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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 15h

goooood morning it is brisk and bright and we ran into this little lady’s favorite kid-friends, so between the weather, the cuddles, and the crows keeping us company, yes: Lucy Loved That Walk

Big fluffy black and tan husky mix sitting in the sun, squinting and waiting for a snack while some crows hang out behind her, waiting for the overflow.

Same scene, now with dog sticking out her tongue. Yes, I live on a very steep hill.

But now there is a piece of poptart flying toward her and she has it On Lock.

She snatches it out of the sky, the moment preserved an instant before it lands in her mouth.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?

4 panel comic: Panel 1: pink blob guy on a table, pencil in their hands. Grey circle on a piece of paper and a glass of water on the table. They say “look here” Panel 2: Proudly, they hold up the drawing of a grey blobby character on two stick legs up in the air. The pink blob says “I drew this!” Panel 3: Satisfied they sit back down on the table. They now go “it’s not much, but..” The grey drawing looks a bit peeved because the drawer is calling it “not much” Panel 4: But it’s okay, because now the pink blob is very pleased finally. He says “it came from my brain!” Holding the pencil up. The grey drawing blob is happy again, too. End well, all well!

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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 14h

For those who need a timeline cleanse, I give you boop n’ blep.

A ferret sacked out with a funny mottled nose and a blep.

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 14h

This reminds me of a recurring motto at the field station: remember, we’re not doing this because it’s easy, we’re doing it because we *thought* it would be easy.

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Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social · 12h

Fiasco am give slow blink to u Which means KEESS Cos u looked like u needed one

me, fiasco, a big fluffy grey tabby with white toes, giving you a sloooow blink from my shark bed. i am facing the viewer, with my feet on the edge of the bed.

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Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes @juniperbear.bsky.social · 10h

Poppy's love language is walkies.

A very happy dog who just went for a walk.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 9h

Dog friend

3 doodles of a brown dog that is shaped like a tube with paws and ears basically. It wears a blue collar and always has a pink tongue out

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 5h

Join us on Thursday at noon Eastern, right here on the internet, for a virtual rally to learn about the latest on the academy of natural sciences fiasco, and what YOU can do about it. We've got a killer lineup of speakers and more coming soon. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

a poster for a virutal rally to save the academy of natural sciences. There's a stag beetle in a headseat, on a zoom call with Alie ward who is a praying mantis, Kory Evans who is a splended garden eel, Jessica Ware who is a white shark, Allison Tumarkin-Deratzian who is a weevil, Isa betancourt who is a snail, and Tykee James who is a green boa. The stag beetle is saying "learn about actions you can take" and a bluejay is saying "Join us Thurs Oct 15th, Noon-1pm ET"

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toxicojendron radicans @toxicoradica.northsky.social · 5h

🌸 frogfruit 🌿 Phyla lanceolata #nativeplants #ecoregion71

a little flowerspike, seen from above, with ten tiny blooming flowers in a ring around its periphery. eight of the flowers are pink with red throats, while two are white with yellow throats. the flowers have five lobes: two little ones on top which often appear merged, two lateral lobes, and a bottom lobe longer and wider than the rest. just within the mouth of each flower there are two pairs of minute stamens.

two little flowerspikes with blooming flowers (& a third still budding), seen mostly from the side. the lower spike has three blooming flowers, all white with yellow throats. the other, higher flowerspike has ten blooming flowers that are a mix of white with a yellow throat and pink w a red throat. the flowerspikes grow at the end of long green flowerstems; their origins are unseen or out of frame. however, it seems the budding spike on the lower right grows from an on-screen leaf axil. the frogfruit's green, opposite leaves are lance-shaped with margins toothed, especially on the half of the leaf nearer the tip.

a dense mat of frogfruit; the view is filled with opposite pairs of green, lance-shaped, toothed leaves. the verdant expanse is occasionally broken by small flowerspikes bearing tiny flowers, a handful or so blooming simultaneously on each spike. some of the flowers are pink with red throats, others are white with yellow throats. it seems to be random, the two colors of flower commingle on each flowerspike.

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Ginny Stibolt @ginnystibolt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Peat moss can never be sustainably harvested, plus it's highly acidic & offers virtually no nutrients for your plants & it's sterile so it kills beneficial soil microbes. #JustSayNOtoPeat Read this article with more details: www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/climate/peat-climate-change.html

Photo of a bale of wrapped peatmoss. The green & white wrapper is labeled in both English and French. Premier Sphagnum Peat Moss for organic growing 2.2 cu ft.

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🧙🏻‍♀️ Raina, Queen of Redundancy @brightwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🌱 Reminder to go peat-free! 💚

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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My enemies are amassing on the outskirts of town. Probably to apologise for their grievous misconduct

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Found a midge this morning, Goeldichironomus carus, that appears to mimic a jumping spider.

macro photo of a small brown midge in front view, with six triangular black spots on its back above the head, and the legs arranged a bit like jumping spider legs.

macro photo of a small brown midge in oblique front view, with six triangular black spots on its back above the head, and the legs arranged a bit like jumping spider legs.

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Turns out these guys are real

A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mural unveiling was a wild success

A dog with a comical underbite in front or a mural with a Luna moth dip and Polyphemus moth

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy #FlyDay! Enjoy a marg and a fly this Friday 🪰💕

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 09/10/2026

For fun, today I will walk through how acarology works, and how I got this mite I found by the Welsh shores down to species. This also applies to many insects. When someone says "Can you tell me what species this is?" is often a hard question to answer. #bugsky #inverts #entomology #ukwildlife 🧪🌿

Close up photo of a tiny mite walking across a wet, muddy brown surface on the shore. This was the underside of a rock near LLanelli. Its body is a smooth, glossy, orange brown oval, longer than it is wide, that shines in the light. Paler orange legs and mouthparts reach forward to the left.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 09/10/2026

Also quick reminder: have you seen the large man who lives in my house and his little white toes

a fluffy grey tabby wedged into a bed that i put up there for his much smaller sibling -- round, with light grey fabric. he is facing away from the viewer. his back toes are visible (all white except for where he has a hole in his sock and has one grey toe).

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Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes @juniperbear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This certified good girl just took a chocolate croissant out of my daughter's bag and then BROUGHT IT TO ME AND GAVE IT TO ME WHEN I ASKED FOR IT! Poppy was very proud of herself and got non-chocolate treats as a thank you.

A large dog named Poppy next to a couch. She is a very good girl.

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#February2Frost #NativePlants superstar Conoclinium coelestinum (Mistflower) nearly about to bloom as mid October comes closer. #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

Wide triangular toothed leaves with a cluster of soft purple buds starting to open in their center.

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Where's my chicken…?

A black-and-white cat wearing a red polka-dot bow tie sits on the floor, looking up

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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

some are saying its bed time

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

*tiny airplane noises* (Mr Phidippus richmani, being a very silly lad 🖤) #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Fancy floofy Phidippus jumping spider boy, his 1st segment on his 1st leg pair so magnificently floofy it's brushing his bluish green face. He's perched on an oak twig, that 1st leg pair spread wide likes he's doing pantomime flying airplane

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It takes special knowledge, time, & resources to produce the many native plants needed for conservation. That is why a key part of our work here at Xerces focuses on making more plants of more species available! ⤵️ xerces.org/news/organiz...

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How Xerces is Improving the Supply of Native Plants for Pollinators

Getting more native plants growing is the foundation for many kinds of conservation work. That is why a key part of our work here at the Xerces Society focuses on increasing the supply of native…

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 08/10/2026

goooood morning it’s another cool and foggy one, but *this time* we ran into an entire SDOT screw full of dudes who lined up to pet her, so yes, 100%: Lucy Loved That Walk

Big fluffy black and tan husky mix with bright blue eyes and a smug smile that says she knows she’s worth it. She’s sitting on a paved path lined by trees with falling leaves and there’s a nice veil of fog in the background.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No one ever gets excited when I ask them if I can show them my ear rot of corn until I show them the starbursts produced by Fusarium inside the infected glass gem corn kernels! 🌽🎆🧫👂🧟 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Close up of several rows of an ear of Glass gem corn, an American heirloom flint corn known for its translucent, rainbow colored kernels. Many of the dark colored kernels show firework like starbursts inside each kernel, an indication that the corn has Fusarium ear rot, a common fungal disease.

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JB 🎃| Native Plant Gardener (WI) @jbtheexplorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've hoped for the last 12 years that I'd find a snake in one of my native plant gardens eventually. It finally happened, but it was on my patio near my garden pond. Amazing! #snake #garden #Wisconsin

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We're a couple weeks away from Snootfly Watch (where I wander marshes and watch for Snootflies) and I can't wait, I miss them 🖤 (mourning scorpionfly, Panorpa lugubris)

Bright red-bodied scorpionfly with black wings spread to show off his pinchy tail curled up beneath. He has the characteristic long silly scorpionfly snoot

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 08/10/2026

bosc pears, painted by james marion shull, 1935

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Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes @juniperbear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

IT'S SUSHI WEDNESDAY FOR POPPY

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

High-stepping Wilson's Snipe! #birds

A fancy brown and white streaky bird with yellow legs and a very very long straight beak is strutting across some matted reeds at the edge of a lake. There are some cattails in the background. The bird looks totally confident and is striding with purpose.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

US artist Hillary Waters Fayle, known for creating fine embroideries on real leaves #womensart #AutumnWeek 🍂

A photo of a line of the same species of green leaf each with a botanical embroidery of the same flowering plant

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good Morning BlueSky, user #600,771 reporting for duty.

The corner section of a vintage tile floor circa 1920, with a border of red and green squares trimmed in black and a center of blue, black and browns in a repeating pattern.

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Cast Iron Garden @cast-iron-garden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

last week‘s two inches of rain after 53 days without substantial rain really perked up the Datura wrightii #nativePlants

A big sprawling datura plant covered in white trumpet shaped blooms, poorly lit by a phone flashlight.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A well-known common name for this animal is a Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis). We think it's the most weasel one could be.

A brown and white weasel stares directly into the camera.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am a witch for all those near broken. I am a witch for those scraped raw by trying to climb high walls, cut by having to walk on glass scattered by hollow-hearted bastards. I am a witch for those needing transformation, bound to pain. For witches understand the bruised. - #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨 ENDORSEMENT ALERT 🚨 Chancleta has been endorsed by a family of three random raccoons who saw him from outside. One of them even stood on our patio chair on two legs, like a person. This is incredible news for Sandal's campaign to represent whatever it is he is running for.

A mock political endorsement graphic on a blue gradient background. At the top left is a photo of three raccoons beside the words “A FAMILY OF THREE RANDOM RACCOONS.” Below, red text reads “PROUDLY ENDORSES,” followed by “CHANCLETA” in large white letters. At the bottom right is a large photo of Chancleta, an orange-and-white cat looking directly at the camera.

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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

forgot to put in the quit #critterposting

Crude drawing of a muted brown racoon scrabbling around a frankly discriminatory metal cone around the shaft of a bird feeder hanger in front of a muted green leafy yard. Shaped like shapes. Text reads hang in there

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Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes @juniperbear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Would you like to see Poppy's treat time?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

THIS IS SO GOOD

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 25/09/2026

thanks to @thatnerdchick.bsky.social for the headsup on this AMAZING AMAZING, um . . . not even sure what to call it: "situation?" "woodworking?" "bug's life?"

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this fool’s spoon isn’t even runcible

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 03/10/2026

Quick drawing of something I really enjoy.

Me coming home and greeting Brioche (a cat sleeping on a rolly cart) by saying "Brioche I'm home!"
He sits up and you can see the left side of his soft round head is concave from where it's been squished against a pillow for several hours.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oldest sis spent a long weekend with us, got to introduce her to the Smol-ticid, Ms Neonella vinnula 🧡 #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Tiny dark orange jumping spider with little yellow-tipped palps and stripy legs

The little stripy lass, looking away from you

The tiny lass, 1.5mm long, navigating the vast dunes of a human hand

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