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♡ Call me Fish ♡ ♡ It/its ♡ ♡ roaring 20's ♡ ♡ happily married ♡ Wanted to keep separate blogs for serious and fun stuff this time around--I reblog mostly @fishofthesius

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

[mckitterick]

information wants to be free

[jarjaross]

Look I understand that I started this account so tumblr would stop gatekeeping me when I was reading comics but this is really useful and important information that should be shared around more.

[scrupulosity-comics]

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

[scrupulosity-comics]

[bugtragedy]

things my dad loves:

riding the breaks

slamming on the breaks

legos ig

[cyalaterbyeyall-deactivated2025]

“responsible” exotic pet influencer voice: look at how cute and cuddly my endangered african cat is! don’t you wish you could do this too? remember, though, only i can do this! i’m not promoting this animal as a pet! hey, check out my super awesome king cobra freehandling, doesn’t it make me look badass? again, though, only i can do this! i’m not trying to promote these animals as pets for just anyone! all i do is post constant photos and videos making it look really cool and fun and badass to own these animals! don’t ask where i got them btw

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is great golden digger wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Although solitary, these wasps will often build their underground nests close together and have even been known to share food (and sometimes even the nest itself!) with each other. However, due to the sharp angles they dig their nests at, it can be dangerous for multiple adult wasps to be in the same nest. So before descending they always do a meticulous check (so much so that the researcher Douglas Hofstadter coined the term "sphexish" in reference to this behavior).

[stark1lling]

Posting wasp propaganda because my ass is seething yo!

Update! Edited background to be lighter for better legibility, usually use grey backgrounds for artwork and forgor that it probably wouldn’t be great to read!

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Hemipepsis tamisieri!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

This fiery colored tarantula hawk likes her arachnids big n meaty, such as the gecko-eating rain spider (genus: Palystes) or baboon spiders (family: Theraphosidae). Mama wasp will provide each of her individual larva with it's own spider so that they can grow up big and strong.

[waspdaily]

Queen of prickly legs

[reallyunreael]

Found a paper wasp grooming itself of dust after trying to exit through a window, dw I immediately released it after this video

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Myrmosa unicolor!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

It would be understandable to confuse this wasp for a member of the family Mutillidae, aka the velvet ants. In fact, where exactly this grouping of highly sexually dimorphic wasps fits in taxonomically has been highly debated. As it stands now, Myrmosid wasps are considered to be a closely related yet separate family from Mutillidae. Unlike velvet ants, myrmosid have a "neck" (or pronotum) and lack "felt lines"— a row of dense hair on the sides of the velvet ant's gaster that is considered a signature trait of the family.

Also while the majority of velvet ants prefer sandy arid environs, Myrmosidae can be found in much more temperate areas. M. unicolor here seems to live in the proximity of the Great Lakes of America.

[waspdaily]

She out here drinking mimosas in Mississippi

[apsciencebylyn]

Normalize having Lifer Wasps: Tetracnemus Edition

Look at this gorgeous weirdo. 🥹 I met her first back in 2022; another appeared today as I was sitting in what used to be a rice field (200 years ago), poking under clumps of grass for creatures.

Encyrtids are fantastic.

flappy flappy flappy

[farewell-to-lorien]

To Survive on This Shore, by Jess T. Dugan.

[jupiterswasphouse]

[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2024 | Video and Image IDs: A video and two photos of a red/orange and black rusty spider wasp digging rapidly through sandy soil, covered in grains of sand /End IDs.]

Tachypompilus ferrugineus, the rusty spider wasp! This lovely lady is preparing a burrow for her young :]

[wintercorrybriea2]

juvenile springtail

[targetedknowledge]

[daily-dose-of-insects]

These are leaf cutter ants! They harvest leaves to take back to their nest. They don’t eat the leaves but instead feed it to a fungus they tend to and eat. These guys are farmers and the leaves are fertilizer. Such fascinating little creatures!

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is the bog wasp (Pseudochalcura gibbosa)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

(First, a clarification: these little chunkers do not have a common name, however I saw them referred to as bog wasps due to their associated environment and am deciding to use my authority as a wasp enjoyer to help spread the moniker)

These wasps lay their eggs on the bog Labrador tea plant (Ledum groenlandicum), but they're not there for tea. Instead, freshly hatched wasp babies wait for foraging carpenter ants to pass by, hitch a ride with them back to the ant's nest, and start using the ant larvae and pupae as juice boxes. When they have their fill, they leave the nest and head back to the bog to set up the next generation of hitchhikers!

[waspdaily]

The bug from the bog. The bog bug.

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Embolemus nearcticus!

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This is another very ant-like wasp. And that may very well be on purpose, as the (wingless) females are most often found within ant nests and the burrows of small mammals. This family in general is poorly understood and rarely encountered. What I personally find most interesting is their face shape— it reminds me more of a grasshopper than anything I've seen among wasps!

[waspdaily]

Can't a girl burrow in peace

[apsciencebylyn]

It's officially spring up here because there are tiny Metaphycus nugget wasps in the savannah grasses again and I am happy 🥹