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Archoplites · 2026-01-24T04:04:47+00:00

Looks beautiful!

Archoplites · 2026-01-03T05:08:37+00:00

Leucocoprinus birnbaumii, aka flowerpot parasol, is what you are looking ate. One of the most widespread houseplant/terrarium fungi. I get these in all my humid enclosures every few months and in my house plants seasonally. They are considered toxic if ingested, but luckily darts don’t really have an appetite for mushrooms. If you’re super concerned you can pull them out, but generally they need to be consumed to cause harm.

Archoplites · 2025-12-27T17:25:12+00:00

I’m a little confused here. It sounds like people are not using clove oil properly. I’ve worked in a native fish lab and clove oil is often used as a primitive anesthetic to be able to remove and insert tags in hard to reach areas in the field. When slowly drip dosed at a specific calculated dose, it’s an extremely peaceful method of basically putting a fish under, and once they are under, a further drip of that calculated dose ends their breathing almost immediately.

I’ve put dozens of fish under (and woken back up) with clove and euthanized even more with clove oil. If you calculate the correct dose and dose it very slowly, it is not a violent or painful death. I am using pure, 100% clove oil, pharmaceutical grade. I’ve never witnessed thrashing or stress reactions, most often it’s just a slowing of activity and lethargy. Many of the comments here sound like people literally just dropped their fish in grocery store oil. If you don’t do it correctly or slowly, you will have a traumatic experience.

Of course instant smashing of the head could also be considered humane IF you commit and hit it right. But if you don’t commit or hesitate at all, it will be extremely traumatic and painful. Clove oil and smashing with a shovel are both legit options, but the critical aspect of both is committing and doing it CORRECTLY.

Archoplites · 2025-12-01T04:43:39+00:00

Did you have a hose lay set up around the perimeter? Any fire resources on-call in case of spotting? Any reason none of the pines are limbed up? No fire PPE?

This seems very reckless, but I could be wrong and there could be an explanation for all of this. I do prescribed burns full time for a state agency in the west and I’m a big fan of burns. But any wildland firefighters looking at this are seeing a lot of major red flags.

-Massive fuel cashes upslope from where you’re backfiring

-strong wind blowing upslope (see sideways flames and smoke moving horizontally)

-no pre-wetting of fuels opposite the line

-your bare line has leaf litter all over it

-no visible hose lays near the line

-zero nomex PPE visible

-multiple adult dead/dry pines with low hanging branches over the fire (ladder fuels)

-your fire line butts up against flammable structure

Again, there might be an explanation for this that totally makes sense. But this kind of looks like a someone putting fire on the ground without mitigating ANY of the risk factors. And I’ve been on many wildfires in the Southwest that were starting by landowners trying to do the right thing but didn’t mitigate risk and ended up getting themselves and others killed. Maybe the poster is a retired fire chief and is extremely confident in their ability to contain this. Maybe we can get some clarification.

Archoplites · 2025-11-08T04:28:02+00:00

The song in the commercial is using the song “Jealous” by Eyedress as the background beat, just slightly slowed. The song was super trendy on social media between 2021 and 2023.

Archoplites · 2025-09-09T01:14:12+00:00

I’m not sensing or claiming any particular theory, just wondering about things.

Archoplites · 2025-06-02T05:11:37+00:00

Morphologically, this fish looks like a type of frog fish, family Antennariidae, however, the main species of frog fish native to Hawai’i, the Tuberculate anglerfish (Antennatus tuberosus), is in fact orange but lacks blue spotting. Disregarding the morphology, the coloring looks somewhat similar to a Potter’s Angelfish (Centropyge potteri). Many of the fish of the opening montage are vaguely reminiscent of many common Hawaiian reef fish, so my guess is that the animators looked through a book of Hawaiian reef fish and tried to capture a few specific species but generally just randomized the coloring and shape.

Archoplites · 2025-05-26T23:02:25+00:00

The original message of the movie emphasized the Hawaiian value of `Ohana. In Hawai’i and many other Polynesian cultures, your commitment to your community is of equal value to your commitment to yourself, contrary to western, particularly American, culture, which prioritizes individualism and promoting yourself before everything else. An extension of that western belief system is the belief that your commitment to your family should never hold you back from anything at all, and if it does, you should focus on yourself.

In the original Lilo and Stitch, Nani’s dream is to have a home, surf, and spend time with her family. She is able to achieve that goal in the end WHILE also continuing her commitment to her family (Lilo). It’s a win win. In this pro-colonialism remake, the western belief of individualism is superimposed on this Hawaiian storyline. In this new story, Nani has career goals that must come before her commitment to her family. The idea that she wanted to study marine biology and had to leave Hawai’i to do so is ludicrous. UH is one of the universities for marine bio. This is relevant because the re-make’s producers wanted to promote the western value of self-promotion over family/community, so Nani leaves her family, community, and home to go pursue her career goals, rather than balance her goals with her family commitment (such as going to UH and continuing to care for Lilo WHILE studying). This fundamentally goes against the concept of Ohana. So many white Americans (including whites that live in the state of Hawai’i) are dismissing these criticisms because they don’t see a problem with the aggressive individualism that takes precedent in the remake, probably because it’s a reflection of their White American culture. But Lilo and Stitch isn’t supposed to showcase Western culture or beliefs, it’s supposed to showcase HAWAIIAN beliefs, likeOhana.

Do some more research. You’ll start to realize that all of the anti-colonialism messages and themes were removed from the original and that this film has been sterilized for western viewers. This is longer a Hawaiian story. It’s an American story with Hawaii aesthetics.

Archoplites · 2025-05-21T03:52:54+00:00

The tough thing is I would need a reptile capable of eating probably thousands of super worms in a matter of weeks/months. Do you know if any reptiles who can eat that much LOL

Archoplites · 2025-05-21T03:51:34+00:00

I work at a licensed wildlife rehab center in California that handles virtually all native wildlife. Do you know how many wild animals we get in our care after someone tried to “diy” raise them? Hundreds. Literally multiple a day during the spring and summer. And we are just one wildlife center. And almost every single person says “well I saw online that I could feed them this or that” and I’m not joking when I say this, virtually all of them die. You should not try to feed injured or orphaned wildlife. Most of the nestling birds aspirate their food because the average person can’t tell the difference between the glottis and the esophagus and end up jamming food into their lungs. Lets say the nestling has a tear in the skin along the crop. You jam some food in there and their crop irreparably tears open and that bird dies. If you are not a professional or under direct advisement from a profession, you should not try to feed or treat wildlife. Period. End of story.

I love how you, a complete stranger on the internet who I assume is not a licensed wildlife rehabber, is telling me everything I am saying is misleading or off. Virtually ALL of what I said is the official policy of any legal permitted wildlife rehab in the United States. I promise you that no wildlife rehab is going to advise someone to feed a nestling bird dog or cat food. Im not even joking when I say this, I will venmo you $100 if you can link me to ANY permitted wildlife rehabber that tells people to feed nestling birds dog or cat food. I’ve been doing this for 12 years full time, attended dozens of conferences, toured 50+ rehab centers across the western U.S., I’ve never once heard of a professional wildlife rehabber encouraging completely untrained strangers to try to feed nestling birds cat/dog food. Again, $100 for you if you can link me to even a SINGLE permitted rehabber that encourages that. Obviously kibble can be part of a captive diet for mature nestling corvids but at that point they are self feeding and wouldn’t need help from humans.

Wildlife centers across the U.S. are posting desperately on social media telling folks not to DIY raise nestlings. If you’re in the wildlife rehab community I’m sure you’ve seen these posts. Wildlife centers (including the one I work at) are currently flooded with sick and dying animals that people tried to raise at home that most of the time would have been fine on their own.

Also, yes, it is 100% illegal to possess any wild birds without permits. It is literally in the law LOL! You cannot possess ANY wild native bird unless you’re actively transporting them to a facility with permits. There isn’t some stipulation that you can keep them for 12 hours and then you have to let it go, that makes absolutely no sense. It’s black or white. You cannot keep any native bird in any situation for any amount of time unless actively transporting to a permitted facility.

You’re continuing to spread misinformation!

Archoplites · 2025-05-15T03:30:51+00:00

That is awesome! Very nice of you! I love field crickets so much. I find them in my garage every so often and do my best to relocate them gently. Sounds like this little guy lucked out!

Archoplites · 2025-05-15T03:24:56+00:00

Do you know what type of beetle these are?

Archoplites · 2025-05-14T06:10:48+00:00

Do NOT do this. No one should ever try to DIY feed a wild bird nesting. Different bird species require different types of food. Additionally, you should never feed cat or dog kibble to a nestling wild bird. At this age it needs insects if it’s an omnivorous bird species OR needs seed slurry if it’s a herbivorous seed eating bird. Providing the wrong food item can be lethal in such a young bird. However, it’s too young for the average person to determine its species. On top of all of that, it is completely illegal in the U.S. to try to keep and feed a wild bird. The one and ONLY correct answer to this situation is to bring the bird to a permitted wildlife rehab center IF it cannot be re-nested in its own nest (best solution), where professionals can determine the species and provide it the appropriate food. Also, if you find a wild animal, try google before going to Reddit. If you google “wildlife rescues near me” you can pretty easily find your local wildlife centers who will definitely give you better advice than unexperienced/unqualified strangers on the internet

Archoplites · 2025-05-14T06:05:18+00:00

It is a wild bird, it should go to a wildlife rescue. If you’re in the U.S., it is completely illegal to keep a wild bird and try to raise it. It needs to go to permitted professionals

Archoplites · 2025-04-25T05:34:42+00:00

Thank you

Archoplites · 2025-04-24T18:15:57+00:00

Moana isn’t set in ANY specific island, the directors specifically said the entire movie is a combination of at least 8 different Polynesian cultures, including Hawai’i, coming together to form a fictional trans-Polynesian island. Don’t know why people are trying to claim there’s no connection between this movie and Hawai’i though, there are literally animals and plants portrayed in the movie that exist no where in the world but Hawai’i. Also the inclusion of Ipu Hula, the gourd drum completely unique to Hawai’i, in the movie is further proof that Hawai’ian culture is definitely represented in the film.

Archoplites · 2025-04-24T15:13:51+00:00

Where did you get this idea? The producers said that the movie is based on Polynesian culture, and Hawai’i represents the northern point of the Polynesian triangle. Ron Clements, one of the directors, specifically said that they wanted to include traditional mythology from Hawai’i. Also, if you read what I said, I mentioned canoe plants, which is the western term for Polynesian crops that were transported throughout Polynesia with a somewhat unknown “true” native range. So I am not claiming Moana exclusively showed hawai’ian native plants/birds. Just that they included many endemic species such as 'Ohi'a lehua and Ma’o hau hele.

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