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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h ago

They did a pretty good job! Only a few corn stalks left!

A whole bunch of goats who know I have apples in my pockets. One is so close to the camera you can only see her eye, one is staring intensely into your soul (hoping for apples), and the others are jockeying for position. In the background, the two livestock guardian dogs are booping noses, and in the farther background is the remains of the frost-killed garden beds, with just a few corn stalks still standing.

Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · yesterday

Post-frost garden cleanup done the best possible way

A whole bunch of black, white, and brown goats happily rampaging through a garden with a bunch of dead sunflowers, dead corn, and dead zucchini plants. The grass around the garden is green and they're happily eating that too. The sky above is cloudy.

A whole bunch of goats happily munching on dead corn stalks in a garden row. The sky above is cloudy, with some scrubby woods just starting to turn yellow in the background.

A white goat with a beard happily eating an entire corn cob while looking at the camera. There's lots of corn stalks in the background.

Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h ago

I see the Collins Street Falcon's eggs are beginning to hatch! I also notice the hastag #MurderChicken in use, though phylogenetically speaking Peregrine Falcons are more attack parrot than murder chicken, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xv3NLGO5do #CollinsStreetFalcons #CollinsStFalcons […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 18h ago

big steppy For #WeevilWednesday, I think this little buddy from High Park is an Asiatic Oak Weevil (_Cyrtepistomus castaneus_). #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae #HighPark #toronto

Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · yesterday

this National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, a quick reminder that you can read lightweight web and plaintext versions of the TRC Report executive summary online here

TRC Report Online

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015. (Original…

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · yesterday

Today is Truth & Reconciliation Day. I am grateful to live on Treaty 4, the land of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif. To share my land with local Indigenous people in the original spirit of this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A sunrise view of a mowed meadow area, surrounded by trees just starting to turn yellow for fall. The sky is full of clouds turning pink with sunrise.

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2d ago

*sighs deeply* https://fedscoop.com/websites-jeopardy-amid-us-web-design-system-takeover-coalition-gsa/

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2d ago

#FatBearWeek final matchup, everyone: 910 (daughter of former champ Beadnose) faces off against 89 Backpack (son of former champ Holly). The polls are still open! If you're still in line, STAY IN LINE! https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 3d ago

It's still #MiteMonday somewhere: today I wandered around the Necropolis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Necropolis) enjoying the lichen and finding various arachnids including some whirligig mites (family Anystidae). They seem to experience a brief […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A very old worn lichen-encrusted tombstone. A bright red mite with star-like splayed legs, small but still very visible to the naked eye, dances across it.

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 6d ago

Went for a lovely nighttime ramble under the full moon in High Park and saw several interesting spiders. I admit I yelled in alarm when I saw this leopard slug (_Limax maximus_, introduced from Europe) by the foot of a tree. It was the size of my thumb!!

A large spotted and striped slug on sandy earth, feeding on what could be some fungus or dropped food. A medium-sized isopod is next to it, for scale.

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 6d ago

getting some spidering in before #CriticalMass #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #CrabSpiders #GhostSpiders #Araneae #Thomisidae #Anyphaenidae #HighPark #toronto

Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a... Butt Fang. I cannot convey how much I love this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Close up of a very colourful caterpillar vertical on a small twig. It's black with lots of white spots on top, with yellow sides and bright orange and black spots on the yellow part, with bright orange feet, and a bright orange horn. A.k.a. butt fang.

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

I totally did not expect it, but one of the highlights of the Colorado rattlesnake den livestream is the spiders that regularly end up on cam! Here's a clip from the other night where they got wonderful close-up footage of mating black widows. https://youtu.be/Vs9qQQ99NQI #spiders #SpiderSex […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

green bee #bugstodon #insects #NativeBees #SolitaryBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Halictidae

A brilliant metallic green bee curls into a ball shape as it feeds from a light purple flower on a mint-family plant.

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

don't let anyone tell you voting doesn't matter https://explore.org/fat-bear-week #FatBearWeek

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

fuck you *squares your Archaea* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloquadratum_walsbyi https://microbestiary.org/portfolio-item/haloquadratum-walsbyi/ Image from https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00249 :OpenAccess:

Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

OH FUCK I ALMOST FORGOT https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

now this is fucking doable #birdeing

The Merlin app reports that my "Bird of the Day" is House Sparrow, below a photo of a male house sparrow.

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

Comrades. IT'S TIME. #FatBearWeek 2026 is upon us. https://explore.org/fat-bear-week 🐻 For the first time, the bracket includes bear families (mother and cubs), "in recognition of the record high number of bear families (19) and cubs (37) at Brooks River in summer 2026"! Find out about all the […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

[Metazooa, emoji] 🦣 Animal #1146 🐬 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6 https://metazooa.com #metazooa

Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

[Metazooa, emoji] 🐨 Animal #1145 🦔 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟨🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.4 https://metazooa.com #metazooa

Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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mel @daemonicusprince.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

Slime Tutorial #FungiFriday #Fungi #SlimeMold #NaturePhotography #PNW

$A closeup of a bit of tree bark, on which sits a large blob of clear jelly-like slime, which warps and refracts the views of the pine needles on & around it like a funhouse mirror. World's Biggest Booger.$

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

somewhere in the night a raccoon is chittering

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

there's (I think) one chickadee who will eat out of my hand and one who is too shy. it sits on the clothesline and peeps pleadingly but will not land on my hand. I am staying strong and not leaving any seeds on the windowsill for it. sometimes it flies/chirps to the other one as if it's asking […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

it's #WeevilWednesday black vine weevil (_Otiorhynchus sulcatus_) #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae

A robust, roughly pear-shaped black beetle with a pebbly, shiny exoskeleton with small irregular patches of lighter brown scales and, of course, a snout (short and broad with antennae coming off it). It is on a flattish pale stone surface.

The same weevil from a slightly more overhead view. You can see both of its good-sized round black compound eyes.

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

*Three* red-tailed hawks circling very high up in the sky! Piercing screams. Squirrels are upset. #birdeing

neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

[Metazooa, emoji] 🪲 Animal #1142 🦫 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6 https://metazooa.com #metazooa

Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

This afternoon I was walking down the street when I heard a red-tailed hawk "Majestic Bald Eagle 🇺🇸" call, relatively close. Looked up, couldn't see anything, wondered if it was just screeching metal from nearby construction. Heard it again. Then a red-tailed hawk "Clinically Depressed Seagull" […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

Took a little detour to some streetside pollinator gardens while running an errand today and was rewarded with SO. MANY. LOCUST. BORERS. 💛🖤💛 #bloomscrolling #bugstodon #insects #beetles #LonghornBeetles #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae

A yellowjacket was…No! It's a beetle! A beetle with an elongated body, black with yellow markings, that make it look like a wasp at first glance, feeding on pollen from aster-ish yellow flowers (idk I'm not a plantologist). It has long red-brown legs and very long red-brown antennae, as befits a member of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). Its black, oval eyes have "cutouts" around the base of the antennae, like the cursed phone front camera notch.

A head-on view of a locust borer feeding on yellow flowers (goldenrod, I think). The thorax has horizontal stripes of almost fur-like yellow scales. The antennae stretch way out to either side.

A locust borer stands with its back two pairs of legs on one flower cluster while grasping another with its front legs to feed.

Non-macro shot from above of two locust borers on clumps of small yellow flowers. Goldenrod? Asters? Fuck, are goldenrods asters? Oh shit, they are. Fuck.

highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

A customer dropped by the store today and gave me this intricate paper cicada