Happy first birthday to the campaign to make pilot/flying j truck stops offer golden showers 💛

Vulture bees, a.k.a carrion bees a.k.a meat-eating bees, are stingless bees that feed on rotting meat of deceased animals. They have a special tooth used to rip the flesh off the corpse of the animal. Instead of regular honey produced from nectar, they produce “meat honey” which is a honey-like substance made from protein-rich secretions derived from the bees' diet, carrion. Vulture bees, like maggots, usually enter the carcass through the eye and then root around, consuming the rotting meat to take back to the hive. This meat is then regurgitated and turn into the substance that will be use to feed the hives’s immature bees (babees, haha, geddit?). The flavor of this “meat honey” is described as intense, smokey, and salty, or uniquely sweet.

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"Mom...Dad... I'm a Glock"

*The mother gasps nd shreiks*

"...And I want to get rechambered... I dnt wanna be a .45 anymore..."

*the father shouts*

"How dare you! john mosses browning made u a 1911 and thts wat u r! we go 2 the range every sunday! wat will the barettas think if u go sawin off ur hammer and gettin ur mags stuffed?

"fuck u dad I hate this stupid hammer it snags on everything nd drops on its own all the time! and wat I put in my mags is nobodies business!"

*the mother tries 2 intervene*

"pls sweetie dnt do this we can get u help we can find a good licenced gunsmith 2 get tht sear spring looked at and maybe some new sights... doesn't the sounds nice? please dear just please don't change the frame ur mother gave u"

Decades of research led by scientists at Kansas State University offered evidence reintroducing bison to roam the tallgrass prairie gradually doubled plant diversity and improved resilience to extreme drought.

Gains documented in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science were among the largest recorded globally in terms of species richness on grazing grasslands. The research involved more than 30 years of data collected at the Konza Prairie Biological Station near Manhattan.

Zak Ratajczak, lead researcher and assistant professor of biology at Kansas State, said removal of nearly all bison from the prairie occurred before establishment of quantitative records. That meant effects of removing the dominant grazer were largely unknown, he said.

“Bison were an integral part of North American grasslands before they were abruptly removed from over 99% of the Great Plains,” Ratajczak said.

The research took place in the Flint Hills ecoregion, which is the largest remaining landscape of tallgrass prairie. Researchers examined plant composition and diversity on sections of land with no mega-grazers present, with bison allowed to graze throughout the year and with domestic cattle allowed to graze during the growing season.

“Our results suggest that many grasslands in the central Great Plains have substantially lower plant biodiversity than would have occurred before bison were widely wiped out,” Ratajczak said. “Returning or ‘rewilding’ native megafauna could help to restore grassland biodiversity.”

The study confirmed cattle had a positive impact on plant diversity, compared to having no large grazers present. The increases with cattle in terms of plant species richness were significantly smaller than those related to bison.

Along with addressing land use, researchers sought to understand how bison influenced plant resilience to climate extremes. Because of the duration of the study, researchers were able to capture one of the most extreme drought events that has occurred in the Great Plains since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

“The resilience we found in the bison grasslands is also consistent with the idea that diversity promotes ecological resilience,” Ratajczak said. “And this resilience will only become more important if our climate becomes more extreme.”