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Wolf’s milk | Lycogala epidendrum

Hummingbird clearwing (Hemaris thysbe- reddish) and snowberry clearwing (Hemaris diffinis- black and yellow).

two species of day flying sphingid moths with a knack for confusing the uninitiated

an academic article: *has a title that begins with ‘a reply to…’*

me:

Pflanzenformen: vorbildliche Beispiele zur Einführung in das ornamentale Studium der Pflanze - Moritz Meurer - 1895 - via University of Heidelberg 

Like something from oot 😯

An Arachnid with the head of a black dog, is neither a spider, nor a dog. 

Photographed by Natural Scientist Andreas Kay, this relative of the daddy long legs has evolved (for unknown reasons) black protrusions on the top of its body. 

It can be found in the Amazon Rainforest and is a type of Bunny Harvestman and a relative of the daddy long legs, meaning that is does not posses venom glands and is actually harmless to humans - despite looking so scary. 

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Invasive species management: before and after stem cutting.

Species: Japanese knotweed | Fallopia japonica

Rubus parviflorus | thimbleberry

So apparently archaeopteryx flew like a pheasant…

Hands down the funniest thing I have ever heard at college was overhearing the following sentence at a conference:

“I asked him what his pronouns were and he said ‘uh, PhD.’”

Ode to a Flower -Richard Feynman

Science adds to the beauty around us

i hate that trope of "you scientists might now all that scientific data about flowers or whatever but you don't appreciate its beauty" like i guarantee not only they do, not only in the common way but also in studying it which is not some cold emotionless endeavour and learning that stuff can be an appreciation of its beauty!!! but also they will find beauty in things you probably think are gross like worms and slime mold and stuff

Tetraopes tetrophthalmus | Red Milkweed Beetle 🐞

Sometimes I’m like “ancient greek plays are so old, how am i going to relate to the characters?” but then 

Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH