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Mysterious moth unseen for 65 years accidentally rediscovered by tourist

#lazarus species #entomology

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#art

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"Easter Egg" Weevil (Pachyrhynchus cf. erichsoni), family Curculionidae, Mindanao, Philippines

photographs by Bald Guy With a Camera

#entomology

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slipper lobster (larvae) painting from today as I’m out enjoying the weather! message me if interested in this piece and I’ll give you details!

#this shreds #art

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

#conservation

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#wet beast...... #video

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will you be a part of the emergence?

cicada shirts coming for preorder on Friday!

#art #so sad that i'll be too far out of the zones to see any :^(

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Moths from the past couple days:

Cecropia and a Jersey Tiger Moth!

The Cecropia came out a little weird and scanned a little worse, but it is what it is! Jersey moth was fun to make the stripes up, but next time maybe not on a white background.

I have a list of around 30 months to go through next few weeks!

#art

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hired a galapagos finch at my burger joint and after 2 generations it evolved to take peoples orders

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#video

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In the dark, the deer mistook my headlights for stars

#art #animal death

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Broad-nosed weevil, Exophthalmus sp.?, Entiminae

Photographed in Colombia by Judy Gallagher

#entomology

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A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) covered in pondweeds in Chobe National Park, Botswana

by flowcomm

#herpetology

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hiya! i’ve been wondering this for a while but, when/why did humans lose the ability to eat raw meat?

I’ll tell you a secret- humans never actually lost that ability! you are just as capable of chowing down on a freshly-killed antelope as, say, a chimpanzee is.

“wait, what?”

this is because raw meat, when it’s fresh off the hoof, is actually pretty clean in terms of harmful bacteria! bacteria only really shows up to the meat party when raw meat is allowed to sit for a while, like on a supermarket shelf, or the side of the road.

euuuugh!

but what there IS plenty of in raw meat is parasites! meat is just chock full of those little guys, which is why most wild predators are ALSO chock full of various internal parasites. always wash your hands after you shake paws with a lion, kids!

“WAIT, WHAT??”

this, combined with the fact that cooked meat is easier to digest and offers more energy per gram, is why early humans started charring their dinner over the fire before they tried to take a bite. 

so I mean, you COULD just grab a squirrel and chomp down, but why would you do that when hamburgers are a thing? early humans knew what they were talking about. 

give me your pickles if you don’t want em, though.

#biology

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overstimulated and anxious at the zoo until I looked up and saw an angel dancing in a beam of light

#wow!!!! #freshwater biology

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so no head

#art #blood #gore

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the mighty gar...

(my half of an art trade with @jackalspine!)

#godddd #art