Mostly, I just think they're working with old climate data that aren't very forward looking.
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Mostly, I just think they're working with old climate data that aren't very forward looking.
2 years ago I went to the extension fruit growing workshop. They said that peaches in our area were marginal, and apricots and nectarines wouldn't work. The thing is, we were already successfully growing peaches, and had harvested a few apricots before our tree died in a freak snowstorm. Today: ๐ฑ๐
We already knew it wasn't for wildlife, but now lawns aren't even for people. Automatons only.
Okay, scientific papers as a 15-skeet thread of figures and memes should be the new publishing format. Great research! ๐๐๐งช
I can head my kid's internal monologue here, haha. And then a bad guy comes, and NINJA ROLL. FADE 'EM. ๐ฆ
Yes, I have a GROWTH mentality. If you hold still, the Pacific Northwest will literally grow across your face. Moss waits for no one. #orchid ๐ข
The article that led me here: www.livescience.com/technology/a...
Apparently I am a large language model, because these games that A.I. apparently can't solve are a colorblind person's worst nightmare. arcprize.org/play?task=00...
Is it weird to wonder how many scrotums he has? Is he like one of those poster vending displays where you flip between layers, or is he like how I have my bocce set stored in a canvas tote? Is "he" even the right pronoun, it does it finally makes sense to call someone HIMS?
You're a frog person?
I'm glad I don't mow my small lawn patch that often and that I didn't clean up the fallen plums. There are lots of fermented plum chunks and tasty clover bits for the neighborhood teenage quail. ๐ชถ๐ฑ
Oh, okay. I'm familiar, I always have some red sex links (a.k.a. golden comets). I think yours is actually a black sex link (Rhode Island x barred rock, a.k.a. black star). Beautiful borb!
One of the jewel orchids from the dining room shoebox terrarium. This is Dossinia marmorata var. dayii. Stunning patterns and colors. ๐ชด๐ฑ
Eww, imagining a cat crunching through this thing disgusts me so much.
Whoa! Turns out it's mostly seaweed but there's also a fork and a cluster of grapes and it looks like a fungus is invading its butt. Real story - I didn't know that the oviduct was away from the poop/spinneret end, spiders are so much weirder than I thought.
I found a cat spider under the bay window and fed it a grasshopper. This thing is huge! What is inside a spider's abdomen, anyway? Is it just intestines? Do bugs even HAVE intestines? Or is it like...developing eggs? Or just sloshing soup? I'm fascinated and also slightly grossed out by it. #Invert
Oh gosh, that sounds amazing. We have not eaten enough peaches yet this year.
This effin guy, it's honestly a tragedy that we have created such a safe society that inarguable Darwinian mistakes like him can still survive despite the ill advised outdoor recreation, hunting, parasites, anti-science, etc. Just a walking meat balloon who's never bothered a dictionary. ๐โฐ๏ธ๐ค
It's fabulous, I hope they enter cultivation someday so that people who can't afford to travel could see them.
An incredible legacy, for sure.
Love the racing stripes, I wish kinglets were in my life.
Lovely bird, and I'm confused about what breed of chicken you have. Does she have red saddle feathers?
Holy smokes, is this in the wild? Where is that from? It's incredible and fantastical.
Oh. My. Goodness! @joshuajfriedman.com, get a load of this orchid, it's incredible. ๐ฟ๐ชด
It flowered for the first time last year and we planted it during the pandemic. So I guess maybe 2 years from planting?
Quote post your spherical borbs. ๐ชถ
Oh man, so sad. Donovan apparently dedicated his life to preserving South African endemic plants and then died in a tragic fall on steep terrain while surveying for a critically endangered species that urgently needs conservation. ๐ฟ๐ฑ #nativeplants ๐ news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Yeah, that was a very confusing decision, I'm glad it only lasted a few years.
I think you have to have LOTS of discretionary time and capital, neither of which are foreseeable to me.
I guess I am now.
My crazy mother's latest haul to the food bank from her hilariously oversized garden. ๐ฑ bsky.app/profile/fish...
Gorgeous, I wondered why it's been ages and ages since I've seen a post from you. Now I realize it's because I've had reskeets turned off since 2023 because of how comedians used to decimate my skyline. But thanks for sharing this one only once, haha!
Hmmm....I wonder how I could replicate this in my garden. Does the tree species matter?
I'm glad it's cooling off somewhere, here in the PNW we're supposed to get our hottest temperatures of the year next week. I'm NOT looking forward to it.
Did a little afternoon float and some fishing on the Spokane River with the ten year old. Flows were a little low in the Idaho section but still decent. I only high centered my kayak once. ๐ #hydrology
When I went out back to give saltwater taffee to the kids and looked toward the house, the sunshine through the skylight made this bouquet look photoshopped through the window, hahaha.
Today's bouquet ๐ฑ
Lunchtime! ๐
Okay, this is actually the most Bloรถdcheฤp thing ever.
Funnily enough, every one of them made a disgusted face, but the next one still took a big whiff. They're either adventurous or a bit slow. Or maybe both?
I don't think they're rare, but I don't remember where I got it. They're easy to grow if you have enough light for succulents/cacti and appropriate substrate.
The starfish plant (Orbea variegata) bloomed. Truly stunning flower. I did NOT tell the kids to smell it, that was their doing. I just showed it to them. ๐ชด๐ฑ
Actual cannibal Sculpin LeBeouf
Thanks, I haven't memorized the different species so I didn't know which one this was. But between the calls and the antics I knew it was some kind of chickadee.
Calling in from the Palouse!
It was so annoying to have to do work when I could be watching the birdies instead.
That's the first thing I thought but I was like...this crown is not white. Thought maybe it was a female or juvenile but just as likely it could have been like...a cream crowned sparrow only found in the northern Rockies or something.
The final participant in the streamside gang was a little more shy but so cute! A nuthatch!
More birdies from the streamside gang. A junco and then some kind of sparrow I didn't know. Identification help welcome.
I was fish sampling along a creek when a gang of bold little birds all jostled over drinking rights from one tiny section of streambank. There were similar places everywhere. But this was THE place. I think there were five species traveling together. ๐ชถ
It seems like words aren't really what you need, but I don't have much else to offer, so here are some blanketflowers for you to mentally snuggle while we all hope for better times.
They're in the same order, so about as closely related as we are to all the other primates.
Yeah, the last time someone had a real good look at them in 2022 they were like "Ichthyologists thought there were 19 sculpin species, but we're proposing 37". Like...that shit escalated real quick. www.fs.usda.gov/rm/boise/AWA...
Those are gorgeous! Like eveningwear!
It's crazy to me that we don't really know how many sculpin species exist. They are basically dragons and should be dieties in somebody's religion. Incredible fish. ๐
M is for majestic. ๐ฆ
Wait, I've never thought about this...why are turkey drumsticks symbolic Renaissance fare? They didn't even show up until the end of it.
Wider view from the bottom.
I wondered if any pollinators ever found my Hoya bella that is hanging in the maple tree out front. Then this morning I saw some bumblebees on it, so I guess they did! ๐ฑ๐ชด #Invert
This is adorable. Do you think they recognize your car because of how much time you spend with them? Or are they just super curious about everything?
I'll message you.
Oh wow, those silver leaves are incredible. Excited to hear it's fragrant, if you ever share seeds I'd be interested!
Love this photo, beautiful cat and Cyclamen background.
No, the photo was taken in October last year in France. As you say the little buds cover the ground around the cedar tree. Our cat Misti near the cedar :) The garden becomes a carpet of cyclamens. They spill out onto the country lane where folk dig a few up for themselves.
Sounds scary - but no. It's Cyclamen!
The goldenrod has a veritable cloud of tiny native bees around it today. No idea what they are. ๐ฑ #nativeplants #Invert
Wow! Is this from their native range in the Mediterranean, or are they naturalized?
Check out all the fun patterns and colors in these tailed frog tadpoles! This is a cryptic species that lives in such cold, turbulent streams that the males have penises for internal fertilization lest their little froggie sperms get swept away, haha. The tadpoles have suction cup mouths! ๐๐
I have the former two that I grew from seed...is C. purpurescens also winter hardy? Might have to add it.
You're thinking right!
Nailed it!
You got it! Cyclamen flowers end up coiling and retracting back down to the ground. Once the capsules ripen, they pop open. The seeds come with a sugar coating so that ants will carry them off, nibble the coating, and then abandon them to sprout! ๐ฑ๐ #Invert
Nope, but you're getting close. They're seed capsules from something.
It kinda looks like it, but these are hollow!
Are those like persimmons? I don't actually know - that's not it.
Used to be! But from what?
Of course, as long as you share a photo of the finished product!
Oh, that's a clever guess, but no.
Good guess - they are dried (naturally), but there was no flesh inside. It is not a berry.
Oh wow, a rare treat: it only has one "H". We have been favored by the cicadas on this blessed day.
Hey @infinitescream.bsky.social, what sound does a cicada make?
Who can guess what these are? No AI or reverse image searching allowed. ๐ฑ
I haven't. They don't need to be in large streams, the one I'm visiting in a couple weeks is small enough to step across. However, the only iNaturalist record of D. aterrimus in the Payette River basin is from above Upper Payette Lake. So I think when you get that far south they need to be higher.
Supposedly, but unless it's part of my existing research program I don't have time. Unfortunately, none of the streams I sample around McCall have them.
No, fish are the target research taxa. The salamanders are bycatch, but I still love them.
Imagine literally living under a rock underwater for years. Then deciding to become a neckbeard & NEVER move out of the basement (neoteny). Then suddenly getting captured & placed onto a blue plastic tote lid by aliens. The existential crisis on this salamander's face before it was released, haha. ๐
I'm due to sample a stream where they live the first week of September.
Yep, a clade that diverged from spoopy fish millions of years ago.
We could pretty easily make that happen.
I'll probably catch some more in Benewah County in two weeks if you wanna volunteer! Only like seven hours away, haha.
New day, new stream. Today's sampling took me to the land of spoopy puppies (Idaho giant salamanders) along with the usual complement of vibrant native trout. Gorgeous waterfalls on this creek under an ancient battlement of 150' redcedar monarchs. ๐๐
The trout was never seen again but based on what I've observed from pumping the stomachs of predatory fish it was liquefied rather quickly. The tag made it through without a hitch and ended up in an ammo can rafting down the Colorado River, hahaha.
Oh wow, it does! How did you find that? Surely you weren't actively looking, but if you were, I'm flattered. And yes, it's never certain unless you have the tag from the grower, but this is still really helpful!
I suppose education is our only option because involuntary euthanasia isn't legal and the idiocracy is real, so...good luck and soldier on.
I will admit without hesitation that I'm not like...bodily dedicated to science. Although I would do the science leg thing. And one time I swallowed a whole fish and a PIT tag to track it through my digestive system, so maybe I have intestinal parasites? But hard pass on the tarantula hawk stings.
Oh yeah, like we can't find a dumbass anywhere in North Carolina, hahaha.
