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Today's wasp of the day is the yellow-headed hairy flower wasp (Scolia verticalis)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

This wasp can often be found rooting around in mulch or woodchips in search of beetle grubs to lay her eggs on. Her other extracurriculars include slurping nectar from native flowers (and by proxy pollinating them) and finding a nice stick or reed to curl up around or dangle off of.

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@pscentral event 49: literature ↳ The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

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cellsdividing - Jennifer O'Toole

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Cicada Killer with Cicada

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Today's worm is basically a little dragon. Or perhaps an axolotl. Ampharete sp. (undescribed species)

Photo from Florida Museum of Natural History

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It's fascinating (and infuriating) to live in an age where almost everyone I know is languishing in Dickensian poverty but social media is slap full of professional-managerial computer-touchers who've never known hunger insisting that the economy is fine because their metrics say rich people are still rich.

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A bad economist and a bad engineer are often bad in the same way; they're both people who, when reality doesn't conform to the model, decide to get mad at reality instead of adjusting the model

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I’m gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain

If this is a prison I’m willing to bite my own chain

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bacteriography portrait of Five Pebbles I made from yeast , mold , acrylic paints and other stuff i found

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Patagotitan / Buriolestes | The Inca Empire

This one was a lot of fun! I directly referenced the qullqas above Ollantaytambo, Peru for this piece (as well as the use of khipus to record information). The Patagotitans are a little too big but I've always liked exaggerating the size of dinosaurs LOL.

Plus a little Stegouros! The patterns in the background are based off of patterns on an Inca tunic, and the base on which the Stegouros is standing is based off of an Inca lime spoon.