Planthopper, Geisha distinctissima, falling victim to a spider, Nihonhimea japonica (mander.xyz)
I think it’s safe to say she’ll be eating well tonight.
girls love big COX (mander.xyz)
Let's kick this off, shall we? (mander.xyz)
Restored Roman glass cup (mander.xyz)
“Roman glass cup from the Himlingøje burial site in Denmark, from 2nd and 3rd century, found in graves of a rich or princely family. [Cups like this one] are so well-preserved that finders have used them mistakenly as vases for flowers, without realizing that they were ancient productions.”...
New community - Generative AI (mander.xyz)
I have just created a new community in Lemmy about Generative AI like GPT or Midjourney. The subjects are diverse: from news to development
Chromodoris willani (mander.xyz)
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromodoris_willaniImage source: imgur.com/gallery/b0sKKeJ
More Pyrochemography by Von Contu! (mander.xyz)
“Tribal”...
Bird-dropping spider, Phrynarachne katoi, central Japan (mander.xyz)
I recently came across this lovely(?) crab spider on a birding excursion. The bird-dropping spiders of Phrynarachne are apparently not only visual but also olfactory mimics, for all intents and purposes attempting to fool both predators and prey. Apologies for the slightly subpar image quality; I didn’t have my macro lens and...
blep (mander.xyz)
It’s too warm and we both do our best to cope.
"Harvest Season" Agar Art by Maria Eugenia Inda, Ph.D. (mander.xyz)
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/89a64272-8cce-4689-983a-8bcf58d24cda.jpeg...
Monodora myristica (Hortus Botanicus Leiden) (mander.xyz)
It’s in the Annonaceae
I think this is some kind of Xylaria, but I'm not sure which species. (mander.xyz)
Found near Hope, AK on the Kenai peninsula.
Adventure biking in the south. (mander.xyz)
Was a good time.
I visited a friend with a big garden. This is what Pandora chose to do there. (mander.xyz)
She later complained it was boring and to indoorsy too.
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Kitten for scale. (mander.xyz)
This is from a real paper....
Star trails [OC] (mander.xyz)
"Cross-section of very young beech" by Jean Rüegger-Deschenaux (1994) (mander.xyz)
This entry won first place in the Nikon small world photomicrography contest, in 1994....
Good luck, folks. :) (mander.xyz)
How to propagate ficus elastica properly (afaik) (mander.xyz)
Some big dumby with my name (T’was me) posted earlier this week with a totally not correct way to propagate ficus elastica (rubber tree, tineke) from a leaf. So anyway here is the proper way to prop it with pictures....
Large mushroom UK ID? (mander.xyz)
Dog for scale...
Prehistoric baby bottles (mander.xyz)
Prehistoric #baby bottles: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösendorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC. Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe....
Can you help me id this larvae (mander.xyz)
Found it on my tomato plant. I’d seen them before in sizes up to 4-5 cm. The eat the tomato leaves like crazy. And (naturally) poo a lot. Some black grande like aggregates. Once grown they molt into a moth that I saw a few days ago. And now, again, my tomato plants are riddled with these buggers....
Can you help identify this? (mander.xyz)
Found it on my son’s hair after a 10min visit to our veggies garden. My guess is that it might be a tick but we are not in an area of lime disease and although it’s an open, rather unkept, field the only mammals I see around are 2-3 stray(?) cats....
