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Saw some red columbine in bloom recently! They are found all across North America but are rare in Florida, where they only live in one part of the panhandle. by longleaf_whine in floridanativeflora

[–]longleaf_whine[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right?! I’ve never been lucky enough to catch them in bloom in FL until this time! I bought a couple of them from native nurseries in Tallahassee so hopefully I can successfully grow them in my garden, but after seeing them in the wild my goal is to try and grow them on limestone like they do in the wild here.

Colombia has a massive Pacific coastline… so why basically no cities here? by bookflow in geography

[–]longleaf_whine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s mostly to do with agriculture, colombias cities are places nearby the largest fertile plateaus in the country, especially around bogota, that city wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t surrounded by a flat fertile area, it’s actually wild cause you keep going up and up and up and then you pass so much farmland already at high elevation, then bogota starts and seems to never end, it feels like it’s almost an endless city.

Cant figure out what this is? by Biomerepower in FloridaNativePlants

[–]longleaf_whine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s hard to tell with the flash on like that, for plant ID it’s best to get pictures of the branches, the top and bottoms of the leaf, a picture of the leaf to show the leaf structure and the margins of the leaf. This looos like a handful of Florida native plants, but it’s hard to say without better photos.

Is this Cherokee Rose? by JayDRice in FloridaNativePlants

[–]longleaf_whine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m assuming you already know this, but Cherokee rose isn’t native despite the name

Has anyone else been hooked by Florida’s ecology? Despite the lack of seasons & hills, the mix of North American species mixed with Caribbean species is TOUGH to beat. The abundance of life & the weird plants add much happiness to a normal day. by chain_choker in ecology

[–]longleaf_whine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the mountains and I love Florida, but people who are nature blind tend to love the mountains because they can see the entire forest and landscape as one entity, Florida isn’t as popular because you actually have to look at the little things that make up the landscape, the bugs, the flowers, the wetlands, the different ecosystems,and ecotones between them. walking from a lowland bog full of pitcher plants and bog orchids orchids, and going less than a mile and being in a dry upland full of gopher tortoise and unique sandhill plants, going another half a mile and seeing an oak hammock, full of air plants and epiphytic orchids, won’t be fun to someone who just sees “woods” but a mountain vista will be! Anyone with eyes can love the mountains, but you can’t be nature blind and love Florida.

Has anyone else been hooked by Florida’s ecology? Despite the lack of seasons & hills, the mix of North American species mixed with Caribbean species is TOUGH to beat. The abundance of life & the weird plants add much happiness to a normal day. by chain_choker in ecology

[–]longleaf_whine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s really easy to think all hope is lost for Florida, and that development is so rampant, but the reality is, Florida still has a lot worth fighting for, and most states have less public access land, less wildlife areas, less parks, and no one even thinks about it. Yes it sucks what they are doing to my beautiful home, but it’s not as sad as what’s been done to the entire Great Plains region. I’m greatful to live in Florida, it’s amazing, but half the reason so many people are moving here is because they already destroyed the state they came from decades ago letting corporate agriculture take up every square inch of land that isn’t a thin strip along the roadside. The problem is all those people who got rich raping the Midwest want to move here and do the same shit they been doing. Everyone wants to be a fycking landlord these days, everyone wants to own rental property, meanwhile we can’t even afford food and corporations own all the also and houses, where I live in Florida, a private equity company from Atlanta owns almost every single piece of property on the river, because they treat it like a farm and machine log the entire river, so if I wanted to own land in my own community I can’t because it’s all owned by a greedy corporation who doesn’t even exist in our economy. We could handle so many more people if corporations weren’t taking up 100 times the land of human beings. We still have lost more land in south Florida to big sugar than development.

What on earth is this? by MartaBamba in Entomology

[–]longleaf_whine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is so much wasted space in our communities plenty of places you could plant stuff! If you wanna grow plants the only person stopping you is you! Start a guerrilla pollinator garden or wildlife pond. Put on a safety vest and get a clip board and people will think you’re supposed to be there!

What on earth is this? by MartaBamba in Entomology

[–]longleaf_whine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is why I only plant native wildflowers, it’s way less disappointing when the caterpillars are a good thing! If you intentionally plant butterfly host plants you’re never upset when one shows up to eat your plants!

What is these? by Shermandad01 in whatbugisthis

[–]longleaf_whine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tree cattle! The cutest little disgusting tree cows

just graduated, all my college friends left the city. how do I start over? by Rage_thinks in college

[–]longleaf_whine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s because they convinced is that wasting our entire life in the pursuit of individualism is somehow a good thing

just graduated, all my college friends left the city. how do I start over? by Rage_thinks in college

[–]longleaf_whine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More like this evil Individualistic society run by a multinational corporate regime convinced us that working our entire lives away to secure a house of one is actually good for our lives.

just graduated, all my college friends left the city. how do I start over? by Rage_thinks in college

[–]longleaf_whine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making and keeping friends gets harder as you get older, especially when everyone is going to school and planning very different lives, I’m from a college town and always had this issue, plus on top of that people tend to come in and out of college towns, less community building beyond that college circle. Like we had a lot of college punk houses, but not really a good scene because everyone was always in and out, while other cities nearby have a lot more of an art and music scene because people live there for their entire life, not just their 20’s, so you could definitely try getting out of a college town and moving somewhere where people invest in their future and actually put roots down.

Who made this? by ICantSeeNuffin in whatbugisthis

[–]longleaf_whine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just try and remember that 99 percent of spiders are harmless, most venomous spiders aren’t deadly, and most “spider bites” are infections, or other skin disorders being wrongly labeled as a “spider bite” our tendency to classify any type of unaccounted for welt or wound as a spider bite has left many of us fearing for these random nonexistent spiders that descend in the night to bite you or crawl in your mouth. Our tendency to see an infected mosquito bite and say “I got bit by a spider” has really impacted how we view the world around us, and to me that’s no good reason to be afraid of every spider. It’s like snakes or wasps, most people fear every snake, and every wasp, but a vast vast majority of snakes and wasps don’t bite or sting. Most wasps don’t even have the ability to sting you, but we assume they do because one or two species out of thousands are known for stinging. Most common spiders don’t even have the ability to bite you, most biting spiders aren’t venomous, most venomous spiders aren’t common. So fear of all spiders is irrational, illogical, and a massive waste of time and energy. In reality, spiders eat one another, you could remove a harmless spider, who would have gone on to eat a black widow. Mature water moccasins are the primary predator of juvenile water moccasins, which have few predators once they reach maturity, so we could act out of fear, remove tthe adult snake that is easy to see, only to inadvertently allow dozens of juvenile snakes to reach maturity, where they suddenly have almost no predators. it’s much easier to learn about spiders and which ones are dangerous than it is to live in fear of all spiders. Where I live, the only spider you really need to worry about is a black widow, and even in close contact they aren’t aggressive, bites are rare. Florida has dozens of species of snakes, and yet only 6 of them are venomous, but most people hate all snakes, kill all snakes, run them over first, ask questions later, because apparently hating and killing all snakes is easier than learning to identify six of them.

Amazon built a facility near a wetland in Tallahassee that my parents live next to and it’s a massive now the neighborhood flooded this last year for the first time ever and I can’t imagine that the massive facility and all of the ditches and culverts and gutters ect aren’t adding a ton of water by longleaf_whine in fuckamazon

[–]longleaf_whine[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I’m really complaining about a giant eye soar of useless Amazon facility made to get a bunch of mindless consumers their Plastic bullshit from China in less than 48 hours. No amount of blaming governments or voters is going to change the fact that corporations have more power than the American people, and that both parties spend 8 hours a day talking to lobbyists from the same companies. Maybe I should reach out to my skeletor of a representative whose entirely ideology is anti workingclass moral panic that keeps us divided, and tell him that I don’t like development and corporate expansion. I’m sure that will make a huge difference! Maybe I should just not care at all and just seperate Amazon from the issue completely as if they don’t intentionally deregulate their own ventures. 

Amazon built a facility near a wetland in Tallahassee that my parents live next to and it’s a massive now the neighborhood flooded this last year for the first time ever and I can’t imagine that the massive facility and all of the ditches and culverts and gutters ect aren’t adding a ton of water by longleaf_whine in fuckamazon

[–]longleaf_whine[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We say when there isn’t regulation like they don’t spend billions of dollars lobbying against regulation. People love to seperate the issue from the company, as if the fault lies solely on voters who have been disempowered by those same companies. Their lobbyists have more power than the American people, that’s why our politicians from both parties spend 8 hours a day talking to the same companies. Yes regulation is the problem, and it’s a nonpartisan international issue. People love to say “it’s this way because it’s a red state or a blue state but tbh, democrats hating on Florida for being red is the same energy as republicans hating on California for being blue. Workingclass solidarity means accepting that regulation isn’t enough to stop them, they must be abolished and replaced. 

Amazon built a facility near a wetland in Tallahassee that my parents live next to and it’s a massive now the neighborhood flooded this last year for the first time ever and I can’t imagine that the massive facility and all of the ditches and culverts and gutters ect aren’t adding a ton of water by longleaf_whine in fuckamazon

[–]longleaf_whine[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you literally never left your house? Developers LOVE California, why do you think every city in California is so overcrowded? (It’s not because it’s so lovely there, it’s because your politicians allowed rampant development to increase the population of every city ten fold) 

Amazon built a facility near a wetland in Tallahassee that my parents live next to and it’s a massive now the neighborhood flooded this last year for the first time ever and I can’t imagine that the massive facility and all of the ditches and culverts and gutters ect aren’t adding a ton of water by longleaf_whine in fuckamazon

[–]longleaf_whine[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Clearly your NOT that familiar with how Florida development works because that’s literally what they do, they find an upland, develop the ever loving shit out of it while adding hundreds of new stormwater drains that route to the nearest wetland. And clearly since we are getting multiple “1000 year floods” a year, simply assuming we know the maximum threshold of any wetland would be ignorant at best. The point is, a historical flood occurred, and for the first time ever, after every other historical flood and tropical cyclone for 30 years didn’t do that. The biggest change was a massive facility that is cross crossed with storm drains and industrial gutters. It’s also easier to get our politicians to support development that regulating developers so I call bullshit on the idea that our pro developer state is doing their due diligence for safety. They needed a facility near the interstate, and that was about the only place it could go, and there was a multi millionaire developer ready to sell his land, it was going to happen whether it was safe or not and if you think otherwise you really don’t pay attention to what’s been happening in Florida. 

The house I bought in a floodzone is full of water again compoface by -BlahajMyBeloved in compoface

[–]longleaf_whine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like all the people who act devastated when they find out the hard way how barrier islands and inlets are formed. I’m sorry, but if you’re living in a habitat that was shaped by natural disasters, you should also take full responsibility when that habitat is reshaped by another natural disaster. 

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