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wren-of-the-woods · 3 hours

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#let’s play: correct or incorrect quote (39/?)

#HAH #yep #the witcher #jaskier #q

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wren-of-the-woods · 6 hours

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“i can’t do this anymore” says a girl who is not only going to do it but do it well

#I feel that so hard #q

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wren-of-the-woods · 10 hours

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happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

#ohhhh #lovely #poetry #q

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wren-of-the-woods · 17 hours

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did this last night

#<3333 #life #things to remember #q

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wren-of-the-woods · 18 hours

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Hey, do you live on planet Earth?

Then good news! There's probably a City Nature Challenge going on in your area!

Hosted by 9-out-of-10-ecologists'-favorite-app iNaturalist, the event is a competition to observe and log as many plant and animal species as possible in the last week of April 2024.

Where? Anywhere! Go touch grass and make sure to take pictures of it. Upload them to iNaturalist from April 26th to 29th. Spend the next week helping to identify and verify the species and on May 6th see the posted final tally for number of observations, species, and participants.

Do you want the town in the next county over to have more observations than you? No way, those guys are jerks! So grab all of your friends, enemies, and acquaintances, download iNat, and bring your A game in the name of bragging rights and ecological research.

See if there's an event being hosted in your area!

Create an iNaturalist account!

If just one app can't satisfy your craving for research-grade species observations, try searching for local "bioblitz" events such as Florida WildQuest 2024 (there is no way I know of to search and compile every individual event through every individual park and organization and for that I am sorry).

Go forth and identify!

#my quest rn is to bother my followers into doing this #it is so worth it #I did like 4 observations of different flies today. didn’t even know there were that many different flies in my yard #AND I saw some waxwings which was awesome #yayyy observing nature #inaturalist

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wren-of-the-woods · 18 hours

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dont listen to the haters i bet they dont even have ANY research grade sightings on inaturalist ......

#HAH #yes #things to remember #inaturalist

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wren-of-the-woods · 18 hours

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Posting the world's shittiest cellphone pics of butterflies on iNaturalist: Three confirmatory IDs in two hours

Posting careful macro photos of mosses on iNaturalist: [4yrs old] [Needs ID]

#HAH #so true #even more so if it’s a bird #inaturalist

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wren-of-the-woods · 20 hours

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CITY NATURE CHALLENGE TIME LET'S GOOOOO

#i have observed like 10 organisms today and i am indeed having fun #i had no idea there were so many different kinds of fly in my garden #wren talks

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wren-of-the-woods · 20 hours

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The knowledge of some common plants

Since many people don't know most of the plants around them, this is information on some plants that are commonly seen in many places throughout the world

This is Lamium purpureum, also called Purple Deadnettle.

It's called deadnettle because it looks like a nettle but it doesn't sting you

This plant is a winter annual—it grows its leaves in the fall, lasts through the winter, and blooms and dies in the spring

Its pollen is reddish orange. If you see bees with their heads stained reddish orange, it is likely because they have visited Purple Deadnettle

This is Trifolium repens, white clover

It is a legume (belongs to the bean family) and fixes nitrogen using symbiosis with bacteria that live in little nodules on its roots, fertilizing the soil

It is a good companion plant for the other members of a lawn or garden since it is tough, adaptable, and improves soil quality. According to my professor it used to be in lawn mixes, until chemical companies wanted to sell a new herbicide that would kill broadleaved plants and spare grass, and it was slandered as a weed :(

It is native only to Europe and Central Asia, but in the lawns they are doing more good than harm most places

Honeybees love to visit clover

Four-leaf clovers are said to be lucky

This is Achillea millefolium, Common Yarrow

It has had a relationship with humans since Neanderthals were around, at least 60,000 years, since Neanderthals have been found buried with Yarrow

Its leaves have been used to stop bleeding throughout history, and its scientific name comes from how Achilles was said to have used Yarrow to stop the blood from the wounds of his soldiers. A leaf rolled into a ball has been used to stop nosebleeds

It is a native species all throughout Eurasia and North America

This is Cichorium intybus, known as Chicory

The leaves look a lot like dandelion leaves, until in mid-spring when it begins growing a woody green stem straight up into the air

Like many other weeds, it has a symbiotic relationship with humans, existing in a mix of domesticated or partially domesticated and wild populations

It is native to Eurasia, but widespread in North America on roadsides and disturbed places, where it descended from cultivated plants

Its root contains large amounts of inulin, which is used as a sweetener and fiber supplement (if you look at the ingredients on the granola bars that have extra fiber, they usually are partly made of chicory root) and has also been used as a coffee substitute

A large variety of bees like to feed upon it

This is Phytolacca americana, known as Pokeweed

It is easily identified by its huge leaves and its waxy, bright magenta stem

It can grow more than nine feet tall from a sprout in a single summer!

If you squish the berries, the juice inside is a shocking magenta that is so bright it almost burns your eyes. For this reason many Native American people used it for pink and purple dye.

It is a heavy metal hyperaccumulator, particularly good for removing cadmium from the soil

All parts of the plant are poisonous and will make you very sick if you eat them, however if the leaves are picked when very young and boiled 3 times, changing out the water each time, they can be eaten, and this is a traditional food in the rural American Southeast, but I don't want to chance it

British people have introduced it as a pretty, exotic ornamental plant. I think that is very funny considering that here it is a weed associated with places where poor people live, but maybe they're right and I need to look closer to see the beauty.

If you see magenta stains in bird poop it is because they ate pokeweed berries- birds can safely eat the berries whereas humans cannot

This is Plantago lanceolata, Ribwort Plantain

It grows in heavily disturbed soils, in fact it is considered an indicator of agricultural activity. It is successful in the poorest, heaviest and most compacted soil.

The leaves, seeds, and flower heads are said to be edible but the leaves are really stringy unless they are very young. Of course, it is important to be careful when eating wild plants, and make sure you have identified the plant correctly and the soil is not contaminated

I have also heard the strings in the leaves can be extracted and used for textile purposes

and that's some common plants you might often see throughout the world

#oooh nice!!#i recognize 3/6 from around here but maybe i'm just not familiar with some #yarrow my beloved <3 #plants

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wren-of-the-woods · 20 hours

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Waitwaitwait did your url used to be "wren-of-the-words"? Or am I confusing you with someone else?

No it's always been wren-of-the-woods, but wren-of-the-words is also super awesome and applicable to me! So I am taking this as inspiration and a compliment <3

#asks #wren talks #squarebracket-trickster

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wren-of-the-woods · 20 hours

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Are you trapped on tumblr right now?

Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Consider this your save point.

Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.

#things to remember #q

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wren-of-the-woods · 23 hours

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Shop , Patreon , Books and Cards , Mailing List

#things to remember #signal boost

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wren-of-the-woods · 23 hours

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

#1 is at 33.4%#the others are good #polls

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wren-of-the-woods · 23 hours

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before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

#polls #interesting results

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wren-of-the-woods · 23 hours

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Tolkien / Middle Earth

fandom wiki simulator

#i love tolkien gateway so much you guys #it's so good #makes having to go to any fandom wiki site so much worse #signal boost

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wren-of-the-woods · 24 hours

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whatever it is you need good luck for, i wish you good luck. tests, job, home life, social life, mental health, physical health, love life. you name it. this post is wishing you good luck on all of that.

#<3333 #thanks I appreciate it #q

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wren-of-the-woods · 1 day

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✨️ calling all Star Wars fans ✨️

Hello there tumblr!

While we Star Wars fans are anxiously waiting for the bad batch finale, I could use your help! In fact...

I am currently in the process of writing my master's thesis. My research is about age & Star Wars characters. The research is trying to investigate whether there is a difference in fans of different ages liking or disliking certain characters that appear throughout Episodes 1-9. The survey takes about 5-10 minutes to complete, is completely anonymous, and you must be 18+ to participate.

It would be ✨️ wizard ✨️ if you could share it with your friends, parents, siblings, or any other Star Wars fans you might know! Or even just reblogging this post for others to discover here on Tumblr 😊

It would mean the world (or galaxy hehe) if you would fill it out. If you did THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU, ALWAYS! ✨️✨️✨️

#i got padme han solo and kylo ren lol #signal boost #star wars #was lowkey hoping for obi-wan. he's probably my favorite of the main movies.#despite the fact that i otherwise have deeply mixed feelings about the prequels #ah well

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