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someone hid Trungo's cigs and he's having a goddamn fit about it

someone hid Trungo's cigs and he's having a goddamn fit about it

meltdown

31.07.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

i love these ornery little sons of bitches

30.07.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Wool Carder Bees | The World's Best Gardening Blog European wool carder bees (Anthidium manicatum) are aggressive but likable bully bees that attack honey bees and bumble bees but also do a lot of pollinating.

amycampion.com/european-woo...

30.07.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anthidium manicatum about to thagomize some fucked up jabroni

Anthidium manicatum about to thagomize some fucked up jabroni

Anthidium wrasslin'

30.07.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

i'd be too if i had to cart around a head one third the size of my whole body

30.07.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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look at the absolute noggin on this velvet ant. I collected it in nicaragua in 2011 but the species, Hoplognathoca jinotega, was only formally described in 2014

30.07.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

i can't keep those around because my compulsion to fidget with things means i always end up with gross kneaded eraser gunk under my fingernails

30.07.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Specifically there was a formulation with vanillin as an adjutant that increased the efficacy time by hours but the guy that developed it died before it went to market

30.07.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I worked for years for a company that did third party testing of insect repellents and swear to god lemon eucalyptus oil was the most effective product I ever tested

30.07.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

now is the perfect time for your lucrative right wing pivot

30.07.2025 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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me after eating 3 lbs of ruinously hard european licorice

30.07.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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30.07.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Uproar in Heaven Fan Restoration v2 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive V.2 of the Uproar in Heaven (Havoc in Heaven) Fan Restoration

hint: if you download the MKV file and play it in any halfway decent media player like VLC you can enable the english subtitles archive.org/details/upro...

30.07.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Love u General Shrimp πŸ¦πŸ’–

30.07.2025 04:39 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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i'm always saying this

29.07.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

there's a place in portland that sells tiny japanese trucks, including tiny japanese firetrucks and i really want one

28.07.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
the drosophoctor is in

the drosophoctor is in

drosophila guy for srsurchin on artfight

27.07.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

the man is categorically an auteur and i cannot deny that

27.07.2025 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

pat morita as a sex-having villain is arguably the only reason i could pick Do or Die out of the crowd of andy sidaris' other lesser films

27.07.2025 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

hell yeah the world is full of fascinating mutations for those who are willing to look close enough

27.07.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yes and no! the majority of my work is sifting through hundreds of insect trap samples a week looking specifically for invasive or otherwise concerning species, but as long as i complete that work i am given pretty free reign to work on other taxonomic projects of my own choosing

27.07.2025 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Spoiler: not a single entomologist ever died without a hundred unfinished projects

27.07.2025 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

unfortunately I have a bad habit of holding onto trap by-catch that looks interesting to me so the mystery bug pile replenishes about as fast as I process it

27.07.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

around 50 thousand unsorted insect specimens in my lab's collection that I'm determined to ID to at least genus before I die

27.07.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

would love to see the american astronaut with a crowd someday

27.07.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

hell yeah great lineup

27.07.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

unranked or not it's still gratifying to see Versus on the top line

27.07.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

coloring book that's just the dumb scribbles i make for discord injokes

26.07.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

terrible but also honestly impressive

25.07.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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