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natures-bounty:

Blue… A beautiful sight for a Friday. - Imgur

Blue morpho butterflies

My stance on leps is well known, but I would love to turn a corner and see these guys.

shaunwalton:

A pair of dung beetles pushing a ball of rhino dung. After they find a safe place to bury the ball they’ll mate and then the female will prepare the brood ball in which she’ll lay a single egg. The male goes on to find more dung from which he’ll create another ball in the hopes of being selected by another female. Males that create the biggest balls are in highest demand:) 

Dung beetles! The best kind of beetles. The imagery of the Ancient Egyptians believing that the sun was like a ball of dung pushed across the sky by a giant beetle is awesome.

sunsetboulvard1967:

awesomely twisted…

rgin8r:

Iridescent Party by NatashaP on Flickr.

jtotheizzoe:

crookedindifference:

The Most Astounding Fact by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.

When you take something great, like the musings of the mind of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, and combine it with something else great, like stunning images of life and wonder on and off of Earth … you get this.

It’s the sort of video that makes you prop your chin up in your hand, with your head tilted just so (yeah, like that), as you stare at your computer screen mumbling things like “Ahhh“ and “Wooahh” and other unintelligible noises that mean “I approve of this, and it makes me feel good.”

Watch it once, then twice, then with a friend.

It is because of this, because of science, that I get up in the mornings, go to school, sit in classrooms, stoop over lab benches, and dream of the day when I might get to make discoveries as privately amazing as this one.

atelierentomologica:

Advice from a caterpillar

Arthur Rackham illustration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1907

In honor of the various Alice in wonderland themed parties taking place this weekend to celebrate my best friend turning 21

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ilovecharts:

The Doghouse Diaries is another favorite web comic of mine. This is their latest charty goodness.

Oh how I wish I weren’t guilty of the things on this chart.

camplr:

I never knew the emerald ash borer was so sparkly. What a neat looking little devastator.

Agrilus planipennisor as a grad student I know from the southern states calls it EAB. It’s not a nice beetle, despite it’s shiny-ness. 

jtotheizzoe:

The Periodic Table of Elephants via BigIce

I find this more entertaining than is probably healthy.