wachinyeya
Nature is everywhere
a @gaylienz sideblog. Wachinyeya (wah-chi-ey-yah) Lakota-to hold out faith, to hope, set one's mind;trust. This blog will post positivity, inspiration and the beauty of nature and climate hope but ALSO be open about the very real effects our environmental crisis is having on us all. it is healthy to talk about it. we NEED to talk about it. Climate grief is important to learn about and discuss with each other. Oglala Lakota. IndigeQueer (osteka). 1996. scholar of sociology and our environment.
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trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing
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Giant devil’s flower mantis, Idolomantis diabolica, Empusidae.
This species is common in the pet trade, but found in the wild only in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Uganda. All individuals above are wild except the sub-adult in the last photo.
Photo 1 by michael73, 2 by lmflolo, 3-5 by also_sprach_susscrofa, 6 by jeremybarker, 7 by thbecker, 8-9 by zarek, and 10 by Sarefo
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I have never seen an animal sleep in such a cursed way what
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This is a group of woolly aphids on a stick, which is the way I first saw them. They just looked like fluff until I noticed they were walking around.
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If you need some good news today- you should know that the sea turtle nesting data for 2023 is in and it’s really promising. In Florida, both greens and loggerheads have reached record high numbers of nests. We’re really hoping this is a success story in the making for both of these species.
Almost half of the world’s loggerheads nest in Florida, meaning the state has a huge responsibility to conserve the species.
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Bison graze in the snow at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, near Denver.
© Michael Levine-Clark / Flickr
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Plains Bison in Custer, South Dakota, USA
Stephanie LeBlanc
The Plains bison is one of two subspecies/ecotypes of the American bison, the other being the wood bison.
Status: Near Threatened
Population: 45,000
Scientific Name: Bison bison bison
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfmaily: Bovinae
Tribe: Bovini
Genus: Bison
Weight: 701 to 2,000 pounds
Length: 7-12 ft.
Habitat: Grassland
Range: Bison once roamed from Florida to Washington, Canada, and Mexico - The entire U.S.
Predators: Wolves are the primary predator of bison across the continent. Local knowledge also indicates that bears play a role in predation.
Diet: Bison are considered generalist foragers, meaning they eat a wide array of herbaceous grasses and sedges commonly found in mixed-grassed prairies. These types of plants include species such as Blue gramma, sand dropseed, and little bluestem.
Lifespan: The average lifespan for a bison is 10–20 years, but some live to be older. Cows begin breeding at the age of two and only have one baby at a time. For males, the prime breeding age is six to 10 years.
Importance: Bison graze the grasses at different heights, providing nesting grounds for birds. They also roll around and pack down the soil in depressions in the ground known as wallows. Their wallows fill with rainwater and offer breeding pools for amphibians and sources of drinking water for wildlife across the landscape.
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shoutout to this random-ass guy who had this incredibly rare bird sighting
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Spongey moss beneath my knees, damp from recent rain, soaking through clothing to the skin; worth it to capture the tiny world sprawled at my feet.
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Teach the children. We don't matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones – inkberry, lamb's-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones – rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.
Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
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