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We're tracking hours spent as part of the Alveus community's effort to Give an Hour for Earth.

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First snow of the year and some trash we cleaned up on our walk.

by Kate(katekat311) — December 19, 2025 — Gave 1 Hour for Earth

Mew has to inspect everything on our walks

Emmett is not the biggest fan of the snow

We had the first snow of the year, it luckily didn't last that long. Also some trash we discovered and cleaned up on a walk this week.

Trash Pickup

by Kalman77 near Washington, District of Columbia, United States — December 19, 2025 — Gave 3 Hours for Earth

Threw on some waders and hopped in the mud to clean up a local marsh. The vast majority of garbage in the bags was single use plastics.

New Pets: Humar our feral son (part 2/2)

by Djrosayyy — December 19, 2025

His namesake: Humar the Pridelord - a rare black lion in WoW :)

just a tiny baby *note the alveus merch :)

At this point I thought we were only going to have him for one night lol

he's still very nervous, but such a cuddly boy

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Last week, after nearly 2 months of trying, my bf successfully trapped this feral baby that was surviving off trash and bugs near his work (a scary loud industrial complex). While our intention was never to keep him.....how could we not lol. Humar will never be cold or hungry again <3

New pets: Yuri the russian tortoise (part 1/2)

by Djrosayyy — December 19, 2025

I've spent countless hours watching the smush crunch cam, and now I have it irl :)

150 gal. stock tank. This is a work in progress - plants, more substrate and enrichment are coming!! It will be amazing I promise. This is almost double the space he previously had :'(

Cute boy :) he is roughly 16 and could live to 60!

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Recently pet sat Yuri, learned a lot about his species doing so, and realized his current situation was not good enough. So I volunteered to take over his care long term and give him a much needed enclosure upgrade. Never would have chosen a lifelong commitment like a tort, but I had to help him!!

Keeping warm

by Amy (londonbrolly) — December 19, 2025 — Gave 2 Hours for Earth

Windy chilly walk but no trash was found so that’s a bonus. Also finished up some needle felt Christmas presents

Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo

by Fio near Royal Oak, Michigan, United States — December 19, 2025

A holiday light sculpture of two giraffes

A holiday light sculpture of a dragonfly approaching a flower

A holiday light display set up in a snowy area, meant to look like an underwater scene. There’s a seahorse, dolphins, coral, jellyfish

A holiday light sculpture of a millipede

A holiday light sculpture of a praying mantis

Many large light-up ant or termite decorations

A holiday light sculpture of two penguins

A holiday light sculpture of a polar bear

Just some cool holiday lights at the zoo.

Long time no post, have fully recovered from all my back surgeries

by John S. (the_gatekeeper1987) near South Carolina, United States — December 18, 2025

Huge find, literally. I struggled with identifying this but learned it is a Violin Beetle, a predatory beetle.

One of my captive bred Nyctoporis beetles

Our 2 year old rescue Chiweenie Gemma will have her first Christmas with us.

The largest moth in North America, Cecropia Moth from the hickory horned caterpillar.

Friendly honeybee came to chill with me.

My aggregation of desert hairy robot beetles.

My Asian blue forest scorpion. They are confused with the Heterometrus spinifer and mislabeled as a “Asian Forest scorpion”. This species is Javanimetrus which is a newer split-genus.

My Asian blue forest scorpion baby molting nest

Athena The Asian Forest Scorpion I’ve had and bred once for 5 years.

Arizona Bark Scorpion (Most venomous scorpion in U.S.)

Baby Bombardier a beetle from my colony of 10

A successful brood from my Ucrocontus mordax (California Forest Scorpion)

Got to hold the largest caterpillar in North America 🇺🇸 The hickory horned Devil Caterpillar.

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I had 3 back surgeries within 3 months and haven’t been able to take care of my animals without having to push through the pain. I am now able to continue YouTube content again on my channel of caring for them and continue breeding inverts. I love to go bug lighting and can do that again. ♥️ Alveus!

Wings of America by AEF in Dollywood

by Juju125 near Pigeon Forge, East Tennessee, United States — December 18, 2025 — Gave 1 Hour for Earth

Me with Challenger! I found out during this show that Challenger had Cataract surgery and can now see almost 100% again! But he will continue to enjoy retired life <3

Challenger! I learned that he was used for most of the free flights during games and events until his cataracts got bad.

Dolly the Red Tail Hawk! Hit my family with some facts before she even came out, and they were impressed with how much I knew

Made a weekend trip to Dollywood before heading home from Georgia. That meant I absolutely had to go to the Wings of America show ran by the AEF! I go everytime I visit Dollywood because I love seeing the birds up close! I got to meet and take a photo with the famous Challenger! Must go if you visit

Georgia Aquarium Trip

by Juju125 near Atlanta, Georgia, United States — December 18, 2025 — Gave 4 Hours for Earth

During my animal day, I also went to the Georgia Aquarium! This will always be one of my favorite aquariums just for their conservation efforts alone. I went to the Dolphin show and even got to catch a training session with the sea otters! Animal day was a huge success!