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  1. Spotted these #cinnabar moth #caterpillars having a feud over food in the garden this lunchtime.

    FWIW ... Yes ... There are no domestic pets in my household. No sheep nor horses come into my garden. And ... I know about ragwort being toxic.

    #WildFlowerHour
    #Ragwort
    #CinnabarMothCaterpillars

  2. So I was having a really bad day thinking about how basically my Goth garden got completely overtaken by volunteer weeds…. And this little Cinnabar moth caterpillar was here to make me feel better about having ragwort everywhere! #Gardening #Cinnabar #Moth

  3. CW: AI, non vegan and bird unfriendly

    A great deal of #AI is just mixing the #goose feed with #cinnabar and #orpiment in the hope the bird lays golden eggs (as some form of magic / alchemy) , and when it subsequently keels over then serving it up for dinner, so *everyone* who sits at the table gets slowly poisoned..

  4. how about a #MacroMonday #MineralMonday photostack?

    this came to me as unlabeled cutting rough, I've tentatively ID'd as Cinnabar on Dolomite & won't be cutting it

    #Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #Photograph #Mineral #Cinnabar #Mercury

  5. From my lunch time walk, a #Cinnabar #Moth clinging to a stalk alongside Bawsey Drain (this picture has been rotated 90 degrees to maximize the presence of the moth).
    #Photography #Nature #Insects #Entomology #Moths #CinnabarMoth

  6. Garry Shaw in The Art Newspaper:
    Ancient Maya city of Ucanal was contaminated with mercury, study reveals
    Newly published research shows just how pervasive mercury—an essential element in the red cinnabar pigment favoured by the Maya—is at the site in Guatemala

    theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/28

    #Maya #Mesoamerica #Guatemala #mercury #cinnabar

  7. Just a safety note: CINNABAR is toxic (it's an ore of mercury) -- some of the oldest cases of mecury poisoning were from the use of cinnabar, 5000 years ago. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ #cinnabar #mercury #toxicity