Ryan Geyer

@ryan.geyer.dev

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๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Staff Software Engineer doing cool frontend stuff at https://waymark.com ๐Ÿ‘ฐ My partner runs an awesome queer bridal salon https://newunions.love ๐Ÿ Native plant/bee lover โ˜• Coffee nerd ๐Ÿ€ #Pistons fan ๐Ÿถ Dog father ๐Ÿ“ Metro Detroit ๐ŸŒ https://geyer.dev

A Red Milkweed Beetle on the leaf of a Blue Vervain plant. This is an under-sung insect which also relies on milkweed; it's not just for Monarch Butterflies! This beetle is a striking red color with black spots along its back. It has 6 legs and 2 long black antennae on the front of its head. It's hard to see in this picture, but these beetles actually have 1 eye above and 1 eye below each antenna for a total of 4 which is kinda neat!
A close-up shot of a bumblebee on a purple coneflower
A really cool butterfly, I believe a red admiral. It is predominantly brown with some tufts of hair on its body and really cool antennae which have a sort of black and white striped pattern with yellow dots on the end. Its wings are orange, black, and white, but they are closed up so only the underside is visible which has an incredibly cool pattern that looks just like wood bark, serving as really effective camouflage.
A monarch butterfly on swamp milkweed flowers. Monarchs' bodies are black with white spots, and their wings are orange with black lines running through them and more of the black and white spotted pattern along the edges. A really beautiful endangered butterfly which we can all help by planting milkweed, the only type of plant which their caterpillars can eat!
A sweat bee on an anise hyssop flower. This sweat bee has a shiny green head and thorax and a black and white striped abdomen. Its hind legs are loaded up with big yellow globs of pollen.
A bumblebee starting to climb into a Hairy Beardtongue (penstemon hirsutus) flower. These pink flowers are long and tubular so bees have to climb all the way inside of them to get to their nectar. This plant is also very fuzzy with little hairs all over its stem, leaves, and flowers. Hence the "hairy" part of its common name!
My dog Harrison lying on a fluffy blanket in his favorite chair by the living room window. He is looking up at me like he thinks he's going to get something. He is a coonhound/terrier mix we got from a rescue, a very unique looking dog. He has a primarily white body with lots of little black spots, and his head is primarily black with brown markings on his eyebrows and cheeks. At 35 pounds, he's a little guy with a sleek skinny body and long skinny legs which allow him to run very fast despite being 10 years old. He loves going on walks more than anything on earth, as long as it's not raining.
A hardcover copy of the book "Native Plants of the Midwest: A Comprehensive Guide to the Best 500 Species for the Garden" by Alan Branhagen
A monarch butterfly caterpillar on the underside of a swamp milkweed leaf. Monarch caterpillars have black, white, and yellow stripes and have pairs of black tentacles on their head and rear. I say tentacles instead of antennae because apparently there is a meaningful difference; an antenna is considered to be stiff and rigid while a tentacle is more flexible and soft.
A plastic spice jar of Ac'cent "Flavor enhancer". The packaging calls out "60% less sodium than salt" and "Wakes up food flavor!"
A screenshot of my resume: "Worked on several high value projects as the sold developer, including: Executed on a full rebuild of the Waymark video editor UI from the ground up"
A Texas Leafcutter Bee on a Swamp Milkweed flower. These bees are very cool because they have unique black and white colors instead of the typical black and yellow. As you might be able to guess from the name, leafcutter bees cut little bits off of plant leaves to build their nests with.
A bumblebee (I believe a female Brown-Belted Bumblebee to be specific?) on a purple coneflower. The bee has a fuzzy yellow mane around its shoulders and back, and a brown-ish patch on its back which is why I think it's a Brown-Belted Bumblebee. The bee has a big grayish-yellow pollen sac on its hind leg. Usually they look more bright yellow/orange, but I don't think it could be anything else. Some bee species' females have "pollen baskets" on their hind legs which pollen accumulates in as they go from flower to flower. The photo is an extreme close-up which reveals a lot of detail; you can see little yellow specs of pollen on the flower and on the bee's face. Very proud of this one.
A common eastern firefly on a common milkweed leaf. It has a red head and an elongated body. Its wings are black with yellow all around the edges. Fireflies (or as I usually call them when I'm not overthinking it, "lightning bugs") are awesome, they've been really lighting up our yard this summer. Their population is in decline but you can help! They rely on having leaf litter to hibernate under through the winter and spring, so if you want to help them out, leave some leaves for them!
A Large Milkweed Bug on a swamp milkweed leaf. It has a black head with a small red spot between its eyes. It has 6 legs and two long black antennae. Its back is red with 4 black spots, one in each cardinal direction, leaving the appearance of a red X in the negative space between them. Not to be confused with milkweed beetles, which also eat milkweed and are red with black spots but are definitely different.
A close-up shot of a ladybug larva on the leaf of a common milkweed. Ladybug larvae are a little scary looking. It has a very spiny elongated black body with red markings on either side of its back. They don't have the iconic hard shell or wings of a ladybug at all yet; that will come after it goes through a pupal stage and re-emerges in the much cuter adult form we all know and love.
An Eight-Spotted Forester moth. This is a very cool looking moth. It has a black body with orange tufts on its legs and yellow spots on what I guess I would call its shoulders? Its wings are all black with 2 white spots on each. It's not visible here but they have an additional set of inner wings which also have 2 spots each, bringing us to the eight spots in the name!
A red-banded leafhopper on the leaf of a purple coneflower. This is a small but very colorful insect, with a yellow body and incredibly vibrant blue and red stripes on its wings.
A macro shot of a Sunflower Maggot Fly sitting on the leaf of a Sunchoke. I know, "Maggot Fly" does not sound appealing, but it's a very striking looking insect. It has a bright yellow body with ruby red eyes, and its wings are transparent with cool wavy brown bands running through them. They use plants in the sunflower family as hosts for their larvae who feed on the flower's stems, but it's pretty harmless to the plant.
A custom select input where the label for the current value shows a "T" icon, indicating a text layer, next to a truncated snippet of the layer's text content which says "This is m..."
A close up shot of a bee house filled with cut reeds which native bees can crawl inside to make nests in. A mason bee is poking its head out of one of the reeds.
A large 1 gallon jar filled with fermenting kombucha. A pellicle is beginning to form on the top (a floating layer of cellulose which is a by-product of the bacteria and yeast doing their thing)
A Titan Sphinx Moth approaching some pink flowers.
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A bathroom vanity with a mirror above it and a new light fixture above that. The light fixture is fairly simple: a circular base with an arm that extends to either side. The arm has 3 lights hanging down from it with narrow frosted glass shades over them.