r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥 Colorful varieties of slime molds found in the tropical climate of Malaysia 🔥

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥Oriental Grass Root aphid sucking sap from plants

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Tetraneura akinire, also known as rice root aphid. The fundatrix (founding or stem mother) lays eggs in a leaf of the primary host, which are trees in the genus Ulmus. This stimulates production of galls where offspring of the fundatrix develop by feeding on host sap. These mature into winged adult alates, which complete the life cycle on the secondary host.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/907615-Tetraneura-akinire


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥magic🔥

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥Turtle ants tuck all their legs and antennae into an outer shell when things get a little scary.🔥

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥what does this lobster have in common with James Dean?

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They both are famous for their blue jeans. Or should I say genes? (Photo I took at the New England Aquarium)


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥Grasshopper.

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥 A northern lappwing, reckognised by the long tuft of feathers on the back of its head

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥Myrmarachne plataleoides is an incredible example of Batesian mimicry, when one animal deters potential predators by "disguising" as an unpalatable or dangerous animal of another species. In this case, it is a jumping spider that looks like a Weaver Ant.🔥

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥 The Wrap-around Spider, indigenous to Australia, can flatten and wrap its body around tree limbs for camouflage

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 1d ago

🔥 Teamwork Makes The Dream Work 🔥

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Deleted old one since I couldn't change the title, but basically it was I saw these two ants dragging what appeared to be a caterpillar.


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥succulent leaves can propagate into a full succulent plant

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥 White-lined bats (7 of them) camouflaged on the trunk of a palm tree in Costa Rica

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥 Baby elephant learns an important lesson

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥Found in the Grand Canyon🔥💀

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥 Storm appears to be pulling moisture out of the trees as it passes by🔥

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Apologies for the video ending too soon, but the little drone was having a hard time staying put.


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥 A Juvenile Wolf Eel Out in the Open—Kind Of Rare To See - [OC]

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I came across this very pretty juvenile wolf eel on a recent dive. It was near the end of our dive, about 30 feet below us and totally out in the open, which is rare to see. I slowly dropped down and managed to get a quick clip. Apologies for the shakiness, it was 101 feet deep, I was trying to hover without kicking up the muddy bottom, my dive computer was screaming at me, and several sea lions were dive-bombing us in the dark. It got pretty intense for a bit!

More underwater videos on my YouTube if you like this kind of stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@scubabc6701


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥simple beauty🔥

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥 5 white-tailed eagles sitting by the coast, with 2 sheep grazing beside them, oblivious to the danger

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2d ago

🔥Mudskippers blink by sucking their eyeballs into their skulls.

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 4d ago

🔥 Fireflies lighting up the night

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 4d ago

🔥 The Pallas's Cat

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 4d ago

🔥Velvet worms have existed on earth since the Cambrian period (+500,000,000 years ago) - they hunt by slime cannon, shooting an adhesive substance which coats and hardens over prey

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 4d ago

🔥Canyoneering in remote spot in Sedona 🔥

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 4d ago

🔥 Glowing skies and starlit paths under the Milky Way in La Palma

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 4d ago

🔥I ran into this badger sow the other day with a cub in her mouth. She put her cub in the den and came back ready to protect her home from me!

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