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Native plant gardener, bug enthusiast, nature geek, urbanite & urban nature advocate. Philadelphia, PA 19146.
My username here comes from Thomas Church's famous quote about the "parsley around the roast."
It's Black Cat Appreciation Day, so here are my handsome boys Cosmos and Chaos. They are 16 month old brothers: same gorgeous fur but very different personalities and sizes.

I just captured a one-in-a-million image.
In the woods just off our front deck.

I think it wants me to go with it to Narnia.

Glad to see an old summer friend, the Blue-Winged Scoliid Wasp, on Monarda punctata yesterday...though the wasp was so busy diving into the flowers I couldn't get a good photo. Not only is this a beautiful pollinating wasp, but it's a natural check on annoying Japanese Beetle grub populations.
iNaturalist is the answer to the question, "What if I wanted to touch grass AND stay addicted to social media?"
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Did you know that insect wings evolved from the gills of an ancestral crustacean? Scientists have found that two genes that are important for wing development in insects are also expressed in the gills of a branchiopod crustacean. This supports the idea that wings are modified gills that moved to the back of the insect body. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/how-insect-wings-evolved-legs-ancestral-crustacean #insectwings #crustaceans #evolution
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How the insect got its wings: scientists (at last!) tell the tale

Insect wing evolution traces back to ancestral crustacean, MBL scientists confirm

University of Chicago News
Live your life so that millions of people don't mockingly celebrate your death.

TIL that the famous ornithologist Edward Jenner, who was the first to prove birds migrate

and

Edward Jenner, the physician who developed vaccination against smallpox

are the same person.

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An indulgent No-Bake Vegan Nutella Cake that tastes like Nutella but is not only dairy-free and vegan, but also gluten-free, paleo-friendly, oil-free, soy-free, and refined sugar-free! Plus, the food processor does 95% of the work and there’s only a handful of ingredients required!

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No-Bake Vegan Nutella Cake

An indulgent No-Bake Vegan Nutella Cake that tastes like Nutella but is not only vegan, but also gluten-free, and paleo-friendly!

Rainbow Plant Life
why does my eclipse look so much different from y'all's
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Living in a medium sized city it's not often I see interactions between large species. The eagle caught a fish & landed on an ephemeral log out of frame to the left. After eating the fish, the eagle hopped to the juvenile great blue heron's log. It's a favorite fishing spot for the eagles so it may have been trying to intimidate but the heron stood its ground.
(09/21/23)

#eagles #raptors #birding #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText