KELPORAMA

David Duchovny: Bible for 400 please.

Alex Trebek: During the second plague, these amphibians came out of the water. Stephen.

Stephen King: What are frogs.

Alex Trebek: Right.

David Duchovny: (genuinely) What are frogs?

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The bug squad!

Genuinely I was excited to work on these and share them publicly- these are some of my top favorite bug guys out there. (There may be a theme of points and pincers)

Yellow spined weevil, Ozopherus muricatus, Curculionidae

Found in South America

this mud dauber wasp (Sceliphron caementarium) seemed distressed about something in her clay nest. Turns out it had been commandeered by a keyhole wasp (Pachodynerus nasidens), who was now aggressively asserting ownership

keyhole wasps, which hunt weevils and other small beetles, will opportunistically nest in any sort of small cavity (such as a keyhole). The existing literature on this species doesn’t say anything about taking over other wasp‘s nests, only that they sometimes refurbish abandoned nests, but I guess this one didn’t get the memo.

This isn't the worst of their mischief though- they also have a habit of building nests that clog up the airspeed measuring instruments in planes and have caused several fatal crashes.