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come closer. I am the nonthreatening magician who travels with your party. my marker has disappeared from your minimap for no reason, but I can't imagine anything bad will happen after you step far enough towards me to initiate this cutscene

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Zuid Frankrijk - 2023

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Black-Legged Meadow Katydid - Orchelimum nigripes

One more video post to share from the wilds of Toronto (I say that despite the parking lot in the background) involving a young bachelor singing at dusk. Compared to more mature specimens, this individual's face has yet to fully redden, but time will fix that, and this is still an adult insect. With night approaching, more vocal insects such as this specie of Katydid (along with many others) and Tree Crickets take to the high trees and stridulate to advertise themselves to prospective mates. Rather, they were already in the trees during summer time, but decided to chirp under darker conditions and lower temperatures. By remaining motionless, this Katydid proved surprisingly difficult to find, even if noisy. Having said that, the antennae of this Katydid are surprisingly active and coordinated! It's as if they're carefully surveying their surroundings, probing for any detection of a female Katydid, another insect, or a possible rival. For the lattermost, I have a finding to report, which will be covered on Friday's post (also featuring the same Black-Legged Meadow Katydid individual). While individual results may vary, what you do think will happen if a Katydid hears its own chirping played back to it?

Video was recorded on August 24, 2024 with a Google Pixel 4. You can check out this post's follow-up here.

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STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE // S1E24 Desert Crossing The galaxy could use more people like you.

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if anything else happens to me i’m not enduring it. somebody else do that

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friendly reminder: there's nothing stopping you from getting out of a situation by hitting someone on the head and running away. if you're low on spoons, don't let anyone judge you if you wanna go ahead and do that. quick strike. then swiftly sprint away. it's saved me on multiple occasions where my social battery was depleted and I didn't want to commit myself to the emotional labour of stopping myself from hitting someone on the head and running away

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Handsome meadow katydid at the garden center.

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by Elizabeth Johnson-Wold

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@amonrudh submitted: hii i hope this works. i found this bush katydid a while ago and she started grooming herself on me, which was very cute, but about halfway through this video she starts pushing her head against my hand. is that just more grooming? or is she doing something else? she did it a lot. utah usa

Hm! I’m not sure! I suppose it could be grooming but it doesn’t really look like it. Possibly she’s trying to sense what she’s standing on? Idk why she’s lifting her leg like that either but it did make me laugh

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Out here in Wyoming a few weeks back with a wildfire going on about 7 miles southeast and captured these absolutely metal photos. Shoutout to Mr. Grasshopper

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Oh and here's a grasshopper that I befriended recently

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Researcher

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Big friend!

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