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moved to @springmori

[will-o-the-witch]

Everyone pick up your government-assigned fursona, grab your two colors then combine it with this random animal picker. Tell us what you get and no rerolls, I don't make the rules.

[ashstfu]

the complexities of a woman’s pinterest boards outnumber the stars in the sky

[valtsv]

i'm neither an enjoyer nor a hater i interact with things in a third worse way

[dawnpng]

i made a quiz to find out if you're pirate, knight, cowboy, or vampire-coded :) https://uquiz.com/oNBCMs

[andean-deer]

Feline Bowl from the 14th - early 16th century made during the time of the Inka Empire (Tawantinsuyu).

[switch]

i love when very small bats open their mouths real big and it takes up the entirety of their faces, you can barely even see their eyes

[switch]

:V

[skincareroutine]

just know if i could crawl on the ceiling on all fours i would

[samsketchbook]

Sherman

[samsketchbook]

i enjoy seeing him described as “little guy” in the tags but as a fun fact he is around 7 feet long haha

[thefinalpaperheart]

Take my quiz -> If you were a horror weird girl, what would happen when you finally snap?

[lesly-oh]

Here is my piece for @Nova_Mali ’s “Classics but make it gay” zine!!! The Kickstarter is up so go check it out!

[lakemichiganbaby-moved-deactiva]

btw being excessively nonconfrontational is NOT a positive trait. it does not mean u are “too nice” or just too kind to hurt people, it means u have a problem communicating and you need to work on it.

[mariamlovesyou]

The sound of animals sniffing things like their life depends on it is music to me ears

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags the first fictional character you remember having a crush on.

[oldmoonlullaby]

Enchanting Old Book Covers, just like they belong to a Mystical Faerie World.

instagram: laitdelune

[bananapeppers]

web with calamistrated cribellate silk in a square-wave design, photographed by Reddit user bayouturtle (source)

bayouturtle, in a 2017 comment available on their profile page: “I took this pic on the north coast of Tasmania a couple weeks back thinking it was merely a mildly interesting spiders web. Never thought it would get this much publicity or that its origins were such a mystery.”

identified as Paramatachia sp. by arachnologists Piergiorgio Di Pompeo and Ethan Yeoman

[attn: @chthonic-cassandra]

[bananapeppers]

@surefire-tanis’s tags: “is there just a whole world of cooler spiderwebs that most people dont know about? like there was that silkhenge thing the other day that was totally wild too [.] not that regular spider webs aren’t already pretty fucking cool”

yes!

the most widely recognized type of spider web is the orb web, which is an example of a capture web, i.e. a web for capturing prey. large, vertically oriented orb webs are built by members of the spider family Araneidae, commonly known as “orbweavers”. members of some other spider families also build orb webs. “Orbiculariae”, a proposed clade, groups all of them (see also Jonathan Coddington et al. 2019).

the more common types of spider webs are interesting, whether despite or related to their commonness. for example, the orb web originated 187–201 million years ago (Jason Bond et al. 2014)!

spiders comprise a diverse order of over 49,000 species known to science. there are other types of capture webs, which not all spiders use, and there are other types of webs and other silk structures besides capture webs that spiders build for other purposes. the silkhenge is an example of a web/silk structure built around eggs, typically to protect them until they hatch or until spiderlings are ready to disperse.

some of my favorite uncommon (among all spider taxa) spider webs/silk structures:

“inverted ladder web” by Scoloderus sp. (Araneidae), photographed by Paul Bertner. this modified orb web specializes in capturing moths (Mark Stowe 1978). a moth that strikes the upper part of the web doesn’t stick because the gluey silk only sticks to the moth’s scales, which detach from the moth, but as the moth tumbles down the web, it loses more and more scales until eventually the gluey silk sticks to the wing membrane and the moth becomes stuck.

“bowl and doily” web by Frontinella pyramitela (Linyphiidae), photographed by ophis. my video here.

cubic pink eggsacs by Theridiosomatidae, consistent with description of Chthonos, photographed by Luísa Mota.

“coneweb” by Diguetia catamarquensis (Diguetidae), photographed by pablisola. the coneweb of Diguetia species superficially resembles another uncommon web, the “tentweb” of Cyrtophora species (Araneidae). in this case what really interests me about the coneweb is that Diguetia and Cyrtophora are so distantly related: Diguetia is synspermiate and Cyrtophora is entelegynic.

[girldog]

unfortunatyely im displaying behaviours. and acting in ways

[myofibril]

my toxic trait is i refuse to use any alternative to tumblr. i will be here literally until it implodes. there will be 4 total posts on the entire platform and i’ll still be here. then when it dies i will take my graceful exit from social media