#tree growing on rock

[himekokosu]

[solarpunkani]

Late night wishful thinking but like

I think planting funky things around retention ponds should be more normalized!!

Like okay I get it retention ponds are meant to hold the runoff water from parking lots and drive throughs and the like so they aren’t exactly the cleanest water around. But like!!! Maybe this is different in other areas, but the only plants I ever see grow around retention ponds are cattails!! Which, like, are fine and great and dandy lets go cattails, but like

Where’s the whimsy?? Where are the flowers?? If I’ve got to see retention ponds whenever I go to a store or drive down the highway or pick up food for my mom, at least bring in some flowers!!

And it’ll benefit so much! A wider variety of plants can make it a more welcoming home to wildlife! Maybe the plants will filter some of the runoff stuff and the water can then be nicer for even more wildlife! Maybe the flowers can be a nice food source for butterflies and bees on their journeys and day trips!! And humans like seeing things be pretty!

Maybe its easier said than done! Maybe most places already do this and its just my city or state that doesn’t really I’d be willing to believe that! But lets get some color in these goddamn retention ponds!!

Swamp milkweed! Aquatic milkweed! Pickerelweed! Water lilies! Irises! Cardinalflower! Fuck it, put some goddamn duckweed in there!! Get some color in those things or so help me!!

[owl-bones]

dream with trust issues.............

[cultivating-wildflowers]

somewhat ironic that the yarn minder has both matches and an old smoke detector in it

[bloo-the-dragon]

Not drawing it right now on account of low energy, but i think it'd be fun if Jack O' Moon grew moss on his bark skin during winter as a plant equivalent of a wintercoat

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

In Vegas we’re going to be starting October with a high of 103° tomorrow 🙃 we’ve been about 14° above average temperatures for end of September. After the hottest summer here on record with the hottest recorded temperature in Las Vegas of 120° and the most days of a high of 100 or higher on record (currently at 106 days (no longer consecutive) of 100 or higher) and the record for most days of 110 or higher. Global climate change and local heat island effect are really working their magic.

[chthoniac]

I’m so normal about Fall Out Boy I only have 2 t-shirts and about 42 of their songs in my playlist

[minai28]

A dream gave me a cool idea. I have too many WIPs and am still not done with a long one... But N and Zekrom accidentally shifting the world around them into his ideal state because Reshiram only wakes up later in the game to balance them out?

The world shifting between Ns ideal and the main characters truth during their fight?

Thing going insane with the power of legend???

Cool concept, thanks dream!

[humbug-demartino]

[baby-prophet]

hello baby prophet sorry things have been stressful lately, hopefully they calm down soon and you can smoke in pure tranquility ( ◜‿◝ ) also when u get a chance what is ur fav type of tree (both fruit bearing and non-fruit bearing)?

hii hopefully things should calm down sunday night after I move in 🙏 then I could smoke in peace and love on planet earth lol

we had this corkscrew hazel tree at my grandparents that was beautiful and weird that died earlier this year that was one of my favorite trees there... big fan of ginkgo trees and willows but how can you not be lol my great grandma had a ginormous willow on the edge of her property that I would hide under and I have a soft spot for the black walnut tree that grew right outside her front door bc I remember summers collecting the ones that fell and rubbing them to smell them. idk how to describe the smell but google says it's a spicy citrus scent lol to me it smells like summer in TN :)

as far as im concerned, all fruit trees are good trees and could theoretically be my favorite bc i love fruit but i dont have any personal connection to fruit trees sadly :(

those are what I could think of off the top of my head, I love trees

[iwantmygun]

I’m tired of the weight of you. The things I carry because of you. The things I can never enjoy again and the things I love because of you. I’m tired of your ghost. The way it follows me around, the way it haunts my dreams. Why can’t you be as you are in my sleep? So blissful and serene. But sometimes the truth seeps through those memories and you swallow me. I don’t consider horror movies scary anymore, because I know that the worst monsters wear human skin. The most terrifying creatures on this earth—are people. How could someone so beautiful, cosmic, a gravitational force grow and bloom love in my veins only then to turn around and salt and poison all the flora that remained? I don’t know you. I can’t see you. You’re too far away to send electricity through my brain, yet here I am being touched by you. Here I am in the same white dress I wore to court, dancing in it on your birthday trying and succeeding in not thinking of you. I hope you see me glowing and spinning around in your sleep. I hope you feel me “forgetting” you. As if I ever could. I see your birthdate everywhere. I hear your name in people and in songs. I skip music that reminds me of you because I don’t want to be swept away by you again. For the millionth time. The other day adrenaline coursed through my body before I could stop it because I saw a pair of eyes, nose and a freckle and for one splinter of a second I thought it was you. I have to stay present. I have to remind myself of the colorful and vibrant life I have now that you’re gone, because it’s so easy to be drawn back into the kaleidoscope that is being with you.

[coloursofaparadox]

coastal temperate rainforest my beloved 💚

bonus dog pic because I love him

[angstandhappiness]

True enough

No you won’t ever be exactly the same again and that’s fine, actually.

[i2-xmf]

[fuckingrecipes]

Wait, which animals raise livestock?

Several species of ants will 'herd' aphids around (a type of plant lice)- even picking them up and putting them back with the group if they wander off. The ants will attack anything that approaches their aphid herds, defending them. The aphids produce a sugary excretion called honeydew, which the ants harvest and eat.

Some ants will even 'milk' the aphids, stroking the aphids with their antennae, to stimulate them to release honeydew. Some aphids have become 'domesticated' by the ants, and depend entirely on their caretaker ants to milk them.

When the host plant is depleted of resources and dies, the ants will pick up their herd of aphids and carry them to a new plant to feed on - a new 'pasture' if you will.

Some ants continue to care for aphids overwinter, when otherwise they'd die. The ants carry aphid eggs into their own nests, and will even go out of their way to destroy the eggs of aphid-predators, like ladybugs.

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Microhylids – or narrow-mouthed frogs - have an interesting symbiosis with Tarantulas.

While the spiders could very easily kill and eat the much-tinier frogs, and DO normally prey on small frogs, young spiders instead will use their mouthparts to pick up the microhylid frogs, bring them back to their burrow, and release them unharmed.

The frog benefits from hanging out in/around the burrow of the tarantula, because the tarantula can scare away or eat predators that normally prey on tiny frogs, like snakes, geckos, and mantids. The tarantula gets a babysitter.

Microhylid frogs specialize in eating ants, and ants are one of the major predators of spider eggs. By eating ants, the frogs protect the spider's eggs. The frogs can also lay their eggs in the burrow, and won't be eaten by the spider.

So it's less 'livestock' and more like a housepet - a dog or a cat. You stop coyotes/eagles from hurting your little dog/cat, and in return the dog/cat keeps rats away from your baby.

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Damselfish grow algae on rocks and corals. They defend these gardens ferociously, and will attack anything that comes too close - even humans. They spend much of their time weeding the gardens, removing unwanted algaes that might overtake their crop.

The species of algae that they cultivate is weak and and sensitive to growing conditions, and can easily be overgrazed by other herbivores. That particular algae tends to grow poorly in areas where damselfish aren't around to protect and farm it.

Damselfish will ALSO actively protect Mysidium integrum (little shrimp-like crustacians) in their reef farms, despite eating other similarly sized invertebrates. The mysids are filter feeders, who feed on zooplankton and free-floating algae, and their waste fertilizes the algae farms. Many types of zooplankton can feed on the algae crop, and the mysids prevent that.

While Mysids can be found around the world, the only place you'll find swarms of Musidium integrum is on the algae farms that Damselfish cultivate.

Damselfish treat the little mysids like some homesteaders treat ducks. Ducks eat snails and other insect pests on our crops, and their poop fertilizes the land. The ducks can be eaten, but aren't often, since they're more useful for their services than their meat.

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There are SEVERAL species of insect and animal which actively farm. They perform fungiculture and horticulture: deliberately growing and harvesting fungus and plants at a large-scale to feed their population.

Leaf-cutter ants and Termites both chew up plant material and then seed it with a specific type of fungus. The fungus grows, and the termites/ants harvest the mushroom as a food source.

Ambrosia beetles burrow into decaying trees, hollow out little farming rooms, and introduce a specific fungii (the ambrosia fungi), which both adults and larval beetles feed on.

Marsh Periwinkles (a type of snail) cultivates fungus on cordgrass. They wound the plant with their scraping tongue, then defecate into the wound so their preferred fungus will infect it and grow there. They let the fungus grow in the wound a bit, and come back later to eat.

[philodendrongoeldii]

dangerously close to getting into birding