hawkpartys
buteo autisticus
you can call me Hawk, cuz i like hawks. inaturalist power user, curator and top accipitriformes identifier. feel free to tag me in or send me raptors for ID
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Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)
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"Easter Egg" Weevil (Pachyrhynchus cf. erichsoni), family Curculionidae, Mindanao, Philippines
photographs by Bald Guy With a Camera
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A young lion male along with his brother attempted to stalk an entire Cape buffalo herd, with the expected results. Well, a hunter must learn somehow their limitations.
Male lions are heavier than females, 190 vs 130kg. Their additional brawn is essential to killing large prey like buffalo, giraffe, or even elephants in some specialist prides. Until they are old enough to claim a pride, however, males will live a nomadic lifestyle. Often brothers will remain together to increase their chances of taking control of a territory and the females within it.
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Guys help I'm talking to a fucking stunning transmasc on Grindr and I've got no idea what to talk about. I'm nervous as hell.
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this Mud-dauber Wasp chose our windowsil to build her nest! after a bit of investigation of me and my camera, she graciously allowed me to photograph her while she worked on her construction.
in the photos above, she has arrived with a ball of mud collected from somewhere nearby. this nest isn't for her to live in, but for her young to grow and pupate. in this mass of mud she will craft several individual cells, and provision them all with the paralysed bodies of orb-weaver spiders. each cell will have a single egg laid on the first spider, before being sealed off with more mud.
here, she picks the next spot to deposit her ball of mud, using her mandibles to smooth it onto the structure. when the larvae hatch, they will consume all the spiders in their respective cells, before pupating and then emerging as adults wasps.
each time she finished with a layer of mud, she would take a moment to groom her forelegs and antennae, before flying off to repeat the process. these photos were taken earlier in the Summer, and as of posting this, the adult wasps have yet to emerge.
Covered-cell Mud-dauber Wasp, female (Sceliphron laetum).
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cute iNaturalist observations:
“hey! that’s me!”
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we need to teach him to play tekken
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White lady spider
By: Moira Borland
From: Wildlife of the Deserts
1980
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A male slingjaw wrasse (Epibulus insidiator)
by Alain Feulvarch
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You need to look up red cornetfish
OUUGUGUGGUHHHHHH YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME
TRUMPET GUY
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idk if anyone has made an isopod one so i decided to create this.
FUCKING IPOD.
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do you have any tips for getting over a fear of wasps, or good resources to learn more about them?
Honestly? Just exposure
I think I've said this before, but I highly recommend just... looking at them. Photos to start, since bothering wasps in the flesh probably won't be fun for either your or the wasp. Look at images of them, how many of them there are, how colorful and varied their appearances are. Look at them living their lives, pollinating, building nests, feeding their young, eating pieces of fruit. Get used to them. Realize they're just... animals. Doing their thing. Take note of the ones that you think are particularly cool or interesting or fun, and maybe research those species in specific.
Here's a link to where you can view every wasp observation on iNaturalist(link provided because it took a little url trickery to filter out other hymenopterans). You can even filter for your local area to see which ones live around you, and from there you can search the names and learn about your own local wasp populations.
I'd also recommend just being aware of wasps while outside. Partially because most stings happen because people weren't paying attention, missed clear warnings from the wasps, and got to close to them/their nest/etc. Wasps don't want to hurt you, and if you learn to pay attention to them and respect their boundaries, they won't. I've never been stung despite habitually getting within centimeters of wasps to take photographs, because I keep this in mind
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