Search results

I saw a big yard full of blooming daffodils and forsythias. And plant babies have arrived. It always makes me really happy when grocery stores get their big tables of garden flowers for sale outside.

lung

Everyday it sounds like my upstairs neighbors are dropping boulders on my ceiling. Sometimes their noise shakes the whole apartment, and it makes my entire body tense up like I'm having a seizure. The landlord has even threatened to evict them. If I could do something crazy today I'd haul out...

Degree

Fire

Woo hoo! After much searching I finally located my pins, and I just finished pointing my first specimen of the year! :joyful: It's a mound-building ant, most likely a Formica species, but I'll confirm that after I sleep. Then I can bust out the microscope and have some real fun. I went back...

Oh, I think they were on an episode of River Monsters I watched the other day. Jeremy Wade called them sea gypsies.

If I say Basidiomycota everyone will kick my ass. Uhh... Frittata

What kind of program?

@DharmaGirl I hope it's okay that I jump in on this. My favorite vegetarian cookbook is Passionate Vegetarian by Crescent Dragonwagon. It's more than a thousand pages long so it's pretty expansive, and everything I've cooked out of it has turned out really well. There is a recipe in there...

@Tornadic Thoughts Thank you. That sounds awesome. I wonder if we have a seed library here. I should go volunteer at the botanical gardens again so I can find the master gardeners. They'll know. Plus free admission to the botanical gardens for a day. :D

I thought that was David Attenborough.

Excellent. I'll look him up when I get back from my walk tonight. Thank you. :)

You don't need to feel ashamed. The people who abuse animals need to feel ashamed. You're not doing anything wrong.

Do you remember who gave the lecture? I should figure out what I did with my copy of Pietsch's monograph and try looking that up. Oh, I wish I could post links on here. Someone e-mailed me a link to a video with the most beautiful anglerfish I've ever seen. It had long bioluminescent threads...

Ah yes, the Ceratioidei, fascinating and fun to say. I did a vertebrate zoology project on those once. I didn't know about the offspring eating their way out of the mother's body. What's your source for that information?

Bob Ross and happy little trees.

My father would intentionally run over our cats then brag about it later like it was a fun game. Part of why I will no longer try to keep a cat is because he intentionally ran over a tiny little kitten that I brought out to his house. Of course he denies this when I try to call him out on his...

More fun facts about insect mating: Fruit flies males may enjoy sex, but I doubt that male honeybees do. After initiating copulation, which lasts only a few seconds, male honeybees become paralyzed and flip backwards. Then the pressure of the hemolymph in their abdomens during ejaculation...

Doritos

Much more common in plants, but it does occur in some animals. Also, when nature does a whoopsie and produces diploid male wasps, in some species the males are able to mate and produce sterile triploid offspring. C. elegans = Caenorhabditis elegans?

Sushi

Actually, not all animals are diploid. Some insects, most notably the Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, etc.), are haplodiploid. So assuming that nothing goes wrong, females will develop from fertilized eggs and are fully diploid, but males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid...

Fish

I just realized that my search history now contains the phrase 'fruit fly sperm'.