i want to hug a bear

I said something during the interview that the interviewer seemed really shocked by, so in case it's important for anyone else to hear: When asked about the rock snake and some scavenger hunts that I've hosted for adults, I said -

"We don't stop enjoying the things we liked as kids; they just stop being offered to us. And when you're a kid, fun things like art projects and scavenger hunts are always brought to you, so you're not taught to make a habit of seeking them out as and adult."

She said "Wow yeah... life is so stressful... and you don't think to... wow."

us:

Raise their open filthy paws,

Ball Cockroaches (Perisphaerus spp.), family Blaberidae, Singapore

pillbugs aren’t the only animals to have evolved a conglobating form (and in fact it happened many, many times independently among isopods too)! because European species have been introduced worldwide they just happen to be the ones most people are familiar with.

pill millipedes might have done it first, actually! you can distinguish them from isopods by their greater number of segments, legs, and beaded antennae (isopods only have 7 leg pairs).

there’s plenty more but pill cockroaches are very much cockroaches—you can see that in the males, who at adulthood develop wings and a much more roachlike body than the conglobating females and juveniles.

photo: https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/sbr2013-025.pdf