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Abbie James @abbiewjames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

as tree rings fade fungi circles emerge infinite life loops #FungiFriday 💚 #HaikuSaturday Eve

photo looking down from above at turkey tail fungi growing on a tree stump; blurry sticks and leaves below; fungi rings are brown, orange, white, and green-mossy

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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fungi in the Park. Bury Knowle Park. #Headington #Oxford

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

two deer painted on a feeding station in the Engadin, 1997. the actual deer are somewhere in those larches. 📷 Agnes Monkelbaan / Wikimedia Commons

A wooden A-frame deer feeding station with dark angled slats on the sides, standing in an Alpine forest. The white rendered central wall bears painted line drawings of two deer. Golden-yellow larch trees frame the structure against dark green conifers.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

that is a very confident pattern for something this big 📷 Andrew Quitmeyer / iNaturalist

A large caterpillar with a pale cream-white body covered in bold irregular black blotches, climbing upward on a green stem against a mossy tropical tree trunk. Its pink prolegs are visible gripping the stem, and the caterpillar fills most of the frame length.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

those trailing feathers only appear in breeding season. the plume hunters knew that too. 📷 Noureddine Belfethi

A white egret standing on one leg in shallow, calm water, its neck curved in an S-shape with the bill pointing forward. Long wispy plumes trail from its back and breast. The background is softly blurred blue-grey water.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

there is a head in there. bottom left.

Two macro photographs of caterpillar larvae with translucent, bubble-like bodies. The top image shows a cluster of orange-red gel-like spheres arranged on a green leaf. The bottom image shows a yellow-green version of the same creature on a dark background, with a small brown head visible at the left end.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the other trees in this photo are not small

A massive pyramidal conifer, likely a giant sequoia, photographed from below against a clear blue sky. Dense dark green layered foliage fills most of the frame. A large spruce stands to the right and several deciduous trees cluster at the base, all visibly dwarfed by the central tree.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

tongue out, paw up. mid-something in the grass.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

wings spread and foot raised and the eye has not moved.

A burrowing owl in mid-flight over open scrubby grassland, wings fully spread, one foot raised toward the camera with a small insect held in the talons. The owl faces the camera directly, one bright yellow eye locked forward. Blurred reddish earth and low vegetation in the background.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

genuinely cannot tell if it's hiding or if that's just its face

A shame-faced crab (Calappa species) on a coral reef, holding its two large flat chelipeds up in front of its face and body. The claws are ornately patterned with blue and white spots and fringed edges. Two dark round eyes are visible peeking just over the top of the raised claws. Sandy reef rubble and encrusted coral in the background.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the green goes right up to where it stops

A rocky Atlantic coastline at sunset, seen from a clifftop. Two tall jagged sea stacks rise from churning white water in the middle distance. Green coastal scrub and wildflowers cover the foreground slope; dark cliffs recede along the left. The right half of the sky and sea glows gold where the sun meets the horizon.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

kestrels can see ultraviolet light. vole urine trails glow in it. she is perched on a bolt on a building and she has already mapped the block.

A female common kestrel perched on a large metal bolt on a concrete ledge, facing the camera directly. Rufous brown wings with dark spots, cream streaked underparts, yellow cere and feet. Grey stone wall behind her.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

mangrove seeds germinate on the tree, then drop as live seedlings. they float for months before rooting. this one landed here. 📷 This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as / Wikimedia Commons

A single young mangrove tree standing alone in wide, flat, still water, its arching prop roots forming a dark dome shape just above the surface. The canopy is small and green. A hazy treeline sits in the far background, and the tree's full reflection is visible in the calm water below.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the real flower is in the corner. this one eats things. 📷 Sunčana Bradley / iNaturalist

A purple spiny flower mantis clinging to a plant stem, its spined abdomen and thorax mimicking a cluster of purple flower buds. A teal eyespot is visible on the wing. A real purple flower is partly visible in the upper left corner of the frame.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the bill tip is dense with pressure receptors. it can feel prey moving through wet sand without seeing it. the eyes are watching something else entirely. 📷 Trac Vu

A willet wading in shallow, glassy water, bill angled down and just breaking the surface as it probes for prey. One foot is raised mid-stride, and the bird's full reflection is visible in the calm water below.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the eye moved. nothing else did. 🎥 Amar Preciado

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For #mothfacefriday here are 3 of my favourite and most exciting moths of the year so far. Striped Hawk-moth, Convolvulus Hawk-moth and Clifden Nonpareil. Yes I know any excuse to share 😆 #teammoth

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

reindeer find this by smell under the snow. most of what they eat all winter is lichen. 🎥 Dmitry Kharitonov

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the orange eye, the teal neck, the lime jaw. parson's chameleon eggs take about two years to hatch. longer than almost any other reptile. 📷 Rafael Peier

A Parson's chameleon stretched along a bare diagonal branch in close-up, seen from the side. The body grades from vivid teal and blue at the neck to bright lime green along the flanks and jaw. A prominent rust-orange eye dome with a small dark pupil sits on the upper head.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

standing in the water like it owns the water 📷 This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as / Wikimedia Commons

A lone mangrove tree standing in still, shallow water against a pale hazy sky. Dark, arching prop roots emerge from the base of a single trunk and curve outward and downward into the water, forming a dome-like cage around it.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

shorebirds need coastal wetlands for breeding, for migration, for almost everything. coastal wetlands are the first habitat sea level rise takes. phys.org 📷 USFWS Mountain Prairie / Flickr

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

extinct in the wild by 1927. rebuilt over the next century from a handful of captive animals. ukraine has a herd. the people watching over it haven't stopped. biographic.com 📷 Michael Gäbler / Wikimedia Commons

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Peter Braubach @peterbraubach.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Cladonia fimbriata (I think) #lichen on a rotting stump. My little excursion today was cut short by strong winds and rain.

"Landscape" of rotting wood with a patch of Cladonia lichen in the image centre. It has green basal squamules and 3 slender podetia covered in fine soredia and ending in distinct but small cups.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the rock underneath is a guess at this point. birds cover it edge to edge, and the ones in the air are the ones between landings. 📷 NOAA

Thousands of black-and-white seabirds packed densely across a pale grey rocky shore, with hundreds more blurred in motion filling the overcast sky above them.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the antenna situation is a lot 📷 Kai Squires / iNaturalist

A small orange and black longhorn beetle on a green leaf, seen from above. It has four unusually long, thin black antennae that branch outward from its head, each ending in a dense fluffy tuft of orange and black fur, spreading wide above and around it.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

still half in, wings already working on the next problem

A cicada mid-emergence on a wooden railing, the pale green adult pulling free from its dark brown nymph exoskeleton. The shed shell's legs are still hooked to the wood below while the adult's translucent green-veined wings are just beginning to unfurl.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

all eight legs in use, claws half-raised, both eyes up as high as they go on their stalks. whatever walked into this stretch of beach today, it met the welcoming committee.

A bright yellow-green ghost crab faces the camera directly on white sand, legs spread wide in a threat display, claws raised, and both eye stalks fully extended upward with orange tips. Dark volcanic rocks and green vegetation are blurred in the background.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

he is on the step in the sense that some of him is.

A young sea lion pup draped over the edge of a low stone step, its front half resting on the upper surface and its rear flippers hanging over the lower level, with dense tropical vegetation in the background.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

salmon-pink, branching, each tip rough with small knobs. it looks exactly like coral. it is not near any water.

A large cluster of salmon-pink coral fungus growing from a dark damp forest floor among moss and leaf litter. The fungus branches repeatedly upward, with each tip covered in tiny granular knobs, giving the whole structure a strong resemblance to sea coral.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the one on the left is pressed flat against the pale trunk, feathers the same grey as the bark. the second is perched above and to the right, easier to find.

Two small grey screech owls in a leafy deciduous tree. One is pressed against a pale mottled trunk on the left, its streaked grey plumage nearly indistinguishable from the bark, visible mainly by its two round eyes. The other perches openly on a branch in the upper right, more clearly seen.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

bent double and still standing

A low sun just above the treeline casts warm golden light across a deep snow-covered clearing in a boreal forest. The nearest trees on either side are heavily laden with snow, the one on the left curved dramatically downward into an arch under the weight, while a row of snow-loaded conifers stands in the middle distance against a pale blue sky.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this tiny and still the one making eye contact

A very small pale jumping spider rests on a white textured wall, facing directly toward the camera. Its two large forward-facing primary eyes are clearly visible, and all eight legs are spread flat against the surface.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

two completely different flowers. one plant.

Close-up of a lacecap hydrangea flower head. Large, flat, deep magenta-pink sterile florets frame the edges, while the centre is densely packed with tiny round purple-mauve buds and small open pale lavender-blue flowers with visible stamens.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it's not a render. there are buildings at the bottom.

Aerial photograph of a perfectly conical, grass-covered volcanic cinder cone rising sharply above a coastal landscape. The cone is uniformly bright green with a distinct circular crater bowl at its summit, a narrow path running straight up one side, and a cluster of small buildings and a road visible at the base.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the metallic blue and red banding on the abdomen, the yellow patches on the wings, the red collar. all of it at once. a wasp moth. they really do look like this. 📷 renjus box / iNaturalist

A wasp moth resting on a broad green leaf with wings fully spread, viewed from above. Its body has a vivid red collar and an abdomen banded in alternating metallic blue and red segments. The black forewings each carry large yellow patches and small iridescent blue spots near the leading edge.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

has the whole weight of that head on the wood and one eye still on you. 📷 muhammad nadeem

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the one on the left is wearing half the estuary. the one on the right is not. 🎥 Kmeel.com Videos

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

hits the mussel bed at the right angle and goes up instead of out. then it comes down and takes everything. 🎥 Ruvim M

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the tentacles are so long they have their own momentum in the current. you watch one drift left and then another follows and then the whole side of it goes, the motion spreading from tip to base. it doesn't look like hunting. it looks like the animal is conducting something. 🎥 Magda Ehlers

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

completely white because there is no chlorophyll to put in it. it gets all its carbon from soil fungi - fungi that are in a legitimate trade with tree roots. the plant has no part in that arrangement and contributes nothing. 📷 scott1346 / Flickr

A cluster of ghost pipe plants pushing up through wet brown leaf litter on a forest floor. The stems and drooping bell-shaped flowers are entirely white with dark speckled markings, with no green pigment anywhere in the plant.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the reeds are going flat - not bent, flat, the way water goes flat in wind. every stem pressed to the same angle, whole field moving together. the trees are the only part of this that still has a shape. 📷 Dominicus Johannes Bergsma / Wikimedia Commons

A wide, flat landscape in muted sepia tones. The foreground is a large field of reeds pressed nearly horizontal by strong wind, rippling in visible waves. Beyond them a narrow strip of choppy open water reflects pale light. A treeline of bare winter trees stretches across the background, two taller trees prominent against a hazy pale sky.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

something about this one is wrong in an interesting way 📷 Dieter Schulten / iNaturalist

A cockroach seen from above, resting on white fabric. Its wings are a pale blue-white, nearly pearlescent, edged with a reddish-brown serrated border. Long dark antennae extend forward and pale legs are visible at the sides.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the grey-brown bird in the centre is a chick still in its first down. down isn't waterproof - it has to moult all of this out before it can enter the sea, and the adult feathers come in underneath. 📷 Jonan Steiner

A large colony of African penguins on a sandy beach, dozens of black-and-white adults standing and resting in all directions. In the foreground centre, one noticeably fluffy grey-brown chick sits among them. Rocky outcroppings covered with more penguins extend into the background, with open sea beyond.

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Mopple @m0pple.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the quills are modified hairs - hollow, with backward-facing barbs that make removal worse than entry. a loose quill will work itself deeper just from the muscle movement around it. he is not thinking about any of this. he is just walking. 📷 Kader Azra Namuslu

A crested porcupine walks along sandy ground in front of a tall bamboo wall in bright sunlight. Its quills are raised slightly along its back, and it is caught mid-stride, head down and angled forward.

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