Lanius
@General_JWJ
Amateur birdwatcher, botanist, entomologist, interested in herbology and agriculture. All round nature lover. Longform content: http://shrubstack.substack.com
New year, new thread of threads! More writings on topics as various as agriculture, tropical ecology, niche zoological topics and more:
New essay is up! Come and learn about "zombie satellites" and why aliens might be interested in them! substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://p…
When I'm about to hit publish on a substack post that'll get 251 views and 3 likes
The Celebration of Victory in Khiva - Vasily Vereshchagin, 1873
"The Khiva Expedition" by Maksud Alikhanov-Avarsky is now available in paperback! One of the most vivid accounts of Russia's conquest of Central Asia, Alikhanov's book follows the Russian army's inland march from the Caspian Sea to the Khanate of Khiva amazon.com/dp/B0DWZ2SN2C/…
Giant slugs and octopus suckers - let's dive into the weird and wonderful wildlife in Britain’s rainforests 🧵
The rose-ringed parakeet, a species becoming widespread in Western Europe's urban centers over the past decades because of numerous feral populations of escaped pets in capitals, they compete with sparrows and other city birds for nesting holes
POV: me taking photos of exotic plants and muttering Latin like a brain-addled sorcerer for 6 hours in a row ASMR
introducing Waves, camera glasses for creators. record in stealth. livestream all day. pre-order now.
POV: every wasp in the vicinity rushing over to the picnic you just unpacked 8 milliseconds ago
The world’s fastest drone, the XLR V3, just went from 0 to 124 mph (200 km/h) in 1 second, faster than a Formula 1 car off the line. 😲 Designed by Swiss engineers, the XLR V3 is a high-performance FPV (First Person View) racing drone built with ultra-light carbon fiber,…
[omw home from work to get in a full 6 hours of Lichen Simulator before bed]
Novel lichen simulation and laser scan modelling to reveal lichen-covered carvings at Stonehenge sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
“Big orchid isn’t real”
Parasitic behavior in orchids wasn’t “discovered” later it was deliberately covered up (orchid societies still deny it) in order to maintain the idealized view people have of the plants
What do we think of Centaurium erythraea, European centaury, a brilliant little flower that often grows on dry and nutrient-poor soils? It's a relative of gentians.
"It's me. Post it." "Same message as usual?" "Feliz jueves, same as usual." "Consider it done."
Din Guarie, the Brythonic fortress that preceded Bebbanburg
Just realised my favourite long post I ever made, "reef-er madness", from 2023, got 283 views on shrubstack. All 20 of you who're into this stuff sure are lucky I'm stubborn!
I 💚 parasitic plants
Gm. Ghost pipes (Monotropa uniflora), captured with my Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro. This lens really brings out the eeriness of these translucent forest apparitions, which are flowering plants that lack chlorophyll. Unable to perform photosynthesis, they thrive in darkness, siphoning…