Hey, Fedi. I have a favour to ask you.

[sarah@sosial.link]

@sillyCoelophysis@hachyderm.io @ShaulaEvans@zirk.us @SteveJB@beige.party

stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself

Just like how siblings are harmless.

[pikhq@social.treehouse.systems]

@ShaulaEvans Incredibly, there is a single group of insects which have a winged instar before adulthood. And strangely enough, it’s the mayflies. They molt into a winged form, which lives for a few minutes to a couple of days, which _then_ molts into the sexually mature adult form.

[robtherunt@cupoftea.social]

@afewbugs @statsguy @ShaulaEvans
Haha! Pixies are slippery characters.

[david@fouroclockfarms.club]

@hydropsyche @noodlemaz @annehargreaves @jetlagjen @ShaulaEvans these are “sowbugs" where I grew up (So. California). They're usually gray.

[stevejb@beige.party]

@sillyCoelophysis Ah yes. The long disputed difference between hurt and harm. 😎

[flittermouse@girlcock.club]

@ShaulaEvans

Behold the life cycle of male fig wasps. They pupate inside the fig and then mate with an unhatched female. Their next order of business is to burrow a hole to the outside world, which the female wasps can use once they too hatch and pupate. The males of many species of have no wings, and quickly die outside the fig. Thus female fig wasps are hatched ready-fertilized, ready to find another fig to continue the cycle.

https://richarddawkins.net/2016/08/love-the-fig/

[carmean@fediscience.org]

@helgenug @ShaulaEvans Female earwigs pincers are relatively straight while male pincers (or cerci) are strongly curved. Females tend / protect their eggs

[camless@m.ai6yr.org]

@ShaulaEvans @futurebird is our ant fact champion

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@camless @ShaulaEvans

Whenever I hear the phrase "ant fact" or "bug fact" I have to share this music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lobdvz4k4

[stevegis_ssg@mas.to]

@Mux @Akki @KaraLG84 @ShaulaEvans

Ooh, neat!

[jetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org]

@epicdemiologist @ShaulaEvans I've never heard of them!

We have various crayfish (including blue ones) in our lakes and rivers, and shrimp, crabs, barnacles and lobsters around our shores. But I can't think of any other land crustaceans in the UK.

[camless@m.ai6yr.org]

@futurebird @ShaulaEvans Thank you for continuing to enrich my day and timeline 😂 Saving this one

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@camless @futurebird @ShaulaEvans LOL oops, I clicked on that, earworm 🤪

[jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk]

@ShaulaEvans The inflated coremata of the male Baphomet moth make it look like an alien.

(I recommend doing a separate image search to see ones that are far more impressive than the photo included in the Wikipedia article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatonotos_gangis?wprov=sfti1#Description_and_life_cycle

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@ai6yr @camless @ShaulaEvans

... in the walls
... in the closet
... everywhere
oviposit
... in the stairs
... in the attic
... everywhere
systemic

- Me creeping out everyone on the 4 train singing to myself.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@futurebird @camless @ShaulaEvans 😂

[ericlawton@kolektiva.social]

@ShaulaEvans

A fact about a particular bug. Like God, I have an inordinate fondness for beetles*. In particular, Dytiscus.

I dug a small garden pond and was filling it up when there was a whir by my head and a 'plop'.

You guessed it! The first inhabitant of the pond was a Dytiscus

* 'There is a story, possibly apocryphal, of the distinguished British biologist, J.B.S. Haldane, who found himself in the company of a group of theologians. On being asked what one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation, Haldane is said to have answered, “An inordinate fondness for beetles.”'

[cptbutton@dice.camp]

@ShaulaEvans

Aphids are born pregnant.

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@Mux @afewbugs @ShaulaEvans real life tribbles

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@exlibrarykris @ShaulaEvans no, that's definitely a bug fact