allied-menace
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*"stress dream" = dreams you get when under large amounts of stress or anxiety irl, that may or may not relate to your current situation irl.
@ihaveanorangeforyou work on a string go
tagged by @ryoseii (HI RYO, ILU <3) to make ME AS A WORM using this picrew , which is just such a delightful picrew so so cute
woag. greeb worm
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and of course anyone else who wants to do it!! no pressure on those I tagged also :]
The Camouflaged Looper: these caterpillars fashion their own camouflage by collecting flower petals/vegetation and using silk to "glue" the pieces onto their bodies
Though they're often referred to as "camouflaged loopers," these caterpillars are the larvae of the wavy-lined emerald moth (Synchlora aerata).
Camouflaged loopers deploy a unique form of self-defense -- they snip off tiny pieces of the flowers upon which they feed, then use bits of silk to attach the vegetation to their backs. This provides them with a kind of camouflage, enabling them to blend in with the plants that they eat.
Some of them create little tufts that run along their backs, while others fashion a thicker camouflage that covers their backs completely. In some cases, the camouflaged loopers will even build much larger bundles that surround their entire bodies.
Their range includes most of North America (from southern Canada down through Texas) and they can feed upon an enormous variety of plants -- so the disguises that these caterpillars build can come in countless colors, shapes, and sizes, incorporating many different flowers and other bits of vegetation.
And this is what the fully-developed moth looks like:
Sources & More Info:
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy: Wavy-Lined Emerald, Master of Disguise
Maryland Biodiversity Project: Wavy-Lined Emerald Moth (Synchlora aerata)
The Caterpillar Lab: Camouflaged Looper
University of Alberta Museums: Synchlora aerata
Missouri Department of Conservation: Wavy-Lined Emerald
Nebraskaland Magazine: The Amazing Camouflaged Looper
Lake County Forest Preserves: Camouflage Revealed
I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence
Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.
Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.
"that lil animation loop is the most annoying fucking thing" suck on a lemon? Why would you say this. If you can't say anything nice jump out of a window.
Sam: this is why no one likes you you're so insensitive.
Wes:
Danny: REESES PUFFS REESES PUFFS
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO
all these fucking fools on my dashboard talk about how they love bats but only show pictures of fruit bats fuck you start posting pictures of all bats i can’t stand this fucking bat erasure
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how are you just so slay all the time?
Necessity.
By the way, this is actually my "irl friendly main blog". Go be mutuals with @evilfarmin instead, this is just where I send non anon asks from :)
found an old google doc i made of my favorite bat species. you should suggest more species for my list pls
ID:
A post describing 6 types of bats as follows:
Northern Ghost bat
Angry face
Primarily eats moths and apparently likes to sing while doing so. Fuckin superb you funky little ghost bat
Desert long-eared bat
What's he so happy about???
Apparently they get scorpion stings to the face a lot but it's okay because they just don't care and swoop down to eat them whole (stinger and poison sack included) off the ground anyways
So actually he's probably happy about all the scorpion murder he commits
Pallid bat
Ears
Greater false vampire bat
Can apparently eat like anything. Bugs? Yes. Frogs? Yes. Birds? You bet.
Like straight up cannibalizes bats smaller than it.
Kind of a killing machine overall really
Wrinkle faced bats
Ugly but full of love
has a flap of skin they use as a facemask when they nap. Fancy.
Their weird skull structure lets them eat a wider range of food than most other bats. So that's rad.
Frog eating bat.
They eat frogs
Fun at parties. Always brings fun food (frogs)
End ID.
(thank you @friendlybat for the ID!!)
picrew chain!!
trying my hand at this, if it flops i'll rage 👹
tagging: @mrsdostoevsky @xxsigmakinniexx @ashthemadwriter @masuchu @clovcly @chuuyasboots @jessbeinme15 + anyone else
baby coelacanth
baby coelacanth.
The introductory “Hate” monologue from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, with AM voiced by the TikTok TTS
proposed thursday addition for 2020
I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???
This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.
They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.
waking up everyday is just like. good morning sun. good morning sky. good morning evergrowing festering pit of primordial rage inside of me. good morning birds
deep sea creatures are so fascinating, I don't care how scary they are. I wanna see how fucked up and nightmarish these little guys can get.
God I adore them and how crazy they are like?
Look at this guy, the Barreleye fish. First off I adore critters that are see through, but this dude's cool because those green balls? Those are his eyes, the ones on the front of its face aren't real. Not to mention it's eyes are pointed straight up? Like? My dude hunts by looking at shadows above it.
In a similar vein meet the fish that looks like it has chapped lips despite living in the water, the telescope fish
Like the Barreleye, these guys hunt by staring towards the surface, using the minimal light to see shadows of their prey. They're only about 20cm long but they can extend their jaws and swallow prey twice their size and fold it in half in their stomachs.
Okay, let's take a quick break from fish, let's take a look at a different sleep paralysis demon, the Pycnogonida or sea spider
There's so so many species of these guys, but my favorite thing is that since they're basically all leg, that's where all their organs are too.
Okay break over, let's do one last one, my baby, one of the most beautiful ocean critters, the frilled shark
These guys are like, the blueprint for sharks, they've been around for 80 million years and despite their mouths genuinely looking like the gate to hell, they're not that dangerous to us. In fact we're more dangerous to them due to the way their bodies are pressurized and built for the freezing depths they live in, after leaving a certain depth it's basically an insta death. But, they can get up to six feet long and live roughly 25 years (scientists aren't quite sure on their lifespan) they're also pregnant for over three years which is like. Yikes. But those teeth, 25 rows with over 300 in total. Crazy. No worries though, their jaws are pretty weak and they tend to eat squid, like it's 60% of their diet, the rest mostly being made up of smaller sharks and bony fish.
Anyway, these aren't horrifying deep sea critters (Google hatchet fish if you want that) but these are a few I had off the top of my head!