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birdandmoon: What to do if you find a baby bird. Many thanks to...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:32:16 -0400

What to do if you find a baby bird. Many thanks to the wildlife rehabilitators who have been tirelessly fielding calls and saving birds all season.

If it’s too small, the original chart is here.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:28:10 -0400

thebrandoupdate: Presenting Princess Mercy! Yay kitties!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:27:50 -0400

thebrandoupdate:

Presenting Princess Mercy!

Yay kitties!

ecdysozoa: shaymine: thegilgamesh: what-is-even-a-good-url: m...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:24:12 -0400

ecdysozoa:

shaymine:

thegilgamesh:

what-is-even-a-good-url:

monetizeyourcat:

itsvondell:

johnthedragon:

d-dinosaur:

Look at this cute fucking thing.

I want twenty of them.

OMFG BABY

oh wow that’s SO cool i’ve never seen one of these before

why did scientists make that pokemon crossover app real life

It’s beautiful.

it’s so cute but every cell in my body is screaming at me to run away from it as fast as i can

Why run away!? These cuties are completely harmless!

realmonstrosities: Elephant Snails don’t look right. They look...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:22:55 -0400

realmonstrosities:

Elephant Snails don’t look right.

They look like heroic survivors of a brutal mugging, where they got stamped on and shot in the head and the assailants got away with most of its shell which is probably now on its way to China because the Chinese economy has a high demand for snail shell building materials and that’s increasing the price which means unscrupulous bastards are mugging and stamping and shooting.

But they just happen to be really weird snails!

aquaticbugs: While very neat looking, Ranatra (Hemiptera,...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:22:03 -0400

aquaticbugs:

While very neat looking, Ranatra (Hemiptera, Nepidae) are relatively inept in the water, and move so slowly that sometimes other Hemipterans may lay their eggs on them. They are fierce predators however, eating other insects as well as small fish and tadpoles when they are able to catch them with their raptorial legs (Voshell, JR. 2002).

Hemiptera, Nepidae, Ranatra. French Creek, Jefferson County, NY.

oh my

"Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:17:45 -0400

“

Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation.

Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem.

Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in the leg and need surgery? Of course.

Smoke tobacco for most of your life and need treatment for lung cancer? Yep.

Climb a tree, fall out and break your leg? We’ll fix that right up.

Have sex and get pregnant when you don’t want to be? YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO THIS SITUATION AND YOU DESERVE NO MEDICAL HELP OR COMPASSION! THIS IS YOUR FAULT AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!

”

- Worry About Your Own Uterus (via metaphorically)

roo-bar: Birds of advice

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:00:08 -0400

roo-bar:

Birds of advice

stunningpicture: I’m not too fond of snakes, but I can’t seem...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:53:11 -0400

stunningpicture:

I’m not too fond of snakes, but I can’t seem to take the Blunthead Tree Snake seriously.

what

ornithoscelidaphiliac: damn girl, look at those fat-ass pollen...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:32:17 -0400

ornithoscelidaphiliac:

damn girl, look at those fat-ass pollen baskets !

featherended: claraozwald: wildparsnip: ruthlessdutchman: cop...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:29:59 -0400

featherended:

claraozwald:

wildparsnip:

ruthlessdutchman:

copyx:

serketcision:

ju5t4n3rd:

swagabonds:

original-recipe-winnafish:

preservedcucumbers:

There are two things in life that I am truly passionate about: Comics, and honey.

Just don’t give it to babies and small children especially raw, okay? Okay. Carry on.

i dont even like honey and i suddenly like honey

Also!!! If you have seasonal allergies, buying local honey from a farmers market or something can help tone down your allergies! The honey is made from bees in your area that have been pollinating with those same flowers and plants that are making your nose try to kill you! So by eating local honey, you automatically have a natural immunization against your seasonal allergies!

Honey also makes a really good sweetener, especially for tea. Put a bit in and it really enhances the flavour.

If you ‘don’t like honey’, try honey made from specific flower varieties! Clover honey is the most common, but things like wildflower honey, sage honey, etc all are out there, and whatever the bees got the honey from lends a little bit of different flavor! I’m a huge fan of sage honey, myself.

(I even had poison ivy honey once and it was legit as fuck.)

Wait honey tastes different depending on the FLOWER?? I gotta buy some more honey!

actually the only way in which honey can go bad is if it comes in contact (and stays in contact) with water. if water gets inside the jar, the honey is doomed to be infested with bacteria. so always close the honey container if you value your life

this post has inspired me to buy all the different honey types

memewhore: Yeah, basically.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:23:00 -0400

memewhore:

Yeah, basically.

lobo-de-luna: One of the smallest bees I’ve ever seen, less...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:16:47 -0400

lobo-de-luna:

One of the smallest bees I’ve ever seen, less than 1/2 an inch, on honeysuckle flowers.

6-17-13

The most common bees are this small, they’re just hard to notice! This is likely a little Lasioglossum, a sweat bee. A lot of them are a dull metallic green, very pretty.

thelovelyseas: Stonefish by Optical Ocean

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:14:48 -0400

thelovelyseas:

Stonefish by Optical Ocean

colossaltitan: Meet Ventricaria ventricosa. It’s algae. It’s...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:14:15 -0400

colossaltitan:

Meet Ventricaria ventricosa. It’s algae. It’s found throughout the ocean, especially in tropical regions. Grows out somewhere between 1.5 and 2 inches in diameter.

this is terrifying because it’s a single-celled organism. that green blob is one cell. Just one cell. What on earth. like

big organelles inside? no. just a TON of them. tons of microscopic organelles floating around inside one of the biggest single-celled organisms in existence. I want to poke it with a stick

whaaaat

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:13:43 -0400

underthevastblueseas: via

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:42:28 -0400

underthevastblueseas:

via

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:42:03 -0400

iguanamouth: iguanamouth: w hat do snakes use for protection ANACONDOMS!!!!!

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:39:51 -0400

iguanamouth:

iguanamouth:

w hat do snakes use for protection

ANACONDOMS!!!!!

astronomy-to-zoology: Some Barnacles (Infraclass Cirripedia)...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:38:33 -0400

astronomy-to-zoology:

Some Barnacles (Infraclass Cirripedia) Feeding.

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