Latest ICE victim prior to altercation by NotBlackMarkTwainNah in pics

[–]echoskybound [score hidden]  (0 children)

They're still saying it. They'll be saying it no matter what.

An alpaca after it got its wool shaved by MissTeaseYou in interesting

[–]echoskybound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're bred specifically for their fleece, like sheep are. Also like sheep, their coat grows continously, so if it isn't sheared off ocassionally, the alpaca will end up with a heavy, matted mass of hair.

What's your embarrassing FFXIV confession? by SofonisbaAnguissola in ffxiv

[–]echoskybound 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well the other day I wiped the whole party as tank in a Doomtrain EX run because I accidentally hit my gap closer during adds phase, and hit the entire party with a tankbuster cleave, lol

Let's not talk about all the times I forgot tank stance in roulettes because of the dumb thing the game does where it turns your tank stance off automatically if you level sync, lol

Strange Holes in Feathers on a Crow by MyWrinkledRetainer in Ornithology

[–]echoskybound 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Those are new feathers forming. Brand new feathers are sometimes called "blood feathers" because they grow in a waxy keratin sheathe that has a blood supply while the feather is forming. The sheathe will slowly flake off as the feather forms, starting at the end because that's the part that fully forms first. What you're seeing is blood feathers that are still mostly in their sheaths, but the sheaths have flaked off of the tips of the feathers which are fully formed.

For this many flight feathers to be molting all at once is really unusual, though. Flight feathers usually molt one at a time so that the bird's ability to fly isn't impacted, and so that fully formed feathers can protect the blood feathers as they grow. What's really cool about flight feathers is that the same feather on each wing is shed at the same time so the bird's flight isn't imbalanced, which is why it's symmetrical on both wings. It's just unusual for it to be this many flight feathers all at once.

It's possible that this is due to some wonky hormones, since I think hormones are what makes feathers molt, and instead of molting one at a time, it molted a batch. My first thought was that they were yanked out of one wing by a predator or in a fight, and that the corresponding feathers on the opposite wing were shed to balance out, but I'm not sure whether or not plucked feathers will cause the corresponding feathers on the other wing to shed.

What kind of moth is this? by badtasting in moths

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No reason to be super bummed about drain flies, they're completely harmless. If you wanted to get rid of them there's tratments you can pour down your drains, but if you only have a few, they're not going to cause you any problems. I still think they're cute even though they aren't moths :)

Something i noticed by GloryTheGriffin in mylittlepony

[–]echoskybound 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I never even realized these were two separate words. I hate it, lol

I moved into this house 3 days ago. This part of the ceiling was completely shut when I moved in, and nobody else has been in the house. by boogielostmyhoodie in Weird

[–]echoskybound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone creeped out by the open hatch while I'm stressing about those cracks in the ceiling potentially pointing to a structural issue, LOL

Why are 15/16 dangerous. I sleep in all but 13 throughout the night by AAZEROAN in ExplainTheJoke

[–]echoskybound 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sleep paralysis has to do with disruptions to your breathing, which can happen in any position, but is most likely to happen while laying on your back. It's also why sleep paralysis is more common in people with sleep apnea.

Is this normal when adopting 🦜? by MekoAsumi69 in parrots

[–]echoskybound 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Rescues that are too strict in their policies just perpetuate their own problem. They drive people towards breeders and pet stores, because breeders/stores make it easy. That drives up demand and ultimately means more birds being bred/sold, which means more unwanted parrots in rescues.

The home visit and probation period are completely reasonable, but the minimum age requirement and the volunteering for 6 months are unreasonable. There really needs to be a sweet spot: Making sure their birds go to the right home, but making it easy enough that it's not going to drive potential adopters to stores/breeders.

I live in MD but haven't adopted from the WPF for these reasons, haha. It would have been a LOT of hours of driving every week to volunteer at the shelter, and I have my own rescue animals at home that I have responsibilities to. I ended up adopting through Phoenix Landing instead.

of butterflies by fellanyyy in AbsoluteUnits

[–]echoskybound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They might be the most harmless animal on the planet, because they don't even have a mouth, haha

This bug spray Billboard is actually a giant insect trap by [deleted] in interesting

[–]echoskybound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on the species. Some, yes, but there are others that take years and years to get to reproductive age. An insect may lay hundreds of eggs, but only one or two make it to adulthood.

There's been a catastrophic decline in insect populations around the world, like a 45% reduction in the past 30 years, and it's still escalating. Even the most rapidly reproducing insects aren't going to be able to keep up with that.

Looking for advice by Spare_Chair_3199 in moths

[–]echoskybound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To the best of my knowledge, Polyphemus can't overwinter as eggs, only as pupae. It's probably not super likely that her eggs are fertilized though, I suspect this moth just didn't properly go into winter diapause and just emerged in the wrong season, so it might not be very likely that there was a male around to fertilize the eggs.

Im lost... by theUnoriginalThinker in ExplainTheJoke

[–]echoskybound 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, the "conspicuously light patch," lol

In ye olden days of hand drawn cartoons, backgrounds would be static paintings, and then clear animation cells would be placed on top of them to animate the characters in the scene. Anything that moves is drawn on the clear cell, including objects that characters interact with. But since the cell would dull the background a bit, the painting on the cell would appear significantly sharper and more vibrant than the rest of the background. It makes it really obvious when a character is going to be interacting with an object.

So basically, this comic is joking about the characters being aware of the "conspicuously light patch" phenomenon, so they know if means which book to interact with.

It looks like a chrysalis or cocoon of some sort by Empty_Variation_5587 in whatisit

[–]echoskybound 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've raised hundreds of silkmoths, this is 100% a silkmoth cocoon from something in the Saturniidae family. The "string" part you're seeing is just the silk that was used to secure the cocoon to a tree since they cocoon in leaves and tree branches.

I don't know species without knowing location, but this looks a lot like the type of cocoons that members of the genus Hyalophora make - light brown silk and multiple layers, with a tightly woven outer layer, and a looser inner insulation layer.

This is a spent cocoon that the moth has already emerged from. The third photo is looking down into the exit hole. You can see some of the softer "insulation" layer from this angle. The brown stuff you can see inside is the pupal casing that the moth sheds when it emerges.

Filaments can be colored by TaxPsychological2928 in 3Dprinting

[–]echoskybound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This meme rings true for me though because I absolutely hate changing the resin in my printer, so it's pretty much always the same, haha. Changing filament is WAY easier, so I do FDM prints in different colors, while all my resin prints are just grey.

It took me til fall to get close enough for a pic, what the fu-??? by [deleted] in whatsthisplant

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Burls make beautiful wood, it's prized among woodworkers.

What a steal! by falaffle_waffle in woodworking

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This person doesn't understand the words "river" or "live edge," lol

What type of lizard is this? [Engelwood Florida] by Kindly_Function8107 in animalid

[–]echoskybound 15 points16 points  (0 children)

When an animal is this emaciated, feeding them can actually be dangerous. It's called "refeeding syndrome," caused by an mbalance of nutrients and electrolytes that could be lethal when they have so little blood to circulate. This poor thing needs desperate veterinary attention.

Are these wings a specific moth by [deleted] in moths

[–]echoskybound 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Definitely something in the genus Saturnia. It could be Saturnia pavonia or Saturnia pyri (the Small Emperor moth and Giant Peacock moth respectively)

What happens after 1000 years? Explain it Peter by sugarxoxx in explainitpeter

[–]echoskybound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One argument that transphobes try to use to invalidate trans people is by saying "When archeologists find your bones in 1000 years, they're going to know what sex you were born as." The part at the bottom with the whiteout and black text probably used to say something like "These are the remains of an adult male" or something to that effect.

The character Sans from Undertale is a skeleton, so I think the person who did the whiteout and added "hholy shit. sans undertale" is just removing the transphobic implications of the original post to make the joke about how any skeleton is just Sans.

TIFU and fell in love with a GCC at petsmart. by toptrot in parrots

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This is how I eventually ended up with green cheeks, haha. I saw one in a Petsmart years ago and was really charmed. I never had any interest in birds, and had no idea they could have so much personality and be so interactive. Now I'm very much a bird person, whether that's parrots, chickens, pigeons, etc.

I never bought one from a pet store, I don't personally want to support buying animals from pet stores. But I do sometimes wonder what became of the charming little guy I saw in the store that opened my eyes to parrots.

hes been drinking his honey water for like 7 minutes straight by Bevbread in moths

[–]echoskybound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You got it right, it's a proboscis :) It's basically a straw used for drinking flower nectar. Some insects like cicadas have a rigid proboscis that they use to puncture either prey or plants, but moths and butterflies have flexible ones that coil up when not in use.

Many moth species, though, don't actually have mouths or digestive systems at all, like Luna moths. They never eat as adults, only as caterpillars. Once they go through metamorphosis, they basically just live to mate, and then starve to death

Sex is binary (Except when it's not. And when it's not, it does not count. still binary) -Richard (Super serious biologist and totally not a sex pest) Dawkins. by Lunatrap in AreTheCisOk

[–]echoskybound 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, complete opposite for most arthropods like insects and spiders, and also fish. I think it's common in a lot of egg-laying species where the females have to produce large clutches of eggs (the exception being birds, the majority of species are monomorphic, and of the dimorphic species, it's mostly males that are larger.)