perhaps the most beautiful snail Iāve personally seen.
Everettia jucundior, Sarawak, Malaysia
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perhaps the most beautiful snail Iāve personally seen.
Everettia jucundior, Sarawak, Malaysia
SHIP REQUESTZ UHM UHMM RUMMAGEZ AROUND IN MY BIN. FELLKILLER ??!1 MAYBE ?!?!1
YEAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Love fell ships, heās a special little weirdo, and pairing him with an even weirder weirdo is BRILLIANT!!!
To the fellkiller bin they go!!
Wool-carder bees build their nests in existing cavities, usually finding a hole/crevice in a tree, a plant stem, a piece of rotting wood, or a man-made structure, and then lining the cavity with woolly plant fibers, which are used to form a series of brood cells.
The fibers (known as trichomes) are collected from the leaves and stems of various plants, including lambās ear (Stachys byzantina), mulleins, globe thistle, rose campion, and other fuzzy plants.
The female uses her toothed mandibles to scrape trichomes off fuzzy plants and collects a ball of the material under her abdomen. She transports these soft plant fibers to her selected nest site and uses them to line a brood cell. Next, she collects and deposits a provision of pollen and nectar into the cell, enough pollen to feed a larva until it is ready to pupate. Lastly, she lays a single egg on top of the pollen and nectar supply before sealing the cell. ... She will repeat this process with adjoining cells until the cavity is full.
These are solitary bees, meaning that they do not form colonies or live together in hives. Each female builds her own nest, and the males do not have nests at all.
Female wool-carder bees will sometimes sting if their nest is threatened, but they are generally docile. The males are notoriously aggressive, however; they will often chase, head-butt, and/or wrestle any other insect that invades their territory, and they may defend their territory from intruders up to 70 times per hour. The males do not have stingers, but there are five tiny spikes located on the last segment of their abdomen, and they often use those spikes when fighting. They also have strong, sharp mandibles that can crush other bees.
There are many different types of wool-carder bee, but the most prolific is the European wool-carder (Anthidium manicatum), which is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but has also become established as an invasive species throughout much of North America, most of South America, and New Zealand. It is the most widely distributed unmanaged bee in the world.
A few different species of wool-carder bee: the top row depicts the European wool-carder, A. manicatum (left) and the spotted wool-carder, Anthidium maculosum (right), while the bottom row depicts the reticulated small-woolcarder, Pseudoanthidium reticulatum, and Porter's wool-carder, Anthidium porterae
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worth pointing out, i think, that the spines on the male wool carder bees, especially A. manicatum, aren't just for, like, poking with:
they're actually used as levers, along with the males' especially large and muscular abdomen, to grab and pop the heads off of other bees. if you ever find a random decapitated bee or other bee-sized flying insect laying around it may have been victim to a homicidally horny wool carder male.
Dust's gettin' squeezed in there
i refer to stinkbugs that find their way inside as "men" and in this case i think this is Actually A Man
Standing on two legs operating a switch? Yeah, that's a man
I NEED TO SEE MORE KIST FROM YOU...
read my mind.
thatās a whole man.
baby botfly gaming
mindgame. little rat
Uh um no homo ig...
This is so wholesome
Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip
I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is
CAT DAD IS BACK
aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;
HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!
This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen.Ā
update:
I love that he kept ā¦. All of them.
Iāve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.
This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.
Youāre welcome.
I remember this thread, but I never saw the grown-up pics ā¤
All hail Catdad
I saw Catdad for the first time today, and my day instantly became exponentially better.
IāM CRYING!?
CATDAD HAS REVIVED MY WILL TO LIVE
I live for cat dad-
Cat dad has saved us all
CAT DAD!!
I had not seen the updates. I am so happy that the Cat Gods smiled upon this person and their new family :)
Heās got more recent pictures (and is also an INCREDIBLE artist), but this is the fam circa May 2020 :>
Itās been over a year? Where is cat dad? Where is he?
Fear not, CatDad is still happily with us:
Cat Dad 2022 pic.
Itās been far too long since I saw these guys. āHeartwarmingā doesnāt begin to touch it. :)
CAT DAD IS OK AMD SO IS HIS WONDERFUL FAMILY
(SOUND IS CRUCIAL) this video is has murdered me dead the music the editing the way information is slowly revealed about the two of them the plot twist the breaking bad images. WILLIAM WILLIAM WILLIAM. all over minecraft parkour someone help im seizing
These three. cause I wanted to draw them since I havenāt drawn them in a hot minute
Killerās probably playing Mario kart
killer and dust get caught hate flirting ( beating eachother . )
Whenever i think about this gang
This is what my brain see
is posting too much a thing here