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Y’all, I am SO excited about this new beetle that was just discovered!!!!
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The freshly-discovered new species of longhorn beetle, Excastra albopilosa. Image credit: James Tweed
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Detailed photographs of the Excastra albopilosa specimen found by James Tweed. Image credits: Lingzi Zhou, Australian National Insect Collection
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dualityflipped · 7 days
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dualityflipped · 8 days
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I love making bug reaction gifs too use when talking too my friends , this is one of my favs.
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dualityflipped · 9 days
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Begging everyone to stop asking this rhetorical question and, instead, demand our elected officials do something about it
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dualityflipped · 14 days
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I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!
As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world
Rough draft version of Tick Advice:
Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.
Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.
Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.
The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.
Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc
IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.
Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab
While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.
Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick
If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear
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dualityflipped · 16 days
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dualityflipped · 18 days
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dualityflipped · 20 days
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dualityflipped · 21 days
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OP made this post unrebloggable but me and my bf made this meme in a fit of obsession and it had to be shared
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dualityflipped · 21 days
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dualityflipped · 21 days
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Leaf Katydid (Phyllomimus sp., Pseudophyllinae, Tettigoniidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese grasshoppers, katydids and crickets on my Flickr site HERE…..
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dualityflipped · 22 days
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fuwa fuwa mosu-chan by amuse
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dualityflipped · 27 days
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Look at my wooden friend :]
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dualityflipped · 28 days
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not to bring genuine eco politics into fandom but I think a lot of ppl have a very watered down wealthy seattle yuppie view of what an environmentalist/ecological activist looks like.
reminds me a lot of a coworker I had in Europe who was born and raised in Amsterdam and actually never spoke to me again after she found out I hunt deer bc she had the notion that all hunting is trophy hunting and couldn't accept in some places it's actually one of the most important ecosystem services possible for the general population to do.
by and large, a lot of things that are supposed to "qualify" people as having an environmental conscience do very little to actually help and only do a lot to make it look like someone cares about helping.
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dualityflipped · 30 days
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anti-wasp sentiment is going to turn me into the joker. "oh i hate wasps >:(((((((( but i love bees!!!!!" L + ratio + bees are wasps + name more five species of bee + honeybees are an ecological nightmare even within their native range + the overwhelming majority of wasps are non-stinging parasitoids + the majority of insects might be non-stinging parasitoid wasps? any hymenopterologists/coleopterologists/biostatisticians know how realistic this paper is? (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-018-0176-x) + have you ever actually been stung by a wasp?
anyway heres a whimsical ichneumonid
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dualityflipped · 1 month
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doing important research on this fine sunday morning
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