PHP dev, sometimes pixel artist. Also takes pictures of bugs and birds to see what they look like up close.
Thank you so much!
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Thank you! A proper camera (R7) with a 85mm lens :) I know some people manage great macro with their phones, but I couldn’t have gotten close enough with a phone, the bees hurried back into their tunnels whenever I got near.
You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.
I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!
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Amazing scene! That must have been great to watch. Less so to hear!
A handsome boi!
Thank you, I love it!
So mossy. It’s beautiful!
The spiny flower mantis is gorgeous. It looks more like a piece of fantasy art than a real insect. Surreal.
Also, is your link possibly wrong on the “like this”?
Oh my god, thank you for that video, it’s fantastic. She’s so cute! I never saw a real mantis and this is fascinating.
… According to observations.be, they are present (albeit very rare) in Belgium, so I guess you’ve started me on a new life quest. 📸
Everyone needs to head to that mastodon account because there is a whole series of amazingly adorable photo to pixel pieces!
The dots aren’t following you around :) They’re called pseudopupils. You’re seeing down the “tubes” (ommatidia) of the composite eyes (heavy oversimplification because I’m no scientist).
A smarter person explains this here: https://www.readingeagle.com/2015/09/16/outside-some-insects-look-like-theyre-looking-at-you-but-are-they
“Did they see me? Naaah. I am perfectly hidden behind this tall grass!”
Such a beautiful area. I love that golden light.
That spider must be quite pleased. That catch is almost as big as it is.
I saw php error logs cause a full disk in a few minutes (thankfully on a shared dev server), thanks to an accidental endless loop that just flooded everything with a wall of notices…
And, working with a CMS that allows third-party plugins that don’t bother to catch exceptions, aggressive web crawlers are not a good thing to encounter on a weekend… 1 exception x 400000 product pages makes for a loooot of text.
Thanks! I’ve been using observations.be (obsidentify) which usually gives great results. I’ll take a peek at iNaturalist :)
It is!