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One thing I see a lot is people suggesting canes as a catch-all mobility aid for everyone who has mobility issues. Canes are not for weight bearing! If you use a cane for heavy weight bearing long term, you will hurt your wrists and back! Canes are for balance. There are also different types of canes, but someone else can probably explain those better than I can.

A crutch/pair of crutches is better for bearing weight, particularly forearm/support crutches if you're going to be using them a lot and don't want to strain your wrists, or platform crutches if you don't have a lot of arm strength.

Walkers/rollators are good for if you do have arm and hand strength and need a place to sit down or need to carry a lot with you, but very very bad if you can't weight bear well with your arms or pull the brakes easily. You will often need to be able to use your foot to maneuver it over a slight lip, too. If you can't do all of those things you will hurt yourself.

Wheelchairs are a whole lot more complicated and I don't feel qualified to speak on that (I've only ever used improperly fitted chairs, and have suffered permanent damage because of it).

Mobility scooters are great for going outside alone if you don't have the arm strength for a manual chair, as they can handle terrain that an motorised wheelchair often can't, but are harder to maneuver in small spaces (especially bulky class 3 scooters, which aren't designed for indoor use at all) and usually aren't suitable for full time use. If you need more support they most likely won't be suitable either, the seats are usually not designed with support for people who cannot hold themselves upright and generally do not have a seatbelt by default. I'm working on a proper guide for this and will hopefully post it soon!

There's also deconditioning to keep in mind, which is very important to think about if you aren't doing physiotherapy. You also need to consider things like pressure sores, which you will be especially prone to in seated mobility aids if you aren't able to reposition yourself regularly or have loss of sensation in or awareness of any part of your body.

Here's a link about choosing a cane style and fitting it to yourself:

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Wasps of the genus Baeus are sometimes described as "micro-flea wasps," because the females of this genus have tiny, rounded bodies that measure just 0.8mm long.

Above: a female Baeus wasp compared to the tip of a pencil

As this article describes:

Baeus represents one of the most unusual genera of parasitic wasps in that females are apparently wingless, highly compact and flea-like in appearance. They are endoparasitoids of spider eggs of host families associated with above-ground vegetation and crytobiotic niches such as leaf-litter.

Above: female Baeus wasps

The wasps often ride around on the backs of female spiders, simply waiting to parasitize the spiders' eggs:

They have a hypodermic-like ovipositor that is used to pierce the chorion of a host egg, in which they lay their own egg. The [wasp] larva then consumes the contents of the host egg, pupates within it, and emerges as a fully developed adult.

Above: a female Baeus wasp clinging to the underside of a cellar spider's eggsac

This genus remains poorly studied, with only 25 species currently described world-wide:

Even though the highly unusual nature of Baeus has been known for over 170 years, only 25 species have been described to date, three from Australia, seven from the Nearctic, six each from the Neotropics and the Palaearctic, one each from the Oriental and Afrotropical (Seychelles) regions, and one from Hawaii. However, significant numbers of species occur in many regions, particularly in the wet tropics, subtropics and southern hemisphere temperate forests.

Above: a Baeus wasp depicted next to a 0.7mm mechanical pencil lead

These may be the world's most adorable wasps.

Above: a female Baeus wasp grooming herself

Sources & More Info:

Zootaxa: Systematics, Distribution and Biology of the Australian "Micro-Flea" Wasps

iNaturalist: Genus Baeus

Impact Journals: Incidence of Egg Parasitism in Argiopepulchella

Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences: The Black Widow Spider and its Parasites

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