Town of Lincoln Lilliputian wildlife

[urbpan]

January bee.

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[maybethecat.livejournal.com]

very nice, very nice indeed

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Very very tiny creepy forest!

[suburbangothic.livejournal.com]

Wow, our lichen is all flat and vertical in most places. Sort of like the city of Houston itself. Do you get resurrection fern along with that lichen?

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Deeeelightful!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I've never seen resurrection fern in the wild (one site says it ranges to New York--missed us by one state!) but we used to sell it in the gift shop I worked in. Houston seems dry for lichen--though we did observe it in death valley.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Bees are so cute with their little corbiculae and hairy little thoraxes.

They're like the bunnies of the insect world.

[iheartoothecae.livejournal.com]

Truly. Few insects engage my petting reflex like the bee.

They're just so fuzzy!

[suburbangothic.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha... Houston being dry.
You've never visited, I guess. Humidity is almost always at 70 or higher, I'd guess. The color of the lichen somehow give one an idea of the pollution levels it's absorbing, one of my co-workers did a paper on it. You've inspired me to take a few lichen photos of my own.

[zalice.livejournal.com]

Me too! I just can't resist trying to pat them. *bee hugs*
Lichen is pricklier but I also want to pet it. Very pretty! Symbiosis is so awesome.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Once again I expose my ignorance.

I can't wait to see your lichen photos!

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

I too, enjoy their fuzziness. Oh, you know what other insect is cute and hamster-like really close up? Moths. Moths are the bomb. They are fuzzy and have cool antennae.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

i love how when i try to pet a feeding bumblebee they at first wave one "leg" at me, as if to say that i'm being annoying but that the food is so good they can't be bothered to actually fly away.

:)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I'm happy there are so many bee petters out there. I like to do it also because it surprises people. "Aren't you afraid of being stung?!?" It's an eduacational opportunity. Not all insects that can sting, will at every opportunity. (I don't pet yellowjackets.)