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me, at 9 am: I think I'll make a nice egg sammy :)
Me, seven hours later, still not having eaten anything: I feel like I'm forgetting something
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Anonymous asked:
hi, i have a potentially silly question. are ispods and cockroach species any bit related? ive noticed certain exoskeletons between the two look similar
isopods are an order of crustaceans while cockroaches are an order of insects. an isopod is more closely related to a lobster or shrimp than it is to a cockroach: the last common ancestor they shared probably lived over 500 million years ago, before either insects or isopods or any other animal had come on land yet.
you can chalk their similar appearance up to convergent evolution: a large head shield and domed, segmented body is useful for burrowing and protecting the legs and underbelly from predators and dryness. there are even a few cockroach species that can curl into a perfect ball much like some isopods can.
hopefully I’m not confusing things further, but: insects are part of the Pancrustacea, a huge grouping of arthropods traditionally considered “crustaceans” even though insects weren’t included for a long time. think of insects being crustaceans sort of like birds being a highly distinctive group of dinosaurs. however, the divisions between them are far more ancient!
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they smoochin on ur dash ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Is this guy wearing his molting pants? (I am not keeping him in this container. This is a holding vessel until I can put him outside)
A. nasatum does not change colors that much with a molt. I have never seen anything like that, really weird… could be some funky pigment issue going on, or maybe in the small chance that it had a really bad molt and the new tissues did not form properly? I think the segments don’t line up fully with where the molt line is though so I really don’t know!!
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Anaphalis margaritacea (Western pearly everlasting)
There are over 100 species of Anaphalis but only Anaphalis margaritacea is native to North America. It is widespread across most of Canada, the United States and Northwestern Mexico. This species also has native, wild populations throughout Europe and the the Far East. This healthy specimen was found growing on an empty building site. Just what this plant loves: full sun and poor soil.
Western pearly everlasting is dioecious, meaning that the pollen-producing (male) and seed-producing (female) flowers are borne on separate plants. The flowers are either entirely staminate (producing pollen) or functionally pistillate (mostly producing just seed, but with a few staminate flowers present). Thus the female flowers have a brilliant 'back-up plan' which ensures that, even if there are no male plants in the vicinity, there is still a way to produce the next generation of Western pearly everlasting.
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Superb Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus superbus), female, family Columbidae, from Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Indonesia
photograph by Tobias Spaltenberger
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can u guys rb this n add how you crack your eggs in the tags? i thought cracking them in the sinks’s edge is universal until i saw my friend cracking an egg on the counter instead and it was so pervese and diabolical
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Eurasian treecreeper/trädkrypare. Värmland, Sweden (January 23, 2022).
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I’m in the woods placing cardboard cutouts of morels in the leaf litter to trick and bamboozle people
I’m about to ruin someone’s whole life
Scamp
tee hee hee hee hee
Gnome behavior.
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Bluemask Darter (Etheostoma akatulo), male, family Percidae, order Perciformes, Tennessee, USA
ENDANGERED.
photograph by isaac szabo
If you live in Kentucky, Alabama, or Tennessee, you live in the area with the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystem in the world!
Sadly it is under threat by pollution, but it can be fixed with stream restoration, wetland restoration, and✨riparian buffers✨
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here’s the silliest caterpillar I think I’ve ever seen in the mangroves of Singapore. it wasn’t just hairy, but coated with a thick cottony (wax?) coating that worked quite well to confuse the passing predatory weaver ants.
I did give it a curious poke and the fluff stuck to my finger, with no ill effects. bizarre little beastie, I wonder what it’ll mature into
i'm obsessed with how caterpillar survival strategies are mostly "be too confusing to eat"
All grown up moth friend. (Source:)
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I’m quite fond of scarlet and turquoise together, and Edessa rufomarginata displays them both in the form of a gorgeous stinkbug!
seen in Costa Rica, alongside an equally beautiful juvenile of the same species. they are quite common in this habitat but no less pretty for it!
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enjoy a dumpling