Celiantha imthurniana, another Gentianaceae plant endemic to the tepuis of the Guiana Highland. (Mt. Roraima, Venezuela)

Literally every native bee species in the US is in decline and they’re parading European pests around 😭

Epidendrum ulei, probably the most abundant orchid on the summit of Mount Roraima. It can grow both in bogs or on rocks, and can be over one metre tall. #floraofvenezuela #epidendrum #roraima #委内瑞拉植物 #罗赖马山 #树兰

Le cordon bleu à joues rouges (Uraeginthus bengalus) est granivore, mais il lui arrive aussi de manger de la cire d'abeille ! 🐝 Et ce n'est pas le seul dans ce cas, beaucoup de petits passereaux africains picorent de la cire d'abeille de temps en temps... 📸Plantchaser

All of the #Scientology buildings on Hollywood Blvd. are locked down and they even took off the door handles. TikTok children did in a week what 30 years worth of books and documentaries couldn’t.

Literally this. I just want forests back. We are clearing paradises for slop. 🙃 It’s reverse progress…

Un membre de mon Discord rappelle la loi Hadopi : si ton WiFi est utilisé pour pirater Rihanna, c'est toi le responsable. Mais, si l'ANTS se fait pwnded par un gamin de 15 ans, personne n'est responsable sauf le gamin.

1/ I had a spectacular showing recently of several of my plants of this undescribed ​Bulbophyllum species from section Oxysepala*. This limply pendulous growing epiphyte is found in the lower montane forest of New Guinea (1600-1900m). Plants root at the base and new pseudobulbs,

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta) in 2010. Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Academia needs more people like Santiago Ramón y Cajal #AcademicChatter

The third Gentianaceae shrub I saw on Mount Roraima: Rogersonanthus quelchii. 奎尔奇鳞瑶木

destroying ecosystems because you’re too lazy to make your own grocery list or can’t draw

There you are, at last. I've waited 35 years to find myself in Sicily at the right time of the flowering season to meet Ophrys lacaitae. And it was worth the wait. What an outstanding plant to share with my Mariposa Nature Tours guests. 💛

What do shrimp see? “These guys have completely different eye designs,” according to Dr. Jan Hemmi, a visual neurobiologist. Their large eye size tells Dr. Hemmi and his colleagues that eyes are pretty important to these animals. #designingthefuture3

Republican efforts to extinguish the last remaining bison (currently at 0.1% of their former numbers) are truly a crime against America. You literally could not make it up. How any American stands by this is beyond comprehension. Shame on Governor Greg Gianforte thetimes.com/article/25b3d3…

Half the world’s mangrove ecosystems are now at risk of collapse, and rising seas are the main reason. This is the first global Red List of Ecosystems assessment of an entire ecosystem group. Mangroves cover about 150,000 square kilometres of coastline, around 15% of the world’s

I mean fuckin yeah, duh. That’s still a functional habitat for wildlife and pollinators. “If we simply remove all the negatives about datacenters then people won’t say negative things about them!” Do you people hear yourselves?

Reminder: This frog is worth more than the life of a billionaire.

Gorgeous Ophrys calliantha yesterday, seen in their hundreds here in Sicily with my Mariposa Nature Tours group. Rather reminiscent of the Ophrys candica of Rhodes.

Absurdité qui évite de laisser filer ses données génétiques dans la nature. Aux mains de hackers dans le pire des cas. Ou d’un assureur qui aura racheté le fichier et qui refusera de vous assurer dans 20 ans car vous avez un gène à risque.