smithsonianlibraries: It’s pollinator week! DYK that around 75% of flowering plants need a little animal help to get their pollen grains from flower to flower? And it’s not all insects - birds, bats, and small mammals play a key role as well. Image

smithsonianlibraries: It’s pollinator week! DYK that around 75% of flowering plants need a little animal help to get their pollen grains from flower to flower? And it’s not all insects - birds, bats, and small mammals play a key role as well. Image

Smithsonianlibraries: Bats Are Pollinators Too, You Know. Pteropus Samoensis Or Samoan Flying Fox. Illustration By Titian Peale, From John Cassin’s Mammalogy And Ornithology. Atlas (1858) From Eol.org: All Flying Foxes Of The Genus Pteropus Play

Smithsonianlibraries: Happy Summer Solstice! This Work From The Dibner Library Of The History Of Science And Technology, Celestial Scenery, Or, The Wonders Of The Planetary System Displayed (1845) Was Written By Thomas Dick, A Scottish Minister And

Nubbsgalore: Fireflies In Timelapse, Photos By (Click Pic) Vincent Brady, Takehito Miyatake, Tsuneaki Hiramatsu And Spencer Black

Samcannon: Fireflies In The Meadow.

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Steelromanticism: Witches Going To Their Sabbath (1878), By Luis Ricardo Falero.

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Ancientart: &Amp;Ldquo;They Take First A Crooked Piece Of Iron, And With It Draw Out The Brain Through The Nostrils, Thus Getting Rid Of A Portion, While The Skull Is Cleared Of The Rest By Rinsing With Drugs; Next They Make A Cut Along The Flank With A

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Kriptodepresija: I Sat Staring, Staring, Staring - Half Lost, Learning A New Language Or Rather The Same Language In A Different Dialect. So Still Were The Big Woods Where I Sat, Sound Might Not Yet Have Been Born. Emily Carr

Occultartistscollective: Subgrammar 2 By Circleart

Laurajaworski: (Via Pin By Laura Jaworski On Incredible Universe | Pinterest)

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