Joined: Jul 16, 2018 Last Active: Sep 7, 2024 iNaturalist
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About me :
Msc in conservation ecology, I've always been passionate about arachnids and very interested in all things with too much appendages, and everything else really.
My other links and social media, my Arachnology Discord server and the Inaturalist Discord server.
My observations in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, ...
If you are interested, here are my observation that need IDing for hexapods, arachnids, crustaceans, mollusks, fungi and plants.
Other interesting visualisations that you can easily replicate by changing the user name in the URL :
Current naturalist goals : I'd love to photograph at least one individual of every orders of insects (23/28) and arachnids (10/16), of every European spider families (56/67), and of every scorpion ...species (21/ ≈2750), althrough the last one may require multiple lifespans ;)
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Arachnology
A bunch of my favorites quotes, because profile space is unlimited ;) :
“Disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man.”
“Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?”
“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.”
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
"Observing nature brings some joy, even if not a palliative or antidote, but a reminder that the world's brilliance goes on despite deaths."
"So, naturalists observe, a flea has smaller fleas that on him prey; and these have smaller still to bite ’em; and so proceed ad infinitum."
"Hardly any aspect of life is more characteristic than its almost unlimited diversity."
"To live is to change"
Now have some fun outside and remember to respect nature, Cheers :)