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Rare images of a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider:
These photographs were taken in Queensland, Australia, by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders.
The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside, allowing the bee to enter the nest, and then simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.
After inspecting the nest together, they return to their resting positions -- sitting side-by-side in the entryway to the nest.
The bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the spider seems equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.
This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.
Sources & More Info:
Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'
iNaturalist: Megachile macularis
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thank you Juilliard trained Val Kilmer we all say in unison
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today on the list of things that are gonna keep me up at night (courtesy of depthsofwikipedia ig)
I don't think this is actually her but this is a photo of a specimen from the same species that comes up when you search for her.
A reminder that humans can and do form years - DECADES - long relationships with creatures much smaller and much different than us.
Rest easy, Number 16. You were taken from us too soon.
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"you should be at the club" i should be sleeping peacefully at sunningrocks
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[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49766069]
Mediterranean Banded Centipede || Scolopendra cingulata
Observed in Bulgaria
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Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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I cannot stop thinking about these tags and extended monologue is running in my head.
@adamshallperish
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SR-71 Blackbird and F-14 Tomcat
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#all animals are important because they exist#sorry you are too big of a loser to love the unloved#but my heart is infinitely large
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This is how you get blocked. I am very passionate about my love of hated species and very petty about online bug vitriol.
Reasons mosquitoes are good:
Mosquitoes pollinate
Mosquitoes can repopulate and restore dead wetland because their larvae don't need oxygenated water. A mosquito boom is step #1 in restoring wetland
Mosquitoes drive caribou migrations and prevent overgrazing and overpopulation
Mosquitoes are an unbelievably important food source for birds, amphibians, and predatory insects like dragonflies and diving beetles
Mosquitoes are able to feed on megafauna (like deer), and can move nutrients from the top of the food chain down to the bottom of the food chain without killing megafauna. Mosquitoes allow birds and dragonflies to eat deer, and no deer has to die in the process
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it's always so funny to see a bug just fucking booking it across the floor. like girl where are you going. bug plans
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If I had mandibles I'd clack them together like tongs all the time
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i think people who hate wasps are just misogynists. why do you hate women
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