This is a magazine I created since insects are a passion of mine as is photography. I really liked the corresponding communities on reddit so I thought it would be nice to have something like this for /kbin as well. Feel free to post nice images of insects, your own or ones you found online. Please try to avoid reposts though if its not your own image and give credit.
I will also be allowing other arthropods, if it gets out of hand (I don't expect much traffic though, lol) I might restrict it.
Other than that, follow the rules of course, have fun and feel free to ask if something is unclear.
It is certainly a challenge to keep a large animal with such a thick shell afloat. However that would just explain the immense size of the shells. Their shape is just extremely weird and sometimes I’d even expect it to be detrimental to their ability to navigate the open water. If they were planktonic it would not be as problematic I guess but I still don’t see the functional advantage. Maybe mimicry? But of what?
They look a lot like the calcareous shells of some polychaetes but they have a sedentary lifestyle attached to rock or other substrates which is not what we’d expect for Ammonites.
This is a magazine I created since insects are a passion of mine as is photography. I really liked the corresponding communities on reddit so I thought it would be nice to have something like this for /kbin as well. Feel free to post nice images of insects, your own or ones you found online. Please try to avoid reposts though if...
This isn’t properly calculated though. They only count the actual laser energy inside the reacttvs output. They don’t account for the huge amount of energy thatch’s needed to run the lasers in the first place or the rest of the facility. It’s nowhere near putting out more energy than it consumes and it’s also a reactor for nuclear weapons testing so they don’t really try to produce energy anyway.
For me personally, trams are right up there. Aside from the main issue of sharing the roads instead of having a dedicated line, they really make it easy to get from one part of a city to another, especially for wheelchair users. They’re usually as frequent as buses, but much faster. The stations are much more attractive...
I’ll start. Apt next door is having a cockroach infected. 4 days ago, I was playing sims on my laptop, wearing my eyeglasses. Right lens got blurry, took off, huge cockroach was crawling across inside of lens. While I was wearing them. Freak out ensued.
Our eyes are pretty good at working in air though. The only thing that makes them fish like is that they have to stay moisturised really. I doubt that filling them with air would do much, we could maybe get rid of floaters though. The dumbest thing about our eyes is that they’re inverted with nerves and blood vessels being in front of the receptor cells so I’m wondering how much they’d improve if they were properly constructed like in squid.
They probably can’t see colour very well though. They may have more receptors but they can’t mix those as well as humans so it’s a bit like looking at an 8 bit game with some new colours. Also the resolution of their eyes is abysmal. Birds have one receptor more (UV) and really sharp vision. That’s where it’s at imo.
I’d like to be able to hear like a bat. There’s so much of the sound spectrum we normally don’t perceive and it’d also be cool to experience their echolocation.
I guess that’s the whole point why most people tend to build some kind of relationship before jumping into bed. It’s not weird if there is trust and affection between the people involved. It’s also a basic instinct of most animals, it’s something you want so any awkwardness that may arise is secondary.
If you don’t like the act that leads to reproduction, you’re less likely to reproduce meaning that your genes will probably not be represented on the next generation and therefore the likelihood of people not enjoying reproduction is generally low.
Tall trucks, SUVs are 45% deadlier to US pedestrians, study shows (www.reuters.com)
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OC Planthopper (Issidae) southern Germany
They will refuse to help. (lemmy.world)
crosspost from dankmemes, I just woke up so this looked good for here...
Really nice photo of a mantisfly (Mantispidae) by @Quip@mastodon.world, link to OP in comments
MIGHTY MIGHTY HETEROMORPHIN TIME (mander.xyz)
Pretty rove beetle found in Southern Germany (Possibly Ontholestes sp.) German
OC Beautiful wasp on flower (Vespidae) Southern Germany
OC Pretty fly (possibly Minettia longipennis), southern Germany
OC Malachius bipustulatus in southern Germany, really nice colours!
OC Casing of unidentified trichoperan larva, southern Germany
OC Possibly Armadillium nasatum, southern Germany
Welcome to Insect Photography!
This is a magazine I created since insects are a passion of mine as is photography. I really liked the corresponding communities on reddit so I thought it would be nice to have something like this for /kbin as well. Feel free to post nice images of insects, your own or ones you found online. Please try to avoid reposts though if...
For real this time, NSF, I swear it's the last time. (mander.xyz)
What modes of transport do you really like?
For me personally, trams are right up there. Aside from the main issue of sharing the roads instead of having a dedicated line, they really make it easy to get from one part of a city to another, especially for wheelchair users. They’re usually as frequent as buses, but much faster. The stations are much more attractive...
Tell me about your cockroach horror story
I’ll start. Apt next door is having a cockroach infected. 4 days ago, I was playing sims on my laptop, wearing my eyeglasses. Right lens got blurry, took off, huge cockroach was crawling across inside of lens. While I was wearing them. Freak out ensued.
Which heightened/different senses of other animals would you most like to experience (while still being human)?
Of the senses we’re familiar with or aware of, anyway, e.g. taste/smell/hearing/vision/touch.
Warum ist das Thema "Gender" (oder auch "Queer", oder auch "Geschlechteridentitäten") so wichtig? German
Ich hoffe mal ich bin hier richtig. Ich suche Meinungen von Menschen außerhalb meiner Bubble und ihr seit mir als erstes eingefallen....
What do you not understand about humanity?