🐜 8,000,000 ants

I don't mind having long hair that much tbh especially when i can keep it out of my face

Too cold. I fucked up

I need to eat lunch first though and maybe do some more room cleaning

I should hop on the vc later and see if anybody is around...I have a lot of free time this weekend and it would be nice to do things with friends

They should invent a brain that can process experiences

A photo of two sea slugs (the other is behind the first one in the distance). The slug has a creamy white body with caramel markings across the back. It is also covered in black spots randomly across its back. It has a purple line around the base of the mantle.

It’s #MacroMonday and if you look closely you will see we have two #Nudibranch in this photo. This is Hypselodoris tyroni - and they can exhibit trailing behaviour where they follow each other very closely like a Choo Choo train. These are from the Philippines.
#MarineLife #Invertebrates #SeaSlugs

A closeup photo of a green mantis perched on the left side of a pitcher plant. The plant is white with a network of red and green veining. Only the front half of the mantis is visible, and her head is bent forward so she can groom one of her raptorial forelegs. The out of focus background behind her is orange and yellow.

Going through my North Carolina photos from '21. Here's another, a female Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) cleaning her weaponry while perched on a pitcher plant. 🐙🌿📷 #insects

A macro photo of a very slender, twig-like, black beetle on a green leaf, with out of focus green leaves in the background. The beetle is a straight-snouted weevil. It is seen from the side, facing right at an upward angle. It has long antennae held straight out, and two antennae-like projections from the rear of its body, so that unless you're very close, it's a bit hard to tell which is the front and which is the back.

Here is your Wednesday Weevil. This cool little beetle is, I think, a straight-snouted weevil in the family Brentidae. I like the two antennae-like projections at the tail end - it kinda makes the weevil look the same coming and going. 🌿🐙 #insects (Borneo)

A black and white wasp with green eyes and golden legs. She has her ovipositor out of its sheath and is directing it through a hole in a leaf.

A female parasitoid wasp laying eggs. Her preferred hosts are leaf roller moths. She lays her egg in the caterpillar and the wasp larva consumes the host. One interesting bit you can see here is that she keeps her ovipositor in a sheath. #WaspWednesday #Inverts
(Sphelodon phoxopteridis) Pennsylvania

I'm thinking about that nightmare, I don't want to know why our brain is even capable of doing something like that. It's worse that it's a recurring thing too

A macro photo at ground level on pale desert sand, of a moth roosting on the sand. The moth, seen from the side, has a fuzzy face and wing scales in patches of orange, white, tan, and black, helping it blend in to the desert floor.

A macro photo looking down at a moth roosting on the sand. The moth has a fuzzy face and wing scales in patches of dark gray/black, orange, and tan, helping it blend in to the desert floor.

It's raining today in SoCal, but I hope to get out to the desert this weekend to look for these micro moths. They're the size of a rice grain and roost on sand. These pics from 2 years ago may be the first of live individuals since the late 80s. (Plumipalpiella martini; female left, male right).🐙🌿📷

I had an insane gender dysphoria dream but tbh it's more validating than it is upsetting, like oh yeah, I guess this is actually bothering me and I'm not just being weird for no reason

Oh I can get more Generic Guy Clothes when our refund comes through. Depression RESIGNED

A weevil with a stout snout, black eyes, and a textured body with orange scales. It is standing on a leaf and has a middle leg in the air.

Weevil giving a jaunty wave for #WeevilWednesday. #Inverts

(Subtribe Hylobiina), Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

This is truer than ever. I should still do this

It's nerve wracking because we're supposed to be eating really healthy after surgery so now is not a good time to be in "any calories are better than none" mode but regardless. Any calories are still better than none

Tired eyes? We have the solution for you: this sonification of the Southern Ring Nebula based on #NASAWebb data.

Start with the near-infrared image at left before moving on to the mid-infrared image. Notice the differences in how the data are represented: bit.ly/40k1QQv 🔭 🧪

Really terrible arfid day. But I had a protein bar and some juice yay

The insect exhibit is permanently closed this is my 13th fucking reason

I shiuld make a tumblr to reblog crosscode content in a manner that subtly indicates I have severe psychological issues

Everything is actually ok I'm just cranky from being awake.

Don't worry ! I completely fucked up our sleep schedule again

Well that's just inconvenient.

A collection of handsome tortoise beetles (Cassidinae) 🐢🪲

1 Ischnocodia annulus "Ringed Tortoise Beetle", Belize, 2015
2 Aspidimorpha sp golden tortoise beetle, Mozambique, 2018
3 unknown metallic green tortoise beetle, Colombia, 2023
4 Deloyala guttata "Mottled Tortoise Beetle", Oklahoma, 2020

SCIENCE MUSEUM TOMORROW. LEAFCUTTER ANTS

4 more Phidippus portraits from 2024, females this time:

1 Phidippus mystaceus, spotted on a metal pole beneath an oak, NE OK
2 Phidippus texanus, on flower in open field, Arlington, TX
3 Phidippus otiosus, seen on trail sign in woods, OK
4 Phidippus putnami eating a smaller spider in the woods, OK

I need to calm down and then we should text our friend back.

I don't understand!!!!!!

And idk why it's me processing these things I wasn't aware I felt any type of way about our family...Or maybe it's someone else idk

Idk why, but we've been looking at old emails and text messages with family. I don't know how to feel looking at conversations with our dad . I feel kind of crazy because they all seem so normal