#beautiful biodiversity

[lanecross]

Red-headed Krait (Bungarus flaviceps) one of the highly venomous elapid snake that has awesome striking colouration. Red-headed kraits are nocturnal, semi-aquatic and inhabits rain forests in mountainous and hilly regions.

First time road cruising and our guide Steven spotted this beauty. Honestly, I was fighting not to fall asleep in the car, but that moment and their excitement woke me up. Good memory for our first road cruising :)

[jenfoundabug]

Stunning rainbow wings Incisitermes minor (Western drywood termite) Northern California, US

[zedalpha]

okay yeah desantis is a shitheel and EVERYONE FUCKING KNOWS IT, AND WE ALL HATE HIM TOO.  Florida isn’t a “worthless rotting landfill,” goddammit, there are people here. We’ve got lives. We matter. Y’know how many queer people there are in this state? How many PoC? How many folks who are on the right side of politics and history who have always been here that get fucked over by gentrification and wave after wave of fascy snowbirds who come down here to retire and shore up the Republicans?  There’s a lot.  Yeah fuck DeSantis. OBVIOUSLY. But honestly I’m sick and goddamn tired of “I live in Florida” or “I’m from Florida” being both setup and punchline. Folks seem to think that me and my family and loved ones should deserve what we get ‘cause we’re here, and we can’t easily just pull up stakes and abandon what we have to get away.  fuck that. we were here first, it’s the fascists that need to leave, and we’re fucking trying.

The tourism promotion group Visit Lauderdale reported that over half a dozen organizations planning conventions in Broward County changed their minds citing ” what the Governor is doing in the education/schools.”

[kafkasapartment]

Despite their importance, about 50% of mangrove ecosystems are at risk of collapse due to human activities and climate change.

Over the past 50 years, approximately 20% to 35% of global mangrove areas have been lost due to both human activities and natural causes. Specifically, between 2000 and 2016, about 3,363 square kilometers (336,300 hectares) - an area the size of Toronto or Los Angeles- of mangroves were lost globally.

[thebeautifulbook]

OUR OWN BIRDS; A familiar natural history of the birds of the United States by William L. Baily. (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1869) Illustrated by E.D. Cope.

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[cosmicsabian]

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[jenfoundabug]

Morbid owlet moth (Chytolita morbidalis)

Pennsylvania, US

[koenji]

the beautiful biodiversity of plant seeds, genera silene, poppies, oxalisa and solanaceae by J.D. Frei.

[puckpocketed]

25/11/2024 - LAK @ SJS

gotcha!

[thebeautifulbook]

THE BOOK OF BABY BIRDS by E.J. Detmold (New York: Hodder & Stoughton, c.1912)

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[depressedhangrybitch]

Different pictures that give off same energy.

[vandaliatraveler]

“In planning to be a professional naturalist….. I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger, the little things that compose the foundations of our ecosystems, the little things that I like to say, run the world.”

Edward O. Wilson

By observing a milkweed plant very closely for more no more than five minutes, you will begin to understand exactly what Wilson was getting at.

[wuntrum]

nudibranchs are SOOOO crazy. top 5 little guys of all time

[jenfoundabug]

Seven-spotted lady beetle (Coccinella septempunctata) Northern California, US