Jess W-G

@frogsandgrubs.bsky.social

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Middle school science teacher, entomologist, snow lover in NC. Parent to a tween and a toddler. Beyoncé lover in my soul. I’d rather be ice skating on a lake in the north woods.

An alien I swear. An aquatic oblong segmented insect larva with six legs, a widened abdomen 2/3 of the way down its body, and a weird ol shovel shaped head.
A tiny border garden in a tiny yard against a yellow house with native plants laid out ready to be planted
An orange Bob stroller overflowing with native plants in a permeable paver parking loy
Nine potholders in various colors and meticulous patterns
A silver and electric blue small hardtail mountain bike with panniers is leaning against a gray wooden backyard fence. It has bright orange handlebar grips and the saddle has a large tear in the fabric with exposed foam.
A live edge bench in the back of a very messy family station wagon
Cross country skis and a shadow of a person in a suburban alley. Imagine Immigrant Song in the headphones.
A quilted beetle
Approximately one billion (actually about 70) ducks and geese and gulls in the water on a sunny cold day. There are a canvasback, a goldeneye, long tailed ducks, canada geese, red heads, lesser scaup, ring billed gulls, and probably more
A quilted beetle placemat
A giant red fiberglass squid tentacle on a reddit post asking how much it’s worth
A toddler in snow gear watching his big sister run up an icy, snow-dusted suburban street. She is running uphill with a red plastic sled.
A Mazda Miata in a mall parking lot fully kitted out and painted to look like Lightning McQueen in Cars 2. Not Cars. Cars 2
A Grateful Dead dancing bears knit hat with long jester tails with pompoms on the end on a toddler wearing a green down coat covered in insect print.
I can’t even. I just can’t. New York Times “Was Renee Good Obligated to Comply With and ICE Agent’s Orders?”
A person walking out onto a weather worn boardwalk over calm water at twilight. Low grasses cover sand on the right of the boardwalk.
A waterfall cascading through a gorge, framed by trees in peak fall foliage.
A blonde blonde toddler grinning down at the rubber boots he is wearing that go to his crotch
A messy AF diagram of ametabolous, hemimetabolous, and holometabolous metamorphosis
Naked mocha cookie cutouts awaiting a dip in chocolate
A screenshot of the stupid stupid new alarm screen on liquid glass showing a green toggle switch for snooze. It seems that it needs to be turned off (not green) for the alarm to actually make sound.
Spiny oakworm caterpillars. Black caterpillars with yellow stripes and thorny protrusions head down on chewed leaves
Super sexy cream colored leather clogs with brown pants legs hoisted up to reveal turquoise octopus socks standing on a sidewalk
Lightning McQueen and Doc Hudson talking on a tv in a suburban living room strewn with christmas and toddler
A Peregrine Falcon hovering over an ice covered pier and choppy gray water backed by a cloudy sky.
The classic, top tier movie Cars playing on a tv amongst christmas decorations and toddler toys. Elmo is in front of the TV in a doll stroller. Obviously
A dining table in a red dining room. It’s dark outside and you can see christmas lights out there. There is a slice of pizza and an eel facts advent calendar on the table.
Plump figs with visible osteoles on a young fig tree stem. The figs are green, orb like, and beginning to droop. They are “Kay’s adriatic” figs from a DC-Maryland area fig cutting swap from 2022, planted in 2023 in NC.
A little critter on aromatic aster flowers
Sunlit fall forest with green and gold leaves
A tween in a homemade Mira costume from How It’s Done
A shot looking up at tree trunks and branches. On one branch, there is a cluster of four parallel draping pale, vertical forms. They are honeycomb!
A black plastic drum composter set against yellow siding. Tennis balls litter the ground below.
A basic animal cell drawing with labeled cell parts including a bonus cell wall. Thanks to mydiagram(dot)online and idiot tech bros
Benjamin Moore color of the year palette website screenshot. Four photogenic room shots on the top exist so you can have them colored with one of the eight colors in the 2026 palette. The colors are a pale blue green, a dark blue green, a pale burnt red, a dark burnt red, a beige, an off white, mauve, and dark gray. BORING
A kid gently touching an urchin in an indoor tidepool, clearly having a good time
Little fuzzy matte black mystery larva with visible legs
A path in the woods strewn with fall leaves
Dangling floppy necrotic yellow caterpillar with a giant head capsule and a stick legged narrow headed bug hanging upside down on it
A caterpillar on a partially eaten leaf. It is hairless and predominantly black with white stripes and orange spots.
Dick Bloch’s Wikipedia entry.
A picnic tanle with a solar panel canopy
A giant giant warer bug on an orange spoon.
Stubby tailed baby songbird staring at the camera. Sitting on concrete.
A huge green caterpillar curling backwards tucking its chin on the underside of leaves on a vertical stem. It has a bumpy butt spike and countershaded diagonal stripes with irregularly placed black spots on it.
A tiny person eagerly watching huge bubbles
Folded paper towel in a ziploc bag taped to a window. The paper towel is a mottled dark orange with the shadow of a kidney bean visible in the towel. There is a scuzzy fuzzy bit of white in a liquid in the bottom corner.
A couple female monarchs and a few bumblebees feeding on a patch of feathery pink flowers on tall stems between houses in a dense suburban neighborhood. A toddler toddles on the porch as the camera pans.
A surprisingly effective hummingbird trap made of a feeder + a hamster cage + string
Side view of a doll stroller
A woman and her grade school daughter admiring Alma Thomas’s paintings in the National Portrait Gallery. Alma Thomas was a DC public school art teacher who achieved fame in her 80s. Her work hung in the Obama private residence at the White House.
A hardtail mountain bine against a blue wall. It’s in a school stairwell.
A wrinkly yellow caterpillar that seems to have a tight collar on its neck. Just the teeniest neck and a big ol’ body and a big brown head. All on some green pinnately compound leaves with herbivory.
A blonde toddler pointing at a model railroad in a lush garden, with a scale model of the Fallingwater house, probably yelling OOOOOOOOHHHHH
A man and his tween granddaughter approach a shiny silver pill shaped airstream camper
Caterpillar frass blanketing a sidewalk in a development under an oak tree with many denuded leaves
The teeny tiniest tube of toothpaste
People clustered around a verticslly hung sheet in the woods at night. The sheet has the words Insect Survey printed across the top. There is an eery bright light on a tripod illuminating the sheet.
Sand colored roller shades on big windows in a craft room.
A fuzzy deep orange moth with its wings in a flat triangle. It had broad stripes on its wings with a speckles orange red orange ombré vibe and a bright white spots in the middle of each wing.