Mopple
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nature photos and info. animals, weather, fungi, the occasional tree. non-oc credited where known. pfp: Gasper Zaldo. Banner: James Wainscoat.
the branches have completely disappeared under it. just moss, and more moss, and ferns growing out of the moss.
the dome fits inside the arc. whoever waited for this was very patient.
Fungi seem so otherworldly I forget some laws are universal; some species attack or parasitize other fungi. My favorite part of this picture is you can see the attacking mushrooms in all the sizes. #fungifriday
curtains and smears, usually. here it came up as a column, almost vertical, directly above a small cluster of lit windows in the rocks. it ran all the way to the top of the frame and kept going. 📷 Billy Idle / Flickr
the thin black threads are horsehair worms. as adults they have no working gut. they spent months inside an insect absorbing nutrients through their skin. they are out now and they are done eating. 📷 W.carter / Wikimedia Commons
the hen is two centimetres away. her chick is shouting anyway. 📷 Umar S
eucalyptus regnans is the tallest flowering plant on earth. the study of them in victoria's high country spent decades being used to argue for clearcutting. scientists went back to the same trees. it now argues the opposite. e360.yale.edu 📷 Melburnian / Wikimedia Commons
49 dead greater crested terns on Baudin Rocks, off South Australia. 35 more on the rocks, sick. bird flu has been in the country six weeks. theguardian.com 📷 pavan sai thummala / Unsplash
the clear shell in the bottom right is a tortoise beetle larva. that case is built from its own shed skins and droppings, held over its back with a small fork at the tail. the green is its body.
it assembled itself underground in the dark. the cap was this red the whole time.
the willows have been leaning toward this pond since they were planted. they want to be there. their roots go under the path, under the grass, all the way to the water. the one in the middle got impatient.
the colour is oxygen, releasing energy at about 100 kilometres up. higher, where it takes longer to calm down, the same atom goes red. 📷 Alfred Weidinger / Flickr
Another photo of one of the two Adelaide rosellas in my backyard late today. Birding in comfort. Taken from my family room 😊
four lenticular clouds, one full moon, one volcano. the mountain got there first.
the rostrum is longer than her body. she bores through the shell with it, lays eggs inside the nut, withdraws. the larvae eat their way out later. 📷 Neal Kelso / iNaturalist
the largest recorded lion's mane had tentacles 37 metres long. the bell was 2.3 metres wide. most of the animal is what trails behind it. 📷 Gabriel Santos
they all do this: eyes shut, snouts pressed in, like if they open their eyes even slightly the whole thing stops. four of them. none of them willing to test the theory. 📷 Brendan Rühli
hammertail robberfly on Mojave Yucca, single shot I've found that robbers like Yuccas, and have simultaneously discovered that getting stabbed by these hurts, for a long while have recently taken to sliding my clarity to the left in my LR macro post-processing ... kinda liking the look
kasungu national park, malawi. no wild dogs for ten years. then four of them showed up last month, having apparently walked in from zambia. news.mongabay.com 📷 Jonas / Unsplash
sitting very still, cradling a creature a tenth its size. looking up. the small one is not a bonobo.
those aren't eggs. they're spore packets, and a raindrop hitting the cup at the right angle can launch them nearly a metre.
