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Funny how that works

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Bugs that look like flowers!

1-2: Orchid mantis, Hymenopus coronatus Photos by Frupus

3-5: Seven-spined crab spider, Epicadus heterogaster Photos by jurga_li, leovargas, and deni_schwartz

6-7: Primrose moth, Schinia florida Photos by colindjones and k_mac

8-10: Common spiny flower mantis, Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi Photos by Frupus, suncana, and leejones

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keeping beetles

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mspaint marker brush is nice

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Long-tailed metalmark, Rhetus arcius, Riodinidae. Found from Mexico down through Central America and into South America.

Photos 1-2 by eduardo_axel, 3 by birdernaturalist, 4-5 by diegolobom, 6 by alvarezyopescador, 7 by luiscampos6 , 8 by juammedina, 9 by perles, and 10 by leviarellano

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This is the greatest idea I’ve ever had

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Day 7

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Slender-scaped carpenter bee, Xylocopa tenuiscapa, Apidae. Found in South and Southeast Asia.

The common name “carpenter bee” derives from their nesting behavior; nearly all species burrow into hard plant material such as dead wood or bamboo. The bees do not eat the wood, but discard it or use it to build partitions between nest cells where eggs are laid. Burrows are filled with masses of pollen on which the larvae will feed.

Although most carpenter bees are solitary, some species form simple social nests where mothers and daughters cohabit and divide up labor responsibilities.

Photos 1-2 by chiefredearth, 3 by dannym77, 4 by pjeganathan, 5-6 by licht_und_bild, 7-8 by pradeep_hewage, 9 by maheshmatthew, and 10 by avi_chat

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Hey so just so everyone knows, the union that’s helping the Amazon workers in Alabama organize has explicitly NOT called for a boycott and has no involvement with the posts going around promoting one. 
This boycott was something put together by people who don’t at all work at Amazon and has the potential to create more negative effects for the workers than positive. 

Organizing a union is very serious business, and we can’t take a chance that might fuck up the work actual Amazon employees are doing to better their lives for the sake of a retweet, you know? 


As they say, “Don’t do for the workers what they can do for themselves.” We do not help form unions by putting things like this together without communication and creating dynamics for the workers that they never intended to exist - we help workers by asking directly what they need and helping them with it. 


This is not that. 

Please spread this around so folks know.

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A lady asked me how much it cost to make her a purse of a well known style in cotton fabric of a particular design and colour. £35 - I said. She said she thought that was a bit dear for a purse. I asked her how much she thought it would cost her to make one then. She thought about £10 as you can get similar in Primarni for £8 OK, so for £10 do it yourself I said Her reply was - I don’t know how to. I said for £10 I’ll teach you how to. So besides saving you £25 you’ll get the knowledge if you ever want to make another. She seemed pleased and agreed. OK I said, you’ll need a machine, cutting mat, rotary cutter, rivet press and the pattern. Oh well….. I don’t have many of things and I can’t justify buying all that just to make one purse. Well then for another £10 more I’ll lend you my stuff to you so you can do it at my house. Okay, she says. Great, I replied, come round on Tuesday afternoon and we’ll make a start Oh, I can’t come on Tuesday I’m having my hair done! Sorry, but I’m only available Tuesday to teach you and lend you my stuff. Other days are busy with other bags and purses. Bugger, that means I’ll have to miss my haircut. Oh, I forgot, I said, to make one yourself you also have to pay for the sundry costs. Now she’s confused – what on earth are they?? Fabric search time, electric, wear and tear on the machine, blades for the cutter etc She looks at me and says – but that’s ridiculous you can absorb all that cost as you are charging me to borrow your stuff. I could, I said, but I’m not spending time looking for the fabric you need you can do that yourself – you need 3 fat quarters of fabric, buckram, woven interfacing, non woven interfacing, a lock, rivets and matching thread. So she then says - I’ve been thinking, I think I’d rather pay you the £35. It’s too complicated to make one for myself, it wouldn’t be as well made and it would cost me a hell of a lot more than £35. When you pay for a hand crafted item, you pay not only for the material used, but also: - knowledge - experience - tools - services - time - enthusiasm Only by knowing all the elements necessary for the production of a certain item can you estimate the actual cost.

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Pet plug!! (cw spider mention)

So... they might not be "bugs" to some because they're spiders... but tarantulas are very low maintenance and fun to watch! You can make the tank nice (no wire mesh though - their claws can get stuck and if they fall or pop off a limb, it is VERY bad news -, make sure they have enough substrate to burrow if it's terrestrial, and room/things to climb if arboreal!), mist every other day if needed, keep stones in their water dish, etc.. The only irritating thing (to me) is having to keep good feeders around (crickets are a pain to keep, imo... it's better to find roaches: healthier for the T, and easier to keep, as they eat everything!).

Tarantulas are gorgeous animals, and you're golden if you can find an ethical store. Just please, PLEASE make sure your spider is ethically sourced.

I don't recommend holding them - find a species that likes to bask/doesn't mind sitting outside the burrow. but if you must, G. pulchipres is a good start. If you want something chunkier, then E. campestratus (tho they're really difficult to find in my area!). I've had a few, and even raised my current, a G. pulchra, since I got him as a bitty little sling. None of them are as flashy as, say, classic B. smithi, but they all have their own personalities and preferences that are fun to figure out!

I hope this helps...Good luck finding your pet bug, even if it's not a T!

Thanks for the input! Hopefully they see this since it’s not connected to the other ask.

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Bombycid Silkmoth (Penicillifera cf. lactea, Bombycidae) As much as this looks like a plane crash, this is the normal resting posture of many species of male Bombycid silk moths. by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu'er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese moths on my Flickr site HERE…..

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Anthidiellum notatum | watercolor, color pencil, and micron pen on toned tan paper | May 2020 | Hazel Fricke

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Sometimes (lots of times) (all the time), I have the urge to do a thing but i dont know what. Or, I feel weird, but can't figure out why or what to do to fix it. ADHD, executive dysfunction, how I feel, and the phase of the moon can all make it really hard for me to think of a solution to the issue -- or even know what the issue IS. And while meds and regular sleep certainly help, for better or for worse my brain just isn't wired for this.

So, I decided to outsource my brain.

I couldn't find an app that did what I wanted or was customizable enough for me to fake it. Therefore I built an analog external brain to do my thinking for me.

First, I bought a small, 100-or-so page notebook. It was about eight bucks at my Local Corporate Book Retailer.

Then, I logicked out all the possibilities I might have trouble braining, and started adding each step to the book -- kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure novel.

Here's an example path, which starts with me knowing what I want, and the analog brain telling me how to get there. I twisted my ankle a couple weeks ago and keep forgetting to do things to make it better, so here's my solution:

[image: Do you know what you want? Yes -> 1, No -> 32. Yes is circled]

Yes, analog brain, I know what I want! Let me flip to page 1.

[Image of Page 1: What do you want to do? Exercise -> 2 is circled. Other options include Read -> 13, Watch something -> 20, Eat ->31, Be creative -> 25, Have an adventure ->26, Clean something ->28, Learn something->29.]

Still know what I want, so I flip to page 2.

[Image page 2: What kind of exercise do you want to do? PT -> 5 is circled. Other options include Weights -> 3, Cardio -> 4, Yoga -> 9, Something quick -> 10, Hiking -> 11, Adventure -> 12]

Skipping some pages now! Since this is meant to bounce me around, it doesn't make sense to try and read it in order. (On the plus side, that makes it super easy to add new options to any part of the tree).

[Image page 5: What kind of PT? Ankle ->6 is circled. Other options include Knee->6a, Neck->7, Shoulders->8.]

(When I first numbered the pages, 6 and 6a werw stuck together, whoooops)

[Image page 6: A list of ankle PT exercises]

Eyyyyy my external brain showed me how to do my flippin' PT so my ankle stops hurting! Yay!

But what about when I don't know wtf is wrong or wtf I want? There's an app analog brain for that! (Yes I'm aware its called a decision tree or process flow or what have you. Let me have this).

[Image: Do you know what you want? No->32 is circled]

No, spacebook, idfk what's wrong, I can't brain today.

[Image page 32: How are you feeling? In pain ->33 is circled. Other options include Overstimulated->37, Understimulated, Panicky->43.]

(As you can see, I have plans to add a page for overstimulated but have not done it yet.)

Oh yeah my ankle kinda hurts, maybe I can do something about that...

[Image of page 33: What kind of pain? Knee/ankle/neck/etc ->35 is circled. Other options include Menstrual nonsense->34, Head->38.]

[Image of page 35: Joint/old injury pain: Take advil, Ice or heat, Massage, Foam roll, Warm bath, PT exercises. Under the last option are subsets Ankle->6 (circled), Neck->6a, Knees->7.]

...Aaaand now I'm back around to my list of ankle PT exercises! And I didnt have to think at all!

Anyway -- all it takes to make something like this for yourself is a notebook and some time to think the logic through. You can start by making lists (not in the notebook) of questions you have trouble braining in the moment, and what some solutions are. Then number your pages, and get started!

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What is tagmosis??

Why I’m glad you asked :)

Enter the common ancestor of all arthropods. They probably looked a lot like centipedes and millipedes, or even velvet worms, which are super close to arthropods. By which I mean they were long and made of segments.

Super simple! Got that? Good.

Lets go forward through evolutionary time. Now every segment has a pair of legs. Everything is very uniform and unspecialized.

Still with me?

Here’s where things get weird, the segments themselves to change size and shape, and the legs change as well. How these things change depends on the subphylum itself, but I am an insect blog so I’ll focus on them. To make a long story short:

Some of the legs migrated to the top of the segment (antennae)

Some legs in the front were used to shove food into their mouths (mandibles),

Some legs were used to sense the environment around them through touch (maxillary and labial palps).

Some of the legs on the back end elongated (cerci)

Some of the legs reduced until they basically disappeared

And of course some of the legs remained as walking legs, the six legs that we are all familiar with

The first six segments became thinner and thinner until they eventually fused, becoming the head

The next three segments are the ones the walking legs are attached to, making up the thorax

The rest of the segments comprise the abdomen, absent of any legs

Like so.

And woah! My awful generic drawing turned out looking like the most ancestral insect order we know of, the archeaognatha! How interesting!

You can even make the vestigial remnants of the legs that were on the segments that would later become the abdomen!

So there you have it! Tagmosis is the process of an unspecialized body plan separating into specialized regions, which are called the tagmata. The three tagmata in insects are the head, which specializes in sensory of the environment, the thorax, which specializes in locomotion, and the abdomen, which specializes in digestion and reproduction. From there evolution stretched and squashed segments and legs (and mouthparts) into all different kinds of crazy shapes. The number of segments differs too.

Tl;dr everything about insects is legs