flora_explora @ flora_explora @beehaw.org

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Isn't that a form of outmost torture in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series? That you have to experience how tiny and insignificant you truly are.

I've mentioned lemmy irl, too. Various times actually. Obviously no one knows it. But they usually don't even know of mastodon or the fediverse either. And even reddit is just a name they've heard before. Everyone I know irl is on Instagram though.

Fitting username :P

Although tbh they look kinda cute!

What? Wolfspiders are pretty shy. When I try to take pictures of them from close up they always run away :( Also, they are not that big. Wiki says the largest are 35 mm in body size (1.38 in). And also they are no insects!!

Yeah, and that's why I miss r/raisedbynarcissists here on lemmy :/

Maybe it's just generational trauma of our ancestors starving that is passed on...

I don't know this plant, what species is it? Looks like Cyperaceae.

If you care about who is factually correct, then it's person 2 and 4:

Palmitic acid (hexadecanoic acid in IUPAC nomenclature) is a fatty acid with a 16-carbon chain. It is the most common saturated fatty acid found in animals, plants and microorganisms.

(Although person 3 is correct in that it is a carboxylic acid. It doesn't exclude the other terms though.)

Well, I was indeed talking about the "regular wasps". We've had dinner in garden etc, but they usually left us alone although their nest is in about 5 m distance. I guess the reason is that there are other food sources for them around due to a diverse vegetation.

Don't forget about the beetle that has adaptations to slip through the intestinal tract of its predators and make it out through their anus ;)

Not sure how aggressive the wasps are in the US, but for Europe this isn't really true. We have a nest of European wasps (similar to yellowjackets) in our garden and they really couldn't care less about us humans. I can stand in their flight path and they just fly around me. But I'm also not as easily panicked as other people so that certainly helps...

Aww nice! Did you upload it to iNat?

I interpret It more like you are caressing your own work and being proud of it.

Bizarre beasts episode on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Rzx7yeh7c

Oh, that does indeed sound bad :( Thanks for the answer!

Is using plastic waste necessarily disadvantageous to them? Maybe they choose to us some plastic containers over mollusc shells? (Serious question)

@fossilesque Your chance to replace the legs of one person with the Saddam Hussein figure...

Well, they've been evolved to serve the purpose of injecting their DNA/RNA. So of course they look like they serve that purpose? Your argument is also used by creationists to somehow squeeze their god into all of this by saying "this looks too perfect, this must have been made by something external, i.e. god"...

Haha, I'm not from the US and have missed out on how Saddam Hussein is related to that shape? For me it seemed a bit random to have a mummy shape without any letter associated in a data is beautiful post. What's this about though?

E: ah yes, found it: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/saddam-husseins-hiding-place

I feel like this was written as a self-roast by someone in neuroscience. If it is written by someone outside of the field I would definitely agree with you though...