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It’s alive!
After a few hours of labor unhacking WordPress, installing and learning a security plugin, cleaning up a woefully out of date side panel, &c, DoaMNH is back in business! Why? Because I am planning on having some adventures and I’d like to document them. The events of the three years since the last post have not increased my confidence regarding 3rd party platforms – the dead link to the service formerly doing business as Storify in the post below is a perfect case in point. I’ll post things to other places (see the alt.tentacles sidebar*), but this here will be the main vein of foolishness. Hang on for more info on the adventures; I have some ‘getting prepped’ posts simmering.
* notable by its absence is Facebook. I have an account, but really, fuck Facebook.
Three bog garden photos
Good things continue to happen in the bog garden.
Drosera seedlings.
Rose pogonia – Pogonia ophioglossoides.
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Some spring milestones
It’s been a (re)productive spring here at the ranch. Some pictures:
I sighted some fry in one of the Betta macrostoma tanks. They are mouth-brooders; males have had clutches in their gullets before, but this is the first hatch-out.
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The Dendrobates leucomelas Guyana Banded laid their first eggs. A shot, taken moments ago, of the developing tads.
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My tiny little plug of Utricularia jamesoniana decided to flower. This is a woo-hoo all out of proportion to the size of the plant: I looked for a division of jamesoniana for years and to get one and have it flower within a year is a cause for celebration.
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And lastly, something I had nothing to do with at all. A Polyphemus Moth on a column at work:
