Leaf-footed bug, (family Coreidae, Bitta sp.), Costa Rica. These were fairly common on the hotel grounds. One of the most colorful Coreids I've ever seen - more flower-petal-footed bug than leaf-footed! 🐙🌿 #insects
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Billionaires should be giving us treats so we don't eat them.
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This beauty showed up in the garden of @casabentbill.bsky.social yesterday. I'm not sure, but I think this is the family Castniidae, possibly Divana diva.
#butterflies #costarica #lepidoptera #nature
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The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
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Ah yes, because if they don't test for it, then the problem goes away, doesn't it? At least until we all boil like lobsters...
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I mean, that is a pretty buff weta.
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20 volunteers with Casa San José Rapid Response team stood outside the strip mall location of Emiliano’s in Gibsonia as federal agents detained workers.
ICE returns to Emiliano’s restaurants, detains 16 workers after aborted June sting
Federal agents forcibly entered two locations of Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant to arrest workers after targeting the same location in June.
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Texas is trying to steal the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian under a provision in that stupid BBB. On one side, Cruz & Cornyn slipped an $85M provision in. On the other side, the Smithsonian has the receipts from NASA, giving sole ownership to the museum.
'The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.' Museum resists Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' plan to move space shuttle to Houston
"This is not a transfer — it's a heist."
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Oooh! That goop can be used in place of gum Arabic to make watercolor paint! (Says nerdy lady who makes her own paints).
