We are attending a conference this weekend. The first field trip was to a giant park with immaculately maintained native gardens and…. Wooooow.

#Missouri #ForestPark #SaintLouis #PlantNative #STL #Naturalist #BumbleBee

The Trows of #Orkney and #Shetland

What is a #Trow?

According to Saxby and Edmondston’s 'Home of a #Naturalist’ (1888):

“This interesting race of #supernatural beings is closely allied to the #Scandinavian #Trolls, but has some very distinctive characteristics of its own. The Trow is not such a mischief-making #sprite as the Troll, is more #human-like in some respects, and his #nature seems cast in a #morbid, #melancholy mould.”

https://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-trows-of-orkney-and-shetland.html

#Folklore

The Trows of Orkney and Shetland

(Trows, from Andrew Paciorek's Strange Lands, Supernatural Creatures of the Celtic Otherworld ) I apologise in advance for the length o...

Watch how Windsor tries to weed out this noxious plant
Windsor is grappling with a pesky weed. It's called wild parsnip, and it's noxious. The CBC's Ken Amlin caught up with the City of Windsor's naturalist to learn more about the weed — and how they're getting rid of it.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7214489?cmp=rss

There’s something quietly powerful about existing exactly as you are, surrounded by nature and free from shame or expectation. In places where it’s welcomed and respected, public nudity becomes less about exposure and more about freedom, self-acceptance, and the simple peace of feeling completely comfortable in your own skin.

#naked #nudity #beach #nudist #nudism #nude #noclothes #normalizenudity #nature #naturalist

Tiss Borax Season 🐜

Tiss Borax Season 🐜 Ah, Sodium Borate, the wonder chemical of 19 something something. A single ingredient product is always refreshing! It is essentially Ant biological warfare. They do not say it on the box but it does work. It needs to be mixed with Sugar. They collect it and bring it back to the colony where it hardens and kills them? Im not even sure how. It drys into a sticky goop type substance in the dish. I'm sorry guys but those are my cookies! I have used it here […]

https://proe.whimm.ing/tiss-borax-season-%f0%9f%90%9c/

David Attenborough, a Voice of Nature, Turns 100

Pictures and striking scenes from the making of perhaps the world’s most celebrated naturalist.

The New York Times