Someone asked me for a time series of the Monstera I just rehomed, so I made this. Not sure how Bluesky is going to handle the photo format, but 🤷. 🌱🪴

Which newly described froglet factory are you? I'm Udzungwa glandular tree toad.

This is how we do bird feeders in our small #UrbsInHorto #Chicago garden. #gardening #NativePlants #birds #ecosystem #GrowYourOwn 🌱

They've got amazing flowers if you can manage to get your Echeveria to try it. 🪴🌱

I went to the local park to visit the (probable) tallest American chestnuts on earth. The city recently installed a barrier to reduce foot traffic, but they're also inexplicably raking all the leaves and detritus away without mulch replacement. I wish they wouldn't. 🌱🌿 @tomkimmerer.bsky.social

Rise and shine! It’s time for whimsy! #WhimsyWednesday

Hahaha, this moth made me laugh out loud. I didn't know a bug could sploot, it's SO ADORABLE.

In 2022 our first freeze of the year came astonishingly late, on Nov 4th during a snowstorm. None of the trees were dormant & my apricot tree was obliterated. That was the first year I had harvested any apricots from it. I've replaced the tree but the new one hasn't ripened any fruit yet.🤞for 2026🌱

Update: things are getting crowded in the orchid terrarium. 🪴🌱🟢 bsky.app/profile/fish...

A haiku inspired by this festive fall scene. yesterday falling feeds today's decomposers while tomorrow waits 🍄📷

Parasites? pah!.... Here the bunnies have proper enemies, from the Wild Wood - stoats, weasels & crows. And decent parents - kind, rural country folks, who look out for their kits and who do their best by them.

Finally brought the rest of the tender houseplants inside from the greenhouse. Some of them were secretly beautiful! The only things left outside are things that need a cool winter rest like Dendrobium & Cymbidium orchids, jungle cacti, Hippeastrum, & Clivia. Fingers crossed for spring blooms! 🪴🌱

A hole in a bedrock stream deep enough to hide who knows what...but probably westslope cutthroat trout. 🐟 #hydrology

@cageyratfish.bsky.social How are you doing? We've missed you...

I love a bedrock stream. Imagine taking what is already the most beautiful part of a landscape and magically infusing it with whimsy and architectural zen. #hydrology

Does anybody need a lucky rabbit's foot? Make sure you choose the right costume this Halloween or climate change means your pelage phenology will be mismatched and the boogeyman will find you. HAPPY HALLOWEEN CREEPERS 🦊🌎

I learned a new word today from this spooky @biographic.bsky.social article: inquiline It describes organisms that are squatters; not quite parasites, but camp out in someone else's niche (e.g., spiders that intercept insects lured by plants) www.biographic.com/a-novel-demi... #nativeplants #虫 🌎🐍

I love autumn larches because they make it feel sunny even when it's not. Truly a tree to live by. #nativeplants 🌱🌿

Looking at the figures, it appears big ass homes with lavish landscaping are the main drivers, which makes sense. I wonder how rich people feel about these data, though. Is there a correlation between income and invertebrate tolerance? #invert 🌎🌱

Cold brewed mushroom and redcedar tea, nature style. 🍄📷

I found you a little snowy sphagnum moss spring. #nativeplants #hydrology

I almost had an out-of-body experience this morning learning about the otter shrew - something that I, an incorrigible animal nerd in his 40s, did not know existed. It's like a fever dream hybrid of a caiman and an ROUS from The Princess Bride that belongs in Avatar, the Last Airbender. WHAT?!🦊

October 29: the day the leopard slug found the jack-o-lantern. #invert 🌱

A very interesting court ruling from the U.S. District Court of Montana that asserts that building or reopening roads in grizzly bear habitat and claiming that you'll do your best to omit illegal access but otherwise ignoring trespass is a NEPA violation. 🦊🌎 www.courthousenews.com/montana-logg...

I'm sad, these 3 kitty sisters were best friends this morning. But after being spayed at the Humane Society today, they put them back in the same crate while they were still disoriented & in pain. I think they associated the trauma with each other & now hate each other. 😭🐈 bsky.app/profile/fish...

How did we end up in this environmental hostage situation where companies agree not to destroy extant wildlife habitat in one place in exchange for carte blanche to impact it somewhere else? This is still a significant net loss. Fix some place that's broken. 🪶🧪 eastoregonian.com/2025/10/26/o...

BRAND NEW SENTENCE LEVEL RESEARCH Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps. There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ah yes, the most famous epiphyte...water lettuce. 🪴

Who ever heard of a BLACK HOLE PANCAKE? This birthday boy, I swear.

HR will be thrilled to hear that my cactus from the breakroom at work has finally sprouted a third bud at the base so that it will someday look less...like this. IT WASN'T MY IDEA OR MY FAULT. 🪴

Foster kitty mandala. 🐈

The nine year old wanted a space themed party, so Laura made him solar system cakes!

Sorry about the delayed response to your email, I have been very busy hanging out with these snails and watching the collapse of society from under a mushroom. #虫 🍄📷

Check out this video of bats swooping out of an aardvark burrow as a genet snoops around the entrance! Incredible, I knew tunnels were diversity hotspots (e.g., tortoises), but I didn't realize the scale involved. 🦊🌎 Story here: www.biographic.com/aardvark-bur... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYvI...

What do a leaf, a twig, a pinecone, and a single moose turd have in common? Nature won't waste any of them. 🍄📷🌎

Find the Halloween spider! 🕷️

If you have a minute, I recommend this informative & objective article about land use in Idaho, describing federal land (e.g., Forest Service & BLM), state trust land (where I work as a biologist), and why transferring federal land to state ownership is infeasible now. www.ktvb.com/article/news...

There are some extremely audacious deer in my parents' yard, who left their garden/orchard gate open. I had to get within 20 meters of them before they left, haha. I don't think they've been fed directly, but these lush weeds are apparently deer candy. Whitetail does are seriously so beautiful. 🦊

Beautiful weather for a hot dog roast.

I don't know if I have followers from Georgia, but the fact that the Power Commission is a statewide election where only a few people will vote is fascinating. Just a bit of outreach could swing this election, so...here's my endorsement to GO VOTE! Share if you want. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...

From the archives for sp👀ky season: a male tarantula wanders his Grand Canyon domain on October 22, 2009. #虫

Get a degree in natural resources, they said. It will be fun, they said. They were right! 🐟

I'm a little sad about the way these foster kittens knead biscuits and try to nurse from their fuzzy cushion at bedtime. Seems like they were separated from mom too early and are a little despondent about it, but otherwise they seem to be adjusting and growing well. 🐈

As a chicken tender I can attest that these are very lifelike and, in fact, the chickens want to eat all the other forms of life.

Yesterday I brought most of the small houseplants inside from the cheap backyard greenhouse where I had a space heater at 40F (4C) to keep them from freezing. It really brightens up the indoor living space, I have missed them over the summer. I still need to make room for the Monsteras somehow. 😬🌱🪴

Controversial opinion: stop relocating the recovering endangered species from its pond full of fish. Just fence dog owners away from the waterfront. 🐍 "FWC urges anyone who spots a crocodile over 4 feet long in a...populated place to call the state’s nuisance hotline"🙄 mynews13.com/fl/orlando/n...

Look how surprisingly beautiful the seeds are from my Kentucky blue wisteria (W. macrostachya)! They're striped like little pinto beans and I love them. 🌱 #nativeplants (well, native to the Southeast and Midwest, at least, instead of another hemisphere)

Pacific salmon are semelparous (breed once, then die), so by the time they reach their spawning grounds, they're really all just carcasses or pre-carcs (I'm not dead yet!). Interesting to see some spawned out fish that stubbornly refuse death. 🐟 Kinda feels like we're all just pre-carcs these days.

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎 www.opb.org/article/2025...

The Hoya gracilis in the basement is blooming again. It smells like caramel or butterscotch. It has barely grown over the last year. I don't know what its problem is, but at least it's not dying...yet. 🌱🪴