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i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing

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Sundew Catapults Prey into Trap

Drosera glanduligera is a species of sundew, a group of carnivorous plants that use sticky tentacles to ensnare their prey. This is species is unique in that it has extremely fast ‘snap tentacles’ which literally fling their prey into their sticky traps.

Sundews have evolved the ability to digest insects as an adaptation to their nutrient poor habitats. Once a prey is caught in the glue-like secretions, it either dies from exhaustion or asphyxiates from being smothered in dew. The plant then secretes enzymes which break down the insect, allowing the plant to absorb its nutrients.

All species of sundew are able to move their inner tentacles to pass prey towards the center of the leaf, where digestion is most efficient. Many species are able to fold the surface of the leaf around the prey to ensure contact with a larger digestive surface.

Drosera glanduligera is the fastest moving sundew, with ‘snap tentacles’ which fold inwards within 75 milliseconds. This action is triggered when an insect makes contact with them, and are powerful enough to catapult the insect into the center of the leaf, where it becomes glued down. 

Gif from video: Poppinga, S. Et al. via Wikimedia Commons

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Reblog if you want Asks/Messages from your followers in your inbox

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i’m in a good place (my room) but i’m also not in a good place (deep physical and psychological suffering)

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Subnautica Illustrations

All from 2022

IG | Prints | Stickers, etc

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Actress performs a scene from Journey to the West "Three Times Striking the White-Bone Demon" in Wu Opera (Wuju), a traditional Chinese local opera originating from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. Its name comes from the ancient name of Jinhua "Wuzhou" (婺州).

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the idea that jerking off every day makes you a depraved sex addict is so nuts the current obsession with declaring anything a sex/porn addiction is so fucking stupid why am i seeing other queer people and people on the left capitulating to this regressive shamey bullshit. experiencing pleasure is not sinful or overindulgent. we cannot be going around telling people they're not allowed to be horny and not allowed to have whatever amount of sex they want to have.

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[video description: footage of disabled protestors at the capital. Text reads: Disabled protesters are arrested and zip-tied for protesting Republicans' Medicaid cuts. More text, over a shot zooming into a zip-tied wheelchair user, reads "This is Trump's America".Protesters in the background say "No cuts to Medicaid!" /end video description]

[image descriptions: The first photo shows protestors surrounded and being handcuffed by Capitol Police. The second photo shows the protesters. The third photo shows a man in a wheelchair, a screen in front of him reading "all he wants to do is kill people with disabilities." The fourth photo is the same, just zoomed in on the text. /end id]

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Hell, favorite plant even! Plant clades, order, family, subfamily, genus, species, the sheer possibilities are endless with this one!

Tracheophytes, Angiosperms, Eudicots, Asterids, Asterales, Asteraceae, Asteroideae, Astereae, Solidagininae, Solidago FTW!

do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

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by USA@USA37107692

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You have been visited by the twocumber. May you receive twofold luck in the coming days

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People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.