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My first time logging hours here, coloring pages!

by Baking_Wolf — March 9, 2026 — Gave 3 Hours for Earth

Honey bees (but I drew them as my local bumblebees)

Some ponderings on the uniqueness of Conservation

by googas_ — March 9, 2026

The last known thylacine at Hobart Zoo, December 1933. Photo: David Fleay (Public Domain)

Fighting the nihilism of the 9to5 lately (job has no relation to my Conservation or Media degrees), put some thoughts down about the role sentimentality plays in Conservation that makes it uniquely distinct from other fields of science.

Conservation Doesn’t Need More Data. It Needs More Grief.

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Went to Science North while visiting friends got to see some cool animals!

by Sabrina — March 8, 2026 — Gave 2 Hours for Earth

Went to my friend's house in Sudbury Ontario to test flavours for macarons for her wedding and stopped but science north in to and saw some cool animals.

escaping to my fairy garden

Seen on stream

by sage garden — March 6, 2026 — Gave 1 Hour for Earth

"... While the world is full of troubles

And anxious in its sleep.

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand...."

The stolen child - W.B. Yeats

More snow and crafting

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by Amy (londonbrolly) near Massachusetts, United States — March 6, 2026 — Gave 2 Hours for Earth

I had to convince Camden it was worth leaving his emotional support blanket to go for a snowy walk. Also made some needlefelted Easter eggs for Easter.

Work Field Trip to Future State Park

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by Jpottin2 near Texas, United States — March 6, 2026 — Gave 2 Hours for Earth

A view of Enchanted Rock in the distance. This property tripled the acreage. ~1500 acres -> ~5000 acres.

An existing road in the property. It *may* be used as a new entrance to the park.

All of this land is now public property. Texas desperately needs more public land and this and the $1,000,000,000 endowment from the legislature is a good start.

A pond/lake on the new property. Could become a great fish habitat.

There were tons of cool rock formations all over the property. I’m sure there were tons of critters hiding out near them.

In December, they conducted a controlled burn to clean up the land. It’s already looking so green and healthy again.

I recently went on a field trip with work (Texas Parks and Wildlife), and we went to the new property that will be added to Enchanted Rock State Natural Area once it’s developed (trails and maps and whatnot). It was neat to see it before the public. Here’s a preview of the new park land.

The snow is pretty but I am over it.

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by Kate(katekat311) — March 6, 2026

We have been hit by quite a bit of snow lately. The turkeys seem to like it but I am so done with it. Nephew Camden is also tired of it but he does love getting car rides.

feBUGuary finds

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by Jayden (starberry_quartz) near City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — March 6, 2026 — Gave 9 Hours for Earth

A fluffy brown moth on a grey floor. — Bogong Moth (Agrotis infusa) that I found in my work. They're endangered, so I carefully picked him up and took him outside.

A tiny, light brown spider on the end of a finger. — Teeny tiny baby garden jumping spider (Opisthoncus sp.)! I found a bunch of them crawling up the trunk of a tree.

A side view photo of a black and yellow dragonfly, holding onto a tree branch. — Australian Emerald Dragonfly (Hemicordulia australiae)

A black and orange damselfly with its wings folded, perched on a plant. — Orange Threadtail (Nososticta solida), a type of damselfly

A silvery cicada with black markings and red eyes on a rusty fence. — Silver Princess (Yoyetta celis) cicada :)

A small, light colored larva on the side of a plant stem. It has white, cotton-like protrusions coming off of it. — Pretty sure this is a mealybug destroyer (Cryptolaemus montrouzieri) larva?

A flat, brown spider on a grey fence. — A type of wrap-around spider (Dolophones sp.)! It looks pretty normal from this angle, but wait until you see the side view

Side view of a brown spider on a grey fence. It has a large hump in the middle of its back. — BOOM a hump!! how cool

A bright orange and black cockroach on a grey fence. — A super beautiful type of cockroach, Austral Ellipsidion (Ellipsidion australe)!

A small black wasp with pale yellow markings. It is on a plant leaf. — A small type of weevil wasp, Cerceris minuscula! I never would have guessed this was a wasp just by looking at him

A flat, rounded black beetle on the side of a hand — Pie-dish beetle!! I love him :) A type of darkling beetle!

A grey robber fly pinning down a brown, winged ant. — A robber fly caught this ant midair and landed on me to snack :O

A light brown beetle with a dark brown pattern on its body. It has very long antennae. — A type of longhorn beetle, Skeletodes tetrops. When I first saw it, I thought it was a spider of some kind

These are some of the guys I found during February! I've been doing my best to stick to my goal of getting out into nature at least one day a week, and it's been helping me a lot with my ID skills, but also making connections with people :D