We’re all fish? Also, they have another brother?
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Bumblebeebutt!
That’s a great picture. Caption:
“‘Not a pollinator for this kind of flower’ we’ll see about that! [grunting] Just a…little…bit…farther…”
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Ooh, pretty green snek!
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I’ve been tracking this butterfly since I saw it first a couple of days ago; it is tiny, and the upper surface of the wings are blue, but it didn’t oblige by opening it’s wings, so I couldn’t tell if it was the Common European Blue (most likely, given the local ecosystem), or the Karner Blue, which has been extirpated from Ontario. The Common European Blue is not native to North America, but the Karner Blue is. They are almost identically marked except that the Karner blue male has two spots on the topside of the wings, and there are some other, very subtle differences. The Karner Blue larvae only feed on wild lupins,and there aren’t any around here.
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Little green sneks is my favoritest snecks! 
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That reminded me of this:
(gift link for the New York Times)
…started coming home to their hives looking suspicious. Of course, it was the foragers the adventurers, the wild waggle dancers, the social networkers incessantly buzzing about their business who were showing up with mysterious stripes of color. Where there should have been a touch of gentle amber showing through the membrane of their honey stomachs was instead a garish bright red. The honeycombs, too, were an alarming shade of Robitussin.
I first heard of it from a much longer and fascinating piece in The New Yorker in 2018, but they don’t seem to offer gift links, and it’s blocked on archive AFAICT… here’s the New Yorker link for anyone who can access it…
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I feel like there should be a parody of that (racist) lovecraft story the Horror of Red Hook with some red-butted bees… feels like Zim should be involved…
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