#Naturaliste

[f-dellerie-illustration]

Vous ai-je déjà dit à quel point j'aime dessiner les insectes ? 🥹💚

Voici mes illustrations du spectaculaire Oryctes nasicornis (Orycte nasicorne) pour mon prochain livre à paraître chez Delachaux & Niestlé.

Bon weekend ! 😊

[lichenaday]

Pyrenula ochraceoflavens

Yellow pox lichen

This crustose lichen has a yellow-orange, continuous or cracked thallus, and is usually more pigmented around the perithecial fruiting bodies. These perithecia have a weakly carbonized (blackened) pseudostromatic shell (the raised, blister like part around the ostiole). P. ochraceoflavens grows on the smooth bark of tropical forest trees, and has been recorded in Florida, USA, the Caribbean, and India. But there are so many variations within the genus and even within the species that delimitation is hazy at best. A pox on Pyrenula and all its related genera!

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[francepittoresque]

6 octobre 1825 : mort du naturaliste, musicien et homme politique Bernard-Germain de Lacépède ➽ http://bit.ly/Bernard-Germain-Lacepede Il s’occupa de bonne heure d’histoire naturelle, se mit en correspondance avec Buffon, cultivait aussi les beaux arts, surtout la musique, et fut très souvent chargé de porter la parole à Napoléon, dont il fut l’un des plus chauds panégyristes

[joanofarc]

there is a boy that never goes out, the lucksmiths (2003).

i’ve woken up on one too many floors but my favorite was yours

[hawkpartys]

[goddamnshinyrock]

I had a new "oh, my family were the weird ones" moment recently: it seems no one else's family celebrated Frog Night (the first warm rainy night of spring) by going down to the local vernal pool after dark to help the amphibians safely across the road and listening to the spring peepers. (We'd then go back in daytime later on to observe the egg masses, of course.)

Apparently "Frog Night" as a holiday is a thing my mother invented and not a widely-accepted idea, which is a shame because I've been referring to it as if it was for the past 30 years.

[enchantedbook]

Art by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, (1707 - 1788)

[demaparbat-hp]

Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.

[manuelamontero]

Ilustración de aves chilenas para proyecto Memoria de Sostenibilidad de Parque del Recuerdo, Chile.

[cryptonature]

Long ago, a stone felt a tingle on its skin. Moss. A new feeling. A green feeling. The granite spoke of ages in the heat of deep Earth. The moss sang the taste of sunlight and the softness of salamander bellies. They named one another. And told those names to no one at all.

[f-dellerie-illustration]

Nouvelle publication ! Mes illustrations sont dans le nouveau numéro de L'Oiseau Mag, édité par la LPO. Elles permettent de découvrir le petit Curculio nucum (Balanin des noisettes) & son cycle de vie.

Bon weekend à tous·tes ! :)

[lichenaday]

Xylographa vitiligo

White-spotted woodscript lichen

You may have heard of vitiligo in reference to the autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose pigment, and you can see just by looking at this lichen why it was given the same name. X. vitiligo is a crustose lichen that has a mostly immersed thallus that is thin and pale, giving the wood it grows on distinctive pale gray or white spots. It produces farinose (mealy or powdery), blue-gray to green-brown soredia, and has round, oval, or slit-shaped apothecia with a pale-red-brown to black-brown disc. X. vitiligo colonizes dead conifer wood and stumps, fence posts, and driftwood in boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It often grows alongside similar looking wood-script lichens, but can be identified using chemical spot tests on the soredia with KOH (+yellow) and PD (+ orange).

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[francepittoresque]

13 mai 1832 : mort du naturaliste Georges Cuvier ➽ http://bit.ly/Georges-Cuvier Cuvier savait lire avant d’avoir accompli sa troisième année, et si cette facilité à apprendre pouvait ne révéler qu’un sujet ordinaire, dès ses premiers pas dans le monde il sut en fait non seulement retenir, mais encore comprendre, réfléchir et méditer

[hawkpartys]

[organicmatter]

Listed some new bumper stickers in my shop 🐌