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[paperbackparadise]

[kohoe]

[skippyisntfunny]

[boybeetles]

There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance

Excuse me while I get sad .

[boybeetles]

There is a community note correcting this post about the importance of researching insects - including the reproductive habits of insects. But still the fact this was posted and 2k people liked it makes me sad 🥲🥲

[7kqe3j9fzdwm-deactivated2025110]

"stupid researchers studying the mating habits of beetles" people when they can't afford groceries because an invasive beetle species is decimating crops

[entomologist-of-abraham]

An actual conversation I had with a colleague.

Colleague: so they were using the wrong species to pollinate their crops.

Me: what do you mean?

Colleague: well they were using a fly species from Canada and they’re growing onions in Texas. The fly they were using was dying in a day in their greenhouses because it’s frigging Texas in May/June.

Me: and no one was studying this or telling them otherwise?

Colleague: not till me.

Me: so they were wasting all that money on an inefficient pollinator and losing out on crop yield.

Colleague: yep…

And yet these idiots want to cut entomological research funding. Yeah, good luck with that. Come back to us when there’s huge outbreaks of pest insects and arbovectors that we were studying but y’all decided it was “too stupid” to fund.

[renardtrickster]

[jitterslug]

[taxus-fraud]

Hey guys, my opponent just fused their entire side of the board into a gestalt entity, which is currently dissecting and calcifying my pieces such that they fit into its twisted vision of an eternal, perfect state of the universe. What's the best counter in this situation?

[orcboxer]

oh yeah just use the horsie

[cricketandmouse]

They’re passive aggressively cleaning each others faces in the banana bed rn

[cricketandmouse]

peace and love on planet earth….

[typhlonectes]

Vintage newspaper article

[frogseyy]

mutuals feel free to do this

[mite75]

I love this lil guy he looks so happy ;_;

[excelsian]

@markscherz Do frogs enjoy "showering"? He looks very pleased.

[markscherz]

basically, yes. They drink through their skin, and they need quite a bit of water, so in a dry environment they're very happy for some 'rain'

[omegaverse]

[diewhitewoman]

[lelouch]

@omegaversereloaded

[jvgsjeff]

[yahenni]

[doctor-wormm]

please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit

[auckie]

[communist-hatsunemiku]

[virtualgirladvance]

You are a bug in bug hell but your spider torturer so fucking bad at their job that the devil himself has to grab you with his gay pitchfork and help them

[zibaldoni-elzapoppin]

[wordcubed]

[bovineblogger]

WAHOO YIPPEE WAHOO

[applestabs]

okayyyyyy. Wet Snorting creature.

[mad-hare]

Small price to pay for golden goonch

[kaijutegu]

In case you're wondering, this is a baby goonch. A goonchette. A goonchling. Goonchino.

This is what they grow up into.

There are several species of Bagarius, and B. yarrelli is the biggest one. It's one of the largest freshwater fish, and regularly weighs over a hundred pounds.

Also one of them may have eaten people.

[monamoni]