moved

passively scrolling animal/plant/fungi ID subreddits for 9,537 hours will have you identifying organisms and not knowing how. i'll just be like carpet beetle inky cap northern flicker no i don't know how to tell

it's very cool actually. it feels like the way little kids learn language, naturally through exposure and pattern recognition. i'm not confident In my IDs, because i can't back them up with evidence, but i don't need to be because i'm not doing anything with any stakes, like foraging or commenting to say what i think it is. nothing happens if im wrong

you can tell by the way it looks

no.

SHE THINKS HER LAUGH IS A SONG SO SHE SINGS BACK

Was watching a horror movie earlier and a couple was supposed to be in a seedy motel room in middle America but they saw a Madagascar hissing cockroach run across the floor

Also big fan of when they show something rotting in horror movies and it's covered in "maggots" but the "maggots" are just mealworms

Caterpillars AND mealworms

My favorite animals and I still only knew this from descriptions and drawn diagrams. No scientific source ever made it this clear before in my entire life.

Why bird do this?

Woodcocks and a few other species have mastered this bounce-step in order to trick worms and other Arthropoda into thinking rain has come by sending rhythmic vibrations through the soil as they walk. Many bugs surface during heavy rainfall to avoid drowning, hence why the sidewalks are always littered with earthworms during and after a storm.

If you walk with rhythm you will attract the worm.

No fucking way