Z. elegans

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Biology A.S in-progress 🧬 They/Them + She/Her Dirt goblin, rock turner-over, sometimes-illustrator. Bug pictures ahead, mute terms and hashtags accordingly 👍

A grassy green lawn with a tall clump of little pink and white daisies standing taller than the turf grass, with boulders and landscaped trees in the background.
A screenshot of the “Bear” carnivore menu of the reposted image, text reads: The Bear - 1.5 hand beeled eggs - 8 bacon slices - 1 coffee cup - add batter to every meal you like
A snakefly, viewed in profile, sitting on my jean-covered knee.
The “no banana” meme: a calico cat makes a disgusted face at the camera with a banana sitting in front of it.
A large long-haired Siamese mix cat reclines in a cozy cat bed next to a window, a slice of sunny treetops are visible behind the curtains.
My gray tabby cat rests his head on the lower left edge of my open laptop. The screen is angled so only the weather prediction can be seen on the lower left, reading “rainy days ahead”
A tin tray with layers of pi-themed pink frosted sugar cookies inside. Some are round with piped with the pi symbol, pi r-squared, and 3.14, some are cut in the shape of the character pi.
Hand holding a blue and white glass monkeyshine medallion for year of the horse, stamped with a relief of a running horse and a crescent moon inside a round border.
Screenshot from the linked Daily Beast article, text reads: “The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.”
A dead adult male Anna’s Hummingbird, lying on a crumpled brown napkin, beak facing left with wings against his side. His coloration is mostly dark iridescent green and black, with some rumpled gray of the downy edges that stick out between his wing and neck. The iridescent purple of his gorget is slightly visible from this angle.
A small, old house (circa 1903) white with green trim, with two windows on either side of the four-column porch, surrounded by a small picket fence and vibrant pink roses.
Wide shot of the water at the Browns Point Lighthouse Park. The lighthouse is a tall, angular, white building with windows just below the lamp, surrounded by a metal fence at the base, and to the right of it in the foreground is a figure (my spouse) standing on the divider between the beach and the sidewalk running towards the lighthouse.
My fingers holding a tiny skull bead, colored black with bright pink eye/nose/teeth
Split image with the photo of the broken “galloping” lawn chair on the left, and a sketchy, cartoon drawing of a chubby spotted gray horse to the right, making the same pose at the chair.
A large Lepidoptera chrysalis held in my hand, mostly bright green with black bands and spotted markings. It has two points on its “head” and a tapered end.
A large brown and black Siamese mix cat with long fur and a small gray and white tabby are sitting together on a pile of blankets. The small tabby is laying down, and the big Siamese mix is grooming him, licking the top of his head and making his eyebrows go up and down.
A black deck chair sitting on a concrete driveway next to a tall wooden fence. The legs on the left side are bent so that the front leg curves down and the rear leg is cocked upwards, making it look like the chair is walking.
Thick-lined digital ink drawing of Ceruchus striatus, a species of stag beetle native to western Washington
Black line art over a red digital sketch of an Ensatina eschscholtzii salamander, next to a Ghibli soot sprite
Screenshot of a post: a photo of a Yellowjacket drinking from a pool captioned “hello”, followed by a reply from a random user (who doesn’t follow the original poster) saying “nope, I’m good.”
Screenshot of a Twitter thread by magnuswlitb, text reads: “for 15 years we made fun of my dad for saying he wants a vacuum for christmas every year, but we finally got him a nice dyson and you know what? he’s walking around, vacuuming all every room, muttering “this is a game changer.” say what you will but the man knows what he wants. my older sister would always insist “no no no we have to get him something he’ll ENJOY” and this is frankly humiliating for her. he just discovered the “max suction” setting and he’s happier than he was at our births”
Screenshot of the Zorin OS homepage with a picture of an older CRT desktop computer, text reads “Revive your old PC. Save money and help the planet. We've streamlined Zorin OS to work on computers as old as 15 years. That means you can keep using your PC for longer to save money on upgrades and reduce e-waste to help the environment.”
Substack entry preview by Bluesky user danipavlosky titled “So What’s Rabies Like?” Preview text: “It sounds bad. I don’t believe ChatGPT 5 that it doesn’t cause people to roam…”
A gravel trail with a new split rail fence approaches a corner full of green birch and willow trees and reddish/yellow fireweed plants that have gone to seed.
A puffed-up bird stands on top of the rounded roof of an old concrete bunker against a blue sky with treetops visible in the background. Underneath is a door to the bunker with blotted out graffiti on the inner wall, and the edge of a round base for an old gun mount to the lower left.
Closeup of a forward-facing Yellowjacket with black and yellow markings, green eyes and orange antennae resting on a piece of wood against a blue sky.
A large orb-weaver spider with dark coloration and light striping on her legs and body sits in the middle of a web built across an old rusty steel door.
A large billowing cloud formation sits over a mountain in the background, with the Port Townsend ferry on calm water in the foreground.
A view of the ferry dock from a pier on the Port Townsend waterfront, with mountains and hills in the distant background, a dark thick orange-purple wildfire haze hanging stretches over the mountains. The setting sun is bright orange through the smoke.
A river flows around a small tree-covered island in the background, with green trees covering the far shore and boulders with tall trees in the foreground under an overcast sky.
A shallow stream bordered by ferns, rocks and sticks, with a pale grayish color running through the middle.
A tranquil flowing river scene with bright green blades of sedge in the foreground and a tree-covered opposite shore with logs and boulders. a large flat rock in the middle of the water has plants growing on it.
A river flows to the left, and a little bird bobs and dips on a sandbar on the opposite shore.
A tranquil green-blue river scene with boulders, trees, shrubs and tall Douglas firs on the opposite bank. A little bit of the sandstone cliffs peek through the fir canopy, showing dark and light layers and erosion from many years.
High angle picture of the stage and screen for the Flow soundtrack concert at Benaroya hall in Seattle.
A light brown dead slug squashed on the ground of a packed-dirt trail. A large black beetle with long legs and reddish-purple iridescence feeds on it.
Methane gas bubbling in a small corner the concrete cap, making a funny raspberry noise.
A concrete cap stained with scorch marks sits in the middle of a depression in the ground filled with pebbles and surrounded by mortared flagstones, with a short fence and dense forest in the background
View of the Green River on a break before the river trail in Flaming Geyser State Park. A bend in the river surrounded by green trees on both sides, with a patch of grass on the far shore to the left and rocks poking out of the shallow parts near the shore. The trees and blue sky are reflected on the slightly rippling water.
Large golden brown Pacific Chorus Frog sitting on the ground, surrounded by wild mint and other small marsh plants.
A marsh filled with bracken ferns and dead Douglas fir trees in the foreground and a dense stand of cattails under an overcast sky.
Close view of a short wild rhododendron shrub in bright sun, showing its rosy pink flowers against the green of young fir trees against the forested hillsides and bright blue sky
Looking up at a branch of wild rhododendron in full bloom, the leaves and branches shaded, with a sunny forest of fir trees in the background
Northern Opalescent Nudibranch crawling over a hand in a blue nitrile glove, partially underwater among sargasso weed at low tide.
Sculpin fish held in a blue nitrile glove over rocks and sargasso weed during low tide.
A beach during a very low tide, with an overcast cloudy sky. A large eelgrass bed is exposed, with lots of people beachcombing and exploring the sea life. The Narrows bridge is in the background.