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🍄Ipsissimus🎃Mocata🍄
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A doomed forest hermit with too many cats. Original photos of NorCal natural history with an emphasis on mycology & native botany, but occasionally posting stuff about heavy music and weirdo cinema. ☭ linktr.ee/mocata
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Trichodes ornatus absolutely going to town on a Gilia capitata. 🪲🌱📷📸

Centered against a blurred earth-toned background of mostly-dry mixed vegetation is a spherical inflorescence consisting of dozens of five-petaled flowers raining in color from pale pink to lavender to light blue, the stamens of which protrude further than the corolla. Weaving its way through these flowers, an Ornate Checkered Beetle wantonly gorges itself on pollen. Its body is black tinged with an iridescent blue tone and has tiger-like yellow transverse markings across its elytra which are divided by a black line down the suture. Fine and sparse orange hairs on its body complete its gaudy appearance.
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🍄Ipsissimus🎃Mocata🍄
@mocata.bsky.social
A doomed forest hermit with too many cats. Original photos of NorCal natural history with an emphasis on mycology & native botany, but occasionally posting stuff about heavy music and weirdo cinema. ☭ linktr.ee/mocata
128 followers20 following513 posts
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