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DaveToo
22nd January 2021, 22:56
A mother's "love" - not pretty:
'After eggs hatch, Stegodyphus lineatus stops eating and vomits 40% of internal guts onto own face, allowing spiderlings to feast on the mixture. Once that’s gone, spiderlings pierce her abdomen and consume what is left until she dies.'.
Thanks for posting Jill.
I visit the Animals are Magical (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106567-Animals-are-Magical) thread from time to time and do think about animals.
I think a lot about insects for some strange reason, probably because I have quite a lot in my house!
So where do you folks draw the line?
Do you also think insects are magical?
How about spiders?
How about mealy bugs?
How about centipedes?
How about ear wigs?
How about mosquitoes?
Do you show all of those animals mercy? Be honest?
Bill Ryan
22nd January 2021, 23:01
A mother's "love" - not pretty:
'After eggs hatch, Stegodyphus lineatus stops eating and vomits 40% of internal guts onto own face, allowing spiderlings to feast on the mixture. Once that’s gone, spiderlings pierce her abdomen and consume what is left until she dies.'.
Thanks for posting Jill.
I visit this thread from time to time and do think about animals.
I think a lot about insects for some strange reason, probably because I have quite a lot in my house!
So where do you folks draw the line?
Do you also think insects are magical?
How about spiders?
How about mealy bugs?
How about centipedes?
How about ear wigs?
How about mosquitoes?
Do you show all of those animals mercy? Be honest?Yes, I do (personally). I go to enormous lengths sometimes to rescue even the tiniest insects from my very old house, which is quite some ecosystem all of its own.
I have a live trap for mice, and go to some trouble to relocate them a couple of miles away in the best local mouse-friendly natural habitat I can find, far away from any houses or other animals.
And yes, I think all animals are magical. Whatever they are. Try making one yourself from a bunch of dirt. I bet you can't. :)
DeDukshyn
22nd January 2021, 23:06
I leave all the spiders in my house alone. Since winter started, there are quite a few (well not a large amount but some). But there's also some ants and some earwigs that have come in avoiding the cold ... because I leave the spiders alone, I don't need to kill the ants and the earwigs, and their populations stay in balance - after the spiders eat all the ants and earwigs, then their numbers dwindle from lack of food. I don't have to kill anything.
I have a bit of a strange affinity for spiders, not sure why. Particularly jumping spiders - they are one of the very few "bugs" that have human awareness. Praying mantises also fit into that category. Basically it means they recognize humans as a creature and will maintain eye contact with you.
DaveToo
22nd January 2021, 23:22
I don't like killing any animals, even insects.
I can manage to relocate most insects outside, but I draw the line with mosquitoes.
For some strange reason I don't show mercy with them. Not sure why.
Bluegreen
22nd January 2021, 23:24
A spider in the bathroom is your friend
Two is a crowd
And then there are those insects
Who Shall Not Be Named
Eva2
22nd January 2021, 23:48
I have read that there are approximately 10 quintillion insects in the world (that's got to be a guesstimate!:)) and I have a kind of morbid fascination with them - I don't feel particularly attracted to them in a fuzzy kind of way but their "behaviour" and "purpose" is interesting. They are living creatures and I do respect them for that and would not harm them intentionally but I also have an underlying fear for some of them and am repulsed by some of their habits.
I notice that its becoming trendy to keep South American jumping spiders as pets and they are now being presented as something cute - I personally don't get it and I'm pretty sure those spiders don't get it either. They certainly deserve our respect - if they were just a little bit bigger, they'd be taking over the world and probably be posing the same questions about us.
Constance
22nd January 2021, 23:56
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Rawhide68
23rd January 2021, 01:01
I remember as a child taking care of a fly , brought back upside down with ice catching its wings, in my balcony. As I watched it little legs move slower and slower , I asked mom, what to give it so it can survive ?. so I put suger next to the fly.
but it didn't help, it died, and parts in me died. I cryed for a week for that fly on my balcony.
I know it sounds stupid, well thats why I like this forum so much.
Bluegreen
23rd January 2021, 01:19
Clifford Stone tells a similar story about a bird
DeDukshyn
23rd January 2021, 01:40
I accidentally killed a baby frog once when I was a kid while trying to take care of it. I was totally devastated. Destroyed inside.
But several years later I found a baby robin that had fallen or was pushed out of the nest and raised it. So I guess I balanced it out. :)
Anna70
23rd January 2021, 01:56
Oh, I can so relate to some of the feelings shared in these stories! When I was a small girl, I once saw a rather scary looking beetle struggling in a puddle. I immediately looked for a twig or leaf to fish it out and rescue it, but couldn't see one quickly, so saw no option but to offer it my finger instead. It managed to grab hold of that alright, and then gave me a pretty painful bite or sting as a thank you. But it was saved! :biggrin1:
Sadieblue
23rd January 2021, 02:35
I too try to same the insects, I always rescue them when they fall into the pool. I also rescue bugs that might hitch a ride into the house. They are God's creatures, and deserve to live. I do feed the birds so in turn they take care of a lot of the mosquitos out and about, as my backyard is full of birds.
Operator
23rd January 2021, 03:00
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Zh4saGIs4dE/TrMwDDO27YI/AAAAAAAAMrc/RsS3rAl7aFc/s1600/pega4.jpg
This salamander type is called 'Pega Pega'. Pega means sticky or glue in our local language Papiamento (and Spanish too I believe).
They can be annoying if you have them inside the house because from time to time they can make terrible squeaky noises (even at night).
On the other hand they eat all kinds of insects and that makes them useful too.
Kryztian
23rd January 2021, 03:28
I visit the Animals are Magical (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106567-Animals-are-Magical) thread from time to time and do think about animals.
I think a lot about insects for some strange reason, probably because I have quite a lot in my house!
So where do you folks draw the line?
Do you also think insects are magical?
How about spiders?
How about mealy bugs?
How about centipedes?
How about ear wigs?
Yes, even the lowly earwig is magical. Especially when it's wings pop out from no where - an amazing technological feat!
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Icare
23rd January 2021, 03:32
I don't like killing any animals, they are all magical to me.
I remember, years ago me and my other half were on holiday at an eco resort in Thailand. It was quite a long way to get to the main road and when we went for an evening meal outside of the hotel we had to take a walk along this narrow path which was lighted and there were always these huge bugs, don't know what type they were because I've never seen any like them in Europe, but many of them came near the lights and somehow managed to fall on their backs. We kept seeing them trying to get back up but they could make it on their own.We kept turning them over again so they could move on.
There were lots of them around so it became a happy pastime to rescue them.
I don't like to see any animal suffer, no matter what kind of an animal it is.
We still have fond memories of rescuing the odd mouse or two that my cat used to bring in occasionally. She wouldn't eat it anyway, just "play" with it and I couldn't let her do it, just found it too cruel. I bought her some toy mice from the petstore every now and then and she loved shredding them completely.
RunningDeer
23rd January 2021, 04:28
I call it the catch and release program. In the fall it's the invasion of the lady bugs every time I open my screen door. With a little nudge, they drop into a dixie cup and I set them free.
A few manage to vacation through the winter months marching to and fro on the windows on the sunny side of my place. I explain that it's too soon. Be patient. They prefer lettuce over kale. They aren't big eaters. And the little critters do not like it when I coax them towards a tiny puddle of water to rehydrate. When spring comes, one by one I ceremoniously set them free and invite them back in the fall.
The catch and release program is different for flies, hornets and wasps. I use a moist paper towel to gently scoop them up and send them on their way. I silently express, “I promise to be gentle and set you free if you work with me, otherwise it ain’t going to go well for you. Deal?” They are cooperative 99% of the time.
Alas, mosquitos, mosquitos, mosquitos go splat when I’m going off to sleep.
A few years ago, I had a problem with mice because I didn't think to tightly seal up the bird seed bags. I woke to one of the little guys scurrying around, having a hi-ho party inside one of them. Not only did they take up residence in my place, they made a home in the car air filter. It cost me some $. I’ve since purchased a large seal tight bin for the seed.
I researched a perfect solution for both my car and home to keep them away. They are repelled by the smell of peppermint oil (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003C54M9A/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). I drop several cotton balls in a mason jar and pour peppermint oil on them. There’s a jar in my car, and all the closets. I freshen the cotton balls monthly all year round. Problem solved.
palehorse
23rd January 2021, 05:53
In accordance with Buddhism, rebirth can take place in one of the following forms
- spontaneous rebirth
- born or arisen from moisture
- oviparous (from an egg) <<--- it would classify the bugs/insects i guess
- viviparous (from a womb)
A nice tale
"Tissa, an Elder of Sāvatthi. He once received a length of coarse cloth as a gift and handed it to his sister to be made into a robe. She had the cloth pounded and spun into fine yarn and made of it a soft robe-cloth. At first Tissa would not accept it but was prevailed upon to do so and had it made into a soft robe by skilled robe-makers. He died on the night it was finished and, as a result of his fancy for it, was reborn as a louse in the robe. After his death, the monks wished to divide the robe but the louse started shouting. The Buddha, hearing this by his power of divine audience, asked the monks to lay the robe aside for seven days. At the end of that period, the louse was reborn in the *Tusita world."
*Tusita is one of the devā worlds.
ref.: http://www.palikanon.com/english/pali_names/t/tissa.htm
Marbelo
23rd January 2021, 07:13
compassion for any living being, including those not so magical :)
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onawah
23rd January 2021, 07:38
There is a kind of Zen story about the Indian saint Ramakrishna in which a devotee goes to his home with a burning question about "ahimsa" (non-violence, which in the Jain spiritual practice especially includes non-violence to insects).
As the story goes, when admitted to the great saint's room, the devotee found him swatting flies. :flower:
See: https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/9175/is-it-wise-to-kill-an-insect-just-because-it-is-bothering-you
I grew very out of patience with tiny biting ants that were coming into my home during the warm months.
I found a great solution, which is leaving containers of a mix of borax powder and sugar next to windows and doors.
They cannot resist the sugar, but the coating of borax powder on each grain of sugar is enough to kill them.
They no longer come into my home, but I don't find their bodies in the containers anymore, either.
It appears they got the message....:nod:
Trisher
23rd January 2021, 10:58
Here in the UK slugs appear to love to eat whatever vegetables and flowers we love to grow. There are about as many methods to deal with slugs as there are slugs it seems. I go out at dusk with a torch and pick them up and take them to a safe place far away from my growing patch. Some people put down slug pellets. The slug eats them and dies and then the bigger picture kicks in. A bird eats that slug and dies. A fox eats that bird and dies.
We have to see the bigger picture in all our connections and dealings with nature.
Its never just about saving something we are growing. Its always about nurturing the whole of life.
This poem by Joe Miller just about sums it all up for me.:heart:
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Brigantia
23rd January 2021, 13:10
I've become an expert at trapping flies and releasing them, I can't stand them in the house but can't kill them. Snails are also a destructive garden pest but I read that they will return from anywhere within about a mile - it's pointless to sling them into your neighbour's garden - so once when I was inundated I gathered a lot of them into a box and released them into a hedgerow after their first-ever car journey.
Thankfully it's no longer a problem since I'm back in Britain, but I draw the line with mosquitoes! They make a beeline for me but not my other half, but I say that they don't eat bad meat... :bigsmile: I found that the best thing was to ensure that all doors and windows stayed closed after dusk and the fly screens down. Any interlopers would be splatted.
When I lived near woods and fields that my cat loved to explore, from spring to autumn there was rarely a day that he would come home without a tick. Through necessity I became an expert in removing them and they got the mosquito treatment. Same for fleas too.
One night time interloper that I had in my bedroom was annoying yet fantastic - a glow worm! The lights were off but having the glow worm in the room was like disco lights, wonderful to see but no chance of sleep... this one was successfully trapped and freed to the great outdoors. We used to have dozens of glow worms in the adjacent meadows in May and June, a wonderful sight - like the approach to Heathrow at night without the noise.
Bill Ryan
23rd January 2021, 13:20
Snails are also a destructive garden pest but I read that they will return from anywhere within about a mile - it's pointless to sling them into your neighbour's garden - so once when I was inundated I gathered a lot of them into a box and released them into a hedgerow after their first-ever car journey.That so intrigued me that I had to research the issue. :)
https://bbc.co.uk/newsround/23815582
It appears snails can actually move as fast as 1 meter per hour. (Who knew? :) ) So extrapolating from that, they could make the mile-long journey in 1,609 hours, which is a couple of months. Magical indeed! :sun:
Billy
23rd January 2021, 15:02
Snails are also a destructive garden pest but I read that they will return from anywhere within about a mile - it's pointless to sling them into your neighbour's garden - so once when I was inundated I gathered a lot of them into a box and released them into a hedgerow after their first-ever car journey.That so intrigued me that I had to research the issue. :)
https://bbc.co.uk/newsround/23815582
It appears snails can actually move as fast as 1 meter per hour. (Who knew? :) ) So extrapolating from that, they could make the mile-long journey in 1,609 hours, which is a couple of months. Magical indeed! :sun:
A few years ago, a neighbor of mine in my village painted spots on shells of the snails from her garden. She left them a quarter of a mile away from her garden, two weeks later they had all returned :sherlock:
RunningDeer
23rd January 2021, 15:26
Snails are also a destructive garden pest but I read that they will return from anywhere within about a mile - it's pointless to sling them into your neighbour's garden - so once when I was inundated I gathered a lot of them into a box and released them into a hedgerow after their first-ever car journey.That so intrigued me that I had to research the issue. :)
https://bbc.co.uk/newsround/23815582
It appears snails can actually move as fast as 1 meter per hour. (Who knew? :) ) So extrapolating from that, they could make the mile-long journey in 1,609 hours, which is a couple of months. Magical indeed! :sun:
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Snails: faster and more exciting than you thought (2:34 min)
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Matthew
23rd January 2021, 15:48
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I find this magical and mysterious and snails always remind me, as well as help me with maths.
But I'm with DaveToo, in many ways. I can't think that animals are magical without first acknowledging an awkward truth about the universe: the universe is a brutal machine, a machine of consumption. From how stars and planets are made, to how an ecosystem works; each layer of animal consuming the one below. More complicated than that I know, but it illustrates how I characterise the universe in my mind, a model to make sense of it. Once I accept the brutal truth only then can I start to see the beauty.. then I marvel at how the universe isn't quite as ****ed up as it probably should be
Open Minded Dude
23rd January 2021, 15:51
I try to get all the small critters caught and then gently removed alive out of my appartment. I leave the spiders alone (thank goodness only small ones where I live, big ones creep me out really). Only if they are near my bed I remove them. Don't want to have THAT kind of company at night. I live on a second floor so this is not as bad as when I used to live in a cellar flat. I had all kinds of 'visits', including living mice in my bed.
Sometimes killing might be an unavoidable act of human self-defense. E.g. you remove a nasty tick or you might swat a mosquito sucker when it bites or sucks the blood out of you respectively. Also if there are vermin you might want to protect your household with some traps or poison. So there is legitimate 'self-defence' in my view.
Regarding the 'magic' and love of animals: Well I think mostly it is referred to fellow mammal animals. Let's not forget, biologically we humans are also mammals as dry-nosed apes (haplorhini) to be more exact.
I think therefore (exceptions prove the rule) we humans have a (genetically preprogrammed or learned?) natural defensive attitude with the elicitation of nauseating disgust at most kinds of insects and also reptile species.
(Interesting side thought: does this 'instinctual' and mammal-self-identification feeling transfer on a macro basis to the ET topic too? That's another topic for another day though...)
Ernie Nemeth
23rd January 2021, 16:06
I have a great affinity for mammals as they are my direct ancestors and we share a type of attitude toward our young, in most cases forming lasting bonds of maternal love. Mammals 'get it'.
I respect all life and will rescue animals in need if I find myself in such a scenario.
I have little regard for insects. I am repulsed by them. I feel they are alien and do not belong. We have adapted to their presence but they have another way that is anathema to most other forms of life. Still, I will protect their lives as well if I am able. But there have been times I have had to go to war with insects, rooting out every single cockroach (almost impossible), bed bugs (fully impossible), mosquitos and gnats, among others.
When I was young we had a small watering hole we would go to often. There was every sort of life present there. Turtles, frogs, snakes, bugs of all sorts. We had no fear, like most children, and we would capture them and hold them in our hands to inspect them up close. What children do that today? They get on their ipads and discover the pond in a video and watch others splash around in the mud while they drink from their sippy cups...
We have done our children a very big disservice in this modern virtual world of 'high tech', which is just crass and careless management of the future of our world.
onawah
23rd January 2021, 16:48
Fireflies are definitely magical! I will never forgot one night when I went out to make Contact, one of two nights when I actually succeeded. .
(I was part of a group that had formed around Dr. Steven Greer's work which was focused on making ET Contact, and who all went out on a certain night each month to do just that).
I went out at sunset to the woods near my home on a warm summer night and sat down next to an old oak tree.
As night descended to my delight, the woods filled with millions of fireflies.
I find lots of insects to be repulsive (cockroaches especially!) but I am delighted by fireflies.
(And I did have a UFO sighting that night as well, a very low flying cigar-shaped ship that was a glowing cobalt blue, moving very slowly and silently just above.)
I had a friend, Angelique, who had a friend who owned a fairly large piece of private wooded land.
She invited her circle of women friends to come to her place on the evening of the Summer Solstice.
Her friends were all spiritually oriented, somewhat psychic meditators.
She had told them about her experience exactly one year before in early evening on that Solstice, when she had been walking in the woods on her land and had come upon a fairy ring ( a ring of mushrooms, which in fairy lore, are where fairies may sometimes be seen congregating, dancing, riding on fireflies, etc.).
She sat nearby to meditate and presently she saw a line of what appeared to be fireflies emerging from a copse that flew around the fairy ring in a perfect circle and then returned to the copse.
She made a connection with one of the beings she sensed near her and was told that the devas wanted more humans to be aware of their presence, and that if she brought friends to the same location on the following Solstice, they would appear once again.
She did, and they did! My friend, Angelique, was there and saw them too.
As enchanted as I am by the devic realm, I'm not really sure which experience, the UFO sighting or the firefly sighting, affected me the most.
I think there must have been fairies present, because it certainly felt very magical.
https://earthsky.org/upl/2015/09/11406300036_500b36ffeb_z.jpg
DeDukshyn
23rd January 2021, 18:33
For me an animal that probably tops the "magical / not very magical" list are north American magpies - whatever type inhabits the Calgary area. (I guess its the black billed magpie)
When a person first sees them, the automatic response is "Oh my! What a beautiful looking bird!" - with their long flowing iridescent blueish black tails and back feathers, and pristine white bellies.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8b/9d/c9/8b9dc938c3f7e03421d26c10cfafe39c.jpg
Then, at 6:00 am on a saturday morning, while you are trying to sleep in, you hear this incessant sound that will not let up for hours! ... like a crow being tortured, mixed with obnoxiously loud chattering, and think "What in all of hell type of monstrosity could be possibly making such an ear bleeding sound!". Then you look out the window and you see three magpies in the tree, jumping between the branches, up and down the tree, screaming their beaks off. Upon closer inspection, you can see that they are torturing a poor little squirrel. Not letting it escape out of the tree, and assaulting it in a perfectly coordinated attack. I scare off the magpies, and the squirrel finally is able to run off to safety -- this went on for at least two hours.
Another time, I watch two magpies lure the neighbour's cat over to a tree, then up the tree. Then higher up the tree. Then out on to the branches. Then out on to the thinner branches, until the cats hunting instincts win over its senses and it ends up falling out of the tree with the two magpies issuing a cackling laugh at it and flying off.
Magpies always work in pairs or in groups I noticed -- extremely social birds that are always working together to plot some ruthless entertainment ...
I have also seen them practice "stunt" flying, on a few occasions. repeating some extremely difficult, nonsensical but fancy maneuver, over and over again. Just for fun, I guess. Its seems a lot of activities these birds partake in solely motivated by their version of "fun". I once watched one dive straight down from a light pole, then swoop out of the dive at the last minute before hitting the ground, repeating this over and over, each time getting a little closer to the ground before pulling out - trying to see how late he could swoop out without crashing ... A broad smile beaming from my face on the last swoop, as his confidence overcame his ability and he crashed into the ground, then quickly flew off in apparent embarrassment.
Another time, I watched one practice flying from a tree under a sign, into a back flip and then landing on the top of the sign -- practicing this over and over.
Obviously they are extremely intelligent and very socially complex birds that have an complex and varied vocabulary (they seem to always be "talking" to each other), and have a good hankering for mischievous "fun", but at the same time, can be so obnoxious and ruthless. Truly magical, except at 6:00am when they are torturing squirrels and you are trying to sleep in ... ;)
RunningDeer
23rd January 2021, 19:41
I have also seen them practice "stunt" flying, on a few occasions. repeating some extremely difficult, nonsensical but fancy maneuver, over and over again. Just for fun guess. Its seems a lot of activities these birds partake in solely motivated by their version of "fun". I once watched one dive straight down from a light pole, then swoop out of the dive at the last minute before hitting the ground, repeating this over and over, each time getting a little closer to the ground before pulling out - trying to see how late he could swoop out without crashing ... A broad smile beaming from my face on the last swoop, as his confidence overcame his ability and he crashed into the ground, then quickly flew off in apparent embarrassment.
Another time, I watched one practice flying from a tree under sign, into a back flip and then landing on the top of the sign -- practicing this over and over.
The stunt flying reminded me of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/fly-branches.gif
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Skybird by Neil Diamond (2:20)
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Rawhide68
23rd January 2021, 20:15
I know how to fold a frog from a piece of paper, so-called origami, but I don't understand why the earwig wings have anything to do with origami?
Maybe National Geographic just like to play with words?
DeDukshyn
23rd January 2021, 20:24
I know how to fold a frog from a piece of paper, so-called origami, but I don't understand why the earwig wings have anything to do with origami?
Maybe National Geographic just like to play with words?
They fold up their wings with their back "pincers" and store them under a small shell on their backs. "Ori" from Japanese translates into "folding" in English. :) So its a bit of play on words as insect wings aren't exactly paper, but rather "paper-like"
rgray222
24th January 2021, 03:28
I love this kind of question because it makes you revisit things that you have thought about your entire life.
I have come to the conclusion that all animals are sentient. This simply means that they have the capacity to suffer fear, pain, or distress as well as a sense of well-being. They have a brain and a central nervous system.
Just try to swat a fly or hit a roach with a piece of rolled up paper and you quickly understand that the insect is well aware that its life is in jeopardy.
Yes, all animals are truly magical, including mosquitos, roaches and spiders. Sometimes you have to look for the magic, it is always there. Anyone that sees a spider web in the sunlight or in the morning dew should be well aware of the magic. This does not mean you want them living in your home but it does mean that should respect them. On rare occasions, it becomes necessary to take drastic steps and destroy them.........such as an infestation of roaches.
There is no question in my mind that we have been programmed to fear certain insects. We should reprogram ourselves to respect all living creatures, especially those that can cause harm and death. This respect should allow us to live on the same planet with them using the necessary precautions to stay healthy and alive.
Wind
24th January 2021, 04:09
I have never been particularly fond of insects, but I do deeply love and adore animals. I have not killed any insects in many years except accidentally and then I feel bad. I don't have the right to take a life, no matter how insignificant it be. I practice ahimsa, I have a really deep disdain towards real life violence as I know what it can cause.
Eva2
25th January 2021, 22:02
This was filmed using an electron microscope - guessing game as to what it is but a hint is its an insect body part. I'm seeing a lot of photos using this kind of microscope and its interesting to see what such tiny creatures look life size (and be thankful that they are such tiny creatures)
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/142373834_10159800638571554_1435531541651445350_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=2&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=_MliC7Ax4voAX8vVJxS&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=459c74d7bd1184690bd7e24f5424f724&oe=6036262D
DeDukshyn
25th January 2021, 23:53
This was filmed using an electron microscope - guessing game as to what it is but a hint is its an insect body part. I'm seeing a lot of photos using this kind of microscope and its interesting to see what such tiny creatures look life size (and be thankful that they are such tiny creatures)
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/142373834_10159800638571554_1435531541651445350_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=2&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=_MliC7Ax4voAX8vVJxS&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=459c74d7bd1184690bd7e24f5424f724&oe=6036262D
Looks like a foot to me. :)
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Ok maybe the winner for "not very magical" might be demodex mites ... ? :)
https://educateinspirechange.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/46472487_2520152368005759_2214066198117613568_n.jpg
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Ernie Nemeth
30th January 2021, 06:01
Is that a bee's pollen collectors?
Eva2
30th January 2021, 18:54
Is that a bee's pollen collectors?
I think its a beetle's foot.
Eva2
1st February 2021, 15:57
'This giant earthworm worm was found in extremely rich forest soil in the foothills of the Sumaco Volcano in Ecuador.
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It's been identified as a Martiodrilus crassus, which translates to "worm which feeds on dogs." Like other earthworms, these giants spend their lives sucking down microbes and decaying plant or animal matter in the soil.
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Scientist @phil_torres said, "It had a surprisingly similar feel to the earthworms I dig up in my yard. It felt like a long, slimy, ridged muscle. It seems like it is 90% muscle, 9% dirt, 1% nervous system. If I were starving out there, I might be tempted to cook it.”
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However, at five feet in length, it's not the longest recorded worm, nor even the planet's biggest species of earthworm. The Giant Gippsland earthworm, found in the clay soil along streams in Victoria, Australia, can stretch to an impressive 9.8 feet in length!'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/144106574_10219328719191557_1711079758283442054_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=Z1TTrxFWoIcAX9e1ILU&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=48c69d977b275e7393676b80d45f0683&oe=603FA812
Constance
1st February 2021, 20:29
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Eva2
2nd February 2021, 05:54
Yeah, I hear they grow them even bigger in Australia! I guess the beauty is in the eyes of the beholder :) but I would rather see one than eat one!!
Constance
2nd February 2021, 20:53
Yeah, I hear they grow them even bigger in Australia!
:bigsmile:
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Eva2
4th February 2021, 15:50
'The Bagworm Moth Caterpillar collects and saws little sticks to construct elaborate log cabins to live in'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/145824766_3791933500853741_3926304495347014894_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=2&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=tZE6-Cr2dG8AX9tz6hj&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=4ed3b5ff8392997d30b94380b6ee09ec&oe=6041E450
RunningDeer
4th February 2021, 16:18
'The Bagworm Moth Caterpillar collects and saws little sticks to construct elaborate log cabins to live in'
I've never heard of the Bagworm Moth Caterpillar. Purty cool! It helped remind me of the walkingstick. I've only seen two in my travels.
https://i.imgur.com/Nlcc02H.jpg
Description: Walkingsticks are slow moving, wingless, and stick-like, with long, slender legs and long thread-like antennae. Their color, form and behavior allow them to hide from predators. They vary in color from green to brown and may grow to be almost 4 inches long (Diapheromera femorata (Say)) although one Texas species grows to almost 7 inches long (Megaphasma dentricus (Stål)), the longest insect in the United States!
No other species can be confused with walkingsticks. They do not have front legs modified for capturing prey as do praying mantids and the thread-legged bug (Heteroptera: Reduviidae).
Life Cycle: In the fall, black or brown seed-like eggs are dropped by females to the litter below host plants. Nymphs hatch in the spring and develop through several stages (instars) before becoming sexually mature adults. One generation is produced each year. Walkingsticks occasional defoliate some trees and shrubs.
article (https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/walkingsticks/)
rgray222
4th February 2021, 16:19
Even tho this beast might be very magical I thought this would be the best place to showcase his/her skills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEzX8rXzzps
DeDukshyn
4th February 2021, 18:20
'The Bagworm Moth Caterpillar collects and saws little sticks to construct elaborate log cabins to live in'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/145824766_3791933500853741_3926304495347014894_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=2&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=tZE6-Cr2dG8AX9tz6hj&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=4ed3b5ff8392997d30b94380b6ee09ec&oe=6041E450
https://i.redd.it/1xnwfguto3r21.jpg
Eva2
5th February 2021, 05:20
Deep Sea Worms under Electron Microscope:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/146129446_3794328367280921_3251879027684095082_n.png?_nc_cat=1&ccb=2&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=R7IhbjYph_sAX_E4GVk&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=586805f7ae27272158ee199be37bbcbe&oe=6040AB32
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Eva2
8th February 2021, 05:21
An unusual looking bug - Eulagisca Gigantea, found in the Antarctic Ocean, can measure up to 30 cm
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/147624463_3801422226571535_6245101374133617103_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=2&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=xA0q-xgOEWsAX9FTIpO&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=e44dce9ed62a9dd4f21155fdcf440dbb&oe=60482A03
DeDukshyn
8th February 2021, 06:06
Giant aquatic isopods ... I believe they are related to the common wood louse (which are actually kinda cute), but 100x bigger and much more ominous looking ...
https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/44214d1239579012-giant-isopod-giantisopod-764949.jpg
http://cdn-3.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Giant-isopod.jpg
https://gulfspecimen.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Giant_Isopod.PNG.png
DeDukshyn
9th February 2021, 06:10
Giant aquatic isopods ... I believe they are related to the common wood louse (which are actually kinda cute), but 100x bigger and much more ominous looking ...
https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/44214d1239579012-giant-isopod-giantisopod-764949.jpg
http://cdn-3.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Giant-isopod.jpg
https://gulfspecimen.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Giant_Isopod.PNG.png
Actually I have a story about one of these critters ...
A work friend of my ex's went to some tropical location - either Mexico or Hawaii (I wasn't paying attention), and anyway, before he left he asked her if she wanted something from the location and she just said, "Bring me some sand". So she came home from work with a small jar full of sand and seawater one day - which the guy had scooped up for her from the beach and brought back for her.
About a week later, the kids claimed there was a creature in the jar. Sure enough we could see evidence of some wee little critter that liked to stay hidden in the sand. A couple months later and it got quite a bit bigger!
While it definitely preferred to remain hidden in the sand we could occasionally see that it looked like, and was about the size of, a common wood louse (an inch long or so, maybe a bit longer).
I don't know what the heck it was eating in the jar as we didn't ever open it, but it did die after about three or four months living in the jar. Might have grown up to be one of these bad boys, who knows, but it was definitely an isopod of some sort.
Sue (Ayt)
9th February 2021, 16:26
Walkingsticks are slow moving, wingless, and stick-like, with long, slender legs and long thread-like antennae. Their color, form and behavior allow them to hide from predators. They vary in color from green to brown and may grow to be almost 4 inches long (Diapheromera femorata (Say)) although one Texas species grows to almost 7 inches long (Megaphasma dentricus (Stål)), the longest insect in the United States!
No other species can be confused with walkingsticks. They do not have front legs modified for capturing prey as do praying mantids and the thread-legged bug (Heteroptera: Reduviidae).
Life Cycle: In the fall, black or brown seed-like eggs are dropped by females to the litter below host plants. Nymphs hatch in the spring and develop through several stages (instars) before becoming sexually mature adults. One generation is produced each year. Walkingsticks occasional defoliate some trees and shrubs.
article (https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/walkingsticks/)
I got a good pic of this fellow on the windshield of our jeep one day - The largest one I ever saw!
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RunningDeer
9th February 2021, 17:03
I got a good pic of this fellow on the windshield of our jeep one day - The largest one I ever saw!
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......That's A-mazing, Sue!
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/deer-popcorn.gif
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Eva2
9th February 2021, 17:10
A Goliath Bird Eating Spider. I've seen some pretty big tarantulas in the Amazon and they are the stuff of nightmares. I've heard the Goliaths are actually "gentle", non-aggressive creatures but still wouldn't want to run into one.
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/148043807_1307484716290197_4549780882362216700_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=u-jRUPcO0OgAX_18Wac&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=787c7cf621a41db85ec9e8d2869ca4b2&oe=6046DF7C
Eva2
20th February 2021, 03:08
The "invisible" world is not pretty:
'This is a Face Mite. These micro guys live in your pores, feed on skin grease and mate on your face while you sleep.'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/149999419_3907142236039737_7684529305844142216_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=DGtvF_GbvNkAX8x2b9-&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=7b6201f8ec9c7da140d2d689bc66d7f3&oe=60547BEA
Ernie Nemeth
20th February 2021, 12:28
Absolutely gruesome!
I have made it a point, NOT to ever see these animals so that I don't have trouble falling asleep. Worked for forty years...until now.
RunningDeer
20th February 2021, 14:37
Tardigrades Are the Toughest Animal on Earth that can Survive Space and Volcanoes (3 min)
Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are the toughest and probably the weirdest animal species on Earth. Tardigrades are eight-legged micro-animals that can withstand just about anything, from mass extinctions to the vacuum of outer space, to the pressure of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth, and radiation 1,000 times stronger than humans can handle.
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Eva2
21st February 2021, 02:11
Absolutely gruesome!
I have made it a point, NOT to ever see these animals so that I don't have trouble falling asleep. Worked for forty years...until now.
Sorry - I agree! However, this is the "not so magical world" and although these critters' pictures make me cringe and feel repulsed, I do have a (maybe unhealthy :() fascination with them. I suppose if one looked on the positive side, we could credit these mites with being a great clean-up crew for our skin and they do have a very short shelf life. Now I'm gonna post a really cute picture on the "Animals are Magical" thread!! :)
DeDukshyn
23rd February 2021, 18:39
(wasn't sure where to post this, but here might do)
Meanwhile in Canada ...
Farmer catches lynx in his chicken coop in the act of killing his new chickens, he so grabs him by the scruff of the neck like he was a kitten and scolds him like a bad dog. He then relocated the lynx along with the two chickens it had already killed - he said it was rather skinny and extreme hunger is likely what drew it to his farm. Nice guy ... but don't try this at home folks.
Link to story: (Scroll down for the video)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-farmer-captures-lynx-chicken-coop-1.5923089
Fun fact: when I was younger I lived just down the road from this guy's farm. My bus stop was literally at the corner of his farm.
Eva2
24th February 2021, 02:25
Poor bat!! I hope whoever took the photo pried this guy off his face. Nature can be brutal.
'These specialised parasites (batflies) have co-evolved with their bat hosts for millions of years. They have developed a flat, hard body to prevent being crushed & velcro-like hairs & claws to hang on to their hosts' fur.'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/151966154_3835268719853552_4433124340272815876_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=gf_NYz8LYBkAX8SxSNW&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=77dce65e67909671500abfcf4a845dca&oe=605C9690
Eva2
27th February 2021, 17:39
The weird world of Slime Mould
'Strange organisms are thriving on the floors of Australia’s wet temperate forests…and they’re a lot smarter than they look.'
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2021/02/the-weird-world-of-slime-mould/?fbclid=IwAR3XpYbZ6xichweBTR5iBtrHwfbMVD6WCzhNnrF_3JFGLQa-9MwxfvI6i1c
https://external.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQGVvMh4KZN4L3Ae&w=1000&h=522&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.australiangeographic.com.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F02%2FStemonitis-developing-pink_sarah-mike.jpg&cfs=1&ext=jpg&_nc_cb=1&_nc_hash=AQHn9Uo5yrgx85xA
Eva2
9th March 2021, 21:17
I think another big mystery here is how and where they find those tiny blindfolds:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/156894585_5875454342472208_5352909073417429390_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=UYMePf0VFlQAX-ATx7Q&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=32bba36ef5520e9e196907b3ae13b000&oe=606C9A4A
Eva2
9th March 2021, 23:06
'Asilidae (fly) with morning dew'
Photo made by masimammm using camera Olympus
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/157030628_710674929573186_6907837569469291213_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=LdgFWocJuwIAX-_rtET&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=27081b020daec2979cb810352d879bae&oe=606C0113
Brigantia
10th March 2021, 03:25
Here's a critter that I used to encounter a lot in Italy, the scutigera (house centipede) and it never failed to freak out British guests. They wander along the walls and ceilings, and it's quite a task to try to trap them to turf them outdoors as they move like lightning!
Eva2
10th March 2021, 03:59
'You are looking at a parasite called Cymothoa Exigua. It enters through a fish's gills, eats their tongue, and then replaces it. This lil delight literally sucks out the blood from the fish's tongue, until the tongue atrophies and falls off. The fish then attaches itself to the stub, becoming the fish's new tongue. Now every time the fish eats, it takes away a portion of the food for itself.'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/155827689_10159187206292262_8486115055039414593_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=dYL17ml2flwAX-98QJ-&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=1847d05f64855ef853b7a4e7ef8ab37a&oe=606FAB67
DeDukshyn
10th March 2021, 07:14
Here's a critter that I used to encounter a lot in Italy, the scutigera (house centipede) and it never failed to freak out British guests. They wander along the walls and ceilings, and it's quite a task to try to trap them to turf them outdoors as they move like lightning!
These guys, like some spiders, are actually kinda handy -- they get rid of more disgusting, dangerous, prolific and nuisance bugs.
onawah
10th March 2021, 07:19
GROSSER and GROSSER! :yuck:
Watch a Hercules Beetle Metamorphose Before Your Eyes | Nat Geo Wild
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"Watch this beetle go from larvae to giant. The Hercules beetle is one of the largest flying insects in the world. "
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( I can't decide which is worse, this or Cymothoa Exigua, which reminds me of Bill Gates somehow....)
Brigantia
10th March 2021, 11:39
Here's a critter that I used to encounter a lot in Italy, the scutigera (house centipede) and it never failed to freak out British guests. They wander along the walls and ceilings, and it's quite a task to try to trap them to turf them outdoors as they move like lightning!
These guys, like some spiders, are actually kinda handy -- they get rid of more disgusting, dangerous, prolific and nuisance bugs.
Yes they do, but ours were in holiday apartments that had to be kept bug-free though I did manage to do that without chemical means. The spectrum of beasties that we had to evict was amazing, thankfully never a snake but plenty of lizards, that zoom away just as you think you have them cornered.
Trying to coax two owls out of the door on two separate occasions that had managed to get down the chimney and squeeze through the closed flue was a test of ingenuity but we managed in the end! I was puzzled as to how they got through a small gap, but a bird watcher friend told me that they have quite small bodies and their feathers make them look a lot bigger.
Maybe a bit too cute for this thread but here is one of our intruders, what a mess he or she left behind...
Eva2
18th March 2021, 16:58
'The Brazilian treehopper is a species of insect belonging to the treehopper family. It has unusual helicopter-like features. While Bocydium can be found throughout the world, they are most prevalent in Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australia.'
(Looks like an "enhanced" photo placed on a table - I've seen other pics of these weird critters and they really do look like helicopters)
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/158406097_1891915527651938_5550716013734534792_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=nwXuxPrPpb8AX8LxoA4&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=c25a287b9e3abaa95286b58befb7b58e&oe=60784C4A
RunningDeer
18th March 2021, 17:34
'The Brazilian treehopper is a species of insect belonging to the treehopper family. It has unusual helicopter-like features. While Bocydium can be found throughout the world, they are most prevalent in Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australia.'
(Looks like an "enhanced" photo placed on a table - I've seen other pics of these weird critters and they really do look like helicopters)
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/158406097_1891915527651938_5550716013734534792_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=nwXuxPrPpb8AX8LxoA4&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=c25a287b9e3abaa95286b58befb7b58e&oe=60784C4A
Helicopter guy in action.
Bizarre rainforest insect resembles a helicopter (1 min)
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The Brazilian treehopper (1:47 min)
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Eva2
20th March 2021, 04:12
I'm not sure if this belongs here - it is a living entity of sorts and has its purpose, albeit a distasteful onel
'It comes from the family of bacteriophages, or phages for short. Frederick Twort discovered them in 1915 and Félix d’Herelle in 1917. At that time, scientists didn't know how phages worked as they were used to treat cholera. It was in 1940 when scientists used an electron microscope to understand how phages work. This virus infects bacteria and cannot reproduce or survive without it.'
https://posts-cdn.kueez.net/H5KsuNnRnQ1nCMUR/Az85uNzfDXjQc3xw.jpg
Eva2
27th March 2021, 02:54
I wasn't sure about posting this one - a very creepy, disgusting critter. Thankful this is part of the "invisible" world and perhaps it is serving a purpose. (I do have a morbid fascination with this secret world.) The description (not mine) is somewhat sensational. Perhaps they are part of a clean up crew on our face? If the pic and info is too off-putting, please delete this post.
'This handsome boy is called a Demodex. Its dimensions are approximately 0.3mm, which means you can’t see it living on your face. Especially on your forehead, nose and chin. He's always there and it will be that way forever. At night, they vigorously mate on your face and then lay its eggs in the pores of your skin. Funniest thing is that the Demodex have no anal orifice to evict. They accumulate and build up to death bursting with... feces.'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/163295468_2924604514451813_2623015922928209546_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=ibCbRf382ZoAX9cRx8n&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=df277f2fb90af2a2b473322f67f95ba7&oe=60827FDA
Eva2
8th April 2021, 02:03
A weird but interesting bug - endangered Pink Underwing Moth Caterpillar from Currumbin Valley, Gold Coast
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/167680327_10222783771680506_4663413429892046709_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=b9115d&_nc_ohc=LwvdoqTi8-MAX_O0vti&_nc_oc=AQl8PyYi5uTvIRxKLS1Tufj0eLFVcJuDjjV_nbV6r67mj-GfVbUk8Cl36sVG5QyoWMwJo-dPIe5qtwGCNW8o_zee&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=942dbca58c14bef72aee54b4be033c25&oe=60951058
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Eva2
11th April 2021, 16:59
Amazing close up photography
'This amazing picture was taken by Sean Clayton Wildlife & Nature. The image shows a bumblebee with number of bee mites attached to her thorax.
The mites belong to a species of arachnid in the Parasitellus genus. They may look like they're hurting their hosts, but Parasitellus mites do not feed on bees. Instead, the mites hitch a ride on the bees and live in their nests.
Inside the nest, male mites and most stages of Parasitellus larvae have been observed to hunt small arthropods, keeping the nest clear of other parasites and benefiting the bees. The females feed on the pollen unwittingly provided by their hosts.
The mites travel from nest to nest by riding on a bee from one colony and switching to a bee from another colony, either during the bees' copulation or by alighting from a bee on a flower and waiting for the next one to pick them up. They then hibernate with the young queen bees over winter and repeat the cycle.
Parasitellus only become a problem when too many of them attach themselves to a particular bee and make it difficult for it to fly. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust say that if you see this phenomenon, you can try to help the bee by using a child's paintbrush to gently brush excess mites onto a flower.'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/170191960_1555646991291600_7857428988732465519_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=OuwLzT_ogSQAX8oqtty&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=4c6444c64bd9dd233187d22b4bd6524d&oe=6097C429
Eva2
13th April 2021, 00:09
Unique looking "Easter" spider - The Bunny Harvestman Spider:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/171261072_779363963016859_6466184946366739784_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=dSfdFsI6D-0AX8g1AgH&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=c7ba945d63d76180f000c86bc3b826d7&oe=60991956
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/171778268_779363833016872_1874740763985820163_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=6DythlLOE-UAX96Tl43&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=36a7a8306c8f9c8e0ab8309bf7e3c2ce&oe=609B688A
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amor
14th April 2021, 00:04
Well after this tour of microscopic horrors, but natures wonderful way of solving its problems of balance, I am going to take a bath in Turpentine or Kerosene in the hope of murdering off what I cannot see. After that confession, I am going to tell you what I have discovered about the household roach which apparently no amount of spray will totally eradicate.
I have discovered that roaches fall asleep anywhere. They roll over on their backs and when you go to pick them up with a piece of paper, they awaken and scurry away. Also, since I try to capture them using a plastic cup and a piece of cardboard and transport them outside, I have had the opportunity to view them and use a mind experiment on them. Since this one was faster than I was, I decided to give it mental orders. Surprise! It works! You do not use words (these are uneducated critters). You pretend you are the critter and mentally do the action you wish them to do. They read your mind and kindly comply. This takes a bit of patience and that takes a lot of philosophy. However, since they seem to produce innumerable offspring, unfortunately spray becomes the way to reclaim your territory, almost.
When living in the tropics, there are ants everywhere; and occasionally, you will see one climbing on your body. I learned to be merciful and gently hold them between two fingers and put them back on the ground.
My most memorable view was during an invasion of African Snails which the Agricultural Department advised islanders to eliminate in various ways. One day in the yard, I saw three of these snails having Sex, three all attached to each other. I threw some water on them and they emitted a loud squeek. I realized that this was probably the culminating experience of their existence and I had no right to stop it.
From childhood, I was always afraid of spiders, especially after a large one surprised me behind the passageway door. Many many years later, I lay dozing in the gallery hammock. As I began to come to consciousness, I became aware of an 8" spider spiraling down its web toward my face. It was either a hallucination, or I was suspended in space/time between the microscopic world and my world, spraddled between two timelines. When I returned to Florida, I would continue to be afraid of spiders and small ones would somehow get into the house. I would use the same cup and cardboard trick to put them outside again. Then one day as I was thinking about my fear of spiders, I got a telepathic message from what seemed like God, implying that I should love all his creatures including spiders. From then on, the very vision of them no longer made me terrified.
Tyy1907
14th April 2021, 01:19
2" long hornets coming to a neighborhood near you!
http://https://images.app.goo.gl/wtEa751PXYy9p1Ey6
onawah
14th April 2021, 02:17
Scabies-- the original "cooties"!
They are similar to the critters that live on your face.
But these little monsters burrow under your skin and itch like mad.
It doesn't matter how clean you are--they can infest anyone who is exposed for long enough.
I've had a case for over a year.
I could have got rid of them much sooner if I'd had any idea what I was dealing with from the start, but by the time I realized what they were and what to do about it, they were well established.
Thankfully, I've isolated them to my hands now.
I've tried every remedy I've seen recommended; some didn't seem to do anything at all except make me feel worse, but essential oils seem to have helped the most.
My latest addition to the oils is enzymes in Kleen Green which dissolve them, and I'm going to start taking food grade diatomaceous earth internally, which is supposed to be good for parasites.
The problem is topical treatments only work if they penetrate the surface of the skin once scaboes are well established.
So I'm using DMSO as well, which is supposed to help other substances penetrate the skin.
And probably another round of wormwood and black walnut hull extract.
I understand that cases of scabies are becoming more common, though I haven't seen any explanation for that.
I wonder if they've been bioengineered to be harder to kill! :tsk:
Because I didn't have any body contact with the social worker who infected me, and that counters the official explanation of how they are spread.
I think I just picked them up from furniture that she touched in my dwelling. :(
https://www.healthy-skin-guide.com/images/xreal-scabie.jpg.pagespeed.ic.waEslb3cBu.jpg
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/images/scabies/home_page_image_scabies3.jpg
"Human scabies is caused by an infestation of the skin by the human itch mite (Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis). The microscopic scabies mite burrows into the upper layer of the skin where it lives and lays its eggs. The most common symptoms of scabies are intense itching and a pimple-like skin rash. The scabies mite usually is spread by direct, prolonged, skin-to-skin contact with a person who has scabies. Scabies occurs worldwide and affects people of all races and social classes. Scabies can spread rapidly under crowded conditions where close body contact is frequent. Institutions such as nursing homes, extended-care facilities, and prisons are often sites of scabies outbreaks."
I wasn't sure about posting this one - a very creepy, disgusting critter. Thankful this is part of the "invisible" world and perhaps it is serving a purpose. (I do have a morbid fascination with this secret world.) The description (not mine) is somewhat sensational. Perhaps they are part of a clean up crew on our face? If the pic and info is too off-putting, please delete this post.
'This handsome boy is called a Demodex. Its dimensions are approximately 0.3mm, which means you can’t see it living on your face. Especially on your forehead, nose and chin. He's always there and it will be that way forever. At night, they vigorously mate on your face and then lay its eggs in the pores of your skin. Funniest thing is that the Demodex have no anal orifice to evict. They accumulate and build up to death bursting with... feces.'
onawah
14th April 2021, 02:27
The image didn't show up on my screen, but there are photos and more info here:
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-asian-giant-murder-hornets-spotted-in-us-2020-5?op=1
https://i.insider.com/5eb055e5204ad30a463f099c?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp
Dangerous! And showing up in the US since last year.
2" long hornets coming to a neighborhood near you!
http://https://images.app.goo.gl/wtEa751PXYy9p1Ey6
Tyy1907
14th April 2021, 03:39
The image didn't show up on my screen, but there are photos and more info here:
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-asian-giant-murder-hornets-spotted-in-us-2020-5?op=1
https://i.insider.com/5eb055e5204ad30a463f099c?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp
Dangerous! And showing up in the US since last year.
2" long hornets coming to a neighborhood near you!
http://https://images.app.goo.gl/wtEa751PXYy9p1Ey6
A news story popped up on my phone today saying experts predict could see more of these in North America this year. Hmmm
RunningDeer
14th April 2021, 13:20
2" long hornets coming to a neighborhood near you!
http://https://images.app.goo.gl/wtEa751PXYy9p1Ey6
Tyy1907, your image didn't come up because you had an an extra "http". Probably because when you added the address you forgot to delete the "http" that automatically comes up.
https://i.imgur.com/qgNzg23.jpg
This is the article that comes up with the photo.
‘Murder Hornets’ Unlikely To Spread To Illinois, Pose Little Threat To Humans
Lecia Bushak
May 11, 2020
https://illinoisnewsroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/AP_20128725164410-768x512.jpg
The Asian giant hornet, or Vespa mandarinia, arrived in North America
for the first time last year. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, Pool)
URBANA – Giant hornets, which are native to Asia, arrived in Washington state for the first time at the end of last year. They’ve been dubbed “murder hornets” and garnered public attention in recent weeks.
But it’s unlikely the insects will spread outside of Washington to pose any real threat, says Adam Dolezal, assistant professor at the Department of Entomology at University of Illinois.
“I think certainly this is a case of some pretty heavy hyperbole, in terms of this term, ‘murder hornets,’ which I think is the first time it’s ever been used,” Dolezal says. “It’s not the common name of these insects. And certainly they’re scary-looking, but the chances of it making it through the U.S. in the near future are really low, especially here in Illinois.”
The hornets, known as Vespa mandarinia, are the largest hornets in the world and are predators of honey bees. Dolezal says if the hornets do spread, they could pose some risk to honey bees—which are already declining in population globally. But he says pesticides, a shift in land use and reduced bee nutrition pose a far greater threat to bee populations than the hornets.
Dolezal says the hype around the hornets should shed light on some of the bigger problems leading to bee population decline. He also notes that there are other invasive pest problems in the U.S. that are far more harmful than the hornets.
“The chances of us having the hornets at all are pretty minimal. The chance of them impacting most people’s day-to-day lives is pretty minimal,” Dolezal says. “But there are other invasive insect pests that are much more economically damaging, to me are much scarier, but we don’t hear about them nearly as much.”
Some of those invasive pests include the spotted lanternfly and Asian citrus psyllid, both of which are damaging to crops and plants.
article (https://illinoisnewsroom.org/murder-hornets-unlikely-to-spread-to-illinois-pose-little-threat-to-humans/)
Eva2
25th April 2021, 01:09
I recently heard of this little critter from someone (in the U.S.) who had to pull it out of her hair (along with a very small piece of her scalp). They seem to be fairly common (I've never heard of them) - they are called junk bugs and are deadly predators in the bug world.
'Junk bugs are cute, but that load they carry is gruesome'
https://www.al.com/live/2012/11/junk_bugs_are_cute_but_that_lo.html#:~:text=The%20junk%20bug%2C%20also%20known,species%20known%20aro und%20the%20world.%20(
'The tiny pile of debris appeared to be magically motivating across the rough surface of a freshly sawed oak stump.
On closer inspection, the debris, bits of white and black and brown all clumped together in a heap about the size of a pencil eraser, had a set of legs scurrying beneath it. A small face was visible peeking out along the bottom edge.
Behold the junk bug. Or garbage bug. Or even trash bug if you prefer.
In reality, the junk bug is actually a cold blooded killer. Study the heap he carries closely. Those aren’t bits of leaves and dirt on his back.
The heap is made up of dead bodies.
The junk bug, also known as an aphid lion, is a voracious predator, common around the world. The bug is actually the larval stage of the green lacewing, a delicate and lovely flying insect.'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/176998663_513304116332522_3221887802173264388_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=_8DuXof8XcEAX-ynrrY&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=1778fec0075ba6da37d148afcd46841a&oe=60AA20DB
'Ant juggling water droplets
The ant is one of the world’s strongest creatures relative to its size. It can carry up to 50 times its own weight.
Photo: Anadg Photography'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/180298435_737719516895427_4355599789260024860_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=T6p28aqY2NsAX8jY8F0&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=015ad3f8c791a4ce754654b02ce950e4&oe=60B57054
I thought this was interesting - I find these prolific bugs annoying and everywhere but, like everything, in nature they count and do have a useful (surprising) purpose.
'You have already encountered them when lifting a brick or a damp object, you may even have felt disgust, and even wondered what nature was wanting in creating them.
Well, omniscids, are a suborder of terrestrial isopod crustaceans, whose function in evolution is to eliminate heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium and lead, which are extremely harmful to humans, contributing to the cleaning of soil and groundwater. (Don't kill them, don't crush them, pass this along)
Bancada Ecossistema
Adaptado : By Nando Goulart'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/178562752_10159516120103324_5289741352056102310_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=1M9JVjSpYzYAX90LVvG&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=151c92cb2271c4165d72fae7c5f6e263&oe=60BAB923
wondering
6th May 2021, 16:18
Wow! I have new respect for these things that I have never been thrilled to see under bricks and boards! That's really amazing! Cool, Jill. 😁
Ernie Nemeth
6th May 2021, 18:12
I am afraid to open this thread for fear of what horror is the new wonder of the day...
Mercedes
6th May 2021, 22:59
I am afraid to open this thread for fear of what horror is the new wonder of the day...
Yikes!! It scares me to look at insect bodies close ups, specially their faces
'Living Jewels!
The Hibiscus Harlequin Bug is a member of the jewel bug family 'Scutelleridae.' These bugs are commonly found in Eastern Australia and New Guinea, and feed on many species of the hibiscus plant where they pierce the stems of young shoots and suck the sugar-rich sap. And they are stunning to look at.
Connect with Nature!
Photo: Scott Contini'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/182721076_4008599642557879_7271409831900449631_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=vsX3jtUoRZsAX_l-Duo&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=0a7953d9350bbeee502e712730cf6868&oe=60BA847A
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RunningDeer
10th May 2021, 02:07
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/183471241_4070435379659752_2945113142754921556_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=P7rC49z75AIAX8_iZnD&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=ed1c696f5edc5fdb4a7eebc65862ae54&oe=60BBC3D4
That is absolutely f-a-s-c-i-n-a-t-i-n-g. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/hi-five.gif
Bill Ryan
10th May 2021, 02:29
That is absolutely f-a-s-c-i-n-a-t-i-n-g. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/hi-five.gifIt truly is. :sun: The more I see of marvels on both this thread and the Magical Animals thread, the more I reinforce my established certainty that Intelligent Design has been at work, and that much (if not all) of life here is someone's giant science experiment.
(See this thread to discuss this: :) Does Intelligent Design = Intelligent Creator? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?96229-Does-Intelligent-Design-Intelligent-Creator) )
:focus:
DeDukshyn
10th May 2021, 05:10
That is absolutely f-a-s-c-i-n-a-t-i-n-g. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/hi-five.gifIt truly is. :sun: The more I see of marvels on both this thread and the Magical Animals thread, the more I reinforce my established certainty that Intelligent Design has been at work, and that much (if not all) of life here is someone's giant science experiment.
(See this thread to discuss this: :) Does Intelligent Design = Intelligent Creator? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?96229-Does-Intelligent-Design-Intelligent-Creator) )
:focus:
I'd like to see evolutionists explain the corolla spider. Digs a burrow, in the process finds and isolates six to eight very specifically sized and shaped quartz crystals. After the burrow is completed it takes its quartz crystals, and arranges them in a circle around the entrance of its burrow. It then runs a silk drag line from each crystal, to each of its legs, and waits.
When an insect or other small invertebrate touches the crystals, the quartz properties amplify the signal of vibration as it runs down the drag line and the spider detects this vibration in its leg(s) and can tell whether there is prey or predator outside its den (assumable by the frequency of the vibration?), and also knows exactly which direction to strike in, in the case of prey.
Natural selection / random mutation, my ass ...
LhoRAjUBttM
UNEEKSTUF
10th May 2021, 15:01
What about ticks? It is hard to believe that such a small creature can wreak such havoc. I live in the state of Pennsylvania which ranks the highest in the country for the most tick borne disease cases. What can their purpose on this earth possibly be!?
RunningDeer
10th May 2021, 15:58
What about ticks? It is hard to believe that such a small creature can wreak such havoc. I live in the state of Pennsylvania which ranks the highest in the country for the most tick borne disease cases. What can their purpose on this earth possibly be!?
What Purpose Do Ticks Serve in the Ecosystem?
”These tiny pests aren't without purpose, however. They benefit the moist, dark ecosystems in which they live by serving as a food source for many reptiles, birds and amphibians. They also help control wild animal populations. Scientists even use them as an indicator of an ecosystem's overall health and stability.
https://i.imgur.com/otUSjUA.jpg
If disease-carrying, blood-sucking parasites aren't really your thing, you would probably support a plan to eradicate ticks from the planet. These tiny pests aren't without purpose, however. They benefit the moist, dark ecosystems in which they live by serving as a food source for many reptiles, birds and amphibians. They also help control wild animal populations. Scientists even use them as an indicator of an ecosystem's overall health and stability. Found throughout forests and grasslands in North America and Europe, these annoying little critters do serve a purpose.
Food Source
When ticks are feeding on you or your pets, it's easy to forget that other species are feeding on the ticks. Ticks are an important source of food for several species of reptiles, amphibians and birds. Many woodland animals feed on them as well, including wild turkeys and western fence lizards. Knowing that ticks are a source of food may help you appreciate their existence, but it also gives you a clue how to combat them. Some people living in areas with heavy tick infestations raise guinea fowl, which eat the ticks and reduce their population. This practice is particularly common in areas that house livestock and helps protect farm animals from tick-borne disease.
Disease Vector
Humans who think about diseases are often trying to prevent or cure them. Like ticks, however, disease serves an important purpose. Disease helps to control wildlife populations while weeding out the weaker animals, preventing them from passing on potentially flawed traits. Nature is all about survival of the fittest, and disease helps determine which animals are, in fact, the fittest. Ticks carry Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia, all of which have a big influence on the health of animal populations within an ecosystem. Without these diseases and the ticks that spread them, an area could find itself overrun with deer, rabbits, mice and other animals who otherwise would have become ill and died.
Avoiding Ticks
Completely eliminating ticks probably isn't possible and is a potentially bad idea, even if it were feasible. It's still important to protect yourself from them, however, so you don't contract one of the many diseases they carry. The longer a tick remains attached to its host, the greater the chance that it will transfer disease-causing bacteria to that host. Check yourself and your pets after hikes and outdoor romps, promptly removing any ticks you find, To do so, pull the tick out of the skin gently with a pair of tweezers. Use a slow and steady motion. Do not twist or tug, as this may cause its mouthparts to remain embedded in the host. Clean the area of the tick bite thoroughly after removal. Avoid tick bites by wearing long pants, socks and sturdy shoes in areas known to harbor ticks. Insect repellents that contain DEET are also effective for warding off these parasites. Protect your pets with an appropriate flea and tick preventive.
article (https://sciencing.com/importance-reptiles-ecosystem-6587593.html)
O Donna
10th May 2021, 17:09
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/182721076_4008599642557879_7271409831900449631_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=vsX3jtUoRZsAX_l-Duo&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=0a7953d9350bbeee502e712730cf6868&oe=60BA847A
Holy molely, at first glance I thought an artist had painted a bunch of bugs for Easter.
DeDukshyn
11th May 2021, 03:56
Bambi eats Thumper?
(Warning: not for the overly squeamish) ... this is the second video I have seen of this behaviour in deer (in the other one the rabbit was still alive) ... in both they went for the back feet/legs (mostly bone). In dire need of some calcium, or trying to extract the luck?
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Not sure where this should be - Magical Animals or here - sorta ugly so decided here is a good place.
I read somewhere that when these fish wash ashore, a tsumani or earthquake is soon to follow - considering they live around the Pacific Rim of Fire, I guess this isn't a big stretch.
Photo #1 credit Ben Estes
Remaining photos credit: @crystalcovestatepark
'Not something we pulled onto the boat today but still an AMAZINGLY RARE FIND off of local @newportbeach at Crystal Cove State Park yesterday. State park rangers and lifeguards with Crystal Cove State Park were alerted to a weird looking fish that washed ashore Friday morning from beach visitor Ben Estes who happened to notice it on the sand.
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It’s been identified as a deep sea Pacific Footballfish, which is a species of anglerfish that are normally dwellings at depths more than 3,000 ft below the surface. It’s one of more than 300 living species of anglerfish from around the world. Though the fish itself is not rare, it is extremely rare to see one this intact along a beach in southern CA.
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The fleshy long dorsal fin, called an illicium, extends in the front of the mouth and has a phosphorescent bulb on the end which can emit light to attract unsuspecting prey closer to it.
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It’s not know yet why this 18” fish washed ashore almost perfectly preserved, but our partners @crystalcoveconservancy explained that It’s still unclear where this rare find will end up (either with museums/ educational institutions etc), but it is currently housed with CA Department of Fish & Wildlife.'
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RunningDeer
11th May 2021, 13:26
These guys ARE magical.
Lobster Removing its Shell - Fast forward to 3:50 (https://youtu.be/Ma2-eYy3ZWQ?t=231).
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Hermit crab changing shells with anemones (2:39)
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Footage of a Moulting Crayfish (1:15)
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Red King Crab Molting (2:13)
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Ok, before today I had never entered this thread.
I'd like to thank you all, you utter, utter bastards. Not only have you had me in tears, you have, apparently intentionally, freaked me out; and also reminded me of a past I'd rather bury in the sands of time and refuse to acknowledge.
Want more info?
When I was a kid, no! I didn't torture animals, but I was completely insensitive. To be honest most anything not human scared me, and I guess a lot of what passed for human scared me too.
I was stung, bit and repulsed by most of what any child probably encounters in an average early life. A bird coming through a window and flapping around the room at age eith absolutley terrified me. I couldn't go to sleep in a room if there was moth fluttering around at the window, or light bulb.
At the age of 14 I shot my first victim with an air rifle. A blue tit. I didn't kill it, it lay on the ground gasping for breath - and I felt like absolute ****. Incredibly, showing just how resilient kids are I manage to forget about that and several years later deliberately ran over a 'baby' rabbit. I actually accelerated to try and catch it. And I did. I got out of the car and walked back to the scene of my triumph. I'd hit the little bastard. It was still alive, kicking and squirming in the road.
It was then I realised I was the bastard. I was 18 years old and a part of me was asking the other "What the **** did you do that for?"
I guess it was somewhere around there that a switch flipped and I began the long, slow process of awakening.
I save everything I can*. I even buried a thrush that flew into our window breaking its neck in the process and offered up a prayer.
*I still kill mosquitos though, the little bastards!
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YES! To intelligent design. For me the evidence is everywhere and overwhelming.
And it is all interlinked. Some creatures might freak us out but in the gestalt they are as much a part of the picture as anything else. The Australians will know about the Cane Toad, an example of where man thought he knew best. There are dozens examples of that all around the world. It is in balance until humans interfere!
As morbid as this may be, I have to admit an intense curiosity and fascination with these tiny creatures and, what seems to be, an overwhelming need to keep the species alive. This "instinct" and need to make that ultimate sacrifice seems to over ride anything else in their short existence. Sometimes I think about spending 10 seconds in their "heads" (which would probably equate to minutes or more in their life span) just to experience that tremendous urge. But, I wouldn't want to spend too long there!
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/183790929_10218632071983224_8214536042926434850_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=ocl2KyRqvFMAX_qR8AM&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=a20c5360590e105ba266d0b4e702a013&oe=60C1A91F
I actually think this is a magical little guy but, since he's a bug, am posting him here:
'The late independent scientist, Andreas Kay, shot the above video of the Ecuadorian Nymph. Kay, who explored Ecuador’s biodiversity while alive, captured the video as the puffy insect ran around on his finger.'
Walking popcorn
This flatid planthopper nymph from the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador is covered with waxy filaments for protection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip4qpKXPyd4
This really makes my hair stand on end: A Malaysian scorpion tailed spider:
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/187962563_327569135402070_1932393448624092897_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=-8WRz1xeU8YAX-VUhN2&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=45e241e21e277de3c2f0511fc2110f86&oe=60CC99BD
RunningDeer
20th May 2021, 23:10
Spider With Three Super Powers (4 min)
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Kung Fu Mantis Vs Jumping Spider (4 min)
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Spider With Three Super Powers (4 min)
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Kung Fu Mantis Vs Jumping Spider (4 min)
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Two ruthless, fascinating videos - As creepy as Porsha is I've gotta give her respect for her courage and technique.
This would put me off camping forever! An explosion of Daddy-Long-Legs:
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/183650162_177006597663268_774991449018994339_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=SddUS5Pc5xQAX9cllIK&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=306b7bd8ad113fa4f363bbe50649ecba&oe=60DB3A52
RunningDeer
1st June 2021, 14:56
This would put me off camping forever! An explosion of Daddy-Long-Legs:
Clustering behavior provides Daddy Longlegs with warmth and protection from predators.
Cluster of Daddy Longlegs (Harvestmen) - Ajijic, Mexico (2 min))
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This would put me off camping forever! An explosion of Daddy-Long-Legs:
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/183650162_177006597663268_774991449018994339_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=SddUS5Pc5xQAX9cllIK&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=306b7bd8ad113fa4f363bbe50649ecba&oe=60DB3A52
Clustering behavior provides Daddy Longlegs with warmth and protection from predators.
Cluster of Daddy Longlegs (Harvestmen) - Ajijic, Mexico (2 min))
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That video is absolutely horrifying.
Eva2
22nd June 2021, 00:36
This fish is actually kinda magical in a horrific sort of way - must feel like a rebirth somewhat:
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/202593746_10227030317449071_7626286138305272675_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=tPf9GfHcKaQAX-TgAHP&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=f06d6e31cb8d05c7055f06fa245838c2&oe=60D54CED
RunningDeer
22nd June 2021, 02:00
This fish is actually kinda magical in a horrific sort of way - must feel like a rebirth somewhat:
https://i.imgur.com/PVmrQjp.jpg
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/fish-gold.gif...Another amazing find, Jill. .......http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/fish-1.gif....... http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/fish-2.gif
First-Ever Footage of Deep-Sea Anglerfish Mating Pair (2:19 min)
On an ocean expedition in the Azores, Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen have captured the first footage of a mating pair of deep-sea anglerfish in the wild, with support from the Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundation.
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Eva2
25th June 2021, 18:10
Not sure what this is - stick insect, mantis of some sort - but sure wouldn't want it on my back:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2
Not sure what this is - stick insect, mantis of some sort - but sure wouldn't want it on my back:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2
Without a doubt,
that is a reincarnated hair stylist....
Eva2
25th June 2021, 20:29
Not sure what this is - stick insect, mantis of some sort - but sure wouldn't want it on my back:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2
Without a doubt,
that is a reincarnated hair stylist....
Too funny but I see that!! ::clapping:
Eva2
13th July 2021, 16:59
Baby praying mantis' - has been labelled as cute which I don't personally see but I think its a great photo:
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/217093072_999175897516742_5818363469965266214_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=k7CYj8kmWDkAX84uzPY&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=fdfc334d37bbc2c14d4c1924b9da5228&oe=60F2C4A8
RunningDeer
13th July 2021, 18:06
Not sure what this is - stick insect, mantis of some sort - but sure wouldn't want it on my back:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2
https://i.imgur.com/SOa83bL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DqzmHOB.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aEAfVkh.jpg
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/red-line.gif
Jill, this may be why a number of your images no longer come up. When I copy and paste the image address, this is the explanation:
https://i.imgur.com/Fc60ux0.jpg
Missing image link. (https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2)
Missing image link. (https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/183650162_177006597663268_774991449018994339_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=SddUS5Pc5xQAX9cllIK&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=306b7bd8ad113fa4f363bbe50649ecba&oe=60DB3A52)
Eva2
13th July 2021, 20:47
Thanks for the heads up Running Deer and sorry for all the "blanks". I copy the image link when I post but I see that does not always work. I'll stop posting images until I figure this out.
Mod note from Bill:
I'm not clear how to work around the time-limiter, which sometimes seems to be built into the URLs (the links) that you copy and post. (I assume that if that was missed out, i.e. deleted out of the URL, it'd not work at all.)
But do please by all means use the Sandbox thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14962-Sandbox-thread-OK-to-practice-posting-here) to experiment! I'd absolutely not want you to stop posting all your wonderful photos and videos.
:happy dog:
RunningDeer
14th July 2021, 00:01
Thanks for the heads up Running Deer and sorry for all the "blanks". I copy the image link when I post but I see that does not always work. I'll stop posting images until I figure this out.
Mod note from Bill:
I'm not clear how to work around the time-limiter, which sometimes seems to be built into the URLs (the links) that you copy and post. (I assume that if that was missed out, i.e. deleted out of the URL, it'd not work at all.)
But do please by all means use the Sandbox thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14962-Sandbox-thread-OK-to-practice-posting-here) to experiment! I'd absolutely not want you to stop posting all your wonderful photos and videos.
:happy dog:
Essentially, Bill wrote what I was going to add an hour(ish) ago, but the site went down.
Thanks for the heads up Running Deer and sorry for all the "blanks". I copy the image link when I post but I see that does not always work. I'll stop posting images until I figure this out.
No apologies needed, Jill. I usually catch your images in time. What’s unfortunate is that people miss out on your fascinating, informative pics.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/faint.gif
I'll grab graphics off the web and then upload them to imgur.com (https://imgur.com). It's a free site. When I say grab most of the time you can drag them to your desktop, or "control-click" then download image to desktop and re-upload to your account @ imgur.com (https://imgur.com). I understand some may feel it's time consuming or complicated.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/monster-smile.gifWhatever you decide... I continue to look forward to those funky photos.http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/monster-dance.gif
Eva2
14th July 2021, 01:33
Thanks for the heads up Running Deer and sorry for all the "blanks". I copy the image link when I post but I see that does not always work. I'll stop posting images until I figure this out.
Mod note from Bill:
I'm not clear how to work around the time-limiter, which sometimes seems to be built into the URLs (the links) that you copy and post. (I assume that if that was missed out, i.e. deleted out of the URL, it'd not work at all.)
But do please by all means use the Sandbox thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14962-Sandbox-thread-OK-to-practice-posting-here) to experiment! I'd absolutely not want you to stop posting all your wonderful photos and videos.
:happy dog:
Essentially, Bill wrote what I was going to add an hour(ish) ago, but the site went down.
Thanks for the heads up Running Deer and sorry for all the "blanks". I copy the image link when I post but I see that does not always work. I'll stop posting images until I figure this out.
No apologies needed, Jill. I usually catch your images in time. What’s unfortunate is that people miss out on your fascinating, informative pics.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/faint.gif
I'll grab graphics off the web and then upload them to imgur.com (https://imgur.com). It's a free site. When I say grab most of the time you can drag them to your desktop, or "control-click" then download image to desktop and re-upload to your account @ imgur.com (https://imgur.com). I understand some may feel it's time consuming or complicated.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/monster-smile.gifWhatever you decide... I continue to look forward to those funky photos.http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/monster-dance.gif
Thank you so much Running Deer - you are light years ahead of me in understanding this kind of stuff. I shall have a good look at your imgur link and print that out as reference. Hopefully, I'll avoid creating empty boxes in the future. Again, many thanks to you, Franny and Bill for the most excellent tutorials - its like getting free computer lessons :). 3 Great threads - I love checking out all the videos, getting lost in the pics, etc. that people post on these threads - much needed escapism during these times. :sun:
DeDukshyn
14th July 2021, 02:30
Not sure what this is - stick insect, mantis of some sort - but sure wouldn't want it on my back:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2
https://i.imgur.com/SOa83bL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DqzmHOB.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aEAfVkh.jpg
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/red-line.gif
Jill, this may be why a number of your images no longer come up. When I copy and paste the image address, this is the explanation:
https://i.imgur.com/Fc60ux0.jpg
Missing image link. (https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2)
Missing image link. (https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/183650162_177006597663268_774991449018994339_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=SddUS5Pc5xQAX9cllIK&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=306b7bd8ad113fa4f363bbe50649ecba&oe=60DB3A52)
That's weird ... I received no such message ... just the image as intended. Wonder if its a locality thing?
EDIT ... Never mind I see it was for the additional links and not the image. my bad. :) Actually I think I was commenting on the wrong post altogether.
Ewan
14th July 2021, 08:35
Thanks for the heads up Running Deer and sorry for all the "blanks". I copy the image link when I post but I see that does not always work. I'll stop posting images until I figure this out.
Mod note from Bill:
I'm not clear how to work around the time-limiter, which sometimes seems to be built into the URLs (the links) that you copy and post. (I assume that if that was missed out, i.e. deleted out of the URL, it'd not work at all.)
But do please by all means use the Sandbox thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14962-Sandbox-thread-OK-to-practice-posting-here) to experiment! I'd absolutely not want you to stop posting all your wonderful photos and videos.
:happy dog:
Talk about the universe working in mysterious ways! I was literally about to PM you Jill, with an apology for never thanking any of your posts. They are almost all blank for me, and I had assumed they were from Facebook or Twitter - I literally have them classed as untrusted in my browser.
Re: the bug-eyed insect. I looked up larval stages and young of both mantids and grasshoppers - it was neither of those. So by a process of elimination we've knocked two off the list of 12,647,611 potentials. Not sure I have the time nor patience to go through the rest though. ;)
Note: the number 12,647,611 was invented - its probably far more.
RunningDeer
14th July 2021, 12:40
Thank you so much Running Deer - you are light years ahead of me in understanding this kind of stuff. I shall have a good look at your imgur link and print that out as reference. Hopefully, I'll avoid creating empty boxes in the future.
Jill, in case you were interested in checking out imgur.com (https://imgur.com). I usually bookmark my account and stay logged in that way I don't have to sign on every time.
Here are the 3 steps after you’ve sign on to your account:
Step One:
Click on “Add images”. More than likely, it’ll be on your desktop (or where ever you store images).
https://i.imgur.com/MWAWNvp.jpg
Step Two:
Click on the image you just uploaded.
https://i.imgur.com/ZRAok35.jpg
Step Three:
Click the copy button (BBCode) and it’ll automatically copy the image address to add to your post. (Just add/paste the link. Don't use the menu icons to insert graphic.)
https://i.imgur.com/0ZK8lo9.jpg
Options are a good thang,
but no worries if you decided to pass on the account.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/work-in-progress2.gif
Eva2
14th July 2021, 17:31
Thank you Running Deer - Will definitely be looking into imgur.com!
Eva2
14th July 2021, 17:42
Thank you Ewan for your feedback. I think the post you are referring to, where I was inquiring about whether the insect (on the boy's back) was a mantis or stick insect, is one of the "blanked" ones so you probably didn't see it. The 'bug-eyed' "bugs" are the baby praying mantis'. I've probably created a lot of confusion here and hopefully with all the helpful suggestions, I'll get this figured out. You are right that a lot of the images posted are from FB (only social media account I have which I'm thinking about shutting down very soon). Other images are from "friends" who send me this stuff and sites I peruse. Sometimes I like to get lost in the nature pics and pretend I'm there - great bit of escapism for me. And, I expect you're right about the stats :highfive:
Matthew
14th July 2021, 23:34
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6Sur4NX0AYUZcF?format=jpg&name=900x900
RunningDeer
15th July 2021, 18:22
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/s-super-sign.gif Thank you, Bluegreen. {post here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3596-Up-At-The-Ranch-And-Beyond&p=1440265&viewfull=1#post1440265)}
Glass Octopus Captured in Rare Underwater Footage
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https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AKedOLRM3PrAx3yScU0AeiqGO50pCVnspjefuCciTaS9=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rjLive Science
The rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean, northeast of Sydney, Australia.
Published 13th July 2021 (3:00)
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onawah
17th July 2021, 22:54
Potoo birds hauntingly beautiful sound
1,084,449 views Mar 9, 2021
My Selfish Gene
120K subscribers
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Eva2
17th September 2021, 07:00
Couldn't resist this one as its so unusual - hopefully it will stay up for awhile
'Beautiful Devil's flower mantis
Photo by: ennisanna_fei'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/240938177_10226794517597322_2217970099172246388_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=f4kNyxqQ0HkAX8-_Q3Z&_nc_oc=AQmoe9XfD19PZ5M-GAKIB8w-a-Vv_QMZVHbS0l5mQGRUowfmig3igu9Tgbg6xC2z8MtcRFHurt9vvrRnfmui9Ll0&tn=X1rnVw648yimw6SZ&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=f4369c533680bb9066f983727fee4fa1&oe=61697786
RunningDeer
17th September 2021, 13:16
Couldn't resist this one as its so unusual - hopefully it will stay up for awhile
'Beautiful Devil's flower mantis
Photo by: ennisanna_fei'
https://i.imgur.com/xlU3Mfk.jpg
Beautiful... http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/thumbs-two.gif
Eva2
18th October 2021, 08:12
Close up of jumping spider - looks like a muppet character:
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/245856927_2151835321623030_1915995888370910237_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=AXKoqm5ufVYAX-HLYhV&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=9b2055f37524a4f336b6eb30b2c5572d&oe=61912D3C
RunningDeer
18th October 2021, 13:25
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/Awww-hearts.gif Hello jumpy-cutie.
Close up of jumping spider - looks like a muppet character:
https://i.imgur.com/gABouJp.jpg
Matthew
16th December 2021, 09:52
If birds could talk, what would they say? Poems? Deep life insights?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGuFToAWQAE6bIX?format=jpg&name=large
Kryztian
20th December 2021, 14:05
Parrots’ drinking problems lead to flying accidents
https://www.rt.com/news/543716-parrots-drunk-mango-australia/
https://i.imgur.com/Kxs4wyy.jpg
Red-winged parrots are getting loaded on alcohol-rich mangoes and dying of intoxication or accidents caused by flying under the influence, Australian veterinarians have warned.
December is the end of the mango season in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, so there’s a lot of fallen fruit on the ground. Being especially rich in sugar, mangoes produce high amounts of alcohol while rotting under the sun.
This abundance of free booze has become a real threat to local red-winged parrots, which are simply addicted to the fermented mangoes.
At least six birds with symptoms of ethanol poisoning have been brought to the Broome Veterinary Hospital over the past week, veterinarian Paul Murphy told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“Usually, they’ve been suffering for a couple of days… They’re quite lethargic and at various stages of malnutrition,” he said.
Those parrots were the lucky ones, but “there are a lot of them, unfortunately, that don’t make it to the clinic because they pass away before people find them,” Murphy regretted.
Some birds also died due to their “drunken behavior” as alcohol affected their motor systems. “We’re hearing a few reports of flying into windows and sitting on the floor, not being able to fly and being vulnerable to cats and other predators,” the vet said.
Red-winged parrots appear to be the only bird species to have a problem with fermented mangoes, according to the scientists.
Alcohol-related deaths are the price they’re paying for the reproduction of their favorite tree.
“The ethanol is clearly serving some sort of ecological value for the tree” as the birds that are attracted to fermented mangoes then disperse its seeds further, Michael Considine, an associate professor at the University of Western Australia, told ABC News.
Eva2
30th December 2021, 18:14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ZDtEcYvSo
onawah
30th December 2021, 18:32
Giant man eating crab!! Who knew? Go to 39 seconds in. :faint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ZDtEcYvSo
DeDukshyn
30th December 2021, 18:57
Giant man eating crab!! Who knew? Go to 39 seconds in. :faint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ZDtEcYvSo
I started to get a craving for crab legs watching that clip ... those look feastier than king crab!
Dennis Leahy
30th December 2021, 20:33
There is a kind of Zen story about the Indian saint Ramakrishna in which a devotee goes to his home with a burning question about "ahimsa" (non-violence, which in the Jain spiritual practice especially includes non-violence to insects).
As the story goes, when admitted to the great saint's room, the devotee found him swatting flies. :flower:
...
I'll never forget loaning a paperback copy of "Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism" to a friend, and seconds after I handed him the book, he swatted a fly with it.
I escort all bugs outdoors... except cockroaches. Forgive me, dear Universe, for I smite them.
I do swat biting bugs when they attack (noseeums, mosquitoes, ticks, sand flies, deer flies, horse flies...)
I usually escort spiders outside as well, figuring they would likely starve indoors, and I am thrilled when they make a web on my porch or windows. The first tarantula I ever saw (California desert), I picked up and placed it on my arm, so it could walk up my arm. This was cool and exciting, until it got up on my shoulder near my head, which surprisingly triggered a bit of a fear response, and then I had to place him back down on the desert sand.
Other creatures I have encountered that probably don't fit very many people's perception of "magical" would be poisonous snakes and scorpions. Though the neon-green, 4" long, fat scorpion that I found in the desert was certainly magical looking, that was one scorpion that this monk wouldn't fish out of the water with his hand. The last animal I ever killed was a 5' long, fat, Western Red Diamondback Rattlesnake - and I regret it to this day, 40 years later. My friend Jim and I did eat it (rattlesnake tacos), but the magnificent creature should have been simply observed, not caught and killed.
onawah
31st December 2021, 06:43
LOL I just realized I forgot to put the dash between man-eating crab.
So instead of a giant man-eating crab, the heading of my post reads: giant man eating crab.
So I guess in our imaginations now that could be you, DeDukshyn!
Don't eat too many now...:lol:
Giant man eating crab!! Who knew? Go to 39 seconds in. :faint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ZDtEcYvSo
I started to get a craving for crab legs watching that clip ... those look feastier than king crab!
Eva2
7th January 2022, 17:33
'Massive ‘Darth Vader’ isopod found lurking in the Indian Ocean
The father of all giant sea bugs was recently discovered off the coast of Java.'
https://bigthink.com/life/darth-vader-isopod/#Echobox=1641221948
https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/origin-53.jpg?lb=1536,864
A new species of isopod with a resemblance to a certain Sith lord was just discovered. It is the first known giant isopod from the Indian Ocean. The finding extends the list of giant isopods even further.
Humanity knows surprisingly little about the ocean depths. An often-repeated bit of evidence for this is the fact that humanity has done a better job mapping the surface of Mars than the bottom of the sea. The creatures we find lurking in the watery abyss often surprise even the most dedicated researchers with their unique features and bizarre behavior.
A recent expedition off the coast of Java discovered a new isopod species remarkable for its size and resemblance to Darth Vader.
Bathynomus raksasa specimen (left) next to a closely related supergiant isopod, B. giganteus (right)
Sidabalok CM, Wong HP-S, Ng PKL (ZooKeys 2020)
According to LiveScience, the Bathynomus genus is sometimes referred to as “Darth Vader of the Seas” because the crustaceans are shaped like the character’s menacing helmet. Deemed Bathynomus raksasa (“raksasa” meaning “giant” in Indonesian), this cockroach-like creature can grow to over 30 cm (12 inches). It is one of several known species of giant ocean-going isopod. Like the other members of its order, it has compound eyes, seven body segments, two pairs of antennae, and four sets of jaws.
The incredible size of this species is likely a result of deep-sea gigantism. This is the tendency for creatures that inhabit deeper parts of the ocean to be much larger than closely related species that live in shallower waters. B. raksasa appears to make its home between 950 and 1,260 meters (3,117 and 4,134 ft) below sea level.
Perhaps fittingly for a creature so creepy looking, that is the lower sections of what is commonly called The Twilight Zone, named for the lack of light available at such depths.
It isn’t the only giant isopod, far from it. Other species of ocean-going isopod can get up to 50 cm long (20 inches) and also look like they came out of a nightmare. These are the unusual ones, though. Most of the time, isopods stay at much more reasonable sizes.
The discovery of this new species was published in ZooKeys. The remainder of the specimens from the trip are still being analyzed. The full report will be published shortly.
Why the ocean you know and love won’t exist in 50 years
The discovery of a new species is always a cause for celebration in zoology. That this is the discovery of an animal that inhabits the deeps of the sea, one of the least explored areas humans can get to, is the icing on the cake.
Helen Wong of the National University of Singapore, who co-authored the species’ description, explained the importance of the discovery:
“The identification of this new species is an indication of just how little we know about the oceans. There is certainly more for us to explore in terms of biodiversity in the deep sea of our region.”
The animal’s visual similarity to Darth Vader is a result of its compound eyes and the curious shape of its head. However, given the location of its discovery, the bottom of the remote seas, it may be associated with all manner of horrifically evil Elder Things and Great Old Ones.
Eva2
22nd January 2022, 01:18
https://thepetneeds.com/giant-piranha/?fbclid=IwAR3FTGH61Ppo8QMjl3MBXeAXP3WHMfLaK07z4tUGVrXhfdU1CH_1xJZHeuM
'A Giant Piranha Has Been Caught In Congo River, Big Enough To Eat A Crocodile!
https://thepetneeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1584408661_916_A-Giant-Piranha-Has-Been-Caught-In-Congo-River-Big-Enough-To-Eat-A-Crocodile.jpg
https://thepetneeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1584408662_69_A-Giant-Piranha-Has-Been-Caught-In-Congo-River-Big-Enough-To-Eat-A-Crocodile.jpg
Deadly Sea Animal a Threat
Normally, when we think about a fish we get a very cool and calm feeling because normally we have found this sea animal a very comforting and peaceful one that has affected no one ever. However, in some or the other way at times this animal may also turn out being deadly, this is because of the different species of fish being found every now and then.
A deadly giant fish named as Piranha was found in the river Congo, this fish was proved being a dangerous one when a child was attacked by it. This fish has been weighing about 50 kg and may even eat an entire crocodile at a time.
The size and layout of the fish is no less than a crocodile and it has been a threat for the people living nearby. This fish has created a huge damage for the many sea animals in the Congo River.
Not only the sea animals have their lives at stake but also many humans in the surrounding areas have been scared after it took away the life if a 13 year old boy. This deadly sea animal has created a situation of panic for the people living near the Congo River.
https://thepetneeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1584408662_833_A-Giant-Piranha-Has-Been-Caught-In-Congo-River-Big-Enough-To-Eat-A-Crocodile.jpg
Eva2
26th January 2022, 01:19
'Biggest Snake Ever Could be Hiding in the Amazon
If you thought that anacondas and pythons were intimidating, you haven’t seen anything yet. Slithering its way through the South American jungles and devouring anything that gets in its way, there’s one particular beast that reigns as king of the reptiles. It’s the largest snake to have ever roamed our earth and it’s known to its feared as the titanoboa. Trust us, this mammoth creature is not to be messed with. Scientists claim that the titanoboa is extinct but others aren’t so sure; some people claim to have seen it with their own eyes. So, how big are we talking here? How dangerous is this giant beast? For anyone with ophidiophobia, look away. '
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_lQfxOJhhI
Bill Ryan
26th January 2022, 01:50
This is not a very magical animal. This 1932 photo shows a giant anaconda killed in Brazil, near the Venezuelan border, that was 40m (130 ft) long. It rather makes the Titanoboa (see the video above!) look like someone's pet. :)
http://topicstock.pantip.com/wahkor/topicstock/2011/09/X11016533/X11016533-6.jpg
Bill Ryan
26th January 2022, 02:30
This is not a very magical animal. This 1932 photo shows a giant anaconda killed in Brazil, near the Venezuelan border, that was 40m (130 ft) long.
A footnote: for anyone who might be interested in reading more about the MANY sightings of enormous snakes in the Amazon, go to Chapter 11 (p.187) of Bernard Heuvelmans' classic and very wonderful book On the Track of Unknown Animals:
https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Bernard%20Heuvelmans%20-%20On%20the%20Track%20of%20Unknown%20Animals%20(1970).pdf
:focus:
Innocent Warrior
26th January 2022, 04:16
They’re dragonflies.
https://wallup.net/dragonfly-macro-eyes-face/
Not sure what this is - stick insect, mantis of some sort - but sure wouldn't want it on my back:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2
https://i.imgur.com/SOa83bL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DqzmHOB.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aEAfVkh.jpg
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/red-line.gif
Jill, this may be why a number of your images no longer come up. When I copy and paste the image address, this is the explanation:
https://i.imgur.com/Fc60ux0.jpg
Missing image link. (https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2)
Missing image link. (https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/183650162_177006597663268_774991449018994339_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=SddUS5Pc5xQAX9cllIK&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=306b7bd8ad113fa4f363bbe50649ecba&oe=60DB3A52)
Thanks for the heads up Running Deer and sorry for all the "blanks". I copy the image link when I post but I see that does not always work. I'll stop posting images until I figure this out.
Mod note from Bill:
I'm not clear how to work around the time-limiter, which sometimes seems to be built into the URLs (the links) that you copy and post. (I assume that if that was missed out, i.e. deleted out of the URL, it'd not work at all.)
But do please by all means use the Sandbox thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14962-Sandbox-thread-OK-to-practice-posting-here) to experiment! I'd absolutely not want you to stop posting all your wonderful photos and videos.
:happy dog:
Talk about the universe working in mysterious ways! I was literally about to PM you Jill, with an apology for never thanking any of your posts. They are almost all blank for me, and I had assumed they were from Facebook or Twitter - I literally have them classed as untrusted in my browser.
Re: the bug-eyed insect. I looked up larval stages and young of both mantids and grasshoppers - it was neither of those. So by a process of elimination we've knocked two off the list of 12,647,611 potentials. Not sure I have the time nor patience to go through the rest though. ;)
Note: the number 12,647,611 was invented - its probably far more.
Eva2
26th January 2022, 05:00
This is not a very magical animal. This 1932 photo shows a giant anaconda killed in Brazil, near the Venezuelan border, that was 40m (130 ft) long. It rather makes the Titanoboa (see the video above!) look like someone's pet. :)
http://topicstock.pantip.com/wahkor/topicstock/2011/09/X11016533/X11016533-6.jpg
Wow, I assume this is a dead one! I recall an old photo that Arthur C. Clarke had exhibited at some point from the Brazilian Amazon. I think it may even have been posted on one of the animal threads . It showed an enormous snake coiled, reaching up towards a helicopter hovering above it. Maybe this is one of these snakes that has emerged from deep in the Amazon.
Eva2
26th January 2022, 05:10
They’re dragonflies.
https://wallup.net/dragonfly-macro-eyes-face/
Not sure what this is - stick insect, mantis of some sort - but sure wouldn't want it on my back:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2
https://i.imgur.com/SOa83bL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DqzmHOB.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aEAfVkh.jpg
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/red-line.gif
Jill, this may be why a number of your images no longer come up. When I copy and paste the image address, this is the explanation:
https://i.imgur.com/Fc60ux0.jpg
Missing image link. (https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/188167171_1370484476670935_8114420716710759065_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=4JY0tHXZ7AkAX8jm2dh&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=281e24b6d9e3e52779a1a0d1f7dc34ee&oe=60DAB9E2)
Missing image link. (https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/183650162_177006597663268_774991449018994339_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=SddUS5Pc5xQAX9cllIK&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=306b7bd8ad113fa4f363bbe50649ecba&oe=60DB3A52)
Thanks for the heads up Running Deer and sorry for all the "blanks". I copy the image link when I post but I see that does not always work. I'll stop posting images until I figure this out.
Mod note from Bill:
I'm not clear how to work around the time-limiter, which sometimes seems to be built into the URLs (the links) that you copy and post. (I assume that if that was missed out, i.e. deleted out of the URL, it'd not work at all.)
But do please by all means use the Sandbox thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14962-Sandbox-thread-OK-to-practice-posting-here) to experiment! I'd absolutely not want you to stop posting all your wonderful photos and videos.
:happy dog:
Talk about the universe working in mysterious ways! I was literally about to PM you Jill, with an apology for never thanking any of your posts. They are almost all blank for me, and I had assumed they were from Facebook or Twitter - I literally have them classed as untrusted in my browser.
Re: the bug-eyed insect. I looked up larval stages and young of both mantids and grasshoppers - it was neither of those. So by a process of elimination we've knocked two off the list of 12,647,611 potentials. Not sure I have the time nor patience to go through the rest though. ;)
Note: the number 12,647,611 was invented - its probably far more.
IW, Oh, thanks so much for the comment. Yeah, I pretty much stopped posting images as I couldn't figure it out. Although Franny and RD did kindly give me detailed and extensive instructions on possible ways to correct this, I'm pretty dense with technology and I still couldn't figure it out. Clearly that part of my brain doesn't work so well :o. Once in awhile I still post an image or two just to see how long it lasts but I don't want to do that too much since I seem to be starting a collection of empty boxes which is annoying for the viewer. Thank you for digging up the dragonfly pics - and you are probably right as some of the pics are sent to me over FB. I will probably be wrapping up my account there this year. I'm glad you got to save one of them!! :thumbsup:
onawah
26th January 2022, 06:57
I just discovered recently that time-dated images I've posted which eventually disappeared could be found and pasted back in again so long as I knew the name of what the image was-- I could do a search and find it if it was rare enough.
Of course, the second image will last only as long as that one is time-dated for.
Eva2
17th February 2022, 06:01
This is Charlotte. She is a huntsman spider and lives in house where she goes from room to room eating bugs. Charlotte is still growing:
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/272883656_7305556042795503_6386982040735614520_n.png?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=7muh43GtBsAAX_rGMsT&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=00_AT87cjLAM6Q6njZxLCnMjhc4Flc20j1qMPgwgaQLDPMfVA&oe=6213961A
RunningDeer
17th February 2022, 11:29
It sorta looks tech/AI.
https://i.imgur.com/cIftpdI.jpg
This is Charlotte. She is a huntsman spider and lives in house where she goes from room to room eating bugs. Charlotte is still growing:
Matthew
21st February 2022, 18:55
We uses phrases, metaphors and similes from nature to describe life; we say things like "it's like the birds and the bees".
We don't say it's like the fish and eels to describe anything. From this video I can see why. I'm sat here wondering what I've just seen lol. Is it rude or just their way of saying hello? I don't know if I should feel embarrassed watching it or not
https://twitter.com/d4_veh/status/1495832092336439296
wondering
21st February 2022, 18:57
I'll never be able to unsee this...😳😳😳😳
onawah
21st February 2022, 23:04
That is unbelievably gross. :sick:
How in the world do those fish survive with an eel living inside them?
And why would they pass it from one to the other?
wondering
21st February 2022, 23:47
And what are they doing coming up out of earth?? So many things to ponder, or not.
Matthew
22nd February 2022, 00:07
That is unbelievably gross. :sick:
How in the world do those fish survive with an eel living inside them?
And why would they pass it from one to the other?
And what are they doing coming up out of earth?? So many things to ponder, or not.
Is it computer rendered? That's where my best assumption is at the moment lol. Sea creatures can get pretty weird though, I believe it twice before I doubt it
wondering
22nd February 2022, 00:37
Apparently there is a YT channel from India called Discovery Site where this video originated. It is said it is replete with other fake videos....just sayin'. This is from Google, and we know Google only tells the truth.
Matthew
22nd February 2022, 00:50
Apparently there is a YT channel from India called Discovery Site where this video originated. It is said it is replete with other fake videos....just sayin'. This is from Google, and we know Google only tells the truth.
That makes perfect sense, that it is fakery of some kind. Sorry everyone, I assumed it was sea creatures being weird, doing what they do best but this is too weird for even them. But presuming a fake, what a great parody of sea creature weirdness :bigsmile: . I posted a fake, sorry everyone :confused: :silent:
Eva2
22nd February 2022, 01:56
Apparently there is a YT channel from India called Discovery Site where this video originated. It is said it is replete with other fake videos....just sayin'. This is from Google, and we know Google only tells the truth.
That makes perfect sense, that it is fakery of some kind. Sorry everyone, I assumed it was sea creatures being weird, doing what they do best but this is too weird for even them. But presuming a fake, what a great parody of sea creature weirdness :bigsmile: . I posted a fake, sorry everyone :confused: :silent:
I'd seen this before somewhere (probably on google) and as I (vaguely) recall the fish are actually dead and the eel eats them from the inside (or maybe lays eggs inside) or something like that. I can't remember the details of what this is all about but do recall it being a grisly end for the fish - nature's horror show!
onawah
22nd February 2022, 03:02
But if that is the case, how would the second fish, the one that is about to receive the eel, surface from under the sand if it's dead?
Apparently there is a YT channel from India called Discovery Site where this video originated. It is said it is replete with other fake videos....just sayin'. This is from Google, and we know Google only tells the truth.
That makes perfect sense, that it is fakery of some kind. Sorry everyone, I assumed it was sea creatures being weird, doing what they do best but this is too weird for even them. But presuming a fake, what a great parody of sea creature weirdness :bigsmile: . I posted a fake, sorry everyone :confused: :silent:
I'd seen this before somewhere (probably on google) and as I (vaguely) recall the fish are actually dead and the eel eats them from the inside (or maybe lays eggs inside) or something like that. I can't remember the details of what this is all about but do recall it being a grisly end for the fish - nature's horror show!
RunningDeer
22nd February 2022, 03:07
The reality of this video with two fish and an eel is worse
by archyw
April 9, 2021
source (https://www.archyworldys.com/the-reality-of-this-video-with-two-fish-and-an-eel-is-worse/)
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200/bg5hi1i1amcywkg479f2.gif
These days a strange video starring two fish and an eel is going viral. The video is unpleasant, disturbing, and gross enough, but you’ll be glad to hear it isn’t. shows natural behavior. The problem is, that leaves us with a lot of questions about how it was recorded.
But let’s start at the beginning. This is the video. Before you run to play, warn yourself that some people may find your content extremely unpleasant. Even if you are a fierce Internet user who has already seen everything, the clip is one of those that are creepy.
The original video is It is, and belongs to a channel called Discovery Site. The channel in question was founded in August 2020, and has a handful more videos which I miss. All of them starring fish and showing supposed very bizarre fishing techniques.
If seeing fish coming out of the ground sounds like something to you, it’s because you’ve seen it before. In November 2019, a video in which an individual was seen removing several fish from a flooded hole went viral on the ground by the strange procedure of throwing Coca-Cola and Mentos in the hole. In its day many media (including this same house) reasoned that the hole connected with a nearby river and that the fish were attracted by the bait (an egg in this case), and then forced out of the water suffocating them by suddenly adding air with the mixture of Mentos and Coca-Cola.
G/O Media may get a commission
The reality, however, is that we ate a fake like a castle and that what we saw in that video was a prepared scene in which they first dug a hole and then threw the fish there. An investigation carried out by Futurism It suggests that the entire video was a montage that uses previously caught live fish and that what it shows has a fishing technique what I am an aeronautical engineer.
We will probably never know for sure, because Technique Tools, the channel that showed that video, disappeared from YouTube and his account was terminated for violating the terms of service. Considering the content it was showing, it is very likely that YouTube kicked it off its platform after receiving not a few complaints for animal abuse.
However, there are more channels similar to Technique Tools already Discovery Site. The oldest is ironically called Fisherman Animal Lover and has dozens of similar videos. All of them repeat the scheme of showing little credible fishing techniques and live fish doing very bizarre. All these channels they have an additional thing in common: they come from India.
What are we seeing then in this video? Of course it is not 3D nor does it seem that there is any post-production. Which leaves us with a much more stomachic reality. As they explain in Snopes, the scene seems dramatized and with a very specific script. In other words, someone has bothered to bury two fish in loose and damp sand, leaving the arms of some one called colaborador out of plane to be able to push them up as if they came out of the ground. The part of making an eel pop out of an eel’s mouth or to enter someone else’s it can be done if you have enough stomach to cut the fish in half and introduce the eel upwards through the digestive tract. The big question is if the fish are already dead and someone is manipulating them from within as if they were gloves or they were still alive when they were cut and put the eel in them. If it really is the latter, the false shots of these videos have nothing to envy of Cannibal holocaust.
The details of how it was done in fact they are the least. The reality is that the behavior we see in these videos is far from being natural and that we play at making strange scenes by forcing live (or dead) animals it is a form of leisure that’s enough very questionable. Reality is often even worse than fiction.
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RunningDeer
22nd February 2022, 03:18
STRANGEST Animals That Are Hard To Believe Are REAL! (12 min)
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RunningDeer
11th March 2022, 13:42
Stick, Snake or caterpillar? (1 min)
Finally met the snake mimic caterpillar! Larva of a sphinx hawk moth (Hemeroplanes triptolemus). Thanks to Jake, Mike and Will who found the thing out in the ACR Maijuna on the Rio Napo, Peru.
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Shout out to Bluegreen for the Furry Snake post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3596-Up-At-The-Ranch-And-Beyond&p=1487705#post1487705). http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/wave-hi.gif
http://1721181113.rsc.cdn77.org/data/images/full/38845/bizarre-snake-found-in-thailand-has-green-boa-fur-instead-of-scales-look.png?w=522?w=650
Strange Green Furry Snake Discovered in Thailand
A mysterious furry green snake was found floating in a swamp in Thailand. The bizarre 2ft-long creature had a frilly body that looked like fur when it was found in Sakhon Nakhon province on February 26. It was taken home by local Tu, 49, after he noticed it moving slowly in the dirty water near his home while he was walking.
The snake has been identified as a skull snake (Homalopsis Buccata), also known as Linne’s Water Snake, and the fur is actually moss that attached to the slow-moving reptile, and will stay there until it molts.
Published 1st March 2022 (3:17)
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Eva2
30th March 2022, 03:43
I don't know how true this is but this photo of 12 ants evenly spaced around a single drop of water is a great shot:
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/277515053_7465482096802715_3747377760033520871_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=nVJeyw5WsFoAX_a6JPp&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=00_AT-JS2oHVR2cnglqF_ZUgoGoMhiZqqaAvCuUaN6AEq4bgw&oe=62497EAF
RunningDeer
30th March 2022, 08:22
I don't know how true this is but this photo of 12 ants evenly spaced around a single drop of water is a great shot:
https://i.imgur.com/C6As63B.jpg
Ants carrying a drop of water (1:47 min)
https://i.imgur.com/5ccMH5Y.jpg
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Eva2
15th April 2022, 15:32
'New Invasive Species of Worm in Texas is Basically Immortal'
https://c101.iheart.com/content/2022-04-14-new-invasive-species-of-worm-in-texas-is-basically-immortal/?pname=www.z100.com&sc=dnsredirect&Keyid=socialflow&Sc=editorial&Pname=local_social&fbclid=IwAR2yPl2zlXw2NS_5wOU5v1p3saeDGv_vI-E4dg5VwfvJhESlWEyrjRnhqhs
https://i.iheart.com/v3/re/new_assets/625867ed94afccd59c42bbf8?ops=max(1060,0),quality(80)
'The hammerhead worm has been spotted all over the Southern United States in recent years.
In Texas, this invasive species has been found in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth areas, according to Only In Your State. These foot-long worms have an appetite for earth worms. They also secrete a neurotoxic venom and are "basically immortal."
The hammerhead worm, which is indigenous to Southeast Asia, is easily recognizable by the shape of its head — a hammerhead. These worms prefer to live in the soil, but rain forces them to leave their homes. They're predatory and sometimes tough to spot, posing a threat to local ecosystems.
If you do come across a hammerhead worm, you shouldn't cut it in half, which is the most common way to kill a worm. This worm will grow into two separate worms if cut in half. Instead, you should dissolve it in a salt and vinegar solution or place it in a plastic bag and throw it away.
However you decide to dispose of the hammerhead worm, don't handle it with your bare hands — it secretes a neurotoxic venom to ward off predators similar to that of a pufferfish.'
RunningDeer
16th April 2022, 14:02
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/read-paper.gif
From Jill to Eva2: either I missed the notice of your name change or it's on administration's to-do-list.
I found an article (https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/as-seen-on-tv/what-you-need-to-know-about-hammerhead-flatworms-now-in-central-texas/500-7c573325-bbe0-4548-ad01-6f7c2df628ec) that reported the hammerhead flatworms have been in Texas since the 1980's, and sometimes they get mistaken for a baby snake because they can range in size from 8 inches to 15 inches (22 cm -38 cm).
'New Invasive Species of Worm in Texas is Basically Immortal''
wondering
16th April 2022, 15:58
I, too, missed the name change, but was starting to get suspicious! 😁😁 one of life's mysteries cleared up! Back to topic.
Eva2
20th April 2022, 23:26
The malaysian giant katydid
https://youtube.com/shorts/ROszYfb5M7k?feature=share
RunningDeer
21st April 2022, 13:42
The malaysian giant katydid
https://youtube.com/shorts/ROszYfb5M7k?feature=share
Source is endlessly creative. Amazing!
............http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/popcorn.gif
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/deer-popcorn.gif
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Matthew
24th April 2022, 15:51
Spot the creature
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRD4u3ZWUAYiwWJ?format=jpg&name=medium
Source twitter (https://twitter.com/Tackle71Wall/status/1517986659870117890)
wondering
24th April 2022, 16:27
I finally spotted the repeat of the leaf patterns....very cool!
RunningDeer
24th April 2022, 16:41
Wow!
Twitter doesn't show where. Click here for help. (https://i.imgur.com/sCsMl9G.jpg)
Brigantia
24th April 2022, 18:22
I finally spotted the repeat of the leaf patterns....very cool!
Thanks for the clue - now spotted! :D
onawah
24th April 2022, 19:52
It's so obvious once you see it, but I looked and looked and couldn't see it until it was pointed out.
Super Ant!
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/279162691_1942861139238591_8872939499622565521_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=7Kril-9LZ4MAX-o3qRo&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=00_AT_zodaO_twE9OwAXW66A93xlgZNc5rGoD5je2JnHN7Sfg&oe=62731846
DaveToo
1st May 2022, 18:40
Super Ant!
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/279162691_1942861139238591_8872939499622565521_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=7Kril-9LZ4MAX-o3qRo&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=00_AT_zodaO_twE9OwAXW66A93xlgZNc5rGoD5je2JnHN7Sfg&oe=62731846
If this hasn't been photoshopped I think it should go in the sister thread (are magical) !
Matthew
1st May 2022, 19:49
^ looks like an entry for a photoshop competition. The earliest TinEye hit was this at photoshop battles. Some are very subtle
https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles/comments/pm94xb/psbattle_this_ant_single_mouthesly_holding_a_pair/
Skin crawler. Looks like a huntsman.
https://fb.watch/cPIzCAPG7q/
Matthew
16th May 2022, 14:24
The cat spells it out. What's so ******* difficult to understand human!? Just do that thing already!
https://twitter.com/aTeXan575/status/1526005198795292674
RunningDeer
16th June 2022, 19:03
By releasing a silky sail, the crawlers can “balloon” far distances—sometimes over entire oceans. See how they catch the wind.
Spiders Spin Balloons to Fly Away | National Geographic (1:12 min)
This crab spider is surveying the wind condition with its leg hairs … to take flight.
A team of researchers studied how these spiders release silk "balloons" and sail away. Conditions for liftoff need to be right. A warm and gentle breeze will do it. The balloon is made up of 60 silk threads in a triangular form, similar to a wind-sail. It’s got to be nice to go wherever the wind blows.
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See How Spiders 'Fly' Around the World on Their Silk
It turns out spiders may be some of nature's best little pilots.
Using a technique called “ballooning,” they release sail-like trails of silk that lift them up and off into the wind. In some cases, they drop just a few feet from their takeoff site; in others, they get caught in jet streams that take them across oceans. In all cases, they go where the wind takes them.
Aerodynamics engineer Moonsung Cho from Berlin's Technical Institute recently set out to find out how spiders seem to “fly.” Were they randomly shooting out webs or acting more deliberately, he wondered.
He started by gathering 14 crab spiders. They were chosen because they're on the heavier side of spiders that show this behavior, weighing more than five grams.
Cho then exposed them to windy environments. First in a Berlin park that contained a natural breeze, and then in a lab, where he could manipulate wind speeds.
Setting the spiders on an open platform, he took video of their flights to observe the quick motions that are difficult to see in realtime.
Sophisticated Flyers
The behavior Cho observed was “highly developed,” he says. He gathered that there are “big numbers of spiders doing this accurately.”
Before takeoff, the spiders prepared, like any good pilot would do.
Sticking out a front, hairy leg, the spiders tested wind speeds. In his lab, Cho was able to manipulate speeds and found that the spiders typically didn't take off until speeds were lower than three meters per second.
Once they were ready, they raised their abdomens and released about 50 to 60 threads of silk. Looking at the threads under a microscope, Cho observed that each one was no more than 320 nanometers (one billionth of a meter) thick.
The wavelength of visible light ranges from 400 to 700 nanometers—thus “the thinness of a spider's ballooning silk is smaller than the wavelength of light,” says Cho.
Next for Spider Flight?
What impresses Cho, he notes, is just how many spiders are exhibiting this complex behavior around the globe. Charles Darwin noted spiders landing on his ship 60 miles from the coast of Argentina during a 1832 voyage. Today, ballooning spiders blanket a town in Australia, leaving a film of silk.
In the future, the Berlin-based researchers think further study of how the spiders fly could advance human innovation.
Cho and his university advisers hope to apply the findings to biomechanics. His work so far was published on the preprint server bioRxiv, but more research is forthcoming, he adds.
Cho thinks spiders could be an example of low energy transportation, but emphasizes such an innovation is years away and that his current work is simply to better understand the spiders themselves.
link (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/spider-silk-ballooning-flying-animals-spd)
DaveToo
16th June 2022, 19:32
By releasing a silky sail, the crawlers can “balloon” far distances—sometimes over entire oceans. See how they catch the wind.
Spiders Spin Balloons to Fly Away | National Geographic (1:12 min)
This crab spider is surveying the wind condition with its leg hairs … to take flight.
I'm wondering why you posted this here in this thread rather than the 'magical thread'.
This seems pretty magical to me. :)
RunningDeer
16th June 2022, 20:00
By releasing a silky sail, the crawlers can “balloon” far distances—sometimes over entire oceans. See how they catch the wind.
Spiders Spin Balloons to Fly Away | National Geographic (1:12 min)
This crab spider is surveying the wind condition with its leg hairs … to take flight.
I'm wondering why you posted this here in this thread rather than the 'magical thread'.
This seems pretty magical to me. :)
I agree, it's pretty magical. More often than not, I've added magical posts on this thread. You're more than welcome to add it there. And if you feel the need, you're welcome to delete the post.
The answer to your question is: My 24 hour days have shrunk to 14-16 hours. So I have to limit the number of threads, especially the ones that have a lot of videos or posts with multiple videos or 2+ hour ones.
I could skip those posts, but I'm not comfortable leaving people out that are here to educate. I appreciate their efforts.
DaveToo
16th June 2022, 20:20
By releasing a silky sail, the crawlers can “balloon” far distances—sometimes over entire oceans. See how they catch the wind.
Spiders Spin Balloons to Fly Away | National Geographic (1:12 min)
This crab spider is surveying the wind condition with its leg hairs … to take flight.
I'm wondering why you posted this here in this thread rather than the 'magical thread'.
This seems pretty magical to me. :)
I agree, it's pretty magical. More often than not, I've added magical posts on this thread. You're more welcome to add it there. And if you feel the need, you're welcome to delete the post.
The answer to your question is: My 24 hour days have shrunk to 14-16 hours. So I have to limit the number of threads, especially the ones that have a lot of videos or posts with multiple videos or 2+ hour ones.
I could skip those posts, but I'm not comfortable leaving people out that are here to educate. I appreciate their efforts.
Why would I want to delete it? I thanked you for it! :)
And how can I delete one of your posts (if I was ever so inclined)? Just curious. :)
I'm not sure why you came out so defensive with your reply?
I just thought your post would be more appropriate in the other thread, that's all.
RunningDeer
16th June 2022, 20:51
Why would I want to delete it? I thanked you for it! :)
And how can I delete one of your posts (if I was ever so inclined)? Just curious. :)
I'm not sure why you came out so defensive with your reply?
I just thought your post would be more appropriate in the other thread, that's all.
Defensive? Strange descriptor. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/noidea.gif
Some people that run threads tend to have tighter standards than others. And then there are threads like Here and Now, or the thread creators like Mike who are more relaxed on what’s posted or if someone goes off topic.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve given thread creator permission to delete my post. There are times that I’ve asked administration to delete. Why? 1) it’s off topic 2) judge(y) 3) I stated the obvious 4) poorly expressed 5) preach(y) 6) misinformation. (to name a few)
You asked: How can I delete one of your posts…. (post #16 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66104-How-to-Tips-with-Visuals-for-Links-Quotes-Images-etc.&p=767571&viewfull=1#post767571))
Step One: click the triangle @ the bottom, left corner of the post in question. Not only the parties involved can do so, but any member.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/How-to-Tips/images/delete-1.jpg
Step Two: leave a brief message and the mod team will take it from there.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/How-to-Tips/images/delete-2.jpg
DaveToo
16th June 2022, 20:59
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve given thread creator permission to delete my post. There are times that I’ve asked administration to delete. Why? 1) it’s off topic 2) judge(y) 3) I stated the obvious 4) poorly expressed 5) preach(y) 6) misinformation. (to name a few)
You asked: How can I delete one of your posts…. (post #16 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66104-How-to-Tips-with-Visuals-for-Links-Quotes-Images-etc.&p=767571&viewfull=1#post767571))
Step One: click the triangle @ the bottom, left corner of the post in question. Not only the parties involved can do so, but any member.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/How-to-Tips/images/delete-1.jpg
Step Two: leave a brief message and the mod team will take it from there.
http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/How-to-Tips/images/delete-2.jpg
Ah, so if I understand correctly, I myself cannot delete any post, but rather I can ask a mod to delete a post, just as anyone else can.
Eva2
30th June 2022, 02:08
The "monster" under the bed.
'A Brazilian wondering spider stores its young under the bed'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/291390953_2138785446294841_9045736780510138009_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=8fcCagKl8hMAX-7Hgfr&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=00_AT-2GXb-LuSd0xsc7QHgKueE70EklD8XSVnq7DLyvIi5PQ&oe=62C24140
DaveToo
30th June 2022, 02:41
A mother's "love" - not pretty:
'After eggs hatch, Stegodyphus lineatus stops eating and vomits 40% of internal guts onto own face, allowing spiderlings to feast on the mixture. Once that’s gone, spiderlings pierce her abdomen and consume what is left until she dies.'.
Thanks for posting Jill.
I visit the Animals are Magical (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106567-Animals-are-Magical) thread from time to time and do think about animals.
I think a lot about insects for some strange reason, probably because I have quite a lot in my house!
So where do you folks draw the line?
Do you also think insects are magical?
How about spiders?
How about mealy bugs?
How about centipedes?
How about ear wigs?
How about mosquitoes?
Do you show all of those animals mercy? Be honest?
When I made my initial post (above), I can now see I posed an inappropriate question when bringing up some insects.
"Do you also think insects are magical".
I was just comparing them to the cute/cuddly/majestic animals that were being predominantly discussed
in the 'Animals are Magical' thread.
The title of my thread was not what we have now. (Are some animals not very magical?)
It was quite different. Bill made the change to the new title.
I would like to request a more appropriate title for this thread.
Something along the lines of:
Are some animals less cute/cuddly/majestic than others?
Because that was the intention of my thread from the start.
I firmly believe that ALL animals are equally MAGICAL!!!
onawah
30th June 2022, 02:57
I think fireflies are quite magical. See my post here:https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106567-Animals-are-Magical&p=1505159&viewfull=1#post1505159
Sue (Ayt)
3rd July 2022, 22:16
I saw this guy for the first time the other night. Yikes! Thought it just might be an alien bug, but a search showed it was a Dobsonfly.
It was around 3 inches (note the small bug 2nd picture bottom left for size comparison.)
I really hope I don't see these Dobsonflies ever again...
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Kryztian
22nd July 2022, 23:06
Nicotine addicted crab here.
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Eva2
6th August 2022, 23:36
'A mother wolf spider carrying her nopelings.'
https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/296782691_397678589121371_282612505253433280_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=ee_7UMoQboYAX9tZIEh&tn=uzzDRYXUyb-idovP&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=00_AT9uUxfXBeBpnIdBvG04Ini3X0u29-XsOT4F_z_v0LwqWA&oe=62F44495
Bill Ryan
27th August 2022, 13:52
I think this belongs here, but (thankfully!) this animal is extinct. :)
https://explorersweb.com/megalodon-bigger-faster-than-known-before
The Real Jaws: The World’s Largest-Ever Shark Was Even Bigger and Faster Than We Thought
https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.explorersweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/25204548/Jaws.jpg
Few extinct aquatic animals have captured the popular imagination like the biggest shark of all time: the megalodon.
Much remains unknown about this behemoth that died out three million years ago. Scientists know more about the T-Rex, which went extinct 65 million years ago, for one simple reason: Sharks don’t have many bones.
Now, advances in 3D mapping have produced new ways of gauging the actual size and shape of the megalodon. The results? It was likely even larger, faster, and hungrier than previously thought.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.explorersweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/25204136/megalodon.jpegA fossilized megalodon tooth (left) vs. a great white tooth.
That’s the message from a new 3D model (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9424) published in the journal Science Advances last week. In the past, estimates of the megalodon’s size varied from 10 to 18 metres.
That’s big enough to strike a mental image — about the length of a standard bowling lane. But the updated vision of this ancient super-predator makes it seem even more terrifying. The new model shows a 16m-long shark that weighed as much as 67 tonnes. And it might not have even been full grown.
To create the model, London Royal Veterinary College anatomist John Hutchinson worked with Catalina Pimiento, a paleontologist at Swansea University in Wales.
They relied on a rare megalodon spine stored in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Other data included megalodon teeth and a full-body scan of a great white shark — the megalodon’s closest living relative.
The study’s authors said it’s possible the megalodon could grow even larger, given that scientists have discovered fossilized vertebrae 50 percent larger than the bone this model used.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.explorersweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/23175106/shark-figurefull-678x700.jpgThe authors drew from multiple sources to create their 3D model of the megalodon.
That means megalodons could have grown up to 19m long. That’s as big as a humpback whale but still smaller than the 23m shark (https://archive.nerdist.com/how-big-is-the-meg-shark-math/) depicted in the blockbuster “The Meg.”
An orca in five bites
In one of the study’s tastiest details, the authors said their estimates suggest the megalodon could chow down an eight-metre orca whale in just five gnashes of its massive teeth.
While certainly an intriguing proposition for The Meg sequel (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9224104/) coming out next year, the detail reflects the growing understanding that the megalodon likely couldn’t sustain its enormous size on a diet of seal (as some fossil evidence (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018216305417#!) suggests). It would need whales to survive.
The study also concluded that the megalodon’s average cruising speed was nearly five kilometres per hour, faster than any other shark. Its top speed is unknown.
Eva2
31st December 2022, 19:00
I found this to be quite a photo catch - hard to see the poor snake's predicament though:
A snake being swallowed by a frog
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/322676040_1312781146212243_6907830451886091892_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=LVLxmw1ukBYAX_0CW67&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=00_AfDBHqwobqbGeNDaH3KASHGfpFC9VQjfFqcwzu0eHkX3dQ&oe=63B53AFC
onawah
5th January 2023, 06:49
Moray Eels
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Franny
1st February 2023, 05:23
This may qualify as less cute. Perhaps a Pfizer escapee, or a beloved Australian critter?
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Eva2
1st February 2023, 19:32
This may qualify as less cute. Perhaps a Pfizer escapee, or a beloved Australian critter?
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Beyond creepy - looks like something on top of something else :unsure:
Franny
1st February 2023, 20:59
These two are a close second to the one above; different planet perhaps.
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Eva2
17th February 2023, 17:27
I wonder what these critters ate? Something big!
'A colossal millipede fossil, comparable in size to a car, has been discovered on a beach in northern England. The fossil belongs to a creature known as Arthropleura, which lived during the Carboniferous Period roughly 326 million years ago.'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/331644438_2264575190381366_4112029994758719313_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=hMmxN6AJxnEAX8NH4dO&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=00_AfDBR4Z9OzlD765gcFXx83z09xzBVwsMbvZ134TAkrwSrw&oe=63F51B8A
DeDukshyn
18th February 2023, 04:09
I wonder what these critters ate? Something big!
'A colossal millipede fossil, comparable in size to a car, has been discovered on a beach in northern England. The fossil belongs to a creature known as Arthropleura, which lived during the Carboniferous Period roughly 326 million years ago.'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/331644438_2264575190381366_4112029994758719313_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=hMmxN6AJxnEAX8NH4dO&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=00_AfDBR4Z9OzlD765gcFXx83z09xzBVwsMbvZ134TAkrwSrw&oe=63F51B8A
Back in those days days the Earth had a much higher oxygen content due to the extreme amount of plant life blanketing the globe. The earth constantly goes between extremes of oxygen and co2 - when co2 is high, plant life flourishes and gives off oxygen and when oxygen gets high, animal life flourishes and gives off co2. It is a pendulum swing between these two states. Right now the earth needs more plant life, but in the grand scheme our co2 is relatively low compared to high points in these pendulum swings. To say that humans have created the worst co2 situation in earth's history is laughed at extremely hard by scientists who study these things.
Most invertebrate animal size is determined by two factors - oxygen levels and age. because they don't have lungs, their maximum size is partly dependent on how much they can absorb. the higher the oxygen content, the more they can absorb, the larger they can grow. That's why we don't have giant spiders, and giant insects, but in the ancient past we had dragonflies with 6 ft wings spans and 7 ft long centipedes. The earth is always changing ...
Mari
18th February 2023, 14:31
I wonder what these critters ate? Something big!
'A colossal millipede fossil, comparable in size to a car, has been discovered on a beach in northern England. The fossil belongs to a creature known as Arthropleura, which lived during the Carboniferous Period roughly 326 million years ago.'
https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/331644438_2264575190381366_4112029994758719313_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=hMmxN6AJxnEAX8NH4dO&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=00_AfDBR4Z9OzlD765gcFXx83z09xzBVwsMbvZ134TAkrwSrw&oe=63F51B8A
.Most invertebrate animal size is determined by two factors - oxygen levels and age. because they don't have lungs, their maximum size is partly dependent on how much they can absorb. the higher the oxygen content, the more they can absorb, the larger they can grow. That's why we don't have giant spiders, and giant insects, but in the ancient past we had dragonflies with 6 ft wings spans and 7 ft long centipedes. The earth is always changing ...
Thank the Creator I've incarnated in these times...
Isserley
22nd February 2023, 16:54
Huge moose kicks Alaska woman in the head after sneaking up on her
A woman in Anchorage, Alaska was kicked in the head by a moose while walking her dog last week, and it was all caught on camera.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/huge-moose-kicks-alaska-woman-head-sneaking-her
Matthew
5th July 2023, 08:16
Sometimes we need to pause and think what our real purpose is. Yes, that's right - to invent a squirrel proof bird-feeder. This one surprises the squirrel but also drops its nuts in the spinning chaos, so I'm not sure it's the best solution because the spinning allows the squirrel to get nuts out of it; it won't end well. The humour is huge though. You should see the look on the squirrels face.
Here the not so magical creature are the birds which are beautiful but horrible when you look at their actual behaviour. I can't blame the squirrel. Humans are just as baroquely ineffective as we always have been, it hardly needs a special mention. I think the squirrel wins this one.
https://twitter.com/thecazeshop/status/1672296063489970178
Thecaze
@thecazeshop
Squirrels have destroyed most of our bird feeders until we got these. 🐦This is a weight-activated squirrel-proof feeder. It allows birds to eat and saves seed by keeping squirrels away.🐿
🐿🛒Get it 👉 https://thecaze.com/bird-feeder
<video of a squirrel jumping onto a birdfeeder, by the wireframe bird-perch, then the wire bird-perch spins round underneath the birdfeeder, and the squirrel has too much centrifugal force to be able to take the free food and has to let go>
Johnnycomelately
8th October 2023, 07:37
Critters, lol. Green Mambas count as not so cute/cuddly/majestic, even though they are way less hazardous than Black Mambas, normally.
Like the lady said, on a field trip with Nick Zentner, they all got personalities. Will edit that vid in later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VUQTxK-q0
Edit to add: Adrian Slade, lover and observer of Rattlesnakes in The PNW of the USA:
Rattlesnake Den with Adrian Slade
Nick Zentner
77.6K subscribers
402,697 views May 2, 2023
“CWU's Nick Zentner learns from graduate student Adrian Slade at an active rattlesnake den east of Ellensburg, Washington. Filmed on April 26, 2023. The first Adrian video from October 15, 2022 is here:
• Rattlesnake Research with Adrian Slade“
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnNwv8wgR8A
onawah
12th November 2023, 01:21
Tell me this is not an Alien!
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Kryztian
7th July 2024, 00:26
Snake dies from man bite
A sneaky serpent bit a sleeping Indian man, who bit it back much harder
https://www.rt.com/india/600564-man-bites-snake-dies/
A man in the Indian state of Bihar gave a snake a taste of its own proverbial venom by biting it to death, local media reported on Friday.
According to local reports, Santosh Lohar, a worker employed on a railroad project in Rajouli, was sleeping at his base camp earlier this week when the incident occurred. A snake, presumed to be venomous, decided to snack on the sleeping man, entering the tent and biting him.
Santosh woke up and attacked the reptile, slamming it with an iron rod and biting it back several times. The snake was fatally injured and died on the spot.
The laborer claimed that he responded the way he did in accordance with a local custom.
“In my village, there’s a belief that if a snake bites you, you must bite it back twice to neutralize the venom,” he stated.
Given the dubious reliability of the folk remedy, many locals doubted the reptile was venomous in the first place. Santosh has been hospitalized for his snake bite wound and is now recovering.
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