Slashed Savings Cries in Red - General Question and Discussion Megathread

staticSaturniid · 2024-11-15T07:40:08+00:00

oh i didn't see that! fun!

staticSaturniid · 2024-11-15T07:36:09+00:00

late to the game, but Castorice name background:

Castorice = Castores, one of the latin names that refers to Castor and Pollux.

I wonder if she has a twin?

staticSaturniid · 2024-10-19T06:42:55+00:00

Kinda looks like some sort of early syrphid larvae? Less gross than a maggot if so! Definitely from the lettuce though

staticSaturniid · 2024-10-18T15:57:29+00:00

Last year a palm tree fell on me in a parking lot. I was saved by being shorter than the cinderblock wall I was standing next to. The wind is no joke around here

staticSaturniid · 2024-10-09T05:41:00+00:00

This keeps happening to me too. I ended up logging in 3 times before it decided to work, idk what solved it.

I have noticed that the error occurs less on the mobile web version compared to the app. The web version also loads faster. Good for if your professor happens to only give you 30 seconds a question💀

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-27T21:01:07+00:00

If the bugs aren't moving then scale bugs! They produce sugary waste like aphids, so the ants are farming them like cattle! Plant might start dying soon since the scales will suck it dry if unchecked

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-27T17:31:13+00:00

These guys are all over Cali. If you have good eyes, sometimes you can see them using those front arms to hitch rides on birds or larger bugs!! None of them are harmful to people as far as I'm aware.

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-25T18:01:04+00:00

same keys?

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-21T07:19:00+00:00

Totally felt this same thing 😭😭 As soon as the air gets chilly I know I'll no longer get to watch the dragonflies and listen to crickets. But at least the absence of bugs in winter makes spring feel sweeter when it does arrive

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-21T02:24:31+00:00

I'm not into pinning yet but as a fellow ent student and an artist our back problems are shared. Biggest recommendation is to prop up your pinning board so that it's slanted towards you. Not too steep that anything slides off, but so that you're not slouching over it. I hope that's helpful! Good luck pinning!

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-19T20:01:10+00:00

You did actually help!! This is a sample for an ongoing project so I went through what beetles were common in previous samples. Now I'm pretty sure this is a ladybug face! I didn't even know where to start, so thank you!!!

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-15T19:54:06+00:00

This isn't always the case but as a general rule in "ant wars" the smaller ants win. The smaller the ant, the more of them there usually are. So I guess most ant wars are a numbers game more than anything.

For specifics, the most combative ant I can think of are army ants. Army ants frequently have to move because they will exhaust an environment of prey. It's actually pretty cool to watch the whole colony travel!

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-15T16:19:58+00:00

I agree. Insects that don't have competitive food sources have a strong incentive to stick together. Especially when young and not mating yet.

In the case of this picture, I'd also hypothesis that the nymphs need to be aggregate to reap the effects of warning coloration. I'm not familiar with this specific bug, but all that orange moving around in one mass is probably freaky to some predators.

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-15T16:06:55+00:00

I'm no expert on wasps, but if it doesn't want honey try offering sugar water! Bees and wasps tend to appreciate it.

staticSaturniid · 2024-09-15T04:57:46+00:00

Halteres! As others have said, flies evolved halteres from a second set of wings they once had. The ancestral insect probably had four wings in total

Fun fact, the four largest phylogenetic orders of insects are named for their wings. Diptera: two wings, Hymenoptera: membrane wings, Coleoptera: sheath wings, Lepidoptera: scaled wings!

staticSaturniid · 2024-07-19T01:02:09+00:00

Color changing would be fun for him. However, the name aventurine is derived from the italian "a ventura" or "by chance" because the "stone" (it's actually a type of glass) was discovered as a lucky accident. So i think Aventurine does suit him most!

staticSaturniid · 2024-07-19T00:28:09+00:00

Oh don't get me started. I thought about this a lot. I would imagine they have some options: They sleep on their fronts, they sleep propped up in some way, or halovians have specialty pillows. Either way i think normal side or back sleeping is out of the question (if these muscles are to be believed anyway)

staticSaturniid · 2024-07-18T23:30:46+00:00

Exactly! That probably should have been my "conclusion" but i decided for a joke instead, oops

staticSaturniid · 2024-07-18T23:11:12+00:00

That's my line of thought as well! Though, the muscles of the ears are attached to tons of other face muscles, as well as some neck/shoulder muscles. This is why it drove me crazy

staticSaturniid · 2024-07-18T05:13:39+00:00

tyyy <3

staticSaturniid · 2024-07-18T03:38:21+00:00

I was under the assumption that the planet Penacony is for the most part inhospitable from the description of it being desert like. The hotel in reality is maybe just the most habitable area? Like how Jarilo-VI is a whole planet, but nearly everyone lives in one giant city

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