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they can get quite big! That's why I thought zoropsis false wolf spider because they're bigger than the wolf spiders here but apparently they're mostly only in California

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Are you still in the pnw? my first instinct is a zoropsis fale wolf spider or a wolf spider

do you mind DMing me? I don't know how to remove the sensitive filter

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

oh god i have to change my viewing settings

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If you're a scientist and you use chatgpt to tell you how to write R code or something I'm coming to your house and dumping ants all over the floor. Stop doing that

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stephie ku @stephieku.mirakur.us · 08/05/2025

Released this beautiful kingsnake that someone had found in their garage

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stephie ku @stephieku.mirakur.us · 05/05/2025

I think it's a Kibana Furan, but I don't remember exactly

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stephie ku @stephieku.mirakur.us · 04/05/2025

he likes it when i smoosh him into my face and he'll stay like that for an hour

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stephie ku @stephieku.mirakur.us · 04/05/2025

i finally won a gold stake game in balatro aaa

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Off to my yearly stint in #Yosemite! I train our #BirdBanding crew every year for @instbirdpop.bsky.social. Our Yosemite MAPS stations are some of the longest-running banding stations in the US (over 30 years)! Here are a few of last year's birds (see alt text). 🪶🧪👩‍🔬🌎

Close up photo of a young male Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's type). This bird is a steel blue with white eye arcs, a smudgy black breast band, and a bright yellow throat. This photo was taken to document the small amount of white mottling in his throat that helps to indicate he is still in formative plumage, and not yet in basic plumage as an adult would be.

Photo of a male Western Tanager held in the photographer's grip for documentation. He has a red face, yellow nape, wingbar and rump, and black back, wings, and tail. Photos such as this one are taken quickly for documentation of plumage before the bird is then released.

Photo of an adult male Anna's Hummingbird being held gently between fingertips while a person in a green shirt lowers a q-tip toward the bird's beak. The hummingbird is tiny with an iridescent purple head and a long black beak (with some fuzzy feathers stuck to the beak). The q-tip is part of a pollen collection study to see which plants are being pollinated by birds such as hummingbirds and warblers.

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stephie ku @stephieku.mirakur.us · 03/05/2025

I'm sorry your nice gives divorced uncle vibes and i love it

stephie ku @stephieku.mirakur.us · 02/05/2025

his preference is still ice cream hold

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stephie ku @stephieku.mirakur.us · 02/05/2025

Also night herons are also called goi?

stephie ku @stephieku.mirakur.us · 02/05/2025

Today i learned "Goi" means bittern in Japanese, and May 1st is "Bittern Day" because 5-1 can be read as "Goi".　#ゴイの日

i used to feel ashamed I didn't read enough fiction and creative literature but as an adult I don't give a fuck I wanna read stuff I like

I have some cool local snakes one too 😍😍😍😍

I also love local park brochures, I saw a super cool one that listed common native, established and invasive plants!!!!

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I know people mean in their good hearts gifting me sentimental and heart "i love animal" sorts of books, but my love goes to field guides and textbooks.

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!!!!! i wanna do one for my area too. there's so many fun stitches i can use!!!

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A newly published study in the Journal of Medical Entomology provides critical insights into the emergence of babesiosis in the Mid-Atlantic region, documenting human cases and the presence of Babesia microti in local tick populations.

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New Study Reveals Emerging Cases of Babesiosis in the Mid-Atlantic Region

A new study provides insights into the emergence of babesiosis in the Mid-Atlantic region, documenting human cases and the presence of Babesia microti in local tick populations.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Day 4 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver onto fossils (badly) in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Fossil is PRI's newest plush paleozoic pal of Diplocaulus salamandroides, comedian is H. sapiens #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth 🧪 almost #fossilfriday

John Oliver (happy) riding on a plush of a fossil amphibian with a boomerang shaped head, red skin with black markings, large eyes and nostrils. on a purple background

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Sue Luxton @kelper60.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Family of Crested Caracaras...

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Sue Luxton @kelper60.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Am always happy to see a Straited Caracara... #johhnyrook #falklandislands #birds #farmlife

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Got 49 bird species in urban parks in Columbus (Ohio, USA) this morning, including 15 warbler species! And my first-of-the-year: -Eastern Wood-Pewee -American Redstart -Magnolia Warbler -Chestnut-sided Warbler And my first-of-the-county: -Blue-winged Warbler -Hooded Warbler #birds

Three photos of a Hooded Warbler, a yellow-green bird with black on his face and throat like a hood around his yellow face, and white edges of his tail. Here he is spreading his tail feathers to flash white at the photographer.

Here the Hooded Warbler is perched and showing off his black throat and pink legs.

Here the Hooded Warbler is showing off his greenish back.

Black-throated Blue Warbler male, with a clean white belly, black on the face and throat, and dark blue on the head and back.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

flipping the worm over and examining the male pores, genital papillae, tubercula pubertatis, and prostomium will tell what species it is! notes and numbers in alt text

underside of L. terrestris: papillae of male pores mostly confined to segment 15, papillae on 25/26, tubercula pubertatis 33-36, clitellum on 32-37

underside of A. longa: papillae of male pores spilling over into 14 & 16, tubercula pubertatis 32-34, clitellum on 28-35

prostomium of A. longa: epilobous/schizolobous

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

here’s a pair of easily confused species that I have seen others use as an example of why earthworm are not identifiable at a glance. left is Lumbricus terrestris, right is Aporrectodea longa. both are large worms that have converged on a similar color pattern and lifestyle—how to tell them apart?

a large earthworm with a reddish brown body, dark head, and pale flat tail

a large earthworm with a reddish brown body, dark head, and pale flat tail. it’s a little thinner than the other one but very similar otherwise

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I had a rainbow chameleon one

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someone tell Tsuyu this because he ain't listening to me

Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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A belated #FossilFriday post, but here is an exquisitely preserved Ficus leaf #fossil from the John Day formation (Oligo-Mio) in Oregon.

Photograph of a fossilized Ficus leaf from the John Day Formation in Oregon, preserved in tan-gray shale. The leaf shows detailed venation, with a prominent central vein and branching secondary veins, and is surrounded by a dark carbonized peripheral halo. A red keychain for scale lies nearby.

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i don't blame you, a lot of my cohort ended up stopping midway or just finishing the bare min for a master's. It's soul sucking