#precociousness

[thewordygreenlion]

For a while I thought my gift with words and for reading, as well as my obsessive love of books, meant I couldn't be autistic. LOL! Turns out I am actuallyAutistic, but also I'm hyperlexic.

[beaft]

a small child came into the café today and asked to buy a chocolate truffle. he tapped a credit card on the reader and it did not go through, mainly because it was not a credit card but in fact a junior cinema pass. i gently explained he couldn't use that to buy things in shops and he looked so gutted that i was like "...but just this once you can have it for free, don't tell my boss though" he said thank you and walked out with his truffle and as he went i heard him chuckling to himself and saying "yes..... yes!!!!!" like the sickos comic

[morganbritton132]

No Capes Batman AU where Jason is just like, ‘I’m meant to be a middle child. I’ve got middle child energy’ and then steals the neighbor kid. Not like they were using him anyways.

[hey-hey-j]

Branch will have you know that he rightfully earned that employee of the month slot thank you very much

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[addicted2wasps]

Copidosoma floridanum is an Encyrtid wasp whose brood is a fascinating example of polyembryony, in which multiple embryos form from a single egg. It is primarily a parasitoid of Noctuid moths in the subfamily Plusiinae. The Encyrtid egg will produce thousands of clone embryos. The mother C. floridanum will sometimes lay one male egg per host, or one female egg, or sometimes both. What's even more fascinating is that the wasp larvae have a caste system: the reproductives and the (precocious) soldiers. The reproductive larvae emerge during the caterpillar's last instar, consume it, and pupate into adult wasps. The soldiers emerge earlier, but never molt and die when the host dies. Their sole purpose is to protect their reproductive siblings from other parasitoid rivals and to kill their own opposite-sex precocious siblings. Since male soldiers compete for resources (caterpillar), by killing some of them off, the sterile soldiers are helping their genes survive by securing more resources for their clone reproductive siblings. In mixed-sex broods, the male larvae will try to hide and encyst themselves in the caterpillar's fat body to escape their murderous sterile sisters. Copidosoma competes with Microgastrine species such as Microplitis demolitor and Glyptapanteles pallipes. C. floridanum demonstrates haplodiploidy where unfertilized eggs become haploid males and fertilized eggs become diploid females. There are both male and female soldiers, but male soldiers tend to be less aggressive towards competitors. However, C. floridanum isn't invincible. There is one competitor, Trichogramma, that is also an egg parasitoid, and only uses the eggs of the moths. The adult wasps emerge long before the caterpillars hatch. When Trichogramma and Copidosoma end up in the same egg, the former usually ends up victorious.

I spent many hours doing research on this topic, but if there are any mistakes, I welcome any corrections!

[starscelly]

try something (:

vgk@dal 05.01.24 | round 1 game 5

[sleepire]

They are extremely precious to me

For Valentine's day!!! :) 🩷

[logwire]

precocious

[allgremlinart]

some very important tiny Bruce panels...

[seealandraw]

[emeraldspiral]

The Zimvoid Arc, but it’s a dating sim where you play as Dib and all your romantic prospects are just different Zims, plus Zib as the secret unlockable bonus option.

[deadpanwalking]

Novel me, me a novel needing a lot now

Okay, so this is one I don't see talked about a lot, but Fran Ross' 1974 book Oreo is absolutely fucking incredible, everything from the language to the style of humor is sharp as hell in a way I think you'd appreciate. The fact that it was not well-received and was the only novel she ever finished is one of the greatest literary injustices of the 20th century—and entirely due to misogyny and racism in the publishing industry. In her lifetime, Ross was most well-known for her very brief stint writing for Richard Pryor, which is insane because this book is genuinely one of the Great American Novels.

[foursaints]

thoughts on evan and pandora siblings real?

i think about them a normal amount yeah

[trans-cuchulainn]

it's so infuriating that i can't unlearn the dates of the first phds in england so that when i'm rereading an otherwise enjoyable book i'm not constantly distracted by the main character supposedly having had a doctorate from oxford before wwi

[acourtofquestions]

But Daddy I Love Him but make it Feyre running from Spring Court to go back home to Rhys

& flashing through the “after” & hot-mess-war-meeting of all the court high lords

[benoitblanc]

making an emily-arc gifset and screaming internally. why the fuck did they do that to scully