"Whose Larva Is This?"
A quick guide to figure out what you're looking at when you find something that resembles a worm or a Zerg unit crawling around.
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Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children.
Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Dried Ghost pipe - Indian Pipe
This fascinating plant (Monotropa uniflora) is definitely one of nature’s weird wonders. Because it has no chlorophyll and doesn’t depend on photosynthesis, this ghostly white plant is able to grow in the darkest of forests.
Dara Ojo captured this damselfly performing its morning ablutions.
Note stiff hairs (setae) on the legs. The damselfly can't walk: the legs are used to trap bugs while flying.
Damselflies spend 90-99% of their lives underwater as nymphs.
(📷: Dara Ojo, @explorewithdara.bsky.social)
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Cow parsnip, Heracleum maximum. A 2-metre tall "carrot". New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/06/more... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
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Candy-striped spider, Enoplognatha ovata. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/06/like... #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
One of its names is Bride's Feathers. AKA Goat's beard. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/06/brid... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
This definitely forbidden gummy is in fact a moth larva of genus Olona (possibly Olona zolotuhini).
It's *normal* to want to know what flavor it is, but the answer, unfortunately is "pain".
Most species in this family are covered in tiny stinging spines connected to poison glands.
(📷: Janice Ang)
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Shady trail, Lake Hoomak. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/06/way-... #VancouverIsland #Landscapes #Forests #NaturePhotography
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One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
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Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...
