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Strange Bedfellows: these unprecedented photos show a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider

I stumbled across these photos while I was looking up information on leafcutter bees, and I just thought that this was too cool not to share. Captured by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders, the photos were taken in Queensland, Australia several years ago, and they quickly garnered the attention of both entomologists and arachnologists.

The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside as the bee approaches, allowing her to enter the nest, and then she simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.

Once the leaf is in position, they seem to inspect the nest together, sitting side-by-side in the entryway; the bee eventually flies off again to gather more leaves, while the wolfspider climbs back into the burrow.

The leafcutter bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the wolfspider is equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.

The photographer encountered this bizarre scene by accident, and he then captured a series of images over the course of about 2 days (these are just a few of the photos that were taken). During that 2-day period, the bee was seen entering the nest with pieces of foliage dozens of times, gradually constructing the walls and brood chambers of its nest, and the spider was clearly occupying the same burrow, but they did not exhibit any signs of aggression toward one another.

The photos have been examined by various entomologists and arachnologists, and those experts seem ubiquitously surprised by the behavior that the images depict. The curator of entomology at Victoria Museum, Dr. Ken Walker, noted that this may be the very first time that this behavior has ever been documented, while Dr. Robert Raven, an arachnid expert at the Queensland Museum, described it as a "bizarre" situation.

This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.

Sources & More Info:

Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'

iNaturalist: Megachile macularis

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Oh noooooo I'm starting to develop Opinions on Bruce Wayne and that's going to get me in trouble in the year of our lord 2024.

[psygull-arts]

piping hot fresh ref sheet for the whiteboy of the month: my beautiful FBI agent with a disorder (Delta Green PC and guy who will probably die in 3-4 business days)

[shedontknowbutsheknows]

Having a hand quilting frame in a studio apartment sometimes feels like a ridiculous extravagance but it breaks down super flat so it’s easy to store and there is really no better way to hand quilt, imho

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it actually is insane how the show completely glossed over rhaenyras stillbirth/visenya this should have been a huge red flag for how the showrunners would be doing things in season 2

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the stitched boy from mha reflects the tragedy that was tomuras life, showing what couldve been of tenko. in this essay, i will

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Spoilers for ch2 ep 12 of drdt:

Okay so this episode has put all my killer predictions into question.

Levi was my main suspect (followed shortly by Hu who seemingly has an alibi now) but with Levis confession at the end of the episode he seems significantly less suspicious to me.

Everyone is going to blame him whether or not he committed the murder which would be the exact opposite of what he would want if he was the culprit

It's got me thinking about why the hell he even admitted his secret at all. I don't think it was an impulsive decision made from guilt or something; The secret flat out says he didn't feel remorse from the murder and on top of that he was apologizing for derailing the conversation again. So why would he do it?

Before Levi confessed he was apologizing for not being more useful in the trial, and when he did confess the cast was at a point where there were no more clues to narrow down the who the culprit is.

SO my guess is that he knows something important that can only make sense if the rest of the cast knows his secret; Like maybe there are some parallels between this case and his own murder or about death in general?

Idk I'm just throwing ideas out there.

Beyond this I can't think of a reason for him to confess his secret unless it's absolutely necessary for him to do so.

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people love saying Ian/Mickey would kill you for talking shit about the other. But similarly, any of the Gallagher’s would kill you for talking shit about one of their siblings. It’s big “I’m the only one allowed to hurt them” energy. Like you can hate Fiona all you want but at you gotta know that Debbie “hung Fiona’s ex boyfriend from a sign naked in the middle of street” Gallagher would kill for her sister no matter how much Fiona pissed her off

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xSedeveria 'Lilac Mist'

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this isnt rlly a serious post more so than a thought I need to verbalize but like. there’s an INSANE difference between the fandom being like “hey what if jack was actually his age and got to be a little normal” vs y’all treating a grown ass man like he has to cover his ears when someone swears or sleep with a nightlight on because he’s afraid of the dark, and throwing the P word around to anyone who thinks he’s attractive. one of these things is not like the other.

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isat oc ref sheet! i ripped the profile page off mirabelle's and just edited it a bit, worked out well since she already had immune to time craft on hers

they keep to themself mostly, only coming out of their study to stargaze or run social experiments about the isla- hey wait what's happening to my ref what are you-

SECRET SECOND REF SHEET!

you thought this was a new oc, but it was the realmleaper, existing oc, the whole time!!

technically this particular one is for a noncanon timeline (aka i wanted to throw foxglove at them and see what happens) but i like this design so much i might readjust one of their stops to be similar enough this works again

why the type switch? it's more for full dragon form tbh, hard to fight holding a tiny book when you're bigger than a horse, much easier to use claws instead. it also brings over a mechanic from SASASAAP, typeless attacks! aka blast of fire directly to face

this post is long enough but send asks about them if you would like and i will happily talk about them/ their story/ their story in terms of isat specifically

[sharonisthebettercarter]

oh. you little shit--

thought i recognized it LMAO--

YUP LMFAO--

idiot. i love him<3

bonus~<3

urban using a real weight<3