If lost or confused, pause a moment, rise above it all, and survey the area before going back into the weeds.
All posts by Josh More
Bunny and Briers
Adult now, the audacity and flippancy of youth left behind, he stared at the unfathomable vastness stretched before him – of land, of time, of thought, and of choices yet unmade – and remembered those he’d lost to time, missing his dear old brier-patch.
Walkway
Since the drought broke in southern California, they’ve had to add fences to keep the plants from taking over the roadways.
Goose
The left wing isn’t unified, rife with contrasting opinions and textured nuance covering the entire span from the center to the far fringes. Yes, there is some darkness, but if you look, you can find some light.
Kellet’s Whelk
I posted this on Facebook a while ago, but I’m re-posting here so everyone can see it.
This is one of the coolest exhibits I’ve seen in quite a while. What you’re seeing is a lucite box with whelks on the top and a piece of fish screwed to the bottom. The whelks are adapted to live on the rocky ocean floor, and send their long flexible mouth things down in between the rocks to feast on whatever things they can scavenge. In this exhibit, you get to see a behavior that is extremely interesting and that, gives you a very different understanding seeing it than reading about it.
Scaly Tube Snail
I hadn’t heard of these guys before, so I looked them up.
Apparently you can’t really find them in subway systems.
Two-spot Octopus
I got a paint-by-numbers book of octopuses once. That was a confusing day.
Nudibranch
The wikipedia page for the nudibranch boasts the only occurrence of the phrase “Apparent production of sound” on the entire site.
Acorn Barnacle
In case you ever wondered what was inside a barnacle.
Blue Morpho
In reading about these guys, I learned that, like all* butterflies, it can’t chew so it has to suck fluids from through it’s proboscis. Unlike most butterflies, this one lives off of “rotting or fermenting fruit.”
That means you’re looking at a photo of a carrion eater.
Mealworms
Because they all hatch at the same time, mealworms have to share their birthday.
Crab
TFW that interesting person you’ve been talking to for the last hour suddenly shows their true colours.
Giant Tiger Beetle
This is a giant tiger beetle.
A giant TIGER beetle.
You see the resemblance, right?
Monarch Caterpillar
Apparently the bits in the middle taste bad.
Egg Yolk Jelly
I think we should stop calling certain types of people “snowflakes”.
The term “jellyfish” is much more apt, as it seems they just spend their time floating around the Internet stinging people, but whenever they encounter anything that isn’t exactly like themselves in their specially-designed jellyfish-bubble of safety, they start falling apart – whining about how unfair life is.
Metallic Frog Beetle
It’s pretty clear that these beetles are not ferromagnetic, but the zoo didn’t let me bring in the right equipment to test for para- or diamagnetism.
Leaf Cutter Ants
Leaf cutter ants take leaf bits down into the colony where they cultivate a particular sort of fungus that grows on the leaves.
So you’d think these two ants would be moving in the same direction.
Hornyhead Turbot
This hornyhead turbot is somewhat untrusting of my new wide angle macro lens.
White Spotted Longhorn Beetle
Turns out it was a cookbook.
Dead Leaf Mantis
It is unclear whether the dead leaf mantis is named for its tendency to resemble a dead leaf or because he was once an ordinary leaf mantis, full of hopes and dreams, that once made a mistake, one so terrible that he never recovered, dooming him to wander the garden, never again to feel truly alive.