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2:06pm August 4, 2015

deucebasket:

I saw a bunch of ants carrying around a potato chip this morning and it made me wish I had a bunch of friends and a really huge potato chip

7:00am June 17, 2015
By dierk schaefer (Flickr: [1]) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons[Image description:  Five butterflies, four of them much larger than the fifth, eating an orange and other fruit at a butterfly exhibit in Germany.]Please don’t remove the image description, it is intended to let visually impaired people and other screenreader users know what is happening in the photo.

By dierk schaefer (Flickr: [1]) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

[Image description:  Five butterflies, four of them much larger than the fifth, eating an orange and other fruit at a butterfly exhibit in Germany.]

Please don’t remove the image description, it is intended to let visually impaired people and other screenreader users know what is happening in the photo.

6:52am June 17, 2015
“Nacimiento de una Dryas iulia, Mariposario de Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife, España, 2012-12-13, DD 03” by Diego Delso. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons[Image description:  Photograph of a dryas iulia butterfly ecloding – emerging from its chrysalis.  It is upside-down and its pinkish-red wings look like pieces of cloth.]Please don’t delete the image description, it’s there for visually impaired people and other screenreader users.More about this type of butterfly, from Wikipedia:Dryas iulia (often incorrectly spelled julia),[1] commonly called the Julia Butterfly, Julia Heliconian, The Flame, or Flambeau, is a species of brush-footed butterfly. The sole representative of its genus Dryas, it is native from Brazil to southern Texas and Florida, and in summer can sometimes be found as far north as eastern Nebraska. Over 15 subspecies have been described.Its wingspan ranges from 82 to 92 mm, and it is colored orange (brighter in male specimens) with black markings; this species is somewhat unpalatable to birds and belongs to the “orange” Batesian Mimicry mimic complex.[2]This butterfly is a fast flier and frequents clearings, paths, and margins of forests and woodlands. It feeds on the nectar of flowers, such as lantanas (Lantana) and Shepherd’s-needle (Scandix pecten-veneris), and the tears of caiman, the eye of which the butterfly irritates to produce tears.[3] Its caterpillar feeds on leaves of passion vines including Passiflora affinis and Yellow Passionflower (P. lutea) in Texas.The species is popular in butterfly houses because it is long-lived and active throughout the day.

“Nacimiento de una Dryas iulia, Mariposario de Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife, España, 2012-12-13, DD 03” by Diego Delso. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

[Image description:  Photograph of a dryas iulia butterfly ecloding – emerging from its chrysalis.  It is upside-down and its pinkish-red wings look like pieces of cloth.]

Please don’t delete the image description, it’s there for visually impaired people and other screenreader users.

More about this type of butterfly, from Wikipedia:

Dryas iulia (often incorrectly spelled julia),[1] commonly called the Julia Butterfly, Julia Heliconian, The Flame, or Flambeau, is a species of brush-footed butterfly. The sole representative of its genus Dryas, it is native from Brazil to southern Texas and Florida, and in summer can sometimes be found as far north as eastern Nebraska. Over 15 subspecies have been described.

Its wingspan ranges from 82 to 92 mm, and it is colored orange (brighter in male specimens) with black markings; this species is somewhat unpalatable to birds and belongs to the “orange” Batesian Mimicry mimic complex.[2]

This butterfly is a fast flier and frequents clearings, paths, and margins of forests and woodlands. It feeds on the nectar of flowers, such as lantanas (Lantana) and Shepherd’s-needle (Scandix pecten-veneris), and the tears of caiman, the eye of which the butterfly irritates to produce tears.[3] Its caterpillar feeds on leaves of passion vines including Passiflora affinis and Yellow Passionflower (P. lutea) in Texas.

The species is popular in butterfly houses because it is long-lived and active throughout the day.

7:18pm April 20, 2015
shadowpeoplearejerks: lucymiddletonrogers: archiving-a-life: neonclues: h e lp me I can’t remember exactly where I heard about “telling the bees” but it has stuck in my head forever. This is adorable.  I heard of it somewhere too, but can’t remember where at all.

shadowpeoplearejerks:

lucymiddletonrogers:

archiving-a-life:

neonclues:

h e lp me

I can’t remember exactly where I heard about “telling the bees” but it has stuck in my head forever.

This is adorable. 

I heard of it somewhere too, but can’t remember where at all.

4:42am July 29, 2014
nipplebutt: basedgosh: a national hero look at his little shoes

nipplebutt:

basedgosh:

a national hero

look at his little shoes

9:36pm July 17, 2014
feliscorvus: buggirl: Beneficial Bug of the Day:  The Earwig (Order Dermaptera) Sometimes call “Pincher Bugs” these little uglies are harmless to us and even beneficial to a balanced garden.  Their favorite food is dead matter, they eat dead plants and create nutritious mulch for the rest of the garden.  If you have a well balanced garden, they will rarely eat healthy plants.  Some species are even predatory, eating snail eggs and aphids!  Bonus!  The name Earwig came from the belief that these insects would burrow into peoples’ brains through their ears..  that is so silly and very not true!  Earwigs are also very good moms!  They are one of the few insects that care for their young.  They guard the nest and feed the babies until they can fend for themselves.  Ask before you smush! Mama earwig with a nest!

feliscorvus:

buggirl:

Beneficial Bug of the Day:  The Earwig (Order Dermaptera)

Sometimes call “Pincher Bugs” these little uglies are harmless to us and even beneficial to a balanced garden.  Their favorite food is dead matter, they eat dead plants and create nutritious mulch for the rest of the garden.  If you have a well balanced garden, they will rarely eat healthy plants.  Some species are even predatory, eating snail eggs and aphids!  Bonus! 

The name Earwig came from the belief that these insects would burrow into peoples’ brains through their ears..  that is so silly and very not true! 

Earwigs are also very good moms!  They are one of the few insects that care for their young.  They guard the nest and feed the babies until they can fend for themselves. 

Ask before you smush!

Mama earwig with a nest!

5:23pm May 26, 2014
faustinepau: This Blue Morpho tried to hide from me… (via 500px / The Emperor by Wim Bolsens)

faustinepau:

This Blue Morpho tried to hide from me…

(via 500px / The Emperor by Wim Bolsens)

6:33am May 13, 2014
heyveronica: jennirl: kenlayne: “Strange tradition from the forgotten rural years.” Bees attend keeper’s funeral, 1956. always reblog bees important bee news

heyveronica:

jennirl:

kenlayne:

“Strange tradition from the forgotten rural years.” Bees attend keeper’s funeral, 1956.

always reblog bees

important bee news

3:28pm May 9, 2014

wtfevolution:

“Hey, evolution, what’s that you’re working on?”

“Wheeee!”

“Is it a spider?”

“Wheeee!”

“Wait, is it… doing cartwheels across the desert?”

"Wheeeeee!”

“What? Why? What’s wrong with just running really fast like all the other spiders?”

“Wheeeeeeee!!”

7:48pm May 7, 2014

things about Hufflepuffs #313

thingsabouthufflepuffs:

I like to think that most Hufflepuffs are unable to squish a bug intentionally (well, excluding potions ingredients. But even then, they don’t love the idea of loss of life). Instead, they are the type of people who would trap it in a cup, slip a piece of paper underneath, and walk it outside to let it fly free. 

4:09am May 5, 2014

Wow that butterfly is see-through.

4:27am March 23, 2014

adoptpets:

adoptpets:

Who’s a pretty boy? You are, yes you are!

Bee covered in pollen resting in the heart of a crocus flower.

Nature-loving photographer, Boris Godfroid, uses macro photography for close-up shots, posted to his website boris.godfroidbrothers.be

Happy 1st Day of Spring!

Plant some flowers for the bees.

4:14am March 14, 2014

wickedclothes:

Honey Bee and Honey Drop Necklace

Crafted with a vintage, faceted, pear-shaped amber glass jewel and an antique brass bee charm. This necklace is hung on a bronze cable chain. Don’t worry, the bee won’t sting you. Sold on Etsy.

12:58am January 2, 2014

➸ Bayer is suing a whole continent for saving the bees?

prince-and-friends:

And it says a ban on its bee-killing pesticides is “disproportionate”?!?

Followers, friends of followers, friends of THOSE friends, sign this now!

If the bees aren’t saved, our lives..ALL of our lives, for that matter, are going to take a huge turn for the worse. 

Please, sign this petition. I’m begging you, followers. It only needs 400k signatures. It’s so, so close to being completed.

Please, sign it. We have to save the bees.