idk if y’all americans and that know this, but in Australia instead of snow at christmas we get these lil shiny bugs everywhere and they’re attracted to the christmas lights and we call them christmas beetles
and despite being australian they don’t bite or anything they just crawl around on your hand and it’s such a good and pure feeling and yeah
‘despite being australian’
“We know what your thinking but this does not want to kill you”
on occasion, i browse the clearance racks at overpriced hipster-y boutiques cause from time to time you can find amazing deals, but being in Rich People Places always makes me a little nervous– and today when i was picking up a layaway from one of these shops, my nerves resulted in a story the shopkeepers are probably gonna be telling for quite a while.
i’d just come from the feed store for lizard food (ie: bugs), and it was like 95F out so they were slowly being smothered to death in my backpack. so when the clerk, who i’d overheard was only on her second day working there, gave me my fancy sundress in a bag way too big for it, i pulled out two dozen crickets in a plastic bag and a tub full of mealworms from my pack and set them gently on the bag so they could breathe better till i got home.
this girl’s eyes go wide and she looks imploringly back at the equally startled-looking manager helping her through the transaction, and i realize that this might look a little weird to folks who aren’t reptile keepers. so, instead of doing the logical thing and explaining that i’m feeding leopard geckos, i sorta chuckled and shrugged apologetically, and just said “dinner, y’know?”
for the briefest of moments, there was an awkward silence so sweaty and suffocating you could drown in it, and then, in true daytime comedy fashion,
those are mantis:why have they not eaten each other?
they don’t just eat each other all willy-nilly, these are bugs from a research & breeder house so they’re probably well fed & don’t need to resort to those kinds of predatory behaviors!
Dance!
“Aww yeah I’m gonna dance to for the humans!” “Wait, who the heck is this? No NOO!”
– Honey is mostly sugar (WoW!) it is 80% sugar and 20% water (double WoW!)
– There are over 20,000 species of bees, but only 4 make HONEY
-Honey is the ONLY food that contains all the substances you need to survive (Including WATER)
-Children under the age of 1 should not eat honey… why? because sometimes it contains bad stuff called botulism and can cause them to get botulism poisoning (that sucks, even infants should taste the deliciousness that is honey)
-Honey will crystallize under optimum temperatures (this has a lot to do with how you store it)
-Bees produce honey to eat during the winter when there are no flowers and no nectar for them.
-A honeybee would only need an ounce of honey to be able to fuel a flight around the world (this makes for a very cultural bee!)
-A typical beehive can make up to 400 pounds of honey a year! (Wowza!)
This reads like it was written by a bee and I’m 100% here for it
This is singlehandedly THE BEST compliment I have ever received 🙂
Honestly the mere fact that some people refer to Daddy Long Legs as “harvestmen” is creepier than 90% of all deliberately created horror but like the worst part is that the alternative is calling them Daddy Long Legs
True harvestmen, and not cellar spiders which are the other Daddy Long Legs, are truly omnivorous- known to eat everything from spiders, to fecal matter, to leaves and fungus… But one of the singularly most interesting habits of a particular European species is their almost symbiotic relationship with beehives– particularly man-made beehives. When a bee dies inside the hives, workers will remove the the corpse to just outside the hive just before dark. And the harvestmen? Well, they live up to their name.
So what you’re saying is that they are the grim reaper for bees.
You know what never made sense to me in zombie films and in other zombie media feature “classic” zombies, aka reanimated corpses, is why no one has thought of using insects against the hordes of undead.
There are countless species of insects who consume dead decaying flesh, and many of them that do so at a surprisingly fast rate.
The dermestid beetle for example. The dermestid beetle has been used to strip bones clean of their flesh,fur, hair, and feathers for a very very long time by museums and vulture culture enthusiasts. The beetles can pick clean a sparrow in only a few hours. Now imagine a mass quantity of these beetles in any area filled with corpses. While it may take a bit longer, say a few weeks, they would still take care of our problem very fast.
Another more abundant and readily available insect resource is your everyday ants. Ants love dead flesh and will carry bits and pieces of it back to their tunnels to feed their fungus farms.
So really with nature having so many carrion eaters both insect, mammal, bird, and reptile, it’s a wonder how a zombie apocalypse would really last all that long.
But if you have to speed things up a bit and use chemicals then look no further then lye. A rather common chemical that one can pick up at most hardware and cleaning supply stores, lye helps to break down the body faster, and a faster rotting corpse means a less mobile and eventually less effective corpse.
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