Who said pterosaurs weren't cute? Meet Anurognathus, a small fuzzy guy with a frog-wide mouth! ___ #paleoart #sciart #paleotoon #pterosaurs #anurognathus #cute
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Plant nerd sharing photos of plants I've seen. All photos in original posts mine, unless otherwise stated. Use of photos to train AI slop not permitted. They/Them
What a beauty! Spotted this healthy Monarch larvae hanging out on the Prairie Milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii) in the prairie garden tonight 🐛 #caterpillars #gardening #monarchs #nativeplants
Hookeria acutifolia is a member of a genus of mosses found mostly in the tropics. In Appalachia, this species is adapted to life in the protection of the backs of rock shelters. It is known for its large cells, visible to the naked eye. #nativeplants #botany #kentucky #bryophytes #plants
two lilies from north Georgia Lilium superbum | turk’s cap lily Lilium michauxii | Carolina lily One from a mountainous cove forest, the other from an ultramafic barren
I don't use this word lightly, but this is evil.
Sara R. Fagerlie, PhD, CHCP@cancercommunicator.com · 3w ago"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
I saw them all over the place when I was there as well a few months ago. Monstera and those 'pothos' vines were real bad too. Noticed that the snake plants there flowered in March, while my potted one seems to do so during the summer up here.
Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝@fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 4w agoSnake plants are native to Africa and invasive in the Neotropics. In Puerto Rico they have colonized many beaches above the high tide mark. I cut off a single leaf when I vacationed there a few years ago as a souvenir. It has now reached blooming size and badly needs repotted. 🌱🪴
Sandhills milkweed (Asclepias humistrata), setting seed earlier this month in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment, in South Carolina Endemic to the southeastern U.S. coastal plain, this might be my favorite milkweed. Look at those leaves!
Bosque seco de Guánica had this super cute concrete sculpture of a sapo concho (Peltophryne lemur) that I'd love to have a copy of, though it'd look suoer out of place with the flora I'd have it surrounded with.
Catbus@catbus.phd · 3mo ago🐸
🌿 Platanthera grandiflora | greater purple fringed orchid seen in the mountains of southwest Virginia in 2023. Endangered (S2) in Virginia. #nativeplants
Drosera rosulata One of the tuberous sundews that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. This one was happily growing around a granite outcrop in the Perth Hills in late autumn 🌿 #ozflora #fierceflora #sundew #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
I don’t talk about it much, but I suffer from the worst curse: every full moon, I turn into a small patch of green colouration on a nearby rock. That’s it. No abilities, no movement, nothing cool. I hate being a lichenthrope.
Primula frenchi (French's Shootingstar) growing in a rock shelter in southern IN in May of 2023. This rare plant specializes in growing inside sandstone rock shelters. #wildflowers #nativeplants #botany #Indiana #nature
Asimina triloba (Pawpaw) flowers (And spider friend!!!) from a woods in central Kentucky back in April of 2024. These produce one of North America's tastiest native fruits. #nativeplants #flowers #nature #kentucky #wildflowers #botany
We're meeting Northumberland's own William Turner, often called the father of British botany, on Fabulous Folklore this week. Find out why this religious firebrand and revolutionary thinker created A New Herball! www.icysedgwick.com/william-turn...
Tried out the greca for the first time. No doubt I'm doing it wrong. Def don't know how to steam milk.
Yesterday, I posted about eastern N. America’s Lilium grayi, a hummingbird-pollinated species. Western N.A. (where there are more spp. of hummingbirds) also has bird-pollinated species, such as L. bolanderi (📷: Annie Zell CCBYNC4). #Lilium #pollination #Liliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Today years old finding outvabout a hummingbird pollinated lily in Appalachia!
🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴@scottzona.bsky.social · 2mo agoButterflies aren’t the only pollinators of lilies. Lilium grayi (📷: Tara Rose Littlefield CCBYNC4) is endemic to a small area in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the US & attracts hummingbirds as its pollinators. #Lilium #Pollination #Liliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Gonna be my first time trying a member of the Malpighiaceae. These are the fruit of Byrsonima crassifolia, or nances.
Today, I lived Rachael Carson’s “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” On Ring Mountain in Marin County, CA, you might find a wildflower growing nowhere else on Earth, except on this thin rocky outcrop. Tiburon Mariposa Lily (Calochortus tiburonensis) 🌿
New alien friend in the echinox lab: the basket star Astrospartus mediterraneus. A truly bizarre fractal body plan, but sooo beautiful 🤩🥹
Frasera albomarginata, our Desert Green Gentian, blooming in Canyons of the Ancients today #nativeplants 🌿
I don't really post anything political on here but jfc! Do not go anywhere near this sketchy shitl Use you brain, read zines, books and essays. Go to punk shows. Make friends.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo agoOutcry is a chatbot “designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’”
These plants also harvest dew, which condenses out of moist air. Edges and hairs make especially good foci for condensation as they radiate heat & cool faster. This species is from Namaqualand, in southern Africa. 📷: Dipcadi crispum Karel du Toit CCBYNC4 #Asparagaceae #fog #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Lindera benzoin flowers on a shrub in Kentucky in late March. Commonly known as spicebusg, the fruit have been used as a susbstiture for allspice in various points in history. #wildflowers #nativeplants #kentucky
Coenobita clypeatus, the Carribean Hermit crab! Say these foraging for their next meal about 100 yards from the beach in Southwest Puerto Rico in March. #puertorico #invertebrates #nature
