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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 12h

After three days of King Tides and heavy rain today, Biscayne Bay appears to be moving into Miami. More extreme high tides are forecast later in October and in November. (Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, this morning.)

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nature is not a place to visit. It is our home

Winnie the Pooh & Christopher Robin inspect a hollow oak

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We were here because another user had given us an invitation code. [If we could go back to that, maybe Elon Musk—and avatars— would stop staking on here.]

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

11 years and 4 months! Resilience! 🙌

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of many Xylocopa micans, Southern Carpenter Bees, on Varronia bullata in Key Largo 9/20/26. Due to recent rains, this shrub was at its fragrant, flowering peak and covered with wasps, hover flies, and at least 3 bee species. #Bees #NativePlants #Habitat

Shiny black bee with tongue probing flower of Varonia bul

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

😎 If you’re a creature of pure light—yes—chartreuse is great camouflage! She allowed a phone pic, but as soon as I retrieved a serous camera—poof 💨—she was gone. #Butterflies #Invertebrates #BugSky 🌿 #NativePlants 🌱 #KeyLargo

In brilliant sunlight, green-yellow leaves disguise a butterfly of the same shade. You can make out her antennae and fuzzy head, her eye divided horizontally into dark and light halves, her wing repeating the leaf shapes.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Somehow this appeared on my BlueSky feed months ago, and I’m thankful I ordered the English edition. As a life-long student/recovering instructor of literature, I can be far too critical to enjoy reading. This work is an exception. It’s written with a light touch that disguises its weight.

A book in its bright jacket: “The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me About Nature’s Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life,” Lea Korsgaard. The artwork shows yellow flowers, a dandelion seed head, curving green stems and leaves, a large yellow butterfly and a small blue one with orange a white ventral patterns—all in front of a brilliant turquoise sky. In a violet-blue bubble is a comment by author Amy Tan: “An intriguing love letter to the magic of the natural world, in all its beauty, complexity, and joy.”

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A Prairie Warbler dining in the high, lacy foliage of Wild Tamarind, a South Florida native tree hosting several butterfly species + attracting tiny insects for a bird buffet. #ThickTrunkTuesday #Birds🦉#NativePlants #KeyLargo #FoodWeb www.fnps.org/plant/lysiloma-latisil…

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sunlight, verdant foliage, nectar, a butterfly, a metallic bee, a dragonfly—all signs of a happy place full of life. Feel free to revisit as often as needed, particularly on a Monday. 🌿🌱🦋 #NativePlants #Habitat #CrocodileLakeNationalWildlifeRefuge #KeyLargo #NoSpray

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sunshine Mimosa (Mimosa strigillosa) celebrating Sunday. It pops up overnight, a delicate puff, filaments glowing, offering fresh pollen to tiny flyers. (Said to host the Gray Mini-streak.) Enjoy its glow now, as it will not last to sundown. 🌿🦋🌱 #NativePlants #Habitat #Bloomscrolling

A globe-like inflorescence whose many pink filaments are tipped with tiny yellow anthers sits atop a thin stem as if it were a powder-puff. Its intense pink glows against intense green foliage.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We need art’s transcendence now more than ever. When we look at or touch it, each time we allow it to draw our attention, this work offers joy. Consider supporting this Canadian artist if you’re able:

A deep green and coppery Raku glaze glows on hand-crafted pot. Complementing its sheen, in the foreground Abalone shells offer their own pearly iridesence.

Another view of “Hera’s Heart,” a Raku art piece whose shape and surface state its presence.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Good night; sleep tight BlueSky tribe. Let’s keep looking for the light. 🧡 (Okavango Delta, Botswana, 2022, with the best of humans who today turned a corner. In the photo we are off center, and that’s ok.)

Against the burning orange horizon are two people embracing side-by-side. Each raises a free arm to celebrate this evening of a day in the wild beauty of the Okavango.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy FlyDay! However unappetizing it may appear, enjoy breakfast before your flight. #Butterflies #Invertebrates #BugSky #Habitat #ReWild #NativePlants 🌿

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

An August day when the Snowberry (Chiococca alba) is in full flower, 20ft. high into the trees, and the panicles of fairy-bell flowers are so fresh they cancel the silly heat index. The Snowberry Clearwing moth may be around earlier in the day, so I’ll be back. #NativePlants 🦋🌿 #ReWild

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Eye spots may have saved this one—today. Tomorrow it may be a 🐦‍⬛ meal. Torn wings say, “I’m key in the food web.” Butterflies and moths nurture, sustain interconnected lives on 🌎. Photo @rmj827.bsky.social #NativePlants, #Habitat #Butterflies 🦋🌿 #Rewild #Preserve #Food🕸️

Common Buckeye with torn wings basks in the sun.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What’s your poison? Plant-animal chemistry today in a Miami-Dade County Pineland preserve: a Soldier butterfly drinks from petite flowers of Metastelma blodgettii, a critically imperiled member of the Dogbane/Milkweed family. Photo @rmj827.bsky.social.

Ventral view of a dark orange butterfly drinking from one of many tiny white flowers borne by a tiny vine. Its dark eyes and black antennae appear above the flower. Its wings are marked with deep black margins speckled by bright white, and larger white dots arc across its upper wings. Within the hind-wings, white-edged black veins outline each cell. As in Monarchs, its relatives, males of this species have a dark patch along a hindwing vein, but this individual lacks it, apparently female.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Weird and wonderful (nightmare for micro moths): “tiny sticky balls of silk laced with moth pheromones”

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The mangroves are filled with a troop of furry beings absorbed in a death-defying, dizzying ritual of flying through, between, along branches—and softly “chuffing” at each other. “Each day for a squirrel is its very first day of being a squirrel.” 🌿 #Mammals #NativePlants #Habitat #SwuirrelSaturday

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wide awake before daybreak in Miami, opening BlueSky, seeing this perfection. Miracles continue. ✨

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🐝 👀 I’m not sure how to feel about this bee. There were plenty of other flowers, but it almost knocked the Gray Hairstreak off this one. #Bees #Butterflies 🌿#StingsandWings #NativePlants #BigCypress #SouthFlorida

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A vividly colored Ornate Bella Moth (aka Rattlebox Moth)—day flying and toxic. Photo @rmj827.bsky.social #BigCypress #SouthFlorida #NativePlants #Invertebrates #MothWeek

At rest with folded wings is a red-orange, white, and black patterned moth. Its thin antennae project forward as it sits on deep green leaves of its host plant, Low Rattle-box.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In the killer heat of July and August, an old-growth forest offers a safe, cool view to the brilliant sky. 3 or 4 human generations have protected these island hardwoods as they’ve grown into their superpowers. Let’s think longterm. 🚫🚜🏗️ 🌱🌿 #NativePlants #ThickTrunkTuesday #SouthFlorida

View through deep green foliage, then lighter green treetops to an intense blue island sky.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here in Miami, it’s Sunday evening. #ButterflyWeek continues. A gorgeous bird strike survivor, a Palamedes Swallowtail fuels up on Buttonbush nectar today in #BigCypressNationalPreserve It hosts on trees in the Laurel family, Red Bay and Swamp Bay. Thanks @rmj827.bsky.social for photography.

Large and fancy black swallowtail butterfly hanging from a round, Sputnik-like flower. It appears to be decorated with scalloped lacy bands of white shading to yellow. Deep blue scallops appear above yellow decorations and small tails that trail from its hindwings. Its body is black with yellow stripes.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Protect each butterfly: protect 🌎, + our future. #Habitat 🌿 From the most common Dainty Sulfer cycling through many generations/year, to this US Endangered Schaus’ Swallowtail, that stays in pupa for up to 3 years—until rains bring nectar for adults + new growth for caterpillars. #ButterflyWeek

With wings spread to bask in morning sun, a large black swallowtail shows a wide yellow V with shoulder straps and scalloped trailing edge decorations. Its sword-like tails outlined in yellow distinguish it from two similar species flying in costal hardwood forest preserves—the Giant Swallowtail and Bahamian Swallowtail. The black antennae tips show that this is a female.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Tourist Tree, Gumbo Limbo, red and peeling. Leaves and bark capable of photosynthesis. So resilient that a broken branch on the ground can grow into a new tree. Host for the Dingy Purplewing butterfly. Food source, shelter for birds. #ThickTrunkTuesday #NativePlants www.fnps.org/plant/burser...

A diagonally leaning tree trunk with patches of greenish-brown bark peeling away to reveal bright red. Behind is the glowing green of a Keys tropical forest.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 13/07/2026

What to do if you find a baby bunny. Thanks @portmanteauface.bsky.social for the suggestion!

A six-panel comic titled "what to do if you find a wild baby bunny in North America." There's a drawing of a cute baby bunny on a patch of grass with some daisies, and it's saying "You found me. Hello."

A drawing of rabbit nests. The text says "Most North American rabbits don't burrow. The mom rabbit makes a nest on the ground." There's an image of a circle of dried grass against a green lawn, labeled "It's well-hidden under dry grass or leaves." Then there's an image of baby rabbits curled up in fur, labeled "Underneath, the young are in a fur-lined bowl". "Check your lawn before you mow!"

An image of a mom rabbit nursing her tiny young who are crawling out of the nest against green grass and daisies. Text says "If you find a nest and don't see the mom, don't worry. She only visits for a few minutes every day to nurse." The mom says "Dinner is served." Text at the bottom says "Leave the nest alone and be sure to keep dogs and cats away."

An image of the top of the nest against green grass with a tic tac toe pattern of dried grass on it. Text says "If you think the babies have been orphaned, do this test: Use sticks or long grass to make a Tic Tac Toe pattern on the nest. Come back after at least 18 hours. If the pattern hasn't been disturbed, contact a wildlife rehabilitator."

An image of a small baby bunny sitting on some green grass. Text says "A baby bun leaves the nest in 3-4 weeks. If you find a bun on its own that looks like this, ears stick up, open eyes, 4-5 inch (10-13 cm) long, hops well, furred, uninjured, then it's just fine. Don't kidnap it!"

A cute bunny is jumping over green grass, and another is sitting up and saying "Thank you for bunderstanding." Text says "If not, or if a bun was touched by a cat, contact a wildlife rehabilitator. These are just the bun basics. For more detailed advice, consult your local wildlife rescue!"

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Please enjoy a green and refreshing #ThickTrunkTuesday in the cool shade of Strangler Fig, Ficus aurea. With age, it becomes a giant in the hammock, offering abundant fruit, insects, and shelter for birds. 🌿🌱🦋🐛🦉🪶 #Habitat #invertebrates #Trees #SouthFlorida #NativePlants

Many roped, supporting trunks reach down to brace 3 huge main trunks reaching out widely in different directions, and then up into clouds of green leaves.

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Did u know? Caterpillars are essential food for nestling birds - they're full of moisture & nutrients & are easy for them to swallow. Baby birds are fed approx 5,000 caterpillars by their parents before they leave the nest, so learn to love your larvae. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦‍⬛🐛

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Most beautiful fireworks.🇺🇸🌱 goorchids.northamericanorchidcenter.org/species/ency... 🌿🦋 #NativePlants #Habitat #rewild #bloomscrolling

Against a dark Oak branch green, white, and pink butterfly orchid flowers float and sway.

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Proud to be an American defender of ecosystems, habitats in magnificent South Florida, land of flowers. 🌿🇺🇸🦋 ✊Let’s stand up, push our sleeves up, put our heads down, and do the work.

Sky and water are intoxicating blues and greens. Puffy white clouds march across the horizon.
Happiness is the boat ride from a gorgeous buggy island, home to endangered butterflies.
Real Americans protect our living treasures. 🇺🇸🌿
#Conservation #NativePlants #Habitat #Restore #Butterflies 🦋 #Bugsky

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Inspecting a high-rise condominium, or . . . house hunting for #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌿 #Birds🦉🪶 #ExoticBirds #OrangeWingedAmazon #Habitat #RoyalPalm #Miami

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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

For Summer Solstice, let’s have more butterflies. ☀️ Dina Yellows are sometimes called Bush Sulfers. Barely larger than a nickel, they float like fairies through hammock edges and pinelands. 🐛need Bitterbush or Mexican Alveradoa. #Solstice 🦋 🌱 #NativePlants 🌿 #Miami #SouthFlorida

Mating yellow butterflies on pine straw, facing away from each other. On the left, the larger female has pink-brownish blotches. On the right, clear yellow wings of the male are partly visible. The eyes of both are bright yellow-green, and tiny legs and under bodies almost white.

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