In which researchers learn about cicada "towers" and how they function by putting condoms over them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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In which researchers learn about cicada "towers" and how they function by putting condoms over them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I just want to make sure that people who see the headline and then are blocked from reading further by the paywall are not misled!
this feels like it's implying that this is a new discovery, but we've known about Amazon mollies and whiptail lizards for a long time.
I got a zenfone 10 bc it was one of the only non-iphone smallish phones I could find, and it's already almost out of security updates but the new ones are too giant 😭
Okay, it’s supposed to be #SmallBirdSaturday, but I really couldn’t resist posting this one I captured this morning in an apartment parking lot in Oakland, California #Photography #Birds #California #Oakland #Urban 📷
I'll never forget visiting Kewalo Marine Lab decades ago to give a seminar, after which Prof. Mike Hadfield showed me a room full of fridges full of endangered land snails-for some species I think the only ones left were in that room. So I loved this #EarthOptimism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/s...
A little eastern red backed salamander hanging out in a divet in the dirt with both their butt and face directed at the camera
Who taught this salamander how to look back at it??
A particularly pretty Banded wedge shell (Donax vittatus).
County Clare, Ireland.
Cormacscoast.com walking tours
Want to learn how to build native bee habitat? (screws not included.) Here you go! xerces.org/publications...
true, AOC is not all that far left
Pleurobranch biology! Poops and shrimps! #molluscmonday youtu.be/UaHYX39Uu9E?...
Cirripedia cyprid larva. Barnacles (Cirripedia) are surprisingly crustaceans, and have 2 larval stages in the plankton: the nauplius and the cyprid.
Video by Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social
plus lemon juice, garlic, thai chilis, paprika, cayenne, and some vegetable broth. and salt of course
dinner tonight was braised cabbage with sausage, three corner garlic I found by the beach, and peppers over rice. I love food
A hand-drawn digital painting by the artist Dhiyanah Hassan of three garden eels on the ocean floor. The one in thr foreground is painted in more detail, sticking out from the sand and slightly bending its head towards streams of light depicted in a soft lilac tone, part of the dynamic shading of the piece. The other two are in the background, facing the opposite direction but similarly looking up at the light rays. The background is a mix of textured and blurry, wuth some grains of sand highlighted.
Revisiting a fave, experimenting with different brushes and gestures for this study of Spotted Garden Eels #SundayFishSketch 🐡
#art #SciArt #fish #fishArt #wildlife #wildlifeArt #nature #artists
Bug (not a beetle, an actual bug) siting on a twig. The insect is large(ish) and round(ish) with a bright orange back edged with iridescent green. There are six big iridescent green blobs on the back, like a colourful but not very interpretable Rorschach test. Photo: Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland, Australia.
Just found this female Cotton/Hibiscus Harlequin Bug (Tectocoris diophthalma, Scutelleridae) chilling on a native Gardenia. Have now moved all the potted Hibiscus out of temptation's way.
Stunning insect. Females are orange with blue-green; males are blue-green with orange.
A photo showing the American Robin and its scientific name Turdus migratorius. Referencing the US fish and wildlife service
Blue Jay: My scientific name is Cyanocitta cristata
American Robin: Oh that's beautiful, I don't know mine, not sure if I have one
Surrealism drawing of a swan combining with a building
The queen of Millennium🦢
#birdart #illustration #swan #cozyart #digitalart #surrealism #animalart #bird #originalart
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A macro photo of a cream-colored crab spider clinging to the tip of a cream-colored flower petal, against a blue sky background. The spider is far left in the frame; in the lower right the flower shows dark red and greenish-yellow stripes toward the petals' centers.
Here is your Saturday Spider 🕷️
(A tiny crab spider waiting for meal delivery on a scale bud flower, Mojave Desert) #BugSky 🐙🌿📷
Look at this beautiful male Smooth Newt I saw today!
this feels short sighted to me. lots of paths besides "mathematician" need more math knowledge, like biologists, statisticians, engineers, contractors, etc. in school, kids won't yet know what jobs they'll pursue, so it makes more sense to give them the basis that will set them up well in any path.
Triton snail laying eggs. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 755 #chilemargin2024 #MarineLife
Finished! #appliqué #wool #suespargo #Poppyfield #embroidery
lmao how is this rude it's just a plainly stated fact 😂
A skinny sea slug with vivid fluorescent colors
#Nudivember Day 05- Tambja affinis
(i will not be catching up, so you may get these for the rest of the year!)
🦑 🐌 🐠 🐡 #Invert
There are two mantises in the backyard I know of that I'm keeping an eye on! And this one's getting so big!
I check on them everyday 🥺🌱🪲
In what many are calling "probably not a great idea in retrospect" several US states set their borders as "where the Mississippi is when we wrote this down"
Illustration on orange paper of a three headed sea Naga against a black sky with stars. Waves fuel around the body of the naga and a boat can be seen. Ink and white gouache with hatch shading
Illustration of a 3 headed naga for a game from 2022
