Hyalophora cecropia, alternatively known as the Cecropia moth, is North America’s largest native moth species, and are a member to the family Saturniidae, or giant silk moths. The females of these beautiful creatures have a wingspan of up to seven inches or more. Typically found during the spring or summer, perched on a maple or birch tree. Unlike most other caterpillars with bristles, the larval stage of this moth lacks venom. Like several other species, the Cecropia moth is born without a mouth and thus unable to feed, as such they have a short adult life of ten days or two weeks at most.
A very famous moth, the African death's head hawkmoth :) Named after the skull shape on their back, though honestly i dont care about the skull, i care about the fact that they can SQUEEK!!!
Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.
Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.
Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.
And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.
Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.
I’ve come to make an announcement: Shadow the Hedgehog’s a bitch ass mother fucker. He pissed on my fucking wife. That’s right, he took his hedgehog fuckin' quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was THIS BIG. And I said “that’s disgusting!” So I’m making a callout post on my twitter dot com: "Shadow the Hedgehog, you got a small dick, it’s the size of this walnut except WAY smaller." And guess what, here’s what my dong looks like: PFFFFFFFFGJT. That’s right baby. All point, no quills, no pillows, look at that it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my wife so guess what, I’m gonna FUCK THE EARTH. THATS RIGHT THIS IS WHAT YOU GET, MY SUPER LAZER PISS. Except I’m not gonna piss on the earth, I’m gonna go higher. I’m pissing on the MOOOOOON! How do you like that, OBAMA? I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT! You have twenty-three hours before the piss d r o p l e t s hit the fucking earth, now get out of my fucking sight before I piss on you too!
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Vespa mandarinia aka the Asian giant hornet; and by its less affectionate Internet moniker “murder hornet”, is the world’s largest species of hornet! Native to temperate and tropical East Asia, South Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, and parts of the Russian Far East.
First two photos courtesy of @aaiZveGu1X7nWwX (Twitter) who has a wide variety of photos and video clips of giant hornets he tends after. When isolated from a hive body and handled with care they aren’t the monster most make them out to be.
All hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets. In the U.S., we have no native hornets. Our main hornet is the European hornet which was introduced into New York in 1840. It looks like a large yellowjacket—about ¾ to 1½ inches long—and nests in the ground or in hollow trees.