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Pinning is about having a sample of a species so you can compare new bugs against it and put it under a microscope and stuff.
Pinned insects often look very sad. Their eye look dead because the fluid in them is gone (but the facets remain)
I guess that's why the crabs are kind of fascinating. It's like if pinning could preserve what an ant really looked like when alive.
OK it looks exactly like the dried ants people sell to eat for some reason that I know about because ... well I have looked for every ant thing that exists.
You might think but look at this:
The sheen on the shell, the color, those aren't just natural to a dead crab shell.
And most important the life like eyes, which are made of resin to mimic what the living crab/lobster would look like.
This is an artform.
It's subtle, but amazing.
It's not an ant and I almost don't want to admit that I have this one speed dial in my bookmarks... yet... who else would keep track of such things.
(I am curious what "ethically sourced wasp" means. )
You know they'd be good at it though!
Depends?
Domestic Hunting Trophy Ant, is part of the Regionsmuseet collection in Sweden. Lots of Loops
KnitHacker - WHERE ART AND YARN HOOK UP (knithacker.com)
Yeah. Poor babies. Even if it's kind of a fascinating study.
I really wish the notion that someone having trouble "is on drugs" wasn't such a common assumption OR an excuse to just totally dismiss their distress and treat them badly.
Because even when it is "drugs" that's no excuse for failing to really see or help a person who is having a health crisis.
I was just not aware of the concept of crab taxidermy. But it seems like it's a fairly developed art. A little creepy for my tastes, but I can see the appeal.
The current problem is I can't tell when someone is using machine translation sometimes... so I always just ask (and of course I send my messages in both languages and the Chinese clearly labeled as "machine translated" )
Which can make some people who know English annoyed... but I need to know. A person can send you this very clear-sounding text but it's not saying what they think.
This is a nightmare.
Better check the cars around my local NYPD station. They are THE WORST about this. I once reported a car that was parked on the sidewalk AND blocking a hydrant at the same time (it was also on a tree bed and harming the tree)
They did nothing.
Then I call the FDNY and they moved the car. So... call FDNY if you see a blocked hydrant.
A man is found dead in a parked car in NYC. He was there for a *week* ... should not be possible in NYC given the strict parking rules.
However, parking rules are not enforced near police stations (something many communities have complained about) Police officers often illegally park their cars in those areas, so they are not policed.
I haven't! It's been a few years.
Here is one store (I have not shopped with them, but by looking at related listings you'll find more there are like a dozen. Many are also "pet shops" so don't be alarmed if you find they sell things for cats and dogs too. )
People call aliexpress "Chinese Amazon" but it's not really like amazon at all... it's like amazon+etsy+ebay in some ways.
