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🇨🇦Nature nerd by the Salish Sea. Lichen enthusiast; nudibranchs, liverworts, tiny mushrooms, seaweed, plankton, authors and cats. Also amphibians! And invertebrates... (Note: any newt-handling photos are only to remove them from roads or other dangers.)
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Especially if you've never watched a sea anemone NOPE out of an interaction with a starfish: trust me, you want to watch this video.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

A frog, for making it through Monday! #frog #herps #fern

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Our resident #SalishSea Orcas, with another interesting behaviour, grooming each other with #kelp:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Really? (Song Thrush)" drypoint etching by contemporary printmaker Faith Chevannes #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A frog for those who need one. #herps #frogs #colocasia

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Awesome new faculty job -- the University of British Columbia is looking for a senior ecosystem scientist to fill a new research chair position. geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

An enormous lichen on a purple leaf plum tree. It was three handspans long! #lichen #fungifriends

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I'm fascinated by all the different porcupine quill-styles. I started out watching Nova Scotian porcupines, with short quills, whereas West Coast ones have long in front and short at the back. But all are same species! Is it based on different predators? Seasonality? I'm fascinated. #porcupine

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

My Mum's bearded Iris looking happy: bumblebee funrooms, complete with furry doormats.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Time to post more lichens. 1. Ramalina dilacerata 2. Tuckermanopsis platyphylla 3. Vulpicida canadensis 4. Ramalina farinacea (I believe) All near Spring Lake Road, 100 Mile House, BC. 🌿

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Kelps as "a natural answer to ocean acidification because they devour carbon dioxide. Sensors...have shown that growing seaweed changes water chemistry enough to lower the levels of carbon dioxide in the immediate vicinity, nourishing nearby molluscs." Hopeful! a reason to protect wild #kelp too!

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

"Somehow, these barnacles were able to share the same crab without conflict, both being able to successfully grow and reproduce, their rootlets intertwined with each other as they tickled the host's brain stem and absorb the crab's lifeblood in harmony." Pleasing, enlightening, beautifully written🦀

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This voyage would make an amazing children's picture book. I'm glad she's safe! Also, isn't her quill setup beautiful?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Nimble enough to hunt lemurs!

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Clouds being especially linear today, there were great long, wide rows of them stretching across the sky, gently brushed sideways by the wind. I wonder why? #clouds #SalishSea

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Delighted to be visited by a Pale Swallowtail (Papilio eurymedon) at work today! Usually I see Anise and Western Tiger Swallowtails: both lemon yellow with black stripes, but with different wing shapes. But pale ones are unusual! I love their fuzzy waistcoats. #butterflies #inverts #SalishSea

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Fuchsia 'Whiteknights Cheeky' looking peppy in its new planting. The cheerful little hot pink flowers are a hummingbird favorite, and the foliage will darken to a pleasing burgundy as the summer sun intensifies. #bloomscrolling #plantnerds #fuchsia

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Bee cathedral. I love the tummy-tickling pollen covered landing pad, as well. #iris #bloomscrolling

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

A noticeable number of Pacific Chorus frogs at work are flaunting copper and coral markings this year; they're very dapper (and yes I'd love to give them a bow tie). #herps #frogs #SalishSea

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments