Not sure if there is already a topic/thread for something like this, so I thought I’d make one. Any cool, or straight up random nature stories and encounters that you, or someone you know may have had can be posted here if you feel like it! My most recent one- When you take photos of some really …

I did not even knew about it’s existence, I wonder if they are like cuckoo bees, eating the bee larva’s food until starving the host or they directly kill the host. But now I learned sonething new today! And it seems your garden is a very interesting place too btw.

What?! I recently had that thing too. A month ago, in my trip to West Mexico I stayed in Zacatecas for a weekend in a house in a rural area. So all around the place there were acorn woodpeckers, they were surprisingly abundant and I instantly fell in love with them, they are so cute and colorful, an…

Last Tuesday, I visited Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, where I was licked by a hoverfly and licked and stung by a plasterer bee (accidentally pinched her shifting my fingers). I passed through the same area yesterday and stopped for more pictures among the endless fields of Verbesina, Erica…

Was checking to see if there was a thread for little nature stories like this: there was , but it’s been closed, so maybe if someone could reopen it and add this in. I left a bit of a loose end in the What are some nature related nicknames you’ve come up with? thread. In a response, I mentioned a li…

so that is why our invasive pines go up like torches, when they do catch fire. Frightening to see the highest ones, burn and tumble down the mountain, setting the next ledge on fire as you watch in silent horror.

I am so happy that my previous comment resulted in this new thread and such a useful one! I also struggle with conifers.

Beautiful creature! As for risk… I’m not so sure given the time of year that they’d be looking for blood. (He says, observing from his car with his zoom lens.)

Last week, I was trying – not very sucessfully – to get some photos at a lake in one of the area wildlife refuges. (Unsucessfully, because the Canada Geese had chased all the other birds off the water.) I packed up my gear, but as I was leaving, I walked within 2 meters (more like one-and-a half, re…

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