Hey, Fedi.
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Hey, Fedi. I have a favour to ask you. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)
I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.
If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n
@ShaulaEvans Gryllotalpidae likes beer: we used empty cans with a bit of leftovers as traps to prevent them from eating our carrots
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@inj4n we often call every small arthropod a “bug”, but actually that’s not true. Because taxonomically there is an order of insects that is commonly called true bugs, the order Hemiptera. Some groups that belong to Hemiptera are cicadas or shield bugs (Wanzen in German) for example.
To list the differences between “bugs” would be too much for this post, but when we stick with beetles and flies for example, we can say that beetles have two pairs of wings, of which one is hardened (elytra). Flies on the other hand have one pair of wings and a pair of reduced wings (halteres). This also distinguishes a fly from a bee, which has two pairs of wings.
(Of course, there are many more differences, but as I said, this would be too much to put in a post like this :D)@mossesandbees so... if it's not a bug... is it a feature?
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@WizardOfDocs @inj4n yes! but let’s not think about the antennae
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Hey, Fedi. I have a favour to ask you. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)
I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.
If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n
I was intrigued by this post that I saw recently. Maybe your friend would like it.
myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
Attached: 1 image @goaty@meow.social Ants haven't figured out pottery that we know of yet. But they do sculpt clay: Indian Harvester ants, Pheidole sykesii create levies around their nest entrance so that when it rains the flood waters do not enter, but rather flow around it while they stay dry underground. They build in response to the water so you can tell which direction the water comes from during the rains based on the height of the walls.
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
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Hey, Fedi. I have a favour to ask you. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)
I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.
If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n
@ShaulaEvans This is an amazing thread. Thank you for asking the question and thank you to the good fedizens of the Fediverse who have shared so many cool bug facts. (I hope your friend is OK and that times will be less intense for her soon)
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Hey, Fedi. I have a favour to ask you. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)
I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.
If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n
@ShaulaEvans this sounds like a job for @futurebird !
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Hey, Fedi. I have a favour to ask you. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)
I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.
If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n
@ShaulaEvans mud daubers, my favorite kinda wasp, are incredibly docile and not very territorial (they'll usually only attack you if you mess with them directly or their nest while they're in it. i lived somewhere with like 4-5 mud dauber nests on my back porch and just hung out with em). they hunt spiders, but not only that, they are known to show preferences towards specific kind of spiders, with black widows being a particularly common fave. i assume because they're so bright and obvious with the big red hourglass!
additionally, wasps can recognize individual humans to the best of my knowledge. unreliable old anecdote here, but i'm 90% sure i saw a... tumblr user i think? posting about befriending a wasp who became increasingly chill with their presence after being regularly given sugar water, and it was specific to that person more than others who visited or lived with them.
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@ShaulaEvans this sounds like a job for @futurebird !
I've put up some ant facts, but also watching this trying to mooch some extra new bug facts from all ya'll
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@ShaulaEvans not really on topic/what you asked for, and since they have an interest in the subject they might well already know the youtube channel. but i recently discovered Privileged Bug Facts and have been loving it
might also be a decent source of facts for yourself to give out perhapsThis is one of my favorite youTube channels. I add it to #FediTV whenever they post something new.
