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Ants are a form of thing, known for travelling in cliques. They are small in size, unknown in color, and bashful in temperament. Every ant has two appendages they use to hurt other beings, and four appendages for other activities. Scientists have discovered many types of ants; gay, Protestant, electric, and chill. Their wealth is considered low.

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onenicebugperday

Wasp katydid, Aganacris velutina, Tettingoniidae

Found in Central and northern South America, this species of katydid expertly mimics tarantula hawk wasps in the genus Pepsis, but it is, of course, harmless.

Photographed by Frank Deschandol // Instagram

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Tarantula hawk wasp, Pepsis mildei, for comparison:

Photo by leptonia

halfwaything

ew ew ew ew ew ?

melancholyu4ea

Gently picked up a big bumblebee yesterday, I think I interrupted her nap but she seemed ok with it. She sat on my finger for a few minutes before cleaning her antennae and flying off.

xalatath

How it feels lately

crazysodomite

If you're younger than 50 years there are termite queens who are older than you

rifki16

happy pride to them

sitting-on-me-bum

A European noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula), found throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa. It uses loud echolocation, fast flight and deep dives from above the tree canopy to catch moths, crickets and beetles.

Ján Svetlík, CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0.

kateammann

A rainbow of salamanders! 🌈

mysharona1987

lynati

If the trash pickup people stop doing their job for two weeks you'd be throwing a fucking tantrum. Same for the janitors who keep your office spaces and bathrooms clean. (And that's before the various illnesses start to spread all over your city from the build up of pathogens.)

The people responsible keeping our spaces clean (and thus, mostly disease-free) should both be paid more AND thanked more.

bogleech

Garbage service is one of the ten deadliest jobs in the United States.

And police work isn't even on that list.

swiftrunnerfelidae

every so often I remember when they crashed a train into a nuclear waste storage container, on purpose, to demonstrate how durable they were, and the storage container didn't lose any measurable containment whatsoever.

meanwhile, coal power plants can spray radioactive coal ash willy-nilly into the atmosphere all day and all night, but noooo, it's nuclear power that's the scary bad polluter.

puppygirllaika

i used to know someone who had actually worked extensively on the Hanford nuclear site cleanup, and she once told me she would feel perfectly safe driving right next to a nuclear fuel transport truck, but when she sees a tanker truck she avoids it like the plague, because they got to see the difference in first-hand demonstrations and it was terrifying.