can you hear the buzzing of the wings?

Be seeing you, sweetling. In the half-light. (a tentative secret world inspiration blog. regarding things that go bump in the night, and the people who fight them.) disclaimer: involves gross shit, blood, gore, horror, and other weird things, probably inadequately tagged.

[neckar]

Maxim Zhestkov - 2019

Computations I Art Film_

[idionkisson]

“Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town,” by John Philip Johnson and Julian Peters (Rattle #38, Winter 2012)

[thecollectibles]

Forest God part 1 by Oleg Vdovenko

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Horror Illustrations by Christian Bravery

This artist on Twitter

[lightresist]

cadet.christina

[wetheurban]

It’s Bigger Than Us, David Schermann

Vienna-based artist and photographer David Schermann explores concepts of existence, space, and love in his ongoing series It’s Bigger Than Us. 

Instagram.com/WeTheUrban

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[abgregations]

the converse of the given relation

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

by  Natalya Glushenkova

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[nevver]

The dead and the dying, Patrick Joust

[ex0skeletal-undead]

by billelis // Jon Ojibway

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Animal Skull Sculptures by Chris Haas

[evilbuildingsblog]

Taipei 101 is THE MOST EVIL building on the planet

[the-smiling-pony]

Look at this fucking Judge Dredd-level shit, god damn.

[thebuttkingpost-deactivated2021]

This is where the final boss is

[kushblazer666]

it has a gigantic counterweight towards the top to reduce swaying, which is kind of necessary for any very tall building, but its out in public view and painted gold and you can see it like, swinging around

[retroactivebakeries]

#this whips ass youre all just weak

[zennistrad]

This is just the final level of Half-Life 2.

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One https://www.instagram.com/narikkaphoto/

[fumblebeefae]

Can you talk about vulture bees, please?

Vulture bees are Americans stingless bees (Meliponini) within the genus Trigona (they still have nothing on our Aussie bees). There’s only three species of them: Trigona necrophaga, Trigona crassipes, and Trigona hypogea (of which there are two subspecies t.h robustior and t.h hypogea).

T. necrophaga specimen

They’re called as such because of their unique obligate necrophagy, aka. instead of pollen they harvest meat off carcasses. They collect paste-like and liquefied rotting flesh and turn this into proteinaceous food which (in common with other stingless bees) they store in pots within their hives. They also create a sort of “honey”-like substance (sometimes dubbed corpse-honey) which they make by collecting juice from fruit. They were reported to never visit flowers, making meat from carcasses their main food source.As of yet no one has tired this honey because it probably would kill them or at the very least make them sick.

T. hypogea bees feeding on lizard carcass.

They’ll eat most carrion they can find including lizards, mammals, birds and so on and, like maggots, tend of enter larger carcasses through the eyes. T. hypogea are different from the other vulture bees in that they have five pointed teeth on the end of each mandible. which seems to have led to unique behavioural adaptions such as aggressive foraging beaviour, in that this species will often rob / attack competitors for access to food and nest sites.

What makes these stingless bees unique isn’t just the fact they harvest and live on meat (as there are many bee species that do so also), but rather that they only live on meat and no longer harvest flowers at all. This makes them quite unusual in terms of other  stingless bees (Meliponini).

Foraging behavior of T. hypogea on broods from a recently abandoned wasps’ nest (Parachartergus smithii) 

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light in august ii