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YouTube casually suggesting I take down videos and put them behind a paywall like that isn't a complete bastard move that would probably *lose* me a ton of subscribers

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The alien was later killed by football-related head trauma.

Good ol' Chuckie Brown.

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Calico American lobster (Homarus americanus) [x]

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*casually strolls in wearing a trenchcoat and stuffs the anthills into it* *walks out again sneakily but saying "oo oo ouch oof ouchies" a lot*

Steal one things from my home garden !

Greenhouse

Bird bath (may also be wasp bath, they drink there too)

Compost pile

Stray cat(s)

Vindictive blackbird

Hidden mice

Stray fruit trees that grew from fallen fruits

Vegetables. Lots of them

Slugs and snails

An anthill or two

Actually, I'll leave something in your garden instead

Keep your garden, I'll take nothing

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All the animation on Sophodra is complete for this scene, and almost complete on Rose, plus a lot of additional animation fixes on props and background characters! Almost there!!

Here, we see Sophodra and Rose going for a walk to get groceries. Sophodra has some regrets about not joining a Swarm, where a courier would have gotten her groceries for her.

Don't forget, the Sophodra pins and Harvey charms recently went up in the Ko-Fi shop!

I should be able to finish Rose's animation over the weekend, plus the remaining little touch-ups (motion smears, camera shaking, etc.). After that, the next four scenes are all either mostly animated or have very little animation to begin with, so they shouldn't take more than two weeks or so. The next scene is a little more involved, but the three after that are also mostly done, so another two or three weeks for those four. Then, the last scene is long and involved but still mostly done, so we'll say another week. Looking like it'll be under two more months still! We'll see. Until next time!

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Proposing that the Mushroom Kingdom is just what became of things in the far future after The Last of Us

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Proposing that the Mushroom Kingdom is just what became of things in the far future after The Last of Us

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Ant - SimAnt

They're ants! And you can simulate them! Ants in your computer!

The power of technology is incredible!

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Lonely Woman, digital painting by Wilqkuku

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This Amazon ad is killing me. Women aren't skeletons, this is truly the worst of all worlds

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Amazonian Giant Centipede for a $5 Ko-fi supporter

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Giant Mosquito (2021)

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I knew about the first one, but not the rest!!!

Meat-Eating Caterpillars: less than 1% of all known lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) are carnivorous, and even fewer are known to hunt and kill their prey; these are just a few of the exceptions

Above: a carnivorous pug moth caterpillar, Eupithecia orichloris, ambushing a fly

Lepidopteran predators are extremely rare, but they do exist. Some of the most interesting examples include the carnivorous pug moth caterpillars of the genus Eupithecia, the ant-eating casebearer, the Hawaiian snail-eating moth, and the bone-collector caterpillars of the genus Hyposmocoma. Curiously, almost all of the species on this list are endemic to Hawaii.

Above: Eupithecia orichloris

The carnivorous pug moth, Eupithecia orichloris, is probably the most famous predatory caterpillar in the world, thanks to the striking and unusual method by which it captures its prey -- this species is an ambush predator that often disguises itself as a twig and then pops up out of nowhere, violently plucking its prey from the foliage. Eupithecia is the only lepidopteran genus that is known to contain ambush predators, which makes this behavior seem even more striking.

The ant-eating casebearer, Ippa conspersa, is another carnivorous caterpillar that feeds on ants and other insects (both as a predator and as a scavenger). This species uses silk, sand, and other fine debris to build a flat, peanut-shaped "shell" around its body, and the "shell" acts as a kind of camouflage, allowing the caterpillar to sneak into ant nests and hunt.

Above: the ant-eating casebearer and its unique "shell"

As its name implies, the ant-eating casebearer often feeds on ants, but it has also been known to eat cockroaches and other insects.

Above: an ant-eating casebearer feeding on a cockroach

Hyposmocoma molluscivora, commonly known as the Hawaiian snail-eating moth, is a casebearing caterpillar that feeds on live snails. It uses strands of silk to immobilize its prey, tethering the snail in place so that it can climb into the victim's shell and feed on the soft flesh within. The caterpillars of this genus are the only lepidopterans that are known to feed on molluscs; all of the other predatory caterpillars feed on arthropods (insects and arachnids).

Above: this photo shows a Hawaiian snail-eating moth using strands of silk to hold its prey in place

The genus Hyposmocoma also contains the predatory "bone-collector" caterpillars, which cover themselves with the body parts of other insects and arachnids, often scavenging the leftover pieces from spiderwebs. They carefully trim each piece of exoskeleton and then arrange them all together onto a portable silk mesh.

The caterpillars often live side-by-side with spiders, as they opportunistically feed on the insects that they find trapped in spiderwebs, and their macabre body ornaments likely serve as camouflage; they allow the caterpillar to avoid being detected or attacked by spiders.

Above: a bone-collector caterpillar covered in the body parts of other insects, including a large weevil head that is clearly visible near the center, several ant heads, a fly's leg, the abdomen of a bark beetle, a wing, and several pieces of antennae, among other things

Sources & More Info:

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society: Predatory and Parasitic Lepidoptera

GeoJournal: Behavior, Biogeography, and Conservation of Eupithecia in the Hawaiian Islands

Korean Journal of Applied Entomology: The First Record of the Myrmecophilous Tineid Moths of Genus Ippa in Korea

Nature: Caterpillars Eat Snails Out of House and Home

Science: Web-Spinning Caterpillar Stalks Snails

NBC: Hawaiian Caterpillars Hunt like Spiders

National Geographic: This Camouflaged Critter Wears Severed Insect Body Parts like a Coat

Scientific American: Carnivorous "Bone Collector" Caterpillars Wear Corpses as Camouflage

Science: Hawaiian Caterpillar Patrols Spiderwebs Camouflaged in Insect Prey's Body Parts

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*scrolling tumblr* hmmm. i agree with the sentiment of this post, but the phrasing feels off to me. it doesn’t really have that Reblog factor, you know? *scrolls* oh good, a post that just says “i jerk off till my penis scrweam” . i better reblog this

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He's back for a limited time! Get you a Beebs today and help us finish off Ep 5 and start Ep 6 of Monkey Wrench~!

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