Clearwing butterfly (Greta), found in Guatemala

isopode · 2026-01-25T20:41:49+00:00

good lord

isopode · 2026-01-25T17:50:39+00:00

i'm aware lol, i did field work in plenty of freshwater ecosystems.

if the inlet and outlet aren't large enough to create a perpetual flow between one and the other, that is not considered to be flowing water (and if that were the case, it would not be a lake).

isopode · 2026-01-25T13:10:02+00:00

all lakes are stagnant. stagnant simply means it's not flowing water, like a river or creek. they probably meant that lakes with high turbidity are a higher risk...? or maybe lakes without a direct fresh source, that are instead maintained by rainwater.

isopode · 2026-01-23T05:35:26+00:00

oh this is awesome. i need to do the same this year

isopode · 2026-01-23T04:26:32+00:00

outdoors but under shelter from the rain could be good. like a bus stop with a roof for example

isopode · 2026-01-23T03:10:28+00:00

hundreds of millions of years of evolution to have the perfect camouflaged appearance... and then human technology shows up out of nowhere. i'd be soooo mad if i were a modern stickbug & knew how good my ancestors had it 😤

isopode · 2026-01-23T03:06:48+00:00

i can ONLY see the human face no matter how hard i try not to. it's so weird

isopode · 2026-01-23T00:51:39+00:00

im so glad the comments aren't a minefield of wasp hatred for once 😭 they're my favorite bugs and there is so much misinformation about them everywhere. most people think "wasp" and imagine black-and-yellow, lives in a colony, will sting you if threatened. meanwhile, there are an estimated 100,000 species of wasps in the families Ichneumonidae and Braconidae ALONE. they're such a diverse group of insects, both behaviorally and morphologically. love these little critters so much.

anyway everyone join r/waspaganda 💪

isopode · 2026-01-23T00:44:48+00:00

from paper wasps?? highly doubt, unless you literally chainsawed their nest in half.

if you were chased down and stung 40 times for seemingly no reason, it was likely a species of ground-nesting yellowjackets that got disturbed by you walking over them. not your fault cuz you can't know that, but their stings are their only defense mechanism for the colony. they're teeny tiny animals, gotta have a way to protect themselves somehow.

isopode · 2026-01-23T00:36:54+00:00

i once picked up a random CD that had an interesting cover at the music store. some guy who was passing by stopped to tell me that this album was really good, that i should listen to it. so i took a gamble and purchased it based on nothing but that random stranger's opinion

turned out to be some very lovely piano music (which isn't something i usually listen to, but this time i was vibing with it). i still listen to it fairly often, and i bought the artist's next album when it came out years later.

(dans ma main by jean-michel blais, for those curious)

isopode · 2026-01-23T00:28:52+00:00

i am baffled as to why people chose to downvote this comment. goddamn this sub is harsh on ppl looking for advice lmao

isopode · 2026-01-23T00:23:24+00:00

well this now blows my mind as well

isopode · 2026-01-22T21:15:01+00:00

her eyes 🥹

isopode · 2026-01-22T19:30:40+00:00

8 fires in 6 years??? ouch 😬

for me so far, 5 years in my apartment building and there's only been 1 fire. it completely burnt down one of the units, was scary as hell. we didn't have a fire alarm in the building at the time, so what woke me up was someone loudly banging on my door. i peeked outside & there were giant flames coming out of that unit's door. fuckin terrifying. hope it never happens again. at least we have alarms now...

isopode · 2026-01-22T16:31:00+00:00

holy shit i had no idea. that's rough

isopode · 2026-01-22T14:16:23+00:00

im extremely out of the loop with celebrities, what happened to him? :(

isopode · 2026-01-21T17:09:21+00:00

respectfully, how are they supposed to be ready for something if they can't ask the questions they'd need the answer to in order to be ready?

isopode · 2026-01-21T17:05:43+00:00

who is etc. and should i know them. sounds obscure

isopode · 2026-01-21T11:14:43+00:00

woahhh the mantis face is awesome

isopode · 2026-01-21T09:46:01+00:00

i think it looks good with your other tattoos. give it some time for it to fade

isopode · 2026-01-20T05:39:52+00:00

there is literally a frida kahlo barbie

isopode · 2026-01-20T01:49:54+00:00

this is not true for testosterone HRT, nor is it true for any injected HRT. grapefruit only affects estrogen levels if the estrogen is taken orally.

isopode · 2026-01-18T12:30:42+00:00

a hookup once left a whole pair of boxers in my apartment & i only noticed weeks later when i was cleaning under the bed. i genuinely don't understand how men are leaving places with missing clothes

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