First Post! A Beautiful Barred Owl That’s Been Hanging Around Our University.

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Observed by irkuem, CC BY-NC

"they took pluto from you" "they took dinosaurs from you" "they took neptune from you" grow a second personality trait and stop getting upset that our understanding of the world has grown since you were in 3rd grade

White bees!!

Oh hey, look a bug!

It's probably a bug.

In fact its a snow scorpion fly a strange little insect, distantly related to fleas. These bugs are active in much cooler temperatures then most other insects sometimes into the middle of winter if the weather is cool enough. They feed on moss and can be quite locally common if you find the right area. If they feel threatened they will launch themselves backwards and then play dead for a couple seconds. I watched them do this several times well i was photographing them. Very cute.

Anyways I'm gonna try to use this more often. hoping to do maybe a post a day for this week we shal see.

funky horse guy, and porcupine friend.

Treehole antlion, Cymothales sp., Myrmeleontidae

Photographed in Mabira Forest, Uganda by Frank Deschandol

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