#rovings

[herpsandbirds]

Metallic Rove Beetle (Plochionocerus fulgens), family Staphylinidae, Ecuador

photographs by Pat Cole

[mekha-draws]

what if... godhood ascended mass grave, but smol

[salamispots]

honse (kinda forgot about posting this here haha)

[onenicebugperday]

Long-necked shining fungus beetle, Diatelium wallacei, Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)

Photographed in Borneo by isabetabug

[lotitheism]

something something specific species of rove beetle mimic the appearance, odor and behavior of certain species of ants in order to infiltrate colonies

aka @somerandomdudelmao's most recent marble sky part is on my mind and i can't stop thinking about oscar in relation to rove beetles. he may not be trying to eat marmor young but hey. imitation beetle funny

[genshinresource]

Genshin Impact Companion Avatars From the "Dream of Roving Stars" Web Event (1/7)

[crevicedwelling]

part 3 of the Lasius associate species: the parasites

rove beetles are the most speciose family of beetles and some of their success can be attributed to the development of complex chemical defenses and weapons. some species, however, have turned their chemical secretions into exploitative disguises.

this little beetle is Ceophyllus monilis (Pselaphinae), and it lives its life inside Lasius ant nests. smelling, and probably feeling (rove beetles usually are long-bodied with short legs—Ceophyllus reverses that) similar to the host ants, it goes unnoticed in the colony and can get up to whatever mischief it wants.

by that, I mean taking the ants’ resources: some pselaphine rove beetles use their chemical disguise to sit in the brood chambers and eat the ants’ eggs and larvae, but others take their manipulation to a greater degree and actually beg for food—which the ants obligingly deposit right in their mouths. their secretions also get the ants to groom them and carry them around, with some species even having a “handle” to make transport easier!

unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find much about how Ceophyllus feeds or how specialized of a myrmecophile it is. it quickly disappeared into the nest after these two photos, what a cool sighting!

[eriond]

You guys ever get too deep into your hobby?

Also titled I bought hand carders and I am now spinning yarn with all the yarn scraps & offcuts I've collected from knitting & crochet over the past few years. And I am having The Best Time

[thedarkzyxabyss]

I love them so much and this fits them perfectly

Rove (orange one) belongs to @askrove

Virux (little shit /pos) belongs to @bunrux

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Karl Rove is the brain bug of the modern Republican Party. Everything negative they’ve put out from policy to propaganda came from his evil head. If you ever get a chance watch the PBS Frontline episode on him from the horrendous Bush/Cheney years.

[linkandorf]

Who's being raced, and who's being chased..?

Happy Mar10 Day!!

[milkweedman]

When you get to a point in fiber arts where you start wanting to learn other crafts just so that you can better make what you're making, that's when you know you're screwed

I keep eyeing inkle looms because I need to make woven straps for the handspun crochet bags I keep making and the knit icord strap is so annoying to make. And I will never know peace until I can make the Perfect Bags.

[onenicebugperday]

@esoteric-brustle submitted: Platydracus stercorarius I think, spotted in the Flemish Brabant province, Belgium

Yes that's what it looks like to me! I don't get many rove beetles submitted so it's always a treat :)

[hellsitegenetics]

Yo, bro! Why are you doing that?

Jay Eazy ain't drop yet, bruh!

Don't worry, "Mega Man" drops January 7th. Listen!

I was never book smart. I'm money smart,

Makes me more intelligent.

Call me Mr. Rock Fesitval,

I got hella bands.

Shawty cute and her circle too,

Told her get a friend.

She gon' make me slide with my dog,

Like I'm Mega Man

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Closest match: Ontholestes murinus genome assembly, chromosome: 10 Common name: Mousy Rove Beetle

[genshinresource]

Genshin Impact The Five Archon Blessings From the "Dream of Roving Star" Web Event

[anghraine]

ngl I always find it wild to see Star Wars stuff that's like "if you think about it in terms of realistic statistics/science then..." about almost any aspect of it.

I mean, what about the Star Wars films gives the impression that this universe abides by realistic statistics, or realistic anything else? SW is broadly a fantasy epic projected onto an IMAX screen with a space background painted on it. Yeah, the planets and moons in the films almost always have improbably limited biomes and two major locations max, because narratively these locations are usually just fantasy city-states with space aesthetics.

Starships travel at the speed of plot and we simply jump past the amount of time that presumably is passing, and sort of imply the passage of that time through shifts in the character dynamics. But this passage of time cannot be analyzed with any kind of consistency because the only logic governing it is the pace of the story.

Just how long did it take the Empire to send a full contingent of forces to Dantooine, search the entire planet, find the Rebel base, and then report back to Tarkin between one scene and another? No one says and no one appears to care. How long did it take Han and Leia to reach Bespin and what exactly went on between them while Luke was, in the same time frame, going through a protracted training over multiple days at an absolute minimum? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How do giant space worms survive inside asteroids that somehow have an Earth-approximate gravitational field and I guess an atmosphere? Shhhh don't think about it. The point of the sequence is not "how does the giant space worm subsist off this random asteroid and how does it breathe and how does gravity work in this context, seriously" but that the giant worm sequence is fucking sick.

There's probably some after the fact EU justification invented by people who had nothing to do with the original writing of the space worm (or perhaps there are several mutually incompatible explanations) and I am profoundly disinterested in them. Nothing could make this even slightly realistic and it was never intended to be. Star Wars sings space shanties at scientific/mathematical realism as it sails past on a completely different ship going in the exact opposite direction.

And I do mean "sails" because while astronomy might tell us that space is unfamiliar and wild on a level we as Earthbound lifeforms can barely comprehend, Star Wars understands that space is basically an ocean, yet with stars and cool but survivable planets in it, or sometimes it's air but combined with a super cool space background so you can have early 20th century aerial combat that would make no sense in actual space conditions and doesn't need to.

"If you consider relativity, then just running the Empire would be..." General relativity does not govern the galaxy far, far away. Space magic does. I'm not sure there are even time zones.