Hello everyone!
I’m interested in seeing your nature themed collections. Whether this be books, field guides, equipment, bones, or other specimens. I have a decent collection of stuff, I have these books and then I have a collection of stuff I found at the beach. I also have a collection of seed pods and planty stuff like that.
I love collecting stuff. My plant collection includes-
four American sweetgum seed pods
a honey locust seed pod
two American beech seed pods (with beech nuts)
two empress tree seed pods and a bag full of the seeds (which I will never plant)
What a cool collection, where on earth do you get a human hand? I was most taken with the Rattlesnake though. I wondered if you could line up that picture so that Michaelangelo’s finger of God was pointing at the snake’s fang.
My uncle used to be a science teacher, one of the parents gave him a box of (mostly human) bones she got at her job with the local university. So I think it was sourced ethically?
Oh! This is the thread for me! I love field guides, and generally read more books about nature. Although I have books on a variety of topics, I think you’ll be able to tell what my main interest is! They’re all sort of topically organized.
Sorry if it’s a lot of photos!
I have a lot of books as well, mainly on fungi, but my pride and joy has to be my skull shelf. I also have a few diaries of feathers and flowers I have found, along with hundreds of belemnites, crinoids and other fossils I fished out of a drainage channel with my dad when I was younger. If I had more space I would love to start my own personal fungarium too.
I don’t have any of my books and field guides with me right now, but hopefully my rock collection will suffice. I’ve had a few additions since this photo was taken, but this is the majority of them :)
I have most of the audubon field guides too! they were given to me by my grandma :) you have a few that I don’t have yet though, I need to finish my collection
I’ve been collecting fossils for about fifty years. Mostly insects. I had to stop because I just don’t have the space anymore… Here are a few insects from the Oligocene Renova Formation of Montana.
I don’t collect as many seashells as I used to, but these are the ones I have. I generally try to avoid collecting a lot of snail shells (they can be used by hermit crabs), but I do have quite a few different species of bivalve.
About 5 and a half years. A lot of the stuff I get I find dead (or dying) on my back patio from the pest guy that sprays the exterior of the house every month. There’s a lot of cool bugs that visit patios!
I have a massive interest in mineralogy and used to post my collection regularly on my Instagram @kanes.collect. Ive since paused on investing in an online presence there but here are a few of my favorite pieces
Copper pseudomorph after azurite from the Copper Rose Mine in Grant Co., New Mexico
I have 2 closets full of boxes of rocks, minerals, fossils, and some gems and shells. Thankfully iNaturalist and related studies has steered me away from acquisition based interests aside from the occasional feild guides and textbooks - which Ill share some of later this week when I’m packing to move.
Also, not sure if we’d count tattoos as a part of our nature collections but my first tattoo was a Luna moth in a lightbulb between my shoulders.
Oh, what a great topic. My ‘nature collection’ is buried in the ground, and most of them are just beginning to show leaf tips (except for the crocuses, reticulated irises, scillas and cyclamens). And in a couple of months, it’ll all be gone, and until next year, all that’ll remain are photographs and bulbs in the ground. Some of them were sprouted from seeds, others were purchased, and still others serve as souvenirs of travels.
P.S. I also have a box somewhere with fossilized shark teeth, pieces of petrified wood, some rock imprints, and shells. But with age, I realize that living things are better.
I love this! What wonderful sentiments! Please come back with pictures when they are in bloom!!!
Along these lines, I think my collection is the native plants I’ve planted around my house to attract more native insect species. The bees and damselflies and wasps and butterflies and what not are what really give me joy, but I’m not sure if they can count as a collection.
Sorry to post more! I completely forgot to share the other side of my collecting! I also collect leaves. It started as a college project, and I’ve recently made some changes to the formatting of the display. I’m still working on some proper drying techniques. Sometimes the leaves get a bit splotchy.
I welcome any feedback on formatting of the leaves or the cards!
