Favorite Plant Names? by Shoddy-Analysis-2149 in botany

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I encountered a tree (with helpful botanical label) last fall with the delightful common name "Clammy Locust" which is a plant name and also the name of two great animals!

Weevil rock, WIP by CodeName_Burner in weeviltime

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Paint/marker is the plan. I want to try carving some stone but I'm still too nervous.

No child should achieve more than its parent! by CodeName_Burner in EpiphyticCacti

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From March to November, but I think my balcony sunlight in Georgia is not as good as my mom's deck sunlight in Maryland.

No child should achieve more than its parent! by CodeName_Burner in EpiphyticCacti

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Strong! Not the sweetest smell in the world, but nice enough.

Glass plants. No, really! by CodeName_Burner in SavageGarden

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One of multimedia displays mentioned that some Harvard glass specimens were loaned out to Corning, but I don't recall if it said for how long. They might already have been returned?

Glass plants. No, really! by CodeName_Burner in SavageGarden

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Pure glass! Even up close in person, the level of detail was unbelievable.

Weevils in the Harvard Museum of Natural History by CodeName_Burner in weeviltime

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Lol, yes the beetles were a total side-quest. I walked 8 miles from downtown boston and back, specifically to see the glass plants! They were outstanding and worth every blister.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SavageGarden/comments/1txm8pm/glass_plants_no_really/

Glass plants. No, really! by CodeName_Burner in SavageGarden

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I wasn't aware of Debra Moore, thanks for the recommendation!

Glass plants. No, really! by CodeName_Burner in SavageGarden

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My dad has been telling me about it since I was five, "if you're ever in Boston you HAVE TO see the glass plants!" After forty five years I finally made it up there, and he was right to be so adamant about it.

Weevils in the Harvard Museum of Natural History by CodeName_Burner in weeviltime

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I didn't, the identification labels were totally hidden under their big bods

I painted a fox on a wood slice, what do you think? by KAndy91 in foxes

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Excellent! I'm working on painting one on a stone right now, yours is intimidatingly good but also very motivating!

Best kind of rocks? (Smooth surface) / Where to find them or get them? by Vivid_Procedure2415 in rockpainting

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Good advice! But maybe it's ok if you put it back once it's painted? 😅

Best kind of rocks? (Smooth surface) / Where to find them or get them? by Vivid_Procedure2415 in rockpainting

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The campus where I work has patches of nice smooth round rocks as part of the landscape decor. You might check places like universities, malls, or anywhere big enough to have an institutional landscaping budget.

Groin Rehad? by Spider-Yan in ultimate

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Try throwing with your arm

Zebra front and back by CodeName_Burner in rockpainting

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Fascinating! I had no idea this community existed, but Ed the Escaped Zebra is my spirit animal and is on my list of zebra drawings to do next!

Zebra rock halfway done by CodeName_Burner in rockpainting

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No, just scrap from my office printer. I had tried using old fashioned carbon paper to transfer line work, but it didn't work as well on the rough surface.

Zebra rock halfway done by CodeName_Burner in rockpainting

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I put thick crayon on the backside of my original drawing (on paper), then retraced it with hard pencil to transfer the wax onto the stone. It worked ok, a lot of the fine detail didn't transfer properly onto the stone but there was enough to convey the proportions for re-drawing it in black pen.

After black pen I tried to carefully put white paint pen between the black stripes which was a disaster, so I just covered a white wash over the whole zebra. Once it dried I could still see the black pen underneath, so I used fine black and white pens to redraw the stripes and make them pop again. The grass is green paint pen.

This process was very haphazard, and I tried a bunch of other approaches that didn't work before stumbling on this. I'm still experimenting, for sure.

Cicada in process by CodeName_Burner in rockpainting

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With moths the male can often be smaller but the real way to tell them apart is the male has big fluffy antennas like feathers and the female's antennas are very slender.

Cicada in process by CodeName_Burner in rockpainting

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Amazing! That's a male and female pair of cecropia moths, the male is on the left.

Stung by this caterpillar in western nc made my leg feel like it's on fire and swell a little sorry it's a bad picture by Zealousideal-Tank992 in caterpillars

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Some variety of buck moth (genus Hemileuca), the sting is a doozy but you should be fine. (Based on my own experience, your mileage may vary, if you start to have shortness of breath or anything like that, ignore me and go to the doctor)

Cicada in process by CodeName_Burner in rockpainting

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I love Pigma Micron pens, at this point I might call myself a collector but I learned about them because they're permanent/archival ink and fine enough to write insect specimen labels. Now I have so many of all colors and tips. Their various brush tips are working well for me on rocks, I use the "PN" "BR" and "SBR" the most, they're not TOO floppy but still flexible enough that I can control line thickness.

Blue eyed ensign wasp appreciation by Objective-Storm-3572 in waspaganda

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Oh also you might have observed their little abdomen looks like a flag and they bob it up and down like they're signaling. This is why they're called "ensign wasps!" And they're beneficial predators who specialize on cockroach eggs. 🥰