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rorschachx:“McBride Inlet, Alaska image by msyguyâ€
Turquoise coloured water of Lake Louise, Canada
These little guys cause a lot of problems, we gotta work together to stop these little bastards!
This species only arrived in North America nine years ago, but it has already spread to over a dozen states in the US (particularly in the Northeast) and is spreading beyond that. These flies--especially in their nymph form--can be incredibly destructive to plant life here, including various fruit trees, soybeans, and other crops, as well as several species of native tree. Their primary predator, a parasitic wasp, does not exist here, and none of our native wasps have yet been seen to use this species as a host.
People in all US States, as well as Canada and Mexico, should keep their eyes out for the nymphs and adults, as well as the egg clusters, and are encouraged to smash them with impunity. We've seen how much damage other invasive species can do to both natural and cultivated spaces, and while it's unlikely we can completely eliminate them, we can at least curb them.
ID info and other relevant stuff about spotted lanternflies can be found here.
Living in America
This is America
I broke the US- if you've lived there pls fill out my google form! I need help
So lately I’ve been hyper-obsessed with breaking the US into different countries for fun as an alternate future sort of thing and would REALLY appreciate it if some of y'all who live or have lived in the US could fill out my form to gage your opinion and figure out some basic info like national foods, potential boundary changes and whatnot :)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSco9yCngXvVeI5qamnrxXStB_-w5RR_A0il0IZM8mpjqsz6wA/viewform?usp=sf_link
don't worry if you know nothing about geography! you can also pick and choose questions to answer if you don't want to fill them all out, and if you don't like any of my answers you can create your own
(My one request is that if you check any of the countries in the final section, would you pls also fill out the following question with an explanation, since otherwise I won’t know what to do with it)
If there’s anyone you think could be interested in filling this out, please please please share the post or link! The more responses the more accurate the results will be.
Alternate US Capitals poll
I usually don't post stuff from where I live but I was hoping y'all could spread this around especially if you live in NYC.
Transcript: Missing 12 year old girl. Date: 03/23/2023
Name: Kaniya Graham
Age: 12
Missing since: 03/16/2023
Image Description: A black girl in a white jacket, with black zippers, a black Tshirt with a green graphic, black leggings(?), and white sneakers. She is standing in a bedroom with a flower in her hand, smiling.
Please contact 911 or ACS investigator.
(516)695-6552: James Maloy
(347)765-2561: Brigitte Browning
(917)808-2239: Robert Browning
when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️
however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!
Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.
So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday
LANDBACK.ORG
(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)
Into the mountains, Lake Moraine / Canada
Covered bridge in DuPont State Forest, North Carolina, USA
“Ichetucknee Springs State Park, Florida / USA .â€
not all heroes wear capes
Cave Salamander (Eurycea lucifuga), family Plethodontidae, KY, USA
photographs by Richard Coldiron