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For reasons entirely unrelated to my local shelter having female rats (lying), when people say that allergic reactions are more likely with male rats, does that mean it's possible to be allergic to male rats but not have a reaction to female rats?
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i want people to appreciate pigeons. not "ehehe skrunkly little trash gremlins. so adaptable and resilient". nothing wrong with that sentiment towards racccons and opossums, but when people do this about pigeons, it shows a fundamental misunderstanding about a pigeon's place in the world.
pigeons were beloved. they were pets, they were tools, they were food. we found use and pleasure in everything about them. then they became obsolete. then they stopped being popular. an animal that we have literally thousands of years of deep history with, completely discarded by mankind to the point most people are ignorant of their existence outside of "rats with wings".
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Something Ill always recommend to people trying to get more comfortable with insects (if they can handle it, not everyone can) is to justā¦ watch them. Video or RL. Doesnāt really matter. Donāt interact- no need to touch or manipulate, just watch them.
One thing that Iāve noticed gets a lot of people hung up on bugs is this idea of foreignness- they arenāt mammalian in design, and for many in personality too. Bugs are weird with their extra legs, alien design and almost unanimal-likeā¦ but they arenāt. If you watch an ant build its nest youāll see it carefully choose wear each grain of sand goes. A beetle walking will look and chose what twigs to crawl on. A spider seeing your shadow will turn to look at you.
People are surprised by that. Theyāre surprised that if you just watch a bug be a bugā¦ its behavior is understandable. Its not as weird.Ā
i was delighted last night when a bug looked at me and then ferociously put all her wings out and snapped her jawsāeven if that was a threat, imagine how brave and tough she must have been! im huge, but she spread her little wings and told godzilla that she was ready to go down fighting. what a champ. if a kaiju came for me one day i hope id fall like a summer fishfly, legs kicking, jaws snapping.
A FROGGIE HAS MOVED INTO MY POND THIS IS NOT A DRILL AAAAAAA
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i know a lot of people dont like bugs but they are animals. theyre just as essential as the rabbits and foxes and deer and bears. they all play an important role keeping the ecosystem in order. they pollinate and hunt and get hunted. theyre a part of a balance. their purpose on earth isnt just to be an inconvenience to you personally. bugs dont care about you. i asked them about it and they said they never even heard of you
This also applies too parasitic worms and ticks/fleas/etc., by the way!
It's absolutely reasonable to not want to come down with intestinal parasites or get a tick stuck on you, but you need to acknowledge that they're animals that deserve a place on this earth as much as anyone's favorite animal does. Under no circumstances should we say that the planet would be better off without parasites or ticks. Parasites actually are as important to their ecosystem as apex predators, and are a more widespread consumer than traditional predators, shaping their surrounding ecosystem and food webs by managing population sizes and fitness just as any predator does. It's easy for people to say that they have no purpose or that the world would be better off without them, but the simple fact is that parasites and predators are really two sides of the same coin and are important for a healthy ecological community.
Spiny handsome fungus beetle, Cacodaemon sp., Endomychidae
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moth update ! theyre threatening me
WELL, stop being so BIG and LOOKING AT THEM.
Space Cowboyās had a sleeping spot I wasnāt able to find for the life of me, usually heād be in his bubble loft or in his snake plant sleeping bag but sometimes heād just disappear. Finally caught him coming out from this tiny little space between a piece of cork bark and the background that I didnāt realize existed ajdkgkg LOOK at him heās so cute getting out of bed ready for the day
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Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands.Ā 10/10 post, dude.
Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?
Like, did you read it orrrrr?
Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES
It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.
Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.
1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.
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2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.
So yeah, eating honey isnāt inhumane at all. In fact, youāre helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.
LOUDER FOR THE VEGANS IN THE BACK: use honey, not agave! Bees need your support and other animals need agave! Using honey means more bees!!
Other animal products that are absolutely fine to use because they produce it in excess:
- Wool. Sheep need to be sheared or their wool will get excessively large, matted and gross. Its legit just a haircut. Calm down and use wool instead of whatever fake acrylic microplastic shit they have in stores now. Wool is super warm, insulating, and guess what! It grows back! Its a renewable resource and all the sheep want in return is some good pasture and protection from predators.
- Eggs. Iām not talking about storebought eggs. Go to your local farmerās market. Find someone around with chickens/ducks. These birds produce eggs literally every day and will not stop unless they are molting, brooding, or kept in the dark for most of the day. Like I am not joking when I say you can very easily find someone with poultry and they will beg you to take some eggs. Theres so many. Please. Take some duck eggs. I dont want them. I had 8 laying ducks last year. Thats 8 eggs every day. Thats 2 dozen eggs every THREE DAYS. Thats SO MANY EGGS PLEASE TAKE SOME EGGS
Reducing animal cruelty does not mean abolish the use of animal products. Go eat honey. Go use wool. Go find a friend with birds and eat eggs, or get your own. Just because it comes from an animal does not make it cruel.
All great info, but to note, if your goal is saving the bees, keeping honeybees very much does not do that. Honeybees are a European species. Keeping them in the US does nothing other than take resources from our extremely vital native pollinators. You CAN keep native bees though! Orchard mason bees are a popular choice in the Midwest because look at them!!
They wonāt produce honey, but if your goal is āprovide a high quality nesting site to save bees,ā these are a great choice! Thereās more to it than just making holes or putting up one of those ābee hotelsā that can cause a huge buildup of lethal fungus and other pathogens, but it isnāt hard.
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Got a new phone that has night vision and the Cowboy pics it has enabledā¦ ohhhhhhhhā¦.. my pics of him are usually so bad cuz I keep all but the dimmest lights on at night when heās out so I donāt blind him. This is a game changer. Yāall get to see the big open pupil maximum cutie pie mode clearly now!!
Iāve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.
In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!
Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.
Anyway dragonfly for admiration:
Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy
Everything is somethingās habitat. You might as well not go outside for fear of stepping on some larval beetle.
This is hugely missing the point. The idea is to enjoy whatās left of our natural spaces while having as little an impact as possible. Itās not difficult to avoid intentionally destroying habitat. I recommend looking into the Leave No Trace principle which is very important for conservation. Cynicism doesnāt help anything.
You can read more about Leave No Trace here.
A few rock stacks here and there wouldnāt have much of an impact alone. But in parks that see thousands or even millions of visitors each year, when you have people like you saying, āsure, literal scientists and park rangers are telling me not to do this, but surely that doesnāt apply to ME,ā the effect is huge. Please attempt to see the bigger picture. You are not so special that YOU get to ignore the rules and continue intentionally destroying habitat even after youāve been told itās harmful.
Ohhhhh. Ohhhhh my goodness. I love frilly super feminine names for pigeons. Odette and Cosette have long been in my mind for if I ever brought one into my life. And today I have been seized by the DELIGHT that would be a black or otherwise super goth pij named Lucretia. Ohhhhā¦.
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His primaries are extra shiny today
When is he dropping his self-based eyeshadow pallet
