alexwild

alexwild, 2 months ago to random

why are we even sending a single fucking dollar to Israel

alexwild, 2 months ago to random

Seeing a lot of these little guys flying around Austin. Halidamia affinis, a small sawfly that feeds on Gallium catchweeds.

#Symphyta #Sawflies #Insects

alexwild, 2 months ago to random

Unseasonably warm temperatures last week in Texas gave rise to the the second largest wildfire in Texas History.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/29/us/texas-panhandle-smokehouse-creek-fire-thursday/

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

Wordpress’s content-grab-for-AI-scraping really changes the calculus of whether I permit people to use my photos on their personal blogs and websites, even credited.

alexwild, 3 months ago to Texas

More people are moving to Texas than there is water to sustain them.

#Texas #Water

https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/georgetown-water-supply-6-year-timeline/269-012f29c2-d616-498e-8da2-805ff15d7832

alexwild, 3 months ago to photography

A gallery of ants as predators:

#insects #ants #Photography

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Natural-History/Predation

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

In a remnant of Brazil's once-great Atlantic coastal rainforest, an Acromyrmex disciger leafcutter ant carries a leaf back to her nest. The forest where these ants live has been 95% destroyed by human activities. Morretes, Paraná, Brazil.

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

The lack of moth research is kind of shocking, especially compared to the sheer amount of butterfly work.

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

Speedo Ants!?

I'm not sure that means what they think it does.

#ants

(from: https://www.homeanddecor.com.sg/design/home-tips/3-foolproof-ways-to-keep-ants-away/ )

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

Likely the last frost danger of the year has passed for central Texas, which gives us a license for 100% gardening until massive heat disaster season arrives in July.

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

Inside a nest of red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta. Here, a small adult worker ant tends to piles of developing pupae.

#Solenopsis #FireAnts #Ants #Insects

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

Is Mastodon super buggy for anyone else right now, or just me?

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

A gallery of insects having sex, happy Valentine’s Day y’all.

#Insects #Entomology

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Insect-Sex

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

A bold move on Louisiana’s part to intentionally submerge itself under the Gulf of Mexico.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/14/ouisiana-governor-jeff-landry-climate-change-fossil-fuels?ref=upstract.com

alexwild, 3 months ago to photography

In anticipation of this year's mega-emergence, here's a gallery of Magicicada periodical cicadas.

#Cicadas #Insects #Photography

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Periodical-Cicadas

alexwild, 3 months ago to generativeAI

Dall-e is not good at this.

"Sketch of a spider with the correct number of legs"

#GenerativeAI #Spiders #AIFail

alexwild, 3 months ago to Texas

I love that #UTAustin is taking the upcoming solar eclipse so seriously.

Email from the admins:

#eclipse #texas

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

After over a year here, and a few months at Bluesky, I endorse both. They're good at different things.

Bluesky is lighter, more ephemeral, more chatty. I'm not sure it'll be around in a year. But whatever. It's fun, like old Twitter, hardly any nazis and no ads. A bit buggy, though.

Mastodon is weightier. It feels more important, it reaches farther. Here is a better place to get information, to discuss things in more depth. There are more features. Mastodon just feels more robust.

alexwild, 3 months ago to photography

A gallery of Odontomachus from around the world. These are perhaps the most conspicuous of trap-jaw ants.

#Insects #Photography #Ants #Odontomachus

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Odontomachus

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

A female Caribbean paper wasp stands guard over an early season nest. Puerto Rico.

#Polistes #Insects #Wasps

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

Entomology job! Bee collection digitization tech, Minnesota.

#Entomology

https://hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&SiteId=1&FOCUS=Applicant&JobOpeningId=359549&PostingSeq=1&

alexwild, 3 months ago to photography

A gallery of some of my favorite insects, the tree-dwelling turtle ants of the American tropics and subtropics.

#Ants #Cephalotes #Insects #photography

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Cephalotes

alexwild, 3 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Botanical mystery: I bought a hanging houseplant a few months ago. It’s very cute. But I can’t remember what it is, and now it’s flowering little purple tubes and I’m even more confused. I’m pretty sure it’s a Hoya wax plant, but there are a ton of species and varieties and none of them look like this.

Does anyone here recognize my mystery plant?

#bloomscrolling #flowers #Hoya #Botany

alexwild, 3 months ago to random

I’ve got Covid again. Crud.