Aside from bees and butterflies, bats are
one of the most important pollinators on the planet – especially in
tropical and desert regions. (Source)
Author: briery
26/f
Bats pollinating flowers.
“I’m perfectly prepared to believe that the world is not only more
complicated than we know but than it is ever possible for us to know,
simply because we are limited as human beings by the capacities of our
sense organs. There could be incredible visual phenomena actually
occurring in this room right now which you and I simply can’t see—no
doubt they are occurring—because our retinas are only capable of
responding to a very short portion of the spectrum of light. The room
could be filled with angels, you know, dancing nude—and we wouldn’t know
it.”
Reynolds Price, from Conversations with Reynolds Price, ed. Jefferson Humpheries (University Press of Mississippi, 1991)
That’s a Tomato Hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata). Its definitely carrying eggs just not its eggs, those are the eggs of a Braconid Wasp (Braconidae) that has laid her eggs inside the caterpillar.
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry, from “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,” from The Country of Marriage (Harcourt, 1973)
Carnivorous caterpillars,
Eupithecia orichloris (video) NatGeoWild
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
Pema Chodron
“Anxious times.” The velveteen rabbit. 1922. Sir William Nicholson, illus.
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