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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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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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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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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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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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Mr. Shadow the low-albedo bun asks isn't every day Rabbit Day? And where are my veggies, hoomin? With @terpsinoe.bsky.social
Reclining rabbit with luxurious dark fur and an adorable white paw and beepable nose stares you down.
September 29, 2024 at 3:47 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
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A snap not from our garden today but in Leu Gardens in town. Fortunate to get a super cool view of an adorable little sweat bee working hard! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social. Love that you can see the detail in the eyes
Photo of a vibrantly green sweat bee working on a flower.
November 22, 2023 at 10:04 PM
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Pileated woodpecker visiting our neighborhood! In a far-too-zoomed in cell phone photo :) . This was one of a pair of pileateds actually, both finding lots of yummy bugs in this tree, om nom nom. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social
Photo of a pileated woodpecker hanging on the side of big tree.
November 19, 2023 at 4:11 AM
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Love the colorful puffballs that our sweet acacia trees make. Beautiful bits in an amazing thorny tree. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social
The puffball flower of a sweet acacia tree.
November 11, 2023 at 2:49 AM
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IRTF shift tonight (remotely), but that means I get to watch Subaru's beautiful live night-sky Youtube channel while observing (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MFW...). Oh y'know just another night with a nifty view of Jupiter, Pleiades, and Keck shooting a laser :)
Nighttime view of the summit of Mauna Kea from the Subaru telescope
November 3, 2023 at 6:12 AM
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Scenes from a garden : our Florida Paintbrush is blooming now! Look at all the structure in those flowers. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social
Florida paintbrush in bloom
October 24, 2023 at 3:07 PM
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Deepest eclipse for us now! About 60% coverage, but enough to do something semi artsy with it :) . With @terpsinoe.bsky.social
Projection of partial solar eclipse onto the ground through gaps in leaves Projection of a partial solar eclipse through holes in a colander.
October 14, 2023 at 5:43 PM