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More than 15,500 species and over 500 genera of crane flies have been described, the majority by C.P. Alexander, who published descriptions of 10,890 new species and subspecies, and 256 new genera and subgenera over a period of 71 years from 1910–1981.[1][13]

#holy shit

lichenaday

Cladonia didyma

Southern soldiers

Sometimes I can be a little hard on Cladonias since they are like, the pretty, popular girls of the lichen world. And the perpetual loser in me balks at the attention they get over like, more typical looking lichens. But like, I get it. C. didyma is STUNNING, after all. I just hate her cause I ain't her, ya know? This fruticose lichen has a basal/primary thallus made up of small, incised scales, and a secondary thallus made up of scaly, cupless podetia often topped by bright red, globose apothecia. The surface is usually powdery green or brownish in color. C. didyma grows on soil and rotting wood, and can be found in a lot of different habitats worldwide. It can be easily confused with C. macilenta which also has bright red apothecia, but C. didyma has a scaly podetial surface whereas C. macilenta has a dusty surface.

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xalatath

Got another velvet ant. They're absurdly cute for having one of the most painful stings of any insect.

solarprominence

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

onenicebugperday

Social velvet spider, Stegodyphus lineatus, Eresidae

Photo 1 by talgar-t64, 2 by giorgimakharadze, 3-5 by simon_oliver, and 6 (for scale) by kian_kaftarbaz

pygmypouter

their magic their quest their awfulness and strangeness etc etc etc you get the drill

#trc

okapiaconcolor

By Ossewa - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

serializing

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hawkpartys

Genus Podabrus

elbarkla

Y'know when you're doing a quick painting study and get all swept up in the moment 😅 I didn't know this would turn out so hyper-realistic, I'm suddenly nervous about AI accusations for the first time in my art journey (fuck AI, to be clear)

hawkpartys

i love you wasps i love you flies i love you beetles i love you moths i love you non-bee pollinators i love you "uncharismatic" organisms who nonetheless carry our ecosystem on your backs