Sunshine Mimosa (Mimosa strigillosa) celebrating Sunday. It pops up overnight, a delicate puff, filaments glowing, offering fresh pollen to tiny flyers. (Said to host the Gray Mini-streak.) Enjoy its glow now, as it will not last to sundown. 🌿🦋🌱 #NativePlants #Habitat #Bloomscrolling

Good trouble.

Martin Luther King III@officialmlk3.bsky.social · 6d ago

We will march as Dad marched and continue building the Beloved Community he envisioned: a nation where every person can live with dignity, opportunity, freedom, and justice. #MarchOnWashington2026

We need art’s transcendence now more than ever. When we look at or touch it, each time we allow it to draw our attention, this work offers joy. Consider supporting this Canadian artist if you’re able:

The Alchemist 🇨🇦@alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 6d ago

An update for my friends in the USA. Maybe I can still sell pottery tariff free to the US 🤷‍♂️ But I risk having to pay the 50% tariff. ☹ If you still want to support my work you can do so here. Please share if you can. I have opened my store again to Canadians. rakupottery.ca/support-a-ca...

Good night; sleep tight BlueSky tribe. Let’s keep looking for the light. 🧡 (Okavango Delta, Botswana, 2022, with the best of humans who today turned a corner. In the photo we are off center, and that’s ok.)

Happy FlyDay! However unappetizing it may appear, enjoy breakfast before your flight. #Butterflies #Invertebrates #BugSky #Habitat #ReWild #NativePlants 🌿

An August day when the Snowberry (Chiococca alba) is in full flower, 20ft. high into the trees, and the panicles of fairy-bell flowers are so fresh they cancel the silly heat index. The Snowberry Clearwing moth may be around earlier in the day, so I’ll be back. #NativePlants 🦋🌿 #ReWild

Eye spots may have saved this one—today. Tomorrow it may be a 🐦‍⬛ meal. Torn wings say, “I’m key in the food web.” Butterflies and moths nurture, sustain interconnected lives on 🌎. Photo @rmj827.bsky.social #NativePlants, #Habitat #Butterflies 🦋🌿 #Rewild #Preserve #Food🕸️

What’s your poison? Plant-animal chemistry today in a Miami-Dade County Pineland preserve: a Soldier butterfly drinks from petite flowers of Metastelma blodgettii, a critically imperiled member of the Dogbane/Milkweed family. Photo @rmj827.bsky.social.

As if having wings to fly is not cool enough, did you know that some insect wings can smell and taste? journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Noses on the wing: the olfactory capacity of hawkmoth wings

Highlighted Article: Tobacco hawkmoths use their wings to smell the alkaloids of their favorite host plants.

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Weird and wonderful (nightmare for micro moths): “tiny sticky balls of silk laced with moth pheromones”

Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️@apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · last mo.

My tiny lumpy orb man made his "web" for us! It's just a single strand lined with tiny sticky balls of silk laced with moth pheromones - a method of prey attraction also shared by the more famous Bolas spiders, and Kaira orb weavers. I love them 🤍

The mangroves are filled with a troop of furry beings absorbed in a death-defying, dizzying ritual of flying through, between, along branches—and softly “chuffing” at each other. “Each day for a squirrel is its very first day of being a squirrel.” 🌿 #Mammals #NativePlants #Habitat #SwuirrelSaturday

Wide awake before daybreak in Miami, opening BlueSky, seeing this perfection. Miracles continue. ✨

Jesika5555@jesika5555.bsky.social · last mo.

310726 OM1ii Sneaky again! 2nd Painted Lady eclosed overnight after an 8 day pupation. 3 left, maybe one will be born on Yorkshire Day, tomorrow. @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #entomology

Yes! 🌟

Siobhán McElduff@siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · last mo.

I think Emily Wilson has earned the right to have whatever opinion she likes about adaptations of Homer. Her translations are amazing achievements and she's already survived several rounds of outrage about a female translator of such a manly poet.

Enjoy this lovely video to celebrate the magic moths make. #GhostOrchid #BigCypress #MagnificentSouthFlorida #MothWeek

🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴@scottzona.bsky.social · last mo.

I came this close [finger & thumb 5 mm apart] from posting about Dendrophylax lindenii. There's a fab video about a team of photogs trying to get video of the moths in action. #TeamMoth #PollinatorWeek #Orchidaceae #pollination youtu.be/B9IIrpOLJ14?...

🐝 👀 I’m not sure how to feel about this bee. There were plenty of other flowers, but it almost knocked the Gray Hairstreak off this one. #Bees #Butterflies 🌿#StingsandWings #NativePlants #BigCypress #SouthFlorida

Be careful where you land.

JB | Native Plant Gardener (WI)@jbtheexplorer.bsky.social · last mo.

Imagine thinking you're just landing on a stem and it's no big deal. But then you become stuck there until you die. This wasp is still alive, but it wont be. Royal catchfly will win this battle. #nativeplants #insects #garden #Wisconsin

A vividly colored Ornate Bella Moth (aka Rattlebox Moth)—day flying and toxic. Photo @rmj827.bsky.social #BigCypress #SouthFlorida #NativePlants #Invertebrates #MothWeek

In the killer heat of July and August, an old-growth forest offers a safe, cool view to the brilliant sky. 3 or 4 human generations have protected these island hardwoods as they’ve grown into their superpowers. Let’s think longterm. 🚫🚜🏗️ 🌱🌿 #NativePlants #ThickTrunkTuesday #SouthFlorida

#MothWeek

Gray@grays.art · last mo.

Hawaiian Beet Webworm Moth (Spoladea recurvalis) on wild frogfruit flower (Phyla nodiflora) Crew pen flint strand lakes & trails Bonita Springs, Florida 7-13-26 #macroMonday #colorADay #pinkMon #pink #macro #eck #macroPhotography #bugSky #nature #art #insects

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

Here in Miami, it’s Sunday evening. #ButterflyWeek continues. A gorgeous bird strike survivor, a Palamedes Swallowtail fuels up on Buttonbush nectar today in #BigCypressNationalPreserve It hosts on trees in the Laurel family, Red Bay and Swamp Bay. Thanks @rmj827.bsky.social for photography.

Protect each butterfly: protect 🌎, + our future. #Habitat 🌿 From the most common Dainty Sulfer cycling through many generations/year, to this US Endangered Schaus’ Swallowtail, that stays in pupa for up to 3 years—until rains bring nectar for adults + new growth for caterpillars. #ButterflyWeek

More Butterfly Week, please. 🦋🌿🌱 #BigCypress #MiamiSky #Invertebrates #Bugsky

Tourist Tree, Gumbo Limbo, red and peeling. Leaves and bark capable of photosynthesis. So resilient that a broken branch on the ground can grow into a new tree. Host for the Dingy Purplewing butterfly. Food source, shelter for birds. #ThickTrunkTuesday #NativePlants www.fnps.org/plant/burser...

What to do if you find a baby bunny. Thanks @portmanteauface.bsky.social for the suggestion!

Relaxed 🌿 #SharkValley #EvergladesNationalPark #Habitat

Fresh Soldier butterfly enjoying morning nectar. #EvergladesNationalPark #SharkValley #Habitat #NativePlants 🌿 🦋 #Invertebrates

Please enjoy a green and refreshing #ThickTrunkTuesday in the cool shade of Strangler Fig, Ficus aurea. With age, it becomes a giant in the hammock, offering abundant fruit, insects, and shelter for birds. 🌿🌱🦋🐛🦉🪶 #Habitat #invertebrates #Trees #SouthFlorida #NativePlants

Did u know? Caterpillars are essential food for nestling birds - they're full of moisture & nutrients & are easy for them to swallow. Baby birds are fed approx 5,000 caterpillars by their parents before they leave the nest, so learn to love your larvae. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦‍⬛🐛

Most beautiful fireworks.🇺🇸🌱 goorchids.northamericanorchidcenter.org/species/ency... 🌿🦋 #NativePlants #Habitat #rewild #bloomscrolling