Science!
-
@machpants said in Science!:
@bones The cool thing is how the different species stay under for prime number years, so they don’t come out at the same time and compete for food.
That fucks with my head... maybe there really is a Sky-Fairy who intelligently designed all this shit.
Until he got to mankind - he was pissed and/or hungover that day.Wasn't it like Saturday? so like a big night on the piss Friday ...
-
@stockcar86 said in Science!:
That plant is poisonous, and kills many of the caterpillars, but those that survive are left alone by predators,
Not really. Wife has always had swan plant in the garden for the butterflies, but bloody wasps. Hate those things. One of the reasons that populations of monarchs are falling is wasp infestations.
Ants and spiders will also have a go. -
@stockcar86 said in Science!:
That plant is poisonous, and kills many of the caterpillars, but those that survive are left alone by predators,
Not really. Wife has always had swan plant in the garden for the butterflies, but bloody wasps. Hate those things. One of the reasons that populations of monarchs are falling is wasp infestations.
Ants and spiders will also have a go.Sorry, bad choice of words by me. I should have said birds leave them alone.
-
@stockcar86 said in Science!:
@stockcar86 said in Science!:
That plant is poisonous, and kills many of the caterpillars, but those that survive are left alone by predators,
Not really. Wife has always had swan plant in the garden for the butterflies, but bloody wasps. Hate those things. One of the reasons that populations of monarchs are falling is wasp infestations.
Ants and spiders will also have a go.Sorry, bad choice of words by me. I should have said birds leave them alone.
I saw that episode of Diego too.
-
@taniwharugby My partners place is in a copse of Puriri. Don't see the morepork but hear them. Her bloody cats catch the moths bring them inside and then let them go and are too stupid (rag dolls) to know what to do next. Cue moths flying all round inside the house.
Cool trees - look like they belong in Tom Bombadil's forest with the bonus of attracting keruru
-
@dogmeat yeah they do look like something that should be in a fantasy world.
I had heard of Puriri Moths before we lived at that place, but never seen one so when we saw them flying about and dead on the deck I had to ask Uncle Google.
Similarly when we had this big ass looking thing flying round our deck, only to find out later it was a Kumara Moth (aka Hummingbird Moth)
-
@taniwharugby did you post a photo of one ages ago, one is definitely imprinted on my mind, this horrible giant moth. I hate them, even the ones that are about an inch big and flap around in the dark. I'd have spiders over moths anyday.
-
@r-l yeah I posted that before.
-
-
@jc i like the hugging cuttlefish one.
Cuttlefish are amazing to be fair. -
@r-l delicious too
-
@r-l pretty much. Sort of a cross between squid and octopus. More flavour than calamari less than octopi. I've had it in Sicily in a tomato based spaghetti dish with their ink. It's nice and meaty with a mild flavour. I've also had it in a Thai noodle salad. You either flash fry it or grill it very quickly or stew it for hours - just like octopus.
-
