BOOP! These little goobers are so cute! Annual Cicada (Tribe Tibicinini) #inverts #TrueBug #becurious

Happy #WorldSnakeDay! Narcisse, Manitoba, Canada is home to the largest seasonal concentration of snakes in the world. Every year, upwards of 50,000 red-sided garter snakes congregate there to hibernate in limestone caves below the frost line. It's the largest of several hibernacula the region. 🐍🌿

Found a new favorite place! Actually found it last year, but a bit too late in the season to see it at its summertime best. It’s in the greater Sangre de Cristo range of southern Colorado… It was a butterfly paradise!

Fly Dragonfly!!

“I know a ditch.” Every other week, we have to leave the office mid-morning for maintenance duties. Husband asked me what park I was going to. Because he knows what I love. But… 1/4

EXACTLY. It’s not that solar itself is bad, it’s that giving everything a pass because it’s solar is a bad faith argument. Especially in what little “natural” landscapes we have left. The shading parking lots alone would make a huge difference with urban heat.

From Chester Zoo, I give you: bush dogs, native to South America. They're like a weasel crossed with a Corgi that swallowed a toy squeaker. These little guys are named Rolo, Chomp, Munchie, and Freddo. Let's learn about these tiny 'vinegar dogs' (who are quite fierce!). (📷: Chester Zoo via FB)

Today!!!

Best bug color pallet ever! It's one of the few katydids that's actually toxic so these wild colors give predators a warning. #Moncheca elegans ☆ Wild Sumaco Ecolodge #katydid #purplebug #Ecuador #cloudforesr

A1: My favorite parks are RED. Either filled with redwood trees in California or the red rocks of southern Utah. It's not so much the color, but the intensity! #ParkChat

this is fine

Working through some Mountain Bluebird data, needed a break, figured I'd share this great photo, taken up in the Bodie Hills in California! (And now going to get some coffee....) Hope you're having a beautiful bluebird kind of day, yourself!

Having this livestreaming on my work computer since Friday has finally paid off.

In the forest, after the rain… The biggest slime mold I’ve ever seen! Fuligo septica 🌿 1/3

The exquisite female Blue Dasher #invertebrates #BugSky 🌿 #dragonflies

Underwater architects

Occupied but deep in the retreat. BUT! It stuck a little pisidium clam on its case. Northern Case Maker Caddisfly (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) 🌿

So. Many. Cats. in the replies 😻

I have claimed this spurge-nettle for all of Crabdom 🦀

It's been hot enough here that it's a stand-in for Venus From NASA: Using a helicopter to simulate a slow fall through Venus’ atmosphere, the DAVINCI team confirmed that their probe’s descent imaging system can read the landscape below & deliver results. go.nasa.gov/4f1TqpB

Tower Falls

Muddycat and the Zimmer Frame.

Hi friends~ Thank you to those who have supported @muddycat.bsky.social’s GFM. If you’re following Muddy, you’ve seen the pics of IVs & the magic T-Cells. You’ve also seen the Cat Crew, the firehouse, the sunsets, etc. But I’m going to share something…I am very suspicious some of GFM.

Slaty Skimmer #BlueSkyMonday #dragonflies #nature #photography

Bug-Beg-Tax Golden Velvet Beetle on Ranger Buttons 🪲(Lepturobosca chrysocoma) 🌿(Angelica capitellata)

There's a widely-used visual assessment technique that is used to get a quick "drive-by" status of stream health. Unfortunately, a new study finds that it is pretty useless. 🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2026/07/stre...

He was all of us in the summer of '93

And we’re back for our traditional semi-occasional streamflow observation on the Truckee River. Midsummer and we’ve halved the flow to ≈550 cfs at 9 AM.

This is *exactly* why the carousel feature was built.

Listen to #KUNRPublicRadio's On the Shelf Monday at 6:42 am, 8:42 am, 3:48 pm, and 9:20 pm to hear Megan share some swoon worthy teen romance. More titles here: washoelibrary.org/4vk1mqV #WhatToRead Recordings of past On the Shelf segments can be found here: catalog.washoecountylibrary.us/ots

Hi I know things are hard for a lot of us right now, but things are extra hard for our long-time pal Muddy Cat @muddycat.bsky.social But I know my brother-in-heart is in need of help to get through this challenging time. #FuckCancer

Hey friends How’s life?

Moth night: it’s more than moths

Hope posting is good A Northern Cardinal juvenile is drying out after a heavy rain #birds

Seems like knocking this out is the perfect project for this Friday evening. LFG

Seven wild & wonderful posts for your Friday Evening’s #BloomScrolling from last Saturday Morning. AKA I gotta get these pics off my phone because I’m biolblitzing tomorrow. Glacial Daisy (Erigeron glacialis) 🌿

Happy #FreakyFriday friends. 😁 Asiatic Garden Beetles ( Maladera formosae ) making more #beetles on some Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) leaves. #MacroPhotography #insects #BugSex #invertebrates #Friday

Another cactus bloom from today. 🌱🪴

Alt in English: small fields with hedgerows, trees, multiple crops, & a cow; silhouettes next to it of a variety of animals & insects Next, a few larger fields, fewer fencerows, just a couple crops; far fewer silhouettes Final: one monoculture field with tree; one bird, one mouse, one bug.

They're not super colourful, but I'm a big fan of gadwalls. I think they're rather dapper looking ducks and catching this one on the wing was a lot of fun. I'll likely end up using these as reference images the next time I teach a course on drawing birds in flight. #birds 🌿

Artificial light at night (ALAN) 💡 is a stronger inhibitor of overwintering dormancy than urban warming in mosquitoes 🦟 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🔓

These two things are the same thing – just arranged differently. Twisty and spiraling around & into each others and even with the same name. Pterospora andromedea (Woodland Pinedrops) Andromeda Galaxy

Boardwalks are my weakness

You never know the beauty you’re experiencing. Learned from the Nevada Native Plant Society there’s only three places in the entirety of the Great State of Nevada where this flower occurs.

Well okay Do I have a week’s worth of wildflowers? Probably. So I’m going to start a thread. Here’s Thursday morning’s. Is it #WildflowerWednesday? Right before it goes to fruit… Heart-Leaf Milkweed (Asclepias cordifolia) 🌿 #BloomScrolling

“These wings aren’t going to clean themselves!” -Long-legged Fly

Today in a sales call I was referred to as "ma'am" by a(n extremely polite and competent!) sales rep and I collapsed into dust and blew into the cracks between the boards of my coffin

Updating the maps again Chandra Examines Milky Way at Arms’ Length science.nasa.gov/missions/cha...

Our two species of prairie longspurs are just wrapping up their core duties on their nesting grounds. They bring colour, song and life to the northern grasslands. #AB #birds Thick-billed & Chestnut-collared Longspurs