#identifying plants in posts

[identifyingplantsinposts]

White clover (Trifolium repens)

Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis)

Chinese trumpet vine (Campsis grandiflora)

Mexican morning glory (Ipomoea tricolor)

Blueberry (Vaccinium caesariense)

Art by Hinano

[essektheylyss]

Okay but for real, please download Merlin, the Cornell-based bird-logging app. It is so great. It will tell you about birds in your area. It will make you so insufferable on hikes and outings. It doesn't have any comments section so if this site gets nuked do NOT try to find me there but know that that's where I'm hanging. Having a great time birdwatching. Logging the bluejay that bullies my cats. Helping researchers track where birds are for climate change-related population monitoring. 10/10, highly recommend getting a life and doing some silly birdwatching.

[parlerenfleurs]

So funny how, as long as you cook it, it's way less risky to eat the meat of an animal you don't know than any part of any plant you either don't know, think you sort of know, or confidently think you know when there is another one that really looks like it, but the thing is you've never looked at them that closely and rely on vibes but that's a mistake you can usually only make once, so now you're dead.

[lususnatura]

🎤 🎤 🎤

a song that i associate with my muse meme!

AHH, hey, ramone!! thank you for sending in this prompt :D since you sent in three of the mic's, i shall now be treating you to three songs that make me think of blamore when i hear them / that i associate with it. an explanation of why i chose them will be in the tags <3

hozier - who we are.

icehouse - crazy.

depeche mode - personal jesus.

[identifyingplantsinposts]

Lupinus sp. (lupine)

[hhoneycloves]

where all my gifted kids whose enthusiasm for learning morphed into a passionate, insatiable, ravenous conquest for knowledge that will never be fulfilled 💪💪

[iii-days-grace]

sometimes im just like. what if i went and got my benthic invertebrate monitoring certification for fun. what if i got my wetland botanical classification schema. what if we all ran away into the woods and looked at bugs forever

im not a biologist anymore but that just sounds like a fun thing to do, and i don't even have to recert it, i can just steal that knowledge and keep it in my brain! cant stop me now!

[hylianengineer]

Sometimes I think the hardest part of writing is knowing what normal people DON'T know.

[identifyingplantsinposts]

Pothos

[epicdogymoment]

begging people to understand that labels and categories are not inherently meaningful without context. and that whether or not any label is actually useful changes from context to context (including from person to person). and that trying to pin something or someone down as BEING a particular label (rather than something being labelled as a certain thing) is meaningless and unhelpful

[medicalunprofessional]

just wanted to show everyone here this funky guy

[prince-liest]

Ugh, Fairy ended up dying. :(

It's always frustrating and stressful to have a new fish not make it. I think the only time I kind of shrugged it off was when a couple of my new neon tetras kicked it, because they're known for being poor at surviving new aquariums due to their absolutely awful genetics (but once they're good, they're pretty good).

She was very active, healthy, and curious the first several hours in the aquarium, and the fact that she was immediately willing to eat felt like such a positive sign, but she ended up passing away after about two days. It's hard to say that it wasn't because of being added to my aquarium given the timing, but at the same time: The water parameters were 0/0/0, I did a water change anyways, and every single other member of the tank (including the dang amano shrimp I bought at the same time as her, also a new member and of a more sensitive species!) is healthy and thriving, and it took her nearly two days to kick it (rather than overnight or even quicker like shock from adaptation tends to) so I just wonder if she was already heading that direction and the stress of a new environment with new water parameters is what did her in...

I'm going to try for another female honey gourami at some point because I want Jin Ling to have company to make him feel more secure (he's a little skittish when I approach the tank and honey gouramis are more friendly and social compared to other gourami species), but I'm sad about this. She had such a great personality in the first few hours, and I loved her sunset red color a lot.

I will go for just the classic yellow color, however. The store I go to has weird naming schemes between all the color variations that makes me not 100% certain of what the actual species of their honey and dwarf gouramis are, and some trawling of reddit shows that some of the "sunset" honey gouramis that are sold are often actually thick lip gouramis (or hybrids of some sort?) that tend to have the same genetic issues and aggression as dwarf gouramis, and are actually susceptible to dwarf gourami iridovirus. I looked them up, and the females look EXACTLY like Fairy did, from the actual color to the distribution of transparency over her fins. So. Tried and true yellow honeys it is!

[identifyingplantsinposts]

Asclepias syriaca

FIDELIA BRIDGES

Milkweeds (1876)

[thethingything]

pro tip: if you learn to recognise flies as wildlife and start noticing the different species, you get to experience a fun little thing where it vastly increases how much you get to be like "ooh look! nature! yay!!!"

[cartoonscientist]

this weird guy was growing from the grafting stock of my Thai lime! note the aesthetic thorns. I’m going to propagate it and grow my own bitter, fuzzy, tiny oranges, or at least sell it as a rare cutting.

[panzershrike-pretz]

Who knew that studying biology would open doors for such fun things?

There'll be a worldwide event from the 26 to 29 of this month on the iNaturalist app, where you have to try and take the most photos of nature to post there

Can't wait to participate >:3