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Springwater Dancer female I think. Argia funebris - these ones are hard to identify, iNaturalist's AI is useless on female damselflies in genera. I used Abbott's Damselflies of Texas, Argia funebris seems likely.
A brown and tan female damselfly.

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Ceraunus Blue - I usually find Reakirt's Blue's out there, always nice to find a different species of blue/Polyommatinae..

#nature #wildlife #insects

A butterfly in the blue subfamily (Polyommatinae), the notable eye spots for identifying this one vs. Reakirt's are on the forewing where there's no eye spots in this species.
#nature #insects #wildlife

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Carolina Wren - they seem like dinosaurs to me though I still think they're lovely.
A chestnut brown wren, lovely.

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Female Eastern Amberwing - found this one on Lake Creek Trail. The males have amber wings, the females these splotchy ones.

#insects #nature #dragonflies #odonata #wildlife

An orange and brown dragonfly with splotchy wings. This is a smaller species.
#nature #insects #wildlife #dragonflies #odonata

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DeepDive: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill means Canada falls further behind in the race to attract top talent byteseu.com/1214170/ #Canada
DeepDive: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill means Canada falls further behind in the race to attract top talent

DeepDive: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill means Canada falls further behind in the race to attract top talent

DeepDives is a bi-weekly essay series exploring key issues related to the economy. The goal of the series is to provide Hub readers with original analysis of
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#canada

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Eastern Pondhawk young male transitioning. You can see the blue beginning to spread, they'll go all blue and lose the stripes as full adults.
A green, blue, and black dragonfly.

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Mexican Cactus Fly (Copestylum mexicanum) - interesting looking fly
A large fly, their wings have a dark base, orange middle, and clear tip. They're a type of Bromeliad fly.
A large fly, their wings have a dark base, orange middle, and clear tip. They're a type of Bromeliad fly.

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Four-speckled Hover Fly (Dioprosopa clavata) - nice when they land and you can get an identification.

#nature #inaturalist #insects #wildlife

A hover fly pollinating a flower.
A hover fly pollinating a flower.
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This White-thoated Honeyeater was very busy flitting from branch to branch looking for lerps and other tasty morsels.
A small bird with black head, olive wings and tail, and white throat, belly and rump hanging upside down from a spray of eucalyptus leaves. It has lifted its head up to look to the right of frame.

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Today's #MothOfTheDay is

SMALL BLOOD VEIN
Scopula imitaria

Common in the south of UK, its larvae feed on privet.

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext #NationalMothWeek

Overhead shot of a small, flat, 1.5cm moth on a wooden outdoors table. Its wings are outstretched like a butterfly. It is a creamy beige colour with a distinctive thickish blood red line running horizontally across its wings, like a vein. Close to the centre and just below the red line, there is some pink-red suffusion, and to either side of this patch are two black dots. Below the line, there is a secondary, wavy, much thinner pink line following the same horizontal path across the wings. It has a tiny head with two black pinhead eyes and two thin wiry antennae.
#nature #lepidoptera #butterflies #wildlife #cute #biodiversity #entomology #insect #garden #summer #conservation #alttext #moth #britishwildlife #moths #NationalMothWeek #mothsmatter #mothsandbutterflies #mothoftheday
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Grey Fantail, Poverty Point, Cooloola
Small grey and buff bird on a stick

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Zerene Fritillary, Argynnis zerene, resting on some grass at Iwetemlaykin

#butterflies #lepidoptera

A vibrant orange and black butterfly with white spots on its hindwings rests on the seed head of a stalk of grass. The color brown, dry grass fills the blurry background
#lepidoptera #butterflies

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Australia to hold four 32 GW of tenders by 2030 – pv magazine International byteseu.com/1214168/ #Australia
Australia to hold four 32 GW of tenders by 2030 – pv magazine International

Australia to hold four 32 GW of tenders by 2030 – pv magazine International

The Australian government says it will open four new Capacity Investment Scheme tenders before the end of the year as it seeks to deliver on its objective of
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I found a Scarlet Lichen Moth this morning. Such a gorgeous moth.

#nature #wildlife #moth #Lepidoptera

Photo of a cool red moth with brown stripes, stripes legs - a fancy moth
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Nog een uur voordat mijn @frameworkcomputer 12 wordt geleverd. Het pakker lag al sinds vrijdagochtend in een distributiecentrum op Schiphol.
@Framework
in reply to Gina

Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉
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Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉
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de enige reden dat ik een (toen)* 13 jaar oude laptop wegdeed was dat er waarschijnlijk een verkeerde vervangings accu in zat en ik geen idee over t origineel had. (En er €150 verschil zat met een nieuw licht basismodel dat ongetwijfeld ook weer vele jaren mee kon, want zo vaak gebruik ik geen laptop meer)

Die ouwe was inderdaad een tuintegel!
(Zowel in dikte als gewicht.. 😂)

* Nu 15-16 jaar

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UN OHCA: Gaza is now at IPC Phase 5 of famine, final stage
In a matter of days, not weeks, roughly 470,000 people will begin suffering organ failure, brain injury, and sudden cardiac death. Another 1 million are at phase 4. For children, this damage is already permanent. Even if they survive this, they will be permanently damaged for the rest of their lives.

I am only tagging this under #Gaza because it is not a political issue.


Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov't is starving People in Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Israeli military has destroyed most of the cropland in Gaza and won't let Palestinians …
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#Gaza

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The Minivan of the Future Is Here to Dethrone the SUV
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a65428973/renault-embleme-minivan/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The Minivan of the Future Is Here to Dethrone the SUV

French automaker Renault is hoping the coolest car on the street is their new minivan concept, Emblème.
Matt Crisara (Popular Mechanics)
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Curran, Raza return to Zimbabwe squad for New Zealand Tests byteseu.com/1214166/ #NewZealand
Curran, Raza return to Zimbabwe squad for New Zealand Tests

Curran, Raza return to Zimbabwe squad for New Zealand Tests

Ben Curran has recovered from a fractured hand sustained in a warm-up match against South Africa in Arundel and has been named in Zimbabwe's 16-player squad
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"The price for being an adult on Bluesky is corporate surveillance, at least in the UK, on a fortnight's notice. This has very little to do, in theory or practice, with protecting children from harm online, and everything about protecting Bluesky and Epic's bottom lines."

#OSA #ukpol #bluesky

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Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law

Opinion: Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain
Rupert Goodwins (The Register)
#ukpol #bluesky #osa

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Bembecia ichneumoniformis, six-belted clearwing, which I only noticed because I thought it was an interesting looking wasp. Maidstone.
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