Obscure Fiction From 2006 Enthusiast @frightgothcar - Tumblr Blog

"physical touch" "acts of service" screw that my love language is oranges

#i cant wait to be Completely Normal about this for the rest of my life #i will think about this post the Regular amount #i will have an appropriately proportioned emotional reaction to this #i prommy

bogleech

Mosquitoes actually are not replaceable in any ecosystem that naturally has them and that includes replacing them with any of the non biting species because these are the traits that make them so core to food webs:

Tiny

Can use every single pool of moisture to raise generations no matter how dirty and stagnant and low in oxygen

Can fly

Males get by on just sugars

Females take protein from larger animals to manufacture thousands more eggs

All these things combined allow thst ecosystem to make huge volumes of insects from conditions barren to most other macroscopic life. You might think there are other insects that seem to make huge massive swarms out of nothing but there's really nothing that hits all the same qualities *except other insects that also suck blood.*

It's the precise combo of being able to "prey" on things millions of times larger and breed in nothing but a few drops of filthy rainwater or the moisture in a rotten log. That's the most efficient combination for anything that size to multiply that rapidly where nothing else can even survive, except of course the things that can move in because they eat them :)

bogleech

A lot of people ask "could they just not be itchy though?" and I regret to inform that isn't actually their doing, there's no evolutionary advantage to making you itchy. That's your own body detecting the intrusion of another creature's saliva into your skin, where it doesn't belong, and reacting with histamines.

If you've ever been bit hard enough by a cat, dog or even human you may notice a similar effect!

kyanve

I remember having a conversation with someone about my hummingbird banding volunteering and how the data went toward support for conservation efforts among other things.

They were all for that, and loved hummingbirds and supported it!

And made a quip about how the only thing they wanted to see extinct were mosquitoes and small biting insects/fruit flies.

40 to 60% of a hummingbird’s diet, and their main source of other nutrients, is small, soft bodied insects.

Including mosquitoes and fruit flies.

They had a massive struggle not wanting to accept that no fruit flies and mosquitoes = no hummingbirds.

headspace-hotel

Bluebirds also eat tons of mosquitoes!

frightgothcar

#I have this conversation 3x a week minimum #also just to be super clear: mosquitoes are dangerous! They are highly effective vectors for all kinds of diseases. Try to prevent getting #bit as much as possible and take extra precaution if you live in an area where mosquito borne illness is common. The answer to this problem #though is not disrupting the environment.#Also invasive mosquitoes are a whole different story and large scale mosquito control efforts are sometimes necessary #but it doesnt mean the mosquito is a bad insect on its own. it has its place as everything does.

moonmoonthecrabking

"use chatgpt" that's the devil talking. buy four caffeinated drinks and pull an all nighter. this is the way.

moonmoonthecrabking

i may lose 5% for a late submission, but at least no one can deny that i wrote it with my own tits i mean brain

dajo42

using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

computationalcalculator

my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament

#this happened to me irl reccently it was crazy

hellsitegenetics

I’ve come to make an announcement: Shadow the Hedgehog’s a bitch ass mother fucker. He pissed on my fucking wife. That’s right, he took his hedgehog fuckin' quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was THIS BIG. And I said “that’s disgusting!” So I’m making a callout post on my twitter dot com: "Shadow the Hedgehog, you got a small dick, it’s the size of this walnut except WAY smaller." And guess what, here’s what my dong looks like: PFFFFFFFFGJT. That’s right baby. All point, no quills, no pillows, look at that it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my wife so guess what, I’m gonna FUCK THE EARTH. THATS RIGHT THIS IS WHAT YOU GET, MY SUPER LAZER PISS. Except I’m not gonna piss on the earth, I’m gonna go higher. I’m pissing on the MOOOOOON! How do you like that, OBAMA? I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT! You have twenty-three hours before the piss d r o p l e t s hit the fucking earth, now get out of my fucking sight before I piss on you too!

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Closest match: Molanna angustata genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Hood casemaker fly

hellsitegenetics

#the high i felt when i identified this insect before reading the post #this is too muchpower for one bitch

letsboldlygomotherfuckers

I actually can't stop thinking about how the losing party last election dressed like vikings and tried to break into the white house and the losing party this election are sharing suicide prevention hotlines

#sigh.#yeah.