Nature and Gardening

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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

See also our Environment community, which is focused on weather, climate, climate change, and stuff like that.

(It's not mandatory, but we also encourage providing a description of your image(s) for accessibility purposes! See here for a more detailed explanation and advice on how best to do this.)

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

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Hidden Predator (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 months ago by LallyLuckFarm to c/greenspace

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[Image description: a white spider hides in a raspberry flower, clutching its honeybee prey]

It's very hard to spot these guys, I'm glad I managed to catch it and share it with you all.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Catbox should honestly really be avoided. It's blocked for such a huge range of users unless they use either a non-default DNS or a VPN (depending on which specific block they're behind).

This includes all users in Australia, the UK, and Ireland. American customers of Comcast, Verizon, and Spectrum and Canadian customers of Rogers. And any user who has their DNS set to the popular alternate DNS of Quad 9.

If uploading photographs in particular, it also does not remove EXIF or other metadata, which may expose GPS location or other potentially sensitive information to everyone.

[–] LallyLuckFarm 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I was unaware. I've seen it recommended elsewhere so was rotating it into the parent comment, one I make from time to time as Beehaw's settings for pictrs can trip folks up occasionally.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah it's unfortunate because it's a useful site. You can see more detailed explanations on their FAQ page. Most of the reasons for its blocking are pretty dumb, but that doesn't matter much to the people who try to click a link and have it not work.