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herpsandbirds

Steelblue Ladybird Beetles (Halmus chalybeus), family Coccinellidae, Australia

photographs by ElectricChimaera

jazze-bee

I'VE FINISHED UNI BABEYYYYY LET'S GOOOOO

finally… i can animate for FUN agai- wait what's a job

plaguedocboi

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

catasters

laurenthemself

BIG STRETCH

krsonmar

let's practice stretchy-stretch with mama

taraxippos

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

WHO DID THIS

Rockwith Aleaf

I think some of you need to be kissed until you cant breathe and fucked until you cant think and maybe then youll feel better

daylights-rain

Yeah, you know what? You DO need to also have all of your background anxieties and needs met without fear of losing them. AND be kissed until you cant breathe and fucked until you cant think.

thebitchwhobreaks-s

"Is squirt pee" brother who CARESSSSSS. Worst case scenario u made a woman feel so good she pissed herself how is that a net negative to your image

creekmotel

xalatath

SMOKED SALMON IS THE ONLY THING THAT NUMBS THE PAIN

rosieandthemoon

I am cordially inviting all of you to post this in the comments/reblogs of any and every Al post you come across, on any platform. Especially useful for accounts who “teach” people how to use Al.