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For reasons entirely unrelated to my local shelter having female rats (lying), when people say that allergic reactions are more likely with male rats, does that mean it's possible to be allergic to male rats but not have a reaction to female rats?

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i want people to appreciate pigeons. not "ehehe skrunkly little trash gremlins. so adaptable and resilient". nothing wrong with that sentiment towards racccons and opossums, but when people do this about pigeons, it shows a fundamental misunderstanding about a pigeon's place in the world.

pigeons were beloved. they were pets, they were tools, they were food. we found use and pleasure in everything about them. then they became obsolete. then they stopped being popular. an animal that we have literally thousands of years of deep history with, completely discarded by mankind to the point most people are ignorant of their existence outside of "rats with wings".

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Niel bangin out the tunes!!

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Something Ill always recommend to people trying to get more comfortable with insects (if they can handle it, not everyone can) is to just… watch them. Video or RL. Doesn’t really matter. Don’t interact- no need to touch or manipulate, just watch them.

One thing that I’ve noticed gets a lot of people hung up on bugs is this idea of foreignness- they aren’t mammalian in design, and for many in personality too. Bugs are weird with their extra legs, alien design and almost unanimal-like… but they aren’t. If you watch an ant build its nest you’ll see it carefully choose wear each grain of sand goes. A beetle walking will look and chose what twigs to crawl on. A spider seeing your shadow will turn to look at you.

People are surprised by that. They’re surprised that if you just watch a bug be a bug… its behavior is understandable. Its not as weird. 

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A FROGGIE HAS MOVED INTO MY POND THIS IS NOT A DRILL AAAAAAA

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i know a lot of people dont like bugs but they are animals. theyre just as essential as the rabbits and foxes and deer and bears. they all play an important role keeping the ecosystem in order. they pollinate and hunt and get hunted. theyre a part of a balance. their purpose on earth isnt just to be an inconvenience to you personally. bugs dont care about you. i asked them about it and they said they never even heard of you

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Spiny handsome fungus beetle, Cacodaemon sp., Endomychidae

Photographed in Malaysia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Photos shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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Self proclaimed animal luvr i hate humans internet warrior logic

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moth update ! theyre threatening me

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Space Cowboy’s had a sleeping spot I wasn’t able to find for the life of me, usually he’d be in his bubble loft or in his snake plant sleeping bag but sometimes he’d just disappear. Finally caught him coming out from this tiny little space between a piece of cork bark and the background that I didn’t realize existed ajdkgkg LOOK at him he’s so cute getting out of bed ready for the day

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All great info, but to note, if your goal is saving the bees, keeping honeybees very much does not do that. Honeybees are a European species. Keeping them in the US does nothing other than take resources from our extremely vital native pollinators. You CAN keep native bees though! Orchard mason bees are a popular choice in the Midwest because look at them!!

They won’t produce honey, but if your goal is “provide a high quality nesting site to save bees,” these are a great choice! There’s more to it than just making holes or putting up one of those “bee hotels” that can cause a huge buildup of lethal fungus and other pathogens, but it isn’t hard.

Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

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Camouflage…

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Got a new phone that has night vision and the Cowboy pics it has enabled… ohhhhhhhh….. my pics of him are usually so bad cuz I keep all but the dimmest lights on at night when he’s out so I don’t blind him. This is a game changer. Y’all get to see the big open pupil maximum cutie pie mode clearly now!!

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I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy

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Ohhhhh. Ohhhhh my goodness. I love frilly super feminine names for pigeons. Odette and Cosette have long been in my mind for if I ever brought one into my life. And today I have been seized by the DELIGHT that would be a black or otherwise super goth pij named Lucretia. Ohhhh….

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When is he dropping his self-based eyeshadow pallet

His primaries are extra shiny today