Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

I'm on blue sky now! @FumblebeeFae.bsky.social

I was reading through some of the wasp hater replies to your posts and I found them so funny....when I was 2-3 I accidentally got too close to stepping on a wasp and it stung me right where the tendon is in my heel. I couldn't walk for a few hours and wouldn't stop crying, it was so painful.

Fast forward years later and I'm the only wasp apologist I know. I go out of my way to educate my friends on wasps and keep them from being killed on sight.

And also being stung by a wasp when you're a small child isn't an excuse to violently hate an entire animal.

Grown adults beefing with a whole group of insects is very funny to me.

Can one remove a bee from the skin where one was stung without injuring the bee?

Not really. You'll see some people saying you can spin the bee around to release it. Maybe, but when you're stung by a bee it happens fast and the bee has already pulled it's stinger out by the time you realise what's happened.

this isn't meant to be comdemnatory

what's your personal reasoning for opposing pointless animal cruelty and wanting to treat animals well generally, but at the same time being okay with using animal products?

Using animal products doesn't = animal cruelty. The only people who think that are people who are so far removed from actually having worked in and with animals and therefore are coming from a place of misinformation, ignorance and/or inexperience.

I know everyone is horny over Miguel and Hobie (as is their God given rights) but goddammit if I don't feel some kinda way for the late 40s scientist going through a crisis of identity and turning into an eldritch abomination

as much as i adore dinos and pterosaurs i had to vote insects bc like. come on. they INVENTED flight. even if were not saying "theyre the best bc theyve been doing it the longest", just look at the diversity! bats could never

and they do so many cool things with it too!

and again

ONE OUT OF FOUR ANIMALS IS A BEETLE. ONE OUT OF FOUR.

tie-dyed

these key out to Agrilus politus but i've never seen them with this sort of coloration before, plus the host plant is wrong so I'm gonna need to consult the buprestid wizard once he gets back from vacation

the western gull is just one of many birds known to display same-sex pairing behavior. however, it had previously been unclear if one partner in female-female pairings took on a typically ‘masculine’ role and the other took on a ‘feminine’ role, regardless of sex. it had been hypothesized that these pairings were the result of one gull adopting a typically masculine role. researchers found that regardless of same-sex pairings, the gulls behaved identically to members of their sex in opposite-sex pairings. additionally, up to 14 percent of 1,200 seagulls in the survey were in same-sex pairings.

Today I saw a leaf that looked like a frog and I was like haha nice and then it hopped because it WAS a frog and I started crying bc life is really full of everyday miracles including but not limited to experiencing frogs

Anyway juniperfoxx is fostering for saveafox

An over 400 million year old, unproblematic dynasty

I love being in Facebook Bug ID groups because you see stuff like this that the admins have turned comments off for, after thousands of laugh and wow reacts, and you just know the events that followed were swift and unspeakable

Which one are you? I’m Aerial Fishing

pulling the pin on this grenade of a meme and sprinting for the nearest shelter

At the insistence of my supervisor I'm putting together a entomology dissection kit for myself. Any must haves other entomologist suggest?

If you’re looking at this, you are one of the first in the world to see the brain cells of the Australian stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria).

I’ve been learning the isotropic fractionator method to count brain cells in the brain. The plan is to apply this method to Australian bee species to find out the number of neurons in their brains.