crevicedwelling
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creatures in leaf litter, isopod alchemy. I have bugs to show you. please look at them:
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i spent like ten minutes showing your #amblypygi to my mom and she was completely delighted. treasure trove for lovers of the creatures
Everyone Loves Stella
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i showed my college RA a photo of Stella and they thought she was super cool :] just thought you'd like to know that your content continues to show more people how cool bugs and bug-adjacent creatures are
Everyone Loves Stella
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Stella really is one of the most perfect Creatures ever I think. few can Creature as well as she
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I'm still fussing with it here and there, but
Here is the official cover reveal for my upcoming book, THE CICADAS OF NORTH AMERICA!
Preorders are available NOW at www.OwlflyLLC.com/publications !!!
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do you know of any friendlier ways i could repel bugs from my house? i particularly am having a problem with carpenter ants wandering in, and i’m getting afraid of them making a home in my house’s structural wood, but i hate squashing them and i hate spraying poison even worse. but i like my house. what could i do, if anything, to keep them away and still be nice to bugs?
I don’t deal with this sort of thing, I don’t know much about it. see if you can find better ways to seal windows and doors—prevention is worth all the poison in the world
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hello mister carpenter bee I’ve got you now. whats that it seems you do not want to be held. my apologies and good luck out there~
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was curious how much Tetra weighed
it would appear that Tetra weighs 2
my beloved horrible scavenger cave horse
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youve spoken on how controlling some invasives in the u.s. particularly asian jumping worms can be futile, and i agree w your points, so i'm curious what the nature of your work is with them? apologies if this isn't something you can share but as an outsider to the field with casual interest all i hear about them is as a big scary threat so i'm curious to know other developments in the Worm Science world
im bored and want to know whats going on with worms outside
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“why do they do this?”
East Asia is a tough place to be an earthworm:
I think this is why they call them jumping worms
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having my evening cucumber
I offered a portion to this large and mannerly horse
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small bird was VERY offended that I picked him up off the sidewalk like a potato chip. don't fall asleep on the sidewalk then
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hello! I have a question, there's a type of nemertea that spits out a proboscis that has little roots that spread out, at least, I think it's a nemertea, would you happen to know what type it is? I would really like to look it up and read about it. Thank you!!
Gorgonorhynchus, I think.
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I’m getting weirdly fond of these big pink horrid mystery worms. I think I will go try to catch more tomorrow
I think this is why they call them jumping worms
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I think this is why they call them jumping worms
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interesting things to note about these:
geophilomorpha hatch with all their legs, but males and females differ in how many leg-bearing segments they have (females usually more).
like scolopendromorphs, geophilomorphs wrap around their young to brood them, but hold the eggs against their backs, not their bellies—their sternite segments house gland that secrete noxious defense chemicals. bc these guys were stressed from being caught, I noticed that they were putting off a flowery scent that probably tastes foul or is harmful to their predators (I thought it just smelled like dandelions)
just a few geophilomorph centipedes today
found nearly anywhere with soil (their name means earth-lovers), these are the most successful and species-rich order of centipedes.
you’re unlikely to see any unless you dig, and this bunch was sifted out of old soil and put in a container for release. while geophilomorphs are caring mothers that guard their many babies, these juveniles and adults wouldn’t likely be associated so closely or touching one another naturally—but given that I only inspected three small pots, can coexist at very high densities!
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just a few geophilomorph centipedes today
found nearly anywhere with soil (their name means earth-lovers), these are the most successful and species-rich order of centipedes.
you’re unlikely to see any unless you dig, and this bunch was sifted out of old soil and put in a container for release. while geophilomorphs are caring mothers that guard their many babies, these juveniles and adults wouldn’t likely be associated so closely or touching one another naturally—but given that I only inspected three small pots, can coexist at very high densities!
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