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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The night-blooming Cereus that's blooming right now, tonight!, at #MeadGardens . For one day only only only (well maybe tomorrow too).... With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Closeup of the yellow fuzzy pistil of a cereus flower, with several beads of water. Yellow stamens are in the background. There are also white feathery petals in the background.

Cereus cactus flower with feathery white petals and several delicate beads of water, and with a pale yellow pistil & stamens, on a dark brown background

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Lots of things blooming now at #LeuGardens in #Orlando! Here's a skipper working on some globe amaranth today. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Orange skipper butterfly with dark wing markings facing slightly away from view with proboscis extended, on a pink fluffy amaranth flower, and several more such flowers in the background.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Simpsons stopper is blooming in #Orlando now! And the pollinators do enjoy it. Really fragrant stuff. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Honey bee with much fluff and fast beating wings works on a bright whitish yellow cluster of Simpson stopper flowers

A pair of love bugs, each with a bright red spot below their head, and connected in the usual way, simultaneously show they can do two things at once by working on a cluster of white Simpson stopper flowers

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I love the week or so in late winter here in #Orlando when the Tabebuia are blooming! Lots of trees around town right now dressed in such bright bold fervent yellow. So gorgeous. These pics are by Casa Feliz in @winterparkfla.bsky.social . With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Pair of clusters of yellow tabebuia flowers with their branches coming in from the left, and a bit of Spanish moss hanging. Mixed blue and cloudy white sky in background

Oodles of bright yellow tabebuia flowers on a tabebuia tree , brown branches, cloudy sky at the top

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Our very happy Carolina jessamine is blooming! It's been pretty consistent for us showing off the yellow flowers in the garden every late winter/early spring for many years now. And the vine sure isn't shy about growing over everything. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Thick chaos of many trumpet-like yellow jessamine flowers among its green vine leaves.

Three yellow jessamine flowers looking straight at the viewer from out of a dense field of green leaves and vines

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Sonia Stephens @terpsinoe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Herons here love a good car roof. Seen at @ucf.bsky.social today. #ClassicFlorida 🌿

Little blue heron enjoying the view from a white car roof, with brick buildings in the background and a stark blue cloudless sky

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This was a few days ago at big #LakeApopka here in #Orlando, super calm with a mirror for a lake. This gator was lazily swimming on a beautiful day. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Lake reflecting the pale blue sky and puffy clouds, distant shore splits the scene in half, with foliage in the left foreground, and an alligator in the middle distance.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Chillin barred owl at #MeadGardens here in #Orlando! Sees all, knows all, wants a snack. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Photo of a barred owl facing left sitting on a tree branch in woods with lots of Spanish moss

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The Mane Land @themaneland.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

FULL TIME: Orlando Pride 1-0 Washington Spirit. THE ORLANDO PRIDE ARE 2024 NWSL CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!! #ORLvWAS

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Really tough week this week. Thankful for the distraction of getting to watch this sweat bee, paying me no mind as it goes about its business on garberia flowers. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social at #WekiwaSprings 🌿

Green sweat bee with beautiful metallic body working on a group of light pink garberia flowers

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Sonia Stephens @terpsinoe.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Enki wants to know why the new box of hay hasn't been opened yet.

A black and orange rabbit expectantly sits on a box of hay.

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Sonia Stephens @terpsinoe.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Was going to swing over to UCF to do this, but I see someone just did today 🤣

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Saw a few degrees of tail too, faintly through binocs, even from Orlando! ☄️🔭 #C2023A3

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Lake levels are kind of high here in Central FL after #Milton came through last night. Here're a couple of juvenile little-blue herons taking advantage of that. Still have their white feathers! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Two still-white juvenile little blue herons hunt for snacks at the shore of a lake, with woods and a building seen far on the opposite shore

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Sonia Stephens @terpsinoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Getting in just under the wire with an Enki photo for International Rabbit Day! @yanfernandez.bsky.social

A brown and black rabbit naps on the floor in front of a box of hay. His ears are relaxed and he looks content.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Very curly forked bluecurl blooming in the yard now! Each flower only lasts like a day and then falls.... But our plant has a bunch of them so it's staggering them, heh. Clever. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Photo of a forked bluecurl flower, very curly stamens and very purple.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Florida-native goldenrod is blooming here in Orlando, and the bugs are enjoying it! Love the color of this wasp's wings. And you can see its little tongue! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Wasp with iridescent wings working on goldenrod flowers

Wasp sticking out its tongue to get at some goldenrod flowers.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Gulf fritillary caterpillars (and their big hairy spikes!) have arrived in our yard here in Orlando! Here's one resting on one of our passionflower vines. It's probably thinking about what part of the vine to eat next. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Close-up photo of a orange gulf-fritillary caterpillar with its usual, numerous black spikes clinging to a passion vine, with some foliage in the background.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

I was fortunate enough to spend some time outside of Tucson earlier when the desert was blooming! Managed to catch a bee totally loving life in this Mexican golden poppy. 🌿

Photo of the flower of a Mexican golden poppy, with a honeybee near the center covered very thoroughly in pollen.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

Our lychee tree here in Orlando is now showing these tiny flowers. It tries hard in our slightly-too-cold climate but we don't know if the tree will ever actually give us fruit. But there was an ant that REALLY enjoyed the nectar. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Zoomed-in photo of many lychee tree flowers, each with several long stamens.

Zoomed-in photo of many lychee tree flowers, with the central flower hosting a highly diligent ant working hard at drinking nectar.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

A bee working hard on this False Rosemary! Cool that you can see the tongue on one of the photos too. Seen today at one of the native-plant gardens at Mead Gardens in Winter Park FL. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Photo of a honeybee working on the flowers of a False Rosemary plant.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

The viburnum is blooming here in central FL ! Love these little guys. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

A cluster of newly bloomed Viburnum obovatum flowers, plus some others that will soon open up.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Not from our own garden, but from Leu Gardens here in Orlando. Love that this great purple hairstreak stayed still long enough for a snap :) It was even wiggling its wings! So adorbs. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Photo of a great purple hairstreak butterfly feeding on a flower.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Hello @friel.bsky.social - does one need to be on a list to be able to post to the Naturalists feed? Can I be added? Thanks!

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

A snap not from our garden today but in Leu Gardens in town. Fortunate to get a super cool view of an adorable little sweat bee working hard! With @terpsinoe.bsky.social. Love that you can see the detail in the eyes

Photo of a vibrantly green sweat bee working on a flower.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Pileated woodpecker visiting our neighborhood! In a far-too-zoomed in cell phone photo :) . This was one of a pair of pileateds actually, both finding lots of yummy bugs in this tree, om nom nom. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Photo of a pileated woodpecker hanging on the side of big tree.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Love the colorful puffballs that our sweet acacia trees make. Beautiful bits in an amazing thorny tree. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

The puffball flower of a sweet acacia tree.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

IRTF shift tonight (remotely), but that means I get to watch Subaru's beautiful live night-sky Youtube channel while observing (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MFW...). Oh y'know just another night with a nifty view of Jupiter, Pleiades, and Keck shooting a laser :)

Nighttime view of the summit of Mauna Kea from the Subaru telescope

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Scenes from a garden : our Florida Paintbrush is blooming now! Look at all the structure in those flowers. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Deepest eclipse for us now! About 60% coverage, but enough to do something semi artsy with it :) . With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Projection of partial solar eclipse onto the ground through gaps in leaves

Projection of a partial solar eclipse through holes in a colander.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Eclipse happening now in Orlando, yay cell-phone-camera astronomy + eclipse glasses. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

More scenes from the garden: We've got some really nice forked bluecurls doing their thing. Though kinda more like purplecurls.... With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

Close-up of the flower of a forked bluecurl.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Continued fun watching the goldenrod in the garden. Caught a pollinator in the act. These buggahs move fast! We think it's a Megachile species. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

A bee working its way on goldenrod flowers.

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Yan Fernandez @yanfernandez.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Well here's a nice calm scene from the garden to get things going. Refulgent, Florida-native goldenrod is super happy right now! And the pollinators are excited too. (With @terpsinoe.bsky.social.)

Florida native-species seaside goldenrod in bloom in the garden.

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