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Lesbian!
OP left out the third tweet talking about asexuality haha
Bi asexual 😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Lesbian asexual????
GUYS I LITERALLY HAVE A POSTER OF HER ON MY WALL BECAUSE SHE WAS SUCH A HUGE PART OF MY GAY AWAKENING I FEEL SO VALIDATED RIGHT NOW
WE FEEL VALIDATED IN THIS HISTORY TONIGHT
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I went to feed Binyek the yellow garden spider this afternoon and found her lying on the ground beneath her web. She was sluggish and not fully responsive, so I picked her up and brought her inside, pressed a wet Q-tip to her mouth in case she’s somehow dehydrated, and am going to hope for the best. The terrarium isn’t big enough to build a web in but at least she’ll be protected overnight. I don’t know why she’s sick... she’s been eating well. I worried that a wasp might have stung her but she’s not fully paralyzed.
Could she have made her eggsac already? They get sluggish and start dying over they lay their eggs. Spider blood is blue, did you see any blue on her? I hope she'll be ok, I love garden spiders.
Not yet. Her species will lay up to six or seven eggsacs in good conditions—last fall her cousin Pashuun made six presumably viable eggsacs and a seventh “rustic” attempted sac up through November, and didn’t start slowing down until her third or so. She lived almost until Christmas when I brought her inside.
I’m not sure if Binyek has mated; I found the remains of what may have been a male’s web next to her own, but I can’t be sure. She’s still pretty small and if she were gravid, she’d have a big swollen abdomen instead of her current slim-but-not-starving figure.
I checked on her a bit ago and she’d crawled off the bottom of the terrarium and built a tiny silk hammock near the top, so! Maybe she was just thirsty.
Good news! Binyek is okay, I think!
She didn’t really spin an orb, so I can’t feed her, but my mother is bringing home the big mesh terrarium so I will try to keep her in that instead and see if the extra room and airflow will inspire her to try again. I’d release her, but I’m not sure I’d be able to find her again if she didn’t web in her original spot.
A few weeks ago I moved Binyek into this cage:
At first she was reluctant to web, spinning herself only a small hammock to sit on that was not functional for catching food. After a few days of uncertainty, however, she molted:
Freed from her old subadult exoskeleton and now fully mature, Binyek now seemed perfectly fine. She began spinning large, lovely webs and eating voraciously whenever I placed a cricket in her web. I began misting her every other day, and she’d lick the droplets off her silk or scrape them off her legs into her mouth.
Suddenly I noticed another spider nearby, and realized it was a hot young man Argiope aurantia. I fed Binyek a large grasshopper and placed him inside a few hours later, hoping that a full meal would discourage her from cannibalizing him before mating:
Success! He eagerly set about wooing her, drumming on her web and then on her legs and body, which I guess is very sensual in spider culture:
However, in their enthusiasm, they somehow... fell out of the web, onto the cage floor. It happens, I guess. It took a few hours before Binyek returned to her web, apparently shocked by the rude interruption to her passionate coupling.
In the meantime, I noticed ANOTHER MAN SPIDER had arrived, lured by the scent of Binyek’s virgin silk. He was bold enough to climb up on the terrarium itself, so I opened the door and let him inside, too. My lovely girl deserves her choice in suitors!
By the next morning, both males had disappeared, and Binyek was glowing with satisfaction. Argiope aurantia males always die spontaneously immediately after mating and remain attached to the female; sometimes she eats him, sometimes not.
Anyway, Binyek is as happy and healthy as a big fat yellow garden spider could hope to be. Now I just have to keep her warm, well-fed, and hydrated; she should lay 2-6 eggsacs over the next few months, and her offspring will populate my garden in the hundreds:
Behold: an expecting mother!
Binyek is gravid and should be producing the first of several egg cases within the next week or two. I’ll keep them outside over winter but try to find a way to move her indoors when the first frosts hit.
CONGRATULATIONS BINYEK! You have fulfilled your biological imperative.
She will lay several more egg sacs through the fall, which will hatch next summer by the hundreds. Hopefully I’ll be able to save a handful of her offspring for hand-rearing so that I can secure a spider dynasty.
TW: animal death / animal neglect
I wanted to draw this comic for a long time, but I never knew how to approach this issue. In my childhood all my friends had budgies, all of them were put aside somewhere and left alone. Treated like “annoying” decoration. Don’t get a bird if you can’t meet its needs.
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me, stuffing a fistful of melatonin gummies in my mouth: I dEsIrE tHe sLeEpZ
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what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them? Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too
look at this shit
They radiate peace
capybaras are friend shaped
I love this post
This is actually a cool thing I know about!
In the wild capybaras live in large groups so naturally a female capybara will take care of not only her own offspring, but all of the other offspring in the group. So capybaras are super great mothers who will adopt pretty much anything and take care of it.
Lots of places that rescue different animals will give a group of baby animals to a capybara to raise if they have one.
Like puppies
Ducks
Deer
Emus
They are just super calm animals so they’re naturally great at mothering or just existing in a group!
mom shaped
here are some more cute pictures of them with rats and bunnies :,)
And here are a couple of capybaras getting away for a little yuzu spa day because even capybaras need pampering sometimes
“So how many children do you have now Susan?”
Susan the Capybara: all of them
GIRL I-
men are a very entitled gender like have any of y’all considered that I’m absolutely uninterested in the concept of a husband?
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