Hyperfocussing On Fish Is Great Until You Spend All Your Money On Fish And Also Nobody Wants To Hear

Living Decay

Curled in the heart of the forest lie an elk

still and quiet, he waits

in the shadows of nightfall, 

and lets the cold embrace his stationary form. 

When dawn comes

he remains, rooted to the ground

warming the earth where he lay,

nourishing the soil.

As weeks pass his soft exterior

gives way to a brittle and unforgiving interior

yet still

a family of small mammals find their way into his ribcage

and bring life back into his

hollow body.

Generations of forest creatures will come to know

his body as a beacon of being,

and a symbol of home. 

“Bettas live in puddles…”

“Well actually bettas live in dirty puddles so even though the water in my .25gal (.9L) is brown and smells like its rotting, its tottally okay to keep my betta in there!”

“All that room for one fish? Bettas live in puddles so no I don’t need that big of a tank”

“Bettas live in puddles their whole lives so its okay to permanently house them in the cup they’re sold in”

No. No. No. No. No.

Bettas live in rice paddy’s. Hundreds upon hundreds of acres of three feet deep water surrounded by roots and leaves and plenty of hunting grounds.

Domestic bettas are bred in large glass jars sometimes. It doesn’t mean you can keep them in the glass jar.

Sure, I can fit in the under the stairs closet and live my whole life there. Oh wait. I’d be miserable. I don’t understand people who take an animal who is completely reliant on you as its soul source of living, and just throw them in a cute little wine glass and ask me why tf their betta isn’t eating/swimming/ living, and then tell me I’m wrong when I say they need at least 5 gals and lots of hiding spots because “they live in puddles”

im really drinkin my love and respect reptiles+amphibians juice today, so if u have a pet of the reptilian or amphibious type, rb and add pics pls

Here’s a piece I created for the Tarantula Show I went to a month or so ago!

Hey so what the FUUUUUUCK happened in this beetle’s evolution??? For that matter why didn’t I know about these if they’re a “common wood-boring pest???”

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep27364 Under “normal” circumstances, they don’t form adults and the larva simply clones new larvae that eat their way out of the “mother larva.” If exposed to extreme heat, they’ll pupate and turn into little beetles like their ancestors did, and the little beetles go through a whole elaborate courtship period where the females fight with each other over territory and try to mount males or each other (apparently the first time same-sex coupling was observed in a beetle), with both sexes having unique little dances to communicate with each other. If I’m reading correctly the male has a mating display while the female has like a little “rejection dance” I think? And then it doesn’t matter because all adults are sterile so the population just dies off.

eagle throuple!!!

i love it when i have the opportunity to teach little kids about bugs. theyre usually grown up with parents that spew the typical “all of them are nasty” mindset, but there’s a lot that are still curious

ive just had 4 young girls and their mom watch as i handled my tarantula gently on my floor and educated about them; what they eat, differences between old and new world, their anatomy, etc. most of the girls claimed to be afraid of bugs but willingly looked very closely at her when i pointed out her eyes!! she also had a leg sticking up and the kids gave her a gentle high five. she was very docile and chill during the entire experience. shit like this just makes me so happy

                                Foglie Tropicale (Series II)- Various Plants

1.  Ornamental Foliage Plants, Mary Evans

2. Codiaeum hybrid, drawn and chromolithographed by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Linden’s l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1888

3. Coleus Blumei, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

4. Garden Croton, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

5. Cyrtosperma,  Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

6. Pitcher Plant,  Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

7. Trichocentrum cosymbephorum

8. Majesty Palms

9. Aspidium obliquatum