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scenes from field work this week :> got to help someone with their aquatic macroinverts sampling and bust out my favorite dichotomous key! we saw tons of emerging insects and herps too.

best find was probably the huge pteronarcys nymph. flipped a small rock right before leaving a stream not expecting to find anything and it was there

#lab notebook

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ROADKILL / SHRINE

an homage to a dead deer i was driving past a few weeks ago and thoughts of becoming earth.

mixed media installation // ko-fi

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This guy (gray catbird) at the open mic night (my front porch) won't stop doing his fucking impressions (american robin, house sparrow, and cardinal)

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i love how menacing the room where we raise chinook salmon looks

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ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!

On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

#hey. what the fuck

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Hi! I'm sorry for coming at you with this super eweird question, but I just had to know.

A couple of months ago, I've had a skin fungal infection, and I've realized that I had contaminated some of my living space, specifically the vanity/dresser where I had kept my medicine. I had tried to decontaminate it as best as I could, including putting some items that were on the dresser into a bag to quarantine them, then spraying inside of the bag with BioPhene and quarantining it some more.

I was wondering if that worked and if my items are safe to use, or if I made the contamination worse? What can I do?

you should definitely ask your doctor this question!

here are my thoughts but Please take them with a grain of salt: your skin fungus was prob skin-specific, if not human skin-specific, and probably couldn't survive on substrates like wood or anything like that. i think you're good after spraying a disinfectant. but again, please ask your doctor to make sure

#i know honestly nothing about fungi #and even less about human health #ask #anon

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i love how menacing the room where we raise chinook salmon looks

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It's nice to see them together that way ! A collection of works I will sell as cards at Paris City Pop in june ♥

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When I find out someone loves animals in the wolves/cats/bears way I’m like oh nice same but when I find out someone loves animals in the orange-footed pimpleback mussel way I’m like holy shit holy shit same let’s stop what we’re doing right now so you can tell me about all the invertebrates you’ve ever loved with that sweet pure heart and curious mind you have

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"i hope nobody kills me for the crime of being small"

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Poster for a symposium at the Frederick Cancer Research Center, 1975.

(National Library of Medicine)

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Oh my goodness, the woodpecker 😆 (other two are Oriole and female Grosbeak)

#UM? #the red bellies at my feeder can get a bit aggressive but. this is something else #did he think the markings on her chest were bugs or something??

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sunlight

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when i dont know enough in an area of my special interest

#this was so fucking relatable

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Hard at work making pins today!

#I'M SO MAD I MISSED THIS #want

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Some crickets and grasshoppers and my thoughts about them.

I've always been interested in bugs since I was real small.. I should draw them more often.

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Japanese Emperor caterpillar bus !