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The butterflies love this Siam Weed bush.
The biggest ones are the migrating monarchs. The slightly smaller ones are queens who mimic the monarchs. The little brown and orange ones are snouts, who are roaming through the area because somewhere got too crowded and they’re looking for new spaces. There’s also a painted lady and a red admiral in there somewhere.
[description: a video moving back and forth over a large patch of a bush with small, blue, pom-pom like bunches of flowers, occasionally zooming in. At least 20 butterflies of varying types are fluttering about and landing on the flowers. Someone in the background is sarcastically pointing out that the butterflies might like this bush.]

[Video: about 40 seconds of a small black-and-white cat playing with and batting at a necklace chain as it’s dangled over her.]

This is Capri, affectionately known as the Gremlin. She’s high-strung and bites you if she’s lying on your arm and you move too much, but I love her.

This is Capri’s favorite toy ever. 

Ft. my brother’s arm and me snickering and egging him on. 

I unfortunately ended the video about 2 seconds too early to hear me go “aww-AGH” as she adorably peeked from the end of the bag before lunging at my earbud cable. 

Shrimp! Daphnia and fairy shrimp, mostly. Hopefully a mix of beavertail and fairy shrimp, but I can’t tell yet because they’re too young. 

Captions:

*video shows a number of small invertebrates swimming at the surface of an aquarium. Some are round and move in jerking motions, some are long, thin, and swimming upside-down by means of a large number of tiny legs that move in rippling motions. The round ones vastly outnumber the slender ones, at least a 4:1 ratio, but are smaller. The water around them is visibly cloudy, and all the round invertebrates are crowded near the surface, where a light is visible. Narrator is not visible.*

“This is actually a really good view. Here’s my assorted shrimp. Those are probably daphina at the surface, li’l poppy guys, and then the long ones with the li’l wiggly legs are fairy shrimp. And I just fed them, which is why the water’s kinda cloudy, they’re eating yeast. And they’re attracted to the light, which is why there’s all that popcorn [referring to the popping motions of the round invertebrates clustered at the surface] up there. Little fairy shrimp just kinda wiggling around. Those smaller ones that look kinda like short fairy shrimp are newer-hatched ones, a whole bunch of them hatched when I added new water ‘cos they thought it rained.”