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escaping to my fairy garden

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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

siren tattoo <333

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by hammydam near Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands — March 6, 2026

got a tattoo in siren's honour! missing her a lot but thankful to have had her for the time we did.

many thanks to my tattoo artist, I love her to pieces and if anyone is in the Netherlands please check out her out on insta at @chikage8 :)<33

Crested Caracara

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by Lumberaxe1 — March 6, 2026 — Gave 5 Hours for Earth

Hawk sized falcons that are my new favorite birb. They nest in saguaros and run along the ground to hunt.

SANDY EGGO ZOO! (aka best zoo ever)

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by ash m near San Diego, California, United States — March 6, 2026 — Gave 2 Hours for Earth

me and my favs aka elephants + miss brina

panda!!! they were super active when we were there (video included)

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Better late than never! Went with some friends who were from out of town to the San Diego Zoo the last day of January and it was also my first time going since I was a kid! But still was able to show them around and get them to see all of the highlights. Saw the pandas and my favorites, elephants <3

volunteering at an eaza zoo

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by kolya near Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania — March 5, 2026 — Gave 12 Hours for Earth

cleaned up poop and fed some tortoises and birds (these two walked up to me in sync it was adorable)

cleaned up and misted some invertebrate enclosures (cockroaches (deaths heads and madagascar hissers), stickbugs, snails, millipedes)

sunbathing :3 (theres a lot more more work ive done but i havent taken any pics </3 )

im in my 1st year of environmental science bachelor and started volunteering at the lithuanian zoo a couple weeks ago, ill get it sorted so that im officially an intern there by next week tho (i should do an internship in my 4th year but i can do it earlier too so i thought why not if i have time)

Skipping Work for a Trip to the Oregon Zoo

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by UnderTheeBridge near Portland, Oregon, United States — March 5, 2026 — Gave 3 Hours for Earth

Find the bugs. No hints. (They're called Giant Malayan ____ ____ )

The OR Zoo is working to conserve the Northwestern Pond Turtles, and here are some of the littler ones! They were super cute.

Cougar, taking a cat nap. There was another high up on a cat tree taking a nap as well.

A pile of African Painted Dogs hiding from the rain.

Black Rhino that looks extra long, but is actually 2 rhinos.

Hard-to-see Red-Tailed Monkey opting for the covered area of its enclosure.

Zoom to see some sleeping kitties (2 Amur Tigers).

California Condors! The OR Zoo also helps with the conservation of California Condors and to help reintroduce them back to the PNW, where they used to be found.

They're doing some work at the zoo, and have these cute signs with fake scientific names for the construction machines.

Asian Elephants, the baby is just over a year old now!

I took a vacation day so I could relax and went to the Oregon Zoo! It rained and it's still winter so some animals were under covered areas or inside away from the public. Fun Fact: the Oregon Zoo and Philadelphia Zoo were the first AZA accredited zoos and have been accredited for over 50 years!

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