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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Showy fleabane, Erigeron speciosus, is native across western North America. It can grow in a wide variety of habitats, as long as the soil is well draining. #SciArt #BloomScrolling #NativePlants #illustration #art

Photo of a scratch art drawing of a daisy-looking plant, with different life stages and parts highlighted.

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Goodnight

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Fringe lily, Thysanotus sp., in Morton National Park, New South Wales, Australia, 2019. #bloomscrolling #MacroPhoto #NaturePhoto #NativePlants

Close up photo of a flower with only 3 petals, which are bright purple and have heavily fringed edges.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yarrow, Achillea millefolium, is native across temperate parts of the northern hemisphere. There are leaps of differently colored cultivars and varieties in gardens across the world. It also makes a great tea! #SciArt #BloomScrolling #gardening #NativePlants #drawing

Photo of a scratch art drawing of a flower with several parts and aspects of it's lifecycle highlighted. Text says Achillea millefolium, common yarrow.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Solanum adenophorum is an endangered nightshade that is endemic to a small region of Eastern Queensland, Australia. #EndangeredSpecies #bloomscrolling #NatureLovers #MacroPhoto

Photo of a spiny striped green tomato-looking fruit hanging from a bristly stem with spiney leaves.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Crane flies (Tipuloidea) are sometimes called skeeter-eaters, but as adults they often don't eat anything. They might have nectar, but never mosquitoes. #SciArt #entomology #art #drawing #ScientificIllustration

Line illustrations of a thick, round larva on one side and a winged insect with long gangly legs and a long thin abdomen on the other side

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Velella velella, by-the-wind sailor, is not a jellyfish, they are a colony of hydrozoa polyps, kind of like a man o' war, but without a harmful sting! Like corals, they have symbiotic organisms inside that can photosynthesize. #MacroPhotography #BeachBody #MarineLife #invertebrate

Close up photo of a blue and clear jellyfish-like organism, with a clear sail on top, laying on sand.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Aquatic freshwater snails can have such beautiful curves and ridges on their shells. #SciArt #charcoal #AdobeIllustrator #NaturalHistory #invertebrates

A charcoal illustration (on the left) and a line drawing (on the right) of an ice cream cone shaped snail shell.

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The Fields of Asphodel @wavyleafthistle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Shadowess. Digitally modified photography. 2019 #DarkArt #DigitalArt #Witchy

A black and white image of a shadowy female peering through a curtain with her hands held up in an unsettling posture.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Christmas Jewel Spider (Austracantha minax) in Taunton National Scientific Park, in the outback of Queensland, Australia. #MacroPhotography #arachnid #Australia

Close up photo of a spider with orange legs and a black abdomen which is covered in a few large spines and white spots.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

There are a huge number of fly species (Order: diptera), many of which live their larval stages in aquatic habitats. How is one botanist to know which species this might have been? #entomology #SciArt #AdobeIllustrator #ScientificIllustration #BugDrawing

Black and white line illustration of a long thin insect.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

File clams (family: Limidae) are mobile, like scallops, and they have eyespots they will see you with to try and make an escape! Collected in coral rubble, examined in the lab at Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef, and released. 2018. #MarineBiology #UnderwaterPhoto #MacroPhoto

Close up photo of an odd looking red clam, covered in curling tentacles and tendrils.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Titan stick insects, Acrophylla titan, are one of the longest insects alive today. I was lucky to get to see one in Springbrook National Park in 2018. #SciArt #entomology #AustralianFauna #illustration #InkDrawing #ScientificIllustration

Photo of a grayscale illustration of a large stick insect.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Common white sunray, Rhodanthe floribunda, growing at the foot of Uluru, in central Australia, in 2017. #BloomScrolling #AustralianFlora #MacroPhotography

Close up photo of small white and yellow daisy or pearly everlasting-like flowers, growing in orange sand.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Southern leaf-tailed gecko, Saltuarius swaini, in Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. Photo taken during my master's thesis research many years ago. #Australia #herps #wildlife #rainforest #PhotoSky

Close up photo of a gecko at night in black and white

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Witch-y scratch art drawings for the start of summer. #WitchSky #ScratchArt #drawings

Photo of a square scratch art drawing. The paper is black and a crystal and wood wand is scratched out in holographic gold lines, with some geometric patterns behind it.

Photo of a square scratch art drawing. The paper is black and a feather is scratched out in holographic gold lines, with some geometric patterns behind it.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, just after burying her eggs. Taken on Heron Island when I was doing some field work at University of Queensland's research station there. #MarineBiology #herps #wildlife #Australia #NaturePhotography

Photo of a large sea turtle, in a freshly dug sand pit, looking towards the ocean

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is not a bee! But they are in Hymenoptera, the same order as ants, bees, and wasps. This is some species of hairy-clubhorn sawfly (Trichiosoma sp.) Sawflies are named that because they have a saw-like ovipositor that they use to lay eggs inside of plants. #entomology #MacroPhotography

Macro photo of a large insect that looks like a bee, but isn't.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If I were a #Taskmaster contestant, I would spend the time, from being booked to filming the tasks at the house, befriending the local crows. Maybe they could drop helpful trinkets for the tasks! #LittleAlexHorne

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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Musk #Thistle (Carduus nutans) shot on the 19th in the East Oregon neighborhood. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #MuskThistle

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Western red columbine, Aquilegia formosa, is just starting to come out in the western lowlands of Washington State! #SciArt #watercolor #ColoredPencil #landscape #wildflower #NativePlants #NatureArt

Photo of a watercolor illustration of a red flower on a background of rolling hills covered in orange flowers.

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Welcome to the church of St. John the Baptist in Batheaston (yes, it's near bath). Not much seems to remain of the C12 and C15 church after some thorough Victorian rebuilding but it's an imposing church nonetheless #StJohnBatheaston #Somerset #SteepleSaturday

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Oregon sunshine, Eriophyllum lanatum, is about to pop off on South Sound Prairies. Here they are popular host plants for the hemiparasitic, golden paintbrush, Castilleja levisecta. #SciArt #watercolor #ColoredPencil #botany #pnw #cascadia #illustration #landscape #LandscapePainting

Photo of a watercolor illustration of a yellow daisy-looking flower on a background of rolling hills covered blurry blue flowers

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Hunting for morels, Morchella species, is supposed to be best when oak leaves are as big as a squirrel's ear. So that was a couple weeks ago in my neck of the woods. #SciArt #FungiFriday #mushroom #foraging #NatureIllustration

Photo of a scratch art line drawing of a mushroom with geometric shapes around it. The paper is black and the lines are holographic silver.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I saw my favorite band, since I was a tween, again last night. The first time seeing them in my hometown. AFI always puts on an amazing show! #AFI #punk #PostPunk #PostHardcore #alternative #concert

Photo of a tattooed man, holding a microphone, standing on a crowd, in a dark and moodily lit concert.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I love the early blooming Henderson's shooting stars (Primula hendersonii) on South Puget Sound Prairies! #BloomScrolling #MacroMonday #NativePlants #WestCoastKin #pnw

Photo of a plant stalk with a few purple flowers. The flowers look inside out and are drooping on slender stems from the top of the plant.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The paper wasps have woken up again, and are scavenging old wood from my car port to make their hives. European paper wasp, Polistes dominula. #SciArt #ScratchArt #entomology #wasp #ArtSky #nature

Photo of a line drawing of a wasp, the lines are golden holographic paper showing through a black scratch art square.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

We welcome the start of spring with open arms. #celtic #spring #WitchSky #PhotoSky #FootpathFriday #FolkyFriday My mari lwyd inspired folk costume

Photo of a figure in an ancient Celtic styled folk costume with a deer skull on a stick at the top of a cone of fabric around the body. They are standing in a grassy field with a forested hill in the background

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Top tip for Western Washington State folks: Seeing cherry blossoms at the capitol building in Olympia is cheaper than going to Japan and has WAY less crowds than going to UW in Seattle. #spring #CherryBlossoms #sakura #pnw #cascadia #BloomScrolling #PhotoSky

Photo of a large white government building with columns decorating the bottom floors and a domed roof behind several trees covered in pale pink flowers.

Photo of rows of trees covered in pale pink flowers with sunlight dappling through onto the grass below.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Extinct species tarot card reading on my favorite dinosaur taxon, ankylosaurs. Eight of coins, upright. They had high skill and expertise, probably in using their tail club to smash! This was a result of time, practice, and attention to detail. #tarot #paleontology #dinosaurs #WitchSky #HardWork

Two images. The top one is of an armored dinosaur with a club on the end of its tail.
The bottom one is a picture of a tarot card with 8 coins above a cluttered stack of old books, a skull, a quill, an ink bottle, and a cat

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The start of spring brings us a tiny early bloomer to the corners of open habitats in the Pacific Northwest. Small-flowered blue-eyed Mary, Collinsia parviflora. #SciArt #BloomScrolling #FridayFlowers #spring #NativePlants #pnw #botany #ScratchArt #illustration

Line drawing of a small plant with different angles of its life being shown.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Magnolias put a ridiculous amount of effort into their flower game. #GardenSky #BloomScrolling #tree

Photo of a tree covered in large pink flowers in front of a bright white and blue sky

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is my full draft lifecycle for sunflower broomrape, Orobanche cumana. Last year, Washington State had the first known infestation of this parasitic plant in North America. #WIPwednesday #SciArt #WildflowerWednesday #BloomScrolling #ScientificIllustration

Series of illustrations showing the lifecycle of a tan and purple parasitic plant, and how it grows on the roots of sunflowers and kills them.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Extinct species #tarot reading on Prototaxites, as requested by @eb-greene.bsky.social. These massive organisms were probably in a mystery kingdom that wasn't plants or fungi! Five of Cups, reversed They accepted their grief and were moving on with what they could control #Paleontology #witchsky

Top image is an illustration of a gigantic ancient organism. They look like spires towering over a flat marshy landscape. Illustration from www.fossilguy.com

Bottom picture is of a tarot card, which has a cat that has knocked over one of 5 bottles of potion on a bookshelf.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, was built in the 1400s, to be the burial spot of Timur's sons. Timur was supposed to be intombed in Shahrisabz, but his body didn't make it there, so he is in Gur-e-Amir as well. #MosaicMonday #history #architecture #PhotoSky #timur #uzbekistan

Photo of a large stine domed ceiling. The walls are covered in intricate tile and stone mosaics and lit up in gold and blue lights.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

For my first divinatory extinct species vibe reading, I focused on The Tully Monster, from around 310 mya. The Staff of Asclepius, reversed. The Tully Monster did not want to be saved or helped. They may have wanted to do harm to others, though perhaps unintentionally. #tarot #witch #paleontology

Photo of an oracle card, with a wand/staff and a snake wrapped around it above an illustration of a prehistoric aquatic animal with a beak-like mouth on a long appendage and eyes on stalks.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I've been inspired by the "psychic" true crime tiktokers who get in trouble for doing readings about ongoing criminal cases. I'm going to be doing divinations on extinct species. I have never done tarot or oracle readings, but I kickstarted a beautiful deck a few years ago, and now I'm learning!

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The Grandfather Tree at @wolfhavenint.bsky.social is at least 300 years old, but I reckon it is older because when I worked there a similarly aged old growth tree fell down elsewhere on the prairie, and that one had over 600 rings. #trees #NaturePhotography #pnw #WashingtonState

Photo of a huge old growth tree with ginormous swooping branches at unique angles

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

But that's my emotional support gut microbiome!

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It is trillium time babes! Western trillium, Trillium ovatum, is one of the earliest bloomers in Puget Sound lowland forest understories. The ones in my garden and backyard forest are not blooming yet though! #SciArt #botany #ScratchArt #nativeplants #GardenSky #BloomScrolling

Photo of a line drawing of a 3 petaled flower with 3 leaves, aiming straight at the viewer, with high symmetry. The paper is black and the lines are scratched in, showing holographic silver foil underneath.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum complex, in Khiva, Uzbekistan, was finished in 1664. In addition to a mausoleum, it also has a mosque and madrasa, and is an important pilgrimage site. #MosaicMonday #TravelPhotography #history #PhotoSky #Uzbekistan

Photo of very large domed ceiling with a bright crystal chandelier hanging in the center. The walls are covered in intricate tile mosaic in hues of blue and gold.

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Anne Opossum @oopspossum.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Lots of people think of drain flies, Clogmia albipunctata, as pests. I like to think of them as my tiny, fuzzy, non-perverted, shower buddies. They also cheer me on when I'm doing the dishes. #SciArt #entomology #illustration #ArtSky #BugSky #BugArt

Grayscale illustration of a fly that looks very moth-like due to how fluffy it is. Text says: Clogmia albipunctata, Drain Fly

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