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"It is likely that every tomato you eat was pollinated by a bumble bee... [Their anthers] will only release their pollen when they are vibrated at a frequency of around 400 Hertz, and bumble bees do this by grabbing hold of the anthers and vibrating their flight muscles." - McGavin, The Hidden World

rest in petes.

from sunday's 30 mile bike ride. timber waiting in ambush 😁

Very important new paper out! The coffee berry borer beetle is the worst pest of ☕️ worldwide, and in Mexico is attacked by the wasp Cephalonomia hyalinipennis. That wasp is supposed to be in Hawaii, so why doesn’t it attack CBB here? Turns out neither are actually C. hyalinipennis!

depending on the day, this may be 100% true!

happy @wprb.com mail day! shirt number 15 or so!

all national donut chains suck ass

children of the creamed corn

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Bill Clark tells us about the exquisite personal lep collection assembled by Gary Gier, a retired HS teacher in Idaho

WHY HELLO THERE

Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards

It's officially out! Available at your favorite bookseller, enjoy my latest, an ode to California's wonderland of lizards. No matter where you get it, reviews on Amazon are most welcome. Thank you!!

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Seasonal reminder that Spartan Mosquito Eradicators and Spartan Mosquito Pro Techs do not kill mosquitoes. The Mississippi company was sued for fraud but the settlement agreement allows sales to continue until Christmas. Tell your gullible uncle to buy something else. #mosquitoes #mississippi #psa

Scorpions under UV light! I’m making this into a sticker sheet too, and how about add some special effects like holographic? 🩵

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one of a few hundred wood frogs from the other night

one of a few four toed... there are a few groups who help the amphibians across the road this time of year but i don't think they're training to look for such small salamanders?!

spotted salamander with cataracts? seemed to be doing just fine

The Fish Doorbell is back online. A live cam at a canal lock in Utrecht. If you spot a fish, you press the bell and the lock keeper opens the lock to let the fish through. Charming and important visdeurbel.nl/en/

wish i had more time with this one, but it was eating and i didn't want it to drop its meal and flee.

got to get back to tejas... i think it was tejas.

climbed a massive hill, set my backpack down under a tree and climbed over rocks for 20 minutes to look for snakes. rat snake was perched above my backpack the whole time.

the first invasive frog to ever take up residence in the country, the greenhouse frog in fl. in the grass along the sidewalk just outside the hotel.

western slimy salamander in a Missouri glade. just by luck met some people in Florida that were from Illinois... I gave them all my favorite spots and they gave me theirs. worked out ok.

squirrel tree frog... this little charmer was just outside the airbnb in Ocala National Forest, FL

graphic design books should just be pictures of moths. pa.

green frog, nj. on this particular night, the night of 1000 toads (we stopped counting at 300) there was this single green frog waiting to be moved off the roadway.

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carpenter frog, NJ. ime, they are underwater 90% of the time... more often heard than seen. during a bioblitz before covid we yoinked this babe from a puddle for a photo. I almost never yoink for a photo, but there you go. #frogfriday

Eastern towhee... these bastards pop up out of the brush for about a second and a half before disappearing again... got lucky guessing where it would land. pa.

white ibis. sometimes you find the right place at the right time... wound up near a popular lake in fl quite accidentally and all the birds were very people tolerant. this ibis wandered in front of some very bright grass... I never touch the saturation levels. if it looks like this why would you?

pinewoods tree frog. friends of mine like to drink and sit in chairs all evening. I suppose that has its place but it's not my thing. so I took a walk from the campsite and there was a puddle full of these little bastards. Yes, I made them get up from their chairs. north carolina.

spring peeper... one of maybe 300 we got off the road. the lighting is weird because along with the flash I used, there's a little ambient light from the flashlight

lifer eastern narrowmouth toad... was at the entryway to a room and an old motor lodge in Kentucky.

and now 100 pictures I took... maybe

fine, taxispilota

taxisplota

this is a true story, but in my case it was a van halen mirror