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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Photos from the Houston Arboretum, was fun to spot a green tree frog

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I've been busy, haven't been able to get into the wild much lately but I did got to a local pond for a few minutes. Got a snap of a pair of Black Saddlebags in tandem. Got some eye lens detail on some Halloween Skimmer males and a Blue Dasher.

Halloween Skimmer male who's seen some action

Halloween Skimmer male close-up with eye lens detail

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Birds from this morning: Green Heron, Barn Swallows, YCNH

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I spotted a nice butterfly garden near the office at work so I went to check it out. I found a lot of butterflies. The highlight was this Lyside Sulphur. Amazing color like a day-glo butterfly.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Found a Gulf Coast Toad out there this evening, always a pleasure to see

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Red-shouldered hawk taking off

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Juvenile Eastern Bluebirds

A pair of young Eastern Bluebirds on a stick

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Great Horned Owlets seen at Hornsby Bend recently.

A pair of Great Horned Owlets, one offering a menacing looking stare.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Found a Halloween Pennant this morning, we're getting a lot more Odonate diversity emerging now.

A nice detailed photo of a brown and yellow striped dragonfly with a mostly red eye that fades to blue on the underside and a largely yellow abdomen with thin dark brown stripes.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Reakirt's Blue laying eggs

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There were a lot of wildflowers around, with a bunch of Antelope-horn Milkweed. I found milkweed bugs (lovely to see), but also found this beast, Apiomerus spissipes, an assassin bug that specializes on bees. When I first spotted them they were trying to snag a honeybee.

Photo of an assassin bug with red-brown and black wings over a wide black and yellow striped abdomen.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

RWBB battle, Northern Cardinal

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Photos from birding out in Georgetown, TX today #nature #birding #birds #lepidoptera

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I found a Gulf Coast Toad this evening.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Moon Jelly graphite painting

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

If you ever thought “man it’d be cool to have an orchid in a greenhouse,” you are correct.

Photo credit of pink orchid flowers in a greenhouse

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Found a white-lined sphinx moth this morning. Lovely moths, always a delight to find.

Photo of a large brown delta shaped moth with light tan striping

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Found an emerald moth by the lamps last night. Love finding my green moth pals.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

More photos from this morning. The white-throated sparrow was fun to see, we saw tons of cedar waxwings, and watched a downy woodpecker drumming away for a while.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Birding this morning was lovely, especially cool to spot the lark sparrow and see so many bluebirds.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We were out at Lost Pines this morning, lovely area. Mostly saw common birds but they're good birds. Northern mockingbird, mourning dove, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Found a salt marsh moth, they are so stunning.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Nice morning birding out there, lots of songbirds singing, tons of ring-necked ducks on the middle pond, I watched a red-bellied woodpecker pecking and calling, and found a few field sparrows among other sparrows.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Common yellowthroat amid ice plant

A common yellowthroat bird standing on ice plant with purple-ish blooming ice plant behind.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Birding Crystal Cove State Park was really great

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Birding the suburbs of Laguna Beach this morning I found a lot of fun species. Especially cool to spot a Townsend's warbler, and the Swinhoe's white-eye was neat too.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Found a nice nudibranch at the tide pools yesterday

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Birding this morning was lovely, always good to get out there. Happy we still have our winter ducks around.

Northern cardinal reaching down for a berry

A nicely detailed photo of an Eastern Phoebe.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is a tetradrachm from Athens issued 420 BC. When this was issued Socrates is in the agora, Plato is still a kid, Aristophanes is writing comedies, Thucydides is collecting notes for a history, the Erechtheion on the acropolis is being built, Euripides is writing new plays, Sophocles is retired.

Obverse of an Athenian tetradrachm featuring a nice classical portrait of Athena.

Reverse of an Athenian tetradrachma featuring an owl with olive leaves/crescent moon to upper left, and the letters alpha-theta-epsilon partially spelling out Athen's name in Greek.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

SE/30 in the new cube, running A/UX with an Apple IIGS keyboard, an ImageWriter II for style, and a purple aardvark for flair.

SE/30 booted into A/UX with an old ImageWriter II printer, a WWDC 99 bag, and a purple aardvark

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I have a passion vine in the greenhouse. I found some Gulf fritillary caterpillars out before a freeze so I transferred them onto my vine. I have a bunch of them munching away in there now, should get some nice adults eventually.

A pair of Gulf fritillary caterpillars eating a passion flower bud in a charming greenhouse setting.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

First time out birding with the camera for the year, found a few nice things, and was lovely to get out there. Went out with a couple local birders which was really nice.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Found some fun stuff while cleaning out the garage.

Photo of an old Apple USB keyboard from the horrible era, a box copy of Mac OS X Server 10.4 unlimited, a box copy of NEXTSTEP 3.1, and a Supra Express 56k modem

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Brown thrasher drinking from the creek. I went out birding on Sunday, there's a bridge over a creek I always like to spend a while on watching the birds come to the creek to drink.

Photo of a brown thrasher, a medium sized bird with a chestnut back, a light belly with dark speckles, and a long curved bill, and a yellow eye. The bird is standing by the side of a creek drinking, with a droplet falling from their beak.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

And finally, what is probably my best insect photo of the year, a pair of Variegated Meadowhawks in tandem.

A side view of pair of Variegated Meadowhawk dragonflies in flight, the male has the female's head gripped by the pincer he has on his tail. The venation in the wings is in focus for parts of the wing. It's an amazing photo.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Oblique streaktail in flight.

Oblique streaktail, a kind of hoverfly, in flight

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Four-spotted mantidfly! This is surely in my top three favorite insect observations of the year - what an amazing insect! They were hiding by a lamp so it's not my best photo, but still super cool to spot one out there.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

CW for the creepy bugs - Beelzebub bee eater, and a wheel bug. I was delighted to see both and I think they're fascinating to behold, but not all agree.

A black robber fly with a few flecks of yellow - they look like they're murder bugs

Photo of a wheel bug, they have large piercing mouthparts clearly shown in the photo.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I found quite a few emerald moths this year, always a treat to spot one.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Halloween pennant - such a cool looking bug

Photo of a dark-brown and orange striped dragonfly with colors reminiscent of Halloween.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Needham's skimmer male - this was an Odonata year, I identified 36 species in iNaturalist with a few hundred of observations. I can identify a lot of common species by sight now, progress from the beginning of the year.

Photo of a bright red dragonfly that looks a lot like a neon skimmer.

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