbit naps on the floor in front of a box of hay. His ears are relaxed and he looks content.
September 29, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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Very curly forked bluecurl blooming in the yard now! Each flower only lasts like a day and then falls.... But our plant has a bunch of them so it's staggering them, heh. Clever. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Photo of a forked bluecurl flower, very curly stamens and very purple.
September 24, 2024 at 5:13 AM
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Florida-native goldenrod is blooming here in Orlando, and the bugs are enjoying it! Love the color of this wasp's wings. And you can see its little tongue! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Wasp with iridescent wings working on goldenrod flowers Wasp sticking out its tongue to get at some goldenrod flowers.
September 13, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Gulf fritillary caterpillars (and their big hairy spikes!) have arrived in our yard here in Orlando! Here's one resting on one of our passionflower vines. It's probably thinking about what part of the vine to eat next. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Close-up photo of a orange gulf-fritillary caterpillar with its usual, numerous black spikes clinging to a passion vine, with some foliage in the background.
April 18, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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I was fortunate enough to spend some time outside of Tucson earlier when the desert was blooming! Managed to catch a bee totally loving life in this Mexican golden poppy. 🌿
Photo of the flower of a Mexican golden poppy, with a honeybee near the center covered very thoroughly in pollen.
March 12, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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Our lychee tree here in Orlando is now showing these tiny flowers. It tries hard in our slightly-too-cold climate but we don't know if the tree will ever actually give us fruit. But there was an ant that REALLY enjoyed the nectar. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Zoomed-in photo of many lychee tree flowers, each with several long stamens. Zoomed-in photo of many lychee tree flowers, with the central flower hosting a highly diligent ant working hard at drinking nectar.
March 9, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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A bee working hard on this False Rosemary! Cool that you can see the tongue on one of the photos too. Seen today at one of the native-plant gardens at Mead Gardens in Winter Park FL. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Photo of a honeybee working on the flowers of a False Rosemary plant. Photo of a honeybee working on the flowers of a False Rosemary plant.
March 2, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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The viburnum is blooming here in central FL ! Love these little guys. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
A cluster of newly bloomed Viburnum obovatum flowers, plus some others that will soon open up. A cluster of newly bloomed Viburnum obovatum flowers, plus some others that will soon open up.
February 25, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Not from our own garden, but from Leu Gardens here in Orlando. Love that this great purple hairstreak stayed still long enough for a snap :) It was even wiggling its wings! So adorbs. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿
Photo of a great purple hairstreak butterfly feeding on a flower.
December 2, 2023 at 4:20 AM