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Daphne X Blevins

@leafxlitter.bsky.social
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conservation biology and ecology student aspiring naturalist artist

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daelyn lambi @d43lyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
very small slugs and their beautiful/freaky trail art (first photo is in the morning fog, captured quickly on my way out for work; closeups are from the evening when i was trying to confirm that it had in fact been slugs—but actually you can see six or so in the original photo if you zoom wayyyy in)
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Tracy Frank @drtracydfrank.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Lacustrine ooids and coated grains (mainly ostracods) from the Eocene Green River Formation, UT (USA). #ThinSectionThursday
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Danae Wolfe | Chasing Bugs @chasingbugs.com · 09/04/2025
Eye candy! Candy-striped leafhoppers (Graphocephala coccinea) are among my favorite common backyard bugs.
A candy-striped leafhopper boasting bright colors of yellow, red, and blue rests on a green leaf against a black background.
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Daphne X Blevins @leafxlitter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Pretty lil Texas brown tarantula<3
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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.shop · 28/03/2025
Avert Catastrophe jumbo postcard prints are back in stock!
A flat, colorful print that reads "Avert Catastrophe! Home is where your cat should be"
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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yellow-billed oxpeckers doing important work on a large mammal. Their food is blood. They love eating engorged ticks, but will also reopen wounds to make blood flow. Really, they’re vampires and this is a horror movie. #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #nikon #tanzania #vampires #horror
Small birds on the neck of a giraffe. These birds are yellow billed oxpeckers, and they consume blood. Savanna mammals tolerate oxpeckers because the birds pick off engorged tick parasite, filled with blood. But the birds want the blood, not the ticks. If they can’t get blood-swollen ticks, they also look for wounds that have closed over, and peck them open til blood flows so they can feed that way. 

Like vampires.
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Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It’s Timberdoodle time 💛🪶🥔 American Woodcock in Bryant Park, NYC, March 2025
An American Woodcock - a mostly tan/buff colored bird with a potato-like body, very long slender beak, and large eyes - posing among the leaf litter and green ivy on the ground in Bryant Park. The bird is mostly facing the camera, head turned ever so slightly to the left. An American Woodcock walking among the leaf litter and green ivy on the ground in Bryant Park. The skyline is reflected in their left eye.
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🌀lauren🌀 @scatteredcovey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Belted kingfisher study
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Sarah Ross-Thompson - Printmaker @sarahrossthompson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #TheJourney Trying out some recommended hashtags this Saturday morning. It seems some are time dependent? Not sure that my aging brain can fathom all of this but I’ll give it a go! Hope I am doing ok so far?
Seascape with small pebbles in the foreground. Bigger boulders in the middle distance lead to a layer of sea before the cliffs rise on the right hand side.
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Our #MarineMonday Observation of the Day is this Dardanus arrosor hermit crab, seen off of New Zealand by shaun-lee! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations... Read about iNat's top hermit crab identifier here: www.inaturalist.org/blog/85156-i...
A large hermit crab with reddish legs and inside of a snail shell rests on the sea floor. Several pieces of algae are attached to its shell.
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9 Banded Creative @9bandedcreative.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
#printpromptmonday - “Foliage” A Pygmy rattlesnake nestled in a bed of leaves. Made this one for the Reptile Rally last year at Bear Creek Nature Center.
A photo of a hand holding a block print. The print depicts a spotted snaked curled up on leaves in black ink on white paper.
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🌀lauren🌀 @scatteredcovey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
white troutlily admiring her beauty for the first time
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
European wolves are reclaiming their old hunting grounds! "After previously being targeted in a negative light, pushed to the brink of extinction due to hunting practices, wolves are up 58% as of 2022 in Europe." Gray Wolf Numbers Are On The Rise In Europe www.thetravel.com/gray-wolf-nu...
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Gray Wolf Numbers Are On The Rise In Europe
The population is increasing over the course of the last 10 years, growing by 58%
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Fiona Barnacle @fionabarnacle.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
#printpromptmonday #foliage Something old while I work on lots of new things this week.
Angled photo of a colorful gilded linocut print to show detail, print features a flying squirrel on a mossy surface, mushrooms and forest.
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Daphne X Blevins @leafxlitter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Can’t wait for it to be summer and 100 degrees and I can spend all day outside eating watermelon and exploring and getting covered in watermelon juice and then getting covered in dirt bc I’m sticky from the watermelon
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Shaun Pogacnik @shaunpogacnik95.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hypotrachyna osseoalba showing its reaction to UV. Craven County, North Carolina March/12/2025
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Bella Ormseth @bellaormseth.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Listening” 24”x18”, oil on cradled wood panel, 2024 (sold). Now on view at @roqlarue.bsky.social
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Our #FungusFriday Observation of the Day is this Ciboria amentacea fungus, seen in Finland by j_ae! This species grows on the catkins of alder and willow plants, as you can see in photo 2. More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
A small light brown cup fungus among leaf litter. A light brown cup fungus is attached to a decomposing alder catkin. They are laying on a decomposing leaf.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program promised $350 million for animal passages—a bipartisan effort in a polarized country. But today its grants are "on hold," jeopardizing species & driver safety. For @vox.com, I covered the uncertain fate of a key program. #roadecology www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
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Less than 20 red wolves remain in the wild. We had a plan to save them.
Then Trump got in the way.
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skylineA vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
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Nigel Pugh @nspugh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A beaver dam in British Columbia shows its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall, sediment damages freshwater habitat. Two pairs of beavers are making a new wild home in Studland #UK & their unrestricted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #nature #climatecrisis
Image is of a meandering river. Half way along is a beaver dam. The waters before the dam are discoloured with soils sediment. After the dam the waters are clear.
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Bella Ormseth @bellaormseth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Opening Friday, March 14, 6-9pm! I will have 3 paintings as part of the re-opening of Roq la Rue Gallery at their new location, 117 W Denny Way, Suite 217, Seattle. Here’s a detail of one of my paintings, “Listening.”
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Sara Shimazu @hysazu.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It was a cold, wet afternoon but it’s easy to forget about both of those things in the moment when you’re watching wild killer whales. T019 spyhops beside her son, T019B in Boundary Pass yesterday.
A female killer whale spyhops next to the towering dorsal fin of an adult male. It’s gray and overcast and in the distance the outline of a heavily forested island covers the horizon.
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Daphne X Blevins @leafxlitter.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
a Polyphemus moth and Tenpetal Anemone <3 spring is heeerreee
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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A drawing of a bald eagle with flaming eyes ripping apart a nazi flag.
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🕸️ƊǗƝƓĘƠΝƁÏƬƇΗ🕸️ @dungeonbitch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
fairy fingees (aka golden spindles)
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🌀lauren🌀 @scatteredcovey.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
making more
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In New Caledonia, johan98800 saw this Ocellate Phyllidia nudibranch (Phyllidia ocellata, Phyllidie ocellée in French) and it's our Observation of the Day! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
A bright yellow dorid nudibranch with four black rings around tubercles on each side. The black rings have white edges.
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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.shop · 07/03/2025
Brand new risograph prints courtesy of @juleshroom.bsky.social!! 🦉🐦
A flat illustration of owls perched on a branch at night against a dark blue sky. The owls decrease in size as they get close stacked in front, while also growing bright orange. The effect resembles a flame. The owls, back to front (large to small) are Great Gray, Great Horned, Long-eared, Screech, and Saw-whet.
Flat illustration of an American Dipper framed in a circle. The dipper engages in its signature dip below the water in 7 steps, with stylized silhouettes beginning from a rock, diving below the water, and surfacing on top of the same rock.
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🌀lauren🌀 @scatteredcovey.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
eastern tiger salamander in my eastern tiger salamander dress **my hands are wet**
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Shaun Pogacnik @shaunpogacnik95.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Mustard Lichen (Pyxine subcinerea) showing its reaction to UV light! Athens County, Ohio March/3/2025
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Zoltán Sylvester @zzsylvester.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Bird’s-eye and snake’s-eye views from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, on a beautiful spring day in Texas
A trace left behind by a snake, on top of wind ripples The sandy barrier system separating the Gulf of Mexico from East Matagorda BayMini-yardangs formed as shells protect sand from wind erosionWaves of the Gulf from above
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bug-boi.bsky.social @bug-boi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Mapledust Lichen - Verseghya thysanophora, formerly in the genus Lecanora, is a common sterile sorediate crustose lichen in eastern North America. What at first look like pale green splotches on trees become breath-taking when viewed up-close.
A pale green dusty crustose lichen covers part of a young sugar maple trunk. The bark of the tree has two lumps in the middle of the patch, and a crack towards the bottom. That combined with the oval shape of the lichen give the appearance of a face. A white margin is visible around the edge of the lichen.A closeup of the margin of the thallus shows in detail the diffuse soredia covering the central portion of the lichen and the prothallus made of thick white hyphae extending beyond the soredia. At the edge of this white mat is a faint blue-green margin.
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Anita S. Hunt @batworthy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
today’s version: paper diorama in process inside a shoebox, with a lithograph, suminagashi marbled paper, monotypes and a drypoint engraving… #printmaking #printmaker #intaglio #lithograhy #papersculpture #diorama
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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It’s #printpromptmonday and today’s theme is #flipped! Here’s a linocut I printed using the same block twice on one paper. They’re starlings, a beautiful, smart, fascinating bird that’s also invasive where I live (in the US).
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 05/03/2025
As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address: Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Our Observation of the Day is this Horned Leafhopper nympsh (Ledra aurita, Grand diable in French), seen in Belgium by axelgosseries! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
A flat, wide, light green hemipteran nymph on a piece of wood.A flat, wide, light green hemipteran nymph on a piece of wood.
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In India, iNatter dattatrayalanghi captured this Spot Swordtail butterfly (Graphium nomius) deftly expelling liquid from its rear end - it's our Observation of the Day! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
A brown, white and red butterfly stands on wet dirt and expels a steam of liquid from its rear end.
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SeaChange Marine Conservation Society @seachangemarine.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It’s World Seagrass Day! 💚🌱🌊 Three species of seagrass can be found in the Salish Sea: Eelgrass (Zostera marina), Japanese eelgrass (Zostera japonica) and surf grass (Phyllospadix sp.).
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MeatSpice🎃(boo!) @meats.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I'm excited to offer this art as my first print! If a print isnt your style I also have it available in a big sticker sheet! #art #prints #stickers
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It's #FungusFriday and our Observation of the Day is this Erysiphe capreae Powdery Mildew, seen growing on a Willow (genus Salix) leaf in the United States by andrewcannon! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Microscope image of a mildew ascopore. A dark red circle with a crown of blue tendrils.Willow leaves with spots of whitish powdery mildew.
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9 Banded Creative @9bandedcreative.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The final week of #sketchyhabitats “sunny spot” Alligators are the second largest ectotherm on land, relying on external sources to regulate their body temperature. They can frequently be seen sunbathing waterside or buried in mud to get warm. #nature #illustration #sciart
A digital illustration of an alligator on a sandy bank next to a body of water.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Elon Musk’s penis rocket and exploding car companies have been given $38 billion in government funding, but he’s cutting funding for children’s cancer research, gutting the VA’s suicide prevention hotline and letting palettes of desperately needed food expire because it’s “wasteful spending.”
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Marisa @marisamorby.com · 27/02/2025
I loooove @inaturalist.bsky.social and this is a big reason why. They’re instrumental in research and it’s so fun to know that when you go on the app you’re contributing to this knowledge base.
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Jen Strongin @jensseattle.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Comfort curl. A polychaete worm from a nice evening out on the dock with @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social #invertebrates
Image of a pink colored polychaete worm curled up against a black background
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In India, abhiapc saw this group of Teleopsis sykesii stalk-eyed flies and it's our more-than-#TwoferTuesday Observation of the Day! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Several dozen flies on a leaf. They have red eyes on the ends of long stalks protruding from their heads.
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🌀lauren🌀 @scatteredcovey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
good day with lichens and stinky cabbage
mustard lichen under UV (Pyxine sorediata)eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)Common script lichen (Graphis scripta)
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Daphne X Blevins @leafxlitter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🔎🐞
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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