The Omega Drive

Alec. I like bugs.

[silverbridge-harbor]

A juvenile bug isn't called a larva until it reaches the surface. While it's still underground it's called a margma

[despazito]

[despazito]

Awesome

[wild-e-eep]

Puccinia albescens, a rust fungus, growing all over these townhall clock plants.

All photos from April.

iNaturalist observation 348560264.

[sacred-portal]

[the-muppet-joker]

Time to start MAXMAXXING. I will DO EVERYTHING. BE EVERYTHING. FEEL NOTHING. HOLLOW MYSELF OUT AND BECOME THE PERFECT VESSEL. FROM NOW ON, I AM ONLY EATING CANNED SARDINES AND DRINKINKING MY OWN BATH WATER!!! I WILL BE MEWING AND MOGGING 25 MISERABLE HOURS A DAY!!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!

[tooies]

the clock app always picks the numbers for you but in calculator the numbers can be anything you want

[dragoncarrion]

Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this

[tortol]

picture i got at pride last week; here mexico

[ellie-insertsurnamehere]

This is very dumb but hey

[armengoldira]

[blacklicoriceaddict]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Namib Desert, Namibia

European Space Agency (ESA)

[lolastung]

OVER THE GARDEN WALL (2014)

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[watermonkeystuff]

Street art in Melbourne, Australia.

[achillesinhighheels]

[pmamtraveller]

Winged feminine figure by Adolfo Apolloni

[alliterativealec]

Ngl, pretty scary One Nation are surging in popularity with young voters.

I hope the polls aren't accurate, but I've seen so much anti-budget propaganda everywhere I look, not surprised those with bad media literacy are falling for it.

Please can we just fix the fucking generational wealth inequality in this country.

[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Pseudogonalos hahnii!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

This inconspicuous wasp is the only known trigonalid wasp found in Europe. What's so special about that? Well, trigonalid wasps are.... weird, even by wasp standards. They're hyperparasitoids, meaning they use other parasitoids that are already parasitoiding something else as their hosts. That part isn't odd for wasps though, and hyperparasitoidism can go several hosts of hosts deep. Trigonalids are weird for how they get to their target— which is by having their eggs purposefully eaten by a creature that either already is or will likely be infected by a parasitoid. The trigonalid eggs will wait to hatch until another parasitoid is detected and then they'll eat them up from within the creature that originally ate them.

It goes to show you that even the seemingly simplest looking creatures should not be passed by, who knows what secrets they may hold. How many other unique insects go unnoticed? Perhaps this isn't Europe's only trigonalid wasp after all and there very well could be more without us realizing.

[waspdaily]

I don't think you should wear that in public...