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Good morning, please have a nice bug. #invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky *Rosy Maple Moth in the Pine Barrens

This katydid from Ecuador has been affectionately named by photographers "candy-cane katydid". The truth is... we are not sure which species it is. One possibility is a Harroweria nymph, but until someone witnesses the transformation into the adult stage it will remain a mystery.

I love when a non-birder Notices A Bird and Thinks It's An Emergency. It's my favorite type of FB post.

Did you see the deep-sea anglerfish that bubbled up to the surface? Did you wonder WHAT IN THE DING DANG HECK it was doing there? I talked to some scientists to find out everything I could! HT @sternarchella.bsky.social, @mbarinews.bsky.social 🧪🦑 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Stag with the normal number of legs on a frozen pond (wasp boy 🖤)

Back on the other website I made a whole thread on the size of ocean animals in relation to Bernie Sanders. These crabs are so much bigger than people realize

she is beauty she is grace she has melted cheese for face

SOOTHING BIRD FACT Megapodes, bizarre turkey-like birds found in Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and on other islands in that region, bury their eggs in mounds and then abandon them, turtle-style. The chicks hatch, dig themselves out, and are immediately self-sufficient. 🪶

The world is covered in teeny jewels! An ab fab Genus Arhyssus Scentless Plant Bug for #TrueBugTuesday #becurious #inverts

Look at this absolute unit.

Really excited about this one. I present: The Greatest eBird Checklists in the USA! Thanks to @audubon.org and eBird for all your help! www.audubon.org/magazine/the...

We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl. 🦉

Here’s a great guide on how to photograph owls carefully and in a way that doesn’t stress or harm them. Our human fascination with owls can unfortunately make us a danger to them. #EthicalPhotography #birds #SuperbOwl

Seeing lots of amazing owl pics today in honor of the #SuperbOwl. If YOU can't seem to get a decent owl photo, don't feel bad. This is what most owl pics look like. (I have 4 diff. species, tho!) 🪶

The largest (Blakiston's fish owl) and the smallest (elf owl). Both are #SuperbOwl 🦉🌍🧪 (graphic from www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...)

wrote about the pink peeing dolphins <3 love them defector.com/think-river-...

Well, you all might as well know about this.

May we all have the energy and determination of the tiny but mighty Carolina Wren #birds 🌿

While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.

Always respect the Heron Reflection. It's where the Heron Soul resides. Where the Heron connects, shimmering, with its world.

God, I wish I were a tardigrade on the moon.

yeah, it's about that time of the day to throw your phone against the wall and go touch moss again

Things are weird and bad so here, stop and take a bird break. Here's a bird. Look at it. REGARD THE BIRD. (photo by me)

10am and it's got so dark in my flat that I've had to turn on the big light because the smaller light wasn't doing the job, 10am, anyone who pretends to love British winter is a sick freak who deserves social shunning

I think if you wrote up ten left-wing policies in this way - emphasising only their positive intent rather than their plausibility or negatives - you could also get net positives for all of them.

welcome to the 384th Monday in January.

When Monday sneaks up with no warning...again. #MondayMotivation

The general sense of everything going to hell in a hand-basket isn’t the best thing to layer on top of my usual January blues but this weekend I got to watch a beautiful Barn Owl emerge from its nest box and start hunting at dusk, floating silently over the fields like a ghost. #birds

so much current AI stuff offered to the public is basically this Mean Girls scene

The problem with ChatGPT is that you can only know whether it's answer is wrong "modestly coherent" or "extremely proficient" if you already knew what it was.

Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨ tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk

This red-breasted nuthatch was very busy foraging among the spruce cones. He paused for just a second before heading off to another bunch of cones, and I think he has a spruce seed in his beak! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

We're having a discussion about which interesting animal behaviour would be terrifying on a different species. The rules are a) it can't be an immediate danger to you b) it has to be so scary you would stop filming and leave. Feel free to play along. The current winner is vulture murmuration.

I finally know how it feels for a football fan when their team wins something huge. I don't want uncloaked I want a bus top parade. #TheTraitorsUK #TheTraitors

Everybody saying Linda was a bad actress, but Freddie was like hold my fizzy rose #TheTraitorsUK

Frankie proving that even a stopped clock is right twice a day! #traitorsuk

By getting everything wrong all the time, Frankie has got the ultimate thing right 😂 #TheTraitorsUK

Leanne: “Did you know I had a shield?” Freddie: “Uh, I think so. Minah told me.” #TheTraitorsUK

beep, beep motherfuckers! Bus coming through! #TheTraitors #Traitors

Charlotte is ruthless but this strategy is SO dangerous with Freddie in the mix. All Leanne needs to do is say "only Freddie and Alexander didn't know" and it exposes to him how Charlotte is using him. I think she's trying to play this *too* smartly now... #TheTraitors bsky.app/profile/jayc...

Lovely to see Gary Barlow's massive son getting consistent work. #TheTraitors

Leanne, the person lying about her job for the whole series, is upset that people thinks she’s two faced #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK

Minah: “I feel like Charlotte wouldn’t throw me under a bus” Smash cut to Charlotte looking archly at the camera dressed as Wile E Coyote diligently receiving a giant box labelled in foot high letters “Acme Patented Minah Under Bus Throwing Machine”. #thetraitors

"I can't work out why I'm still here," I ask repeatedly at a point in the game which there's a 28% chance I'd survive until #thetraitors

DEATH ON A ROOMBA. #TheTraitors

The faithfuls are tripping over their own Main Character Syndrome today #thetraitors #thetraitorsuk #traitorsuk #traitors

“I’d be doing a disunjustice to myself” oh Freddie my sweet summer child #TheTraitorsUK

It was never right, Joe, but never mind. #TheTraitors

INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS #TheTraitors