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The whole growth spectrum in one shot 😂
Common birds nest fungi ( Crucibulum laeve) 😊
#fridaymorning #fungi #fungifriday #autumn #nature #naturephotography #macro
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Every use of a leaf blower is a massacre.
A typical blower pushes air out at 150 to 200 mph. That's faster than a Category 5 hurricane, aimed straight at the layer of leaves where next year's butterflies, moths, and fireflies are hoping to spend the winter.
Woolly bear caterpillars curl up under those leaves. Luna moths hide their cocoons in them, disguised as dead leaves. Fireflies lay their eggs in them. Bumblebee queens sleep an inch or two below. Blast the beds down to bare dirt and all of it gets scattered, exposed or bagged for the landfill.
Flip it to vacuum mode and it's even worse. It sucks up whatever's in the leaves, insects and spiders included, and chops it up.
In 2019, Germany's environment ministry told people not to use leaf blowers unless they're indispensable, because small animals get sucked in or blown around and damaged.
Get a rake. Move the leaves off the lawn and driveway, pile them whole in your garden beds and under your trees, and leave them there until spring.
Next year's bumblebees and fireflies will thank you.
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Honey mushrooms!!
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Monarch butterflies have been denied Endangered Species Act protection until 2030.
They were supposed to be listed as threatened last December. The Trump administration never finalized it. After conservation groups sued, the Fish and Wildlife Service agreed this week to a final decision by June 6, 2030.
Eastern monarchs covered just 7.24 acres of forest in Mexico last winter. That was a good year, up 64%. They still need about 15 acres to be safe from collapse, and they covered nearly 45 in the late '90s.
Western monarchs are down more than 95% since the 1980s. Only 12,260 were counted last winter.
A federal assessment gave eastern monarchs up to a 74% chance of going extinct in the next 60 years. Western monarchs: up to 99%.
Scientists first asked for protection in 2014. By the deadline, monarchs will have waited 16 years.
"compulsions disguised as personality" is SO true bc it wasn't until lots of therapy that I realized that certain things I thought were just me were literally compulsions. but thanks to my therapist and certain amazing friends who help me to discern what's a compulsion
This is painfully true. Recovering from dysautonomia and it's related issues, as well as mental struggles like OCD seems to benefit from dropping any part of your identity associated to being sick forever
This is less likely to happen if you are in groups that confirm that you WILL be sick forever, which give you a weird kind of solace. "I might not have the life I wanted, but at least I have this / them" kind of thing
That being said, it also seems to be part of the recovery journey to not believe anything I just said and do all of this anyways (as I did)
Some people are stuck in that hole forever, clinging to some rigid "way" of "getting out" that consistently fails to yield results
In the case of something like OCD, it is "everywhere" within you, especially if you were diagnosed late. You've developed entire personality traits that aren't truly yours, they're compulsions disguised as personality
Those with the gift of desperation - as in, it got so bad you considered EVERY option for getting rid of it, including getting rid of yourself - are usually the ones who can persist through the changes required to recover
Usually there is one obvious door to open, but once opened it becomes clear that the door hid three other quite significant doors to open yet still, and once those are opened there are many more subtle doors that lay beyond them
This is why recovering from these types of complex dis-orders requires attacking them from every angle available to us - beliefs, identity, thoughts, nutrition, hydration, supplementation, exercise, sunlight, sleep hygiene, evidence-based therapeutic remedies, medication, etc.
Eventually the identity of "the recovered" must also be dropped as we remember that there was a time before all of this where we simply lived
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and what's not but also it's nice to talk it out sometimes because especially with contam ocd there's a lot of difficult gray area of like what is normal hygiene and is reasonable and what isn't. but yeah it's a weird thing having illnesses that you know you have forever
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