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I don’t use Spotify so no Spotify wrapped for me. Not to worry though, because I have my iNaturalist Year in Review!!
#I wish they included most identified species as a statistic because it would be cool to know which species I identified the most#there was also a really cool graphic for observations by taxon with nested taxa but it’s interactive so not as cool to post here#inaturalist#inaturalist year in review
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got my iNaturalist 2023 stats 😤
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Yooo inaturalist has a year in review!
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Day 3587 - Got my iNaturalist stats for the year - much higher species diversity than I remembered!
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Lots of Creatures (inaturalist year in review is out :) )
#😳 also one of my Creatures got into the overall inaturalist year in review#if you click to load an additional 12 creatures on the most commented and favorited it is there#so many needs ID creatures... the trials and torments of being an invertebrate person in australia
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Forget Spotify wrapped, iNaturalist year in review is where it’s AT
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This year I lacked a lil, but in 2024 I plan to do so much better.
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Inat Wrapped hehe
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discovered that inaturalist has a year in review and
apparently april showers bring. a lot of stuff
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the inaturalist year in review top images.....
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I'm so proud of fellow nature lovers in the world!
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WASP REVIEW - WIND BEES (& COHORTS) (THE DENPA MEN: THEY CAME BY WAVE)
[Image ID: A screenshot of the Wind Bees from The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave /End IDs.]
Here's one of the games I've played through very recently! A silly little 3DS RPG called The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave, the first in the Denpa Men franchise, released in 2012. It's a fun little experience, a very casual game for the RPG genre, I would say, if a bit harder to play when you're not taking your 3DS everywhere you go (which I'd imagine even most 3DS owners aren't in the year 2024) due to the little gimmick of obtaining more Denpas through the presence of "radio waves", which wouldn't be a big deal of they actually meant radio waves, but it's actually more about the presence of possible internet connections. You can get them through QR codes partway through, but that's mechanically discouraged, and also besides the point for the purposes of this review! I would absolutely recommend this game, yes, but we're here to look at a particular set of enemies within!
In the first forest area of the game, you'll encounter Wind Bees, which are both recognizable as Hymenopterans and odd to say the least. Their body shape is very clearly wasp or bee-like in nature, with the expected black and yellow markings, and the proper wing count. But their wings are also a bit oddly shaped, with a strange bend in them near the base, as are their forelimbs, with modified, scythe-like tarsi/tibias (possibly even the femur is modified, it's very difficult to tell at the resolution of the Nintendo 3DS). These forelimbs bring two families of insects to mind, those being the shield-handed wasps and the mantidflies/mantid lacewings.
[Image Sources: iNaturalist, david99, and The Michigan Nature Guy | Image IDs: Two photos, one of a black and yellow shield-handed wasp, and the other of a red, yellow, and black wasp mimicking mantidfly, both on different types of green leaf /End IDs.]
They also seem to be missing a pair of legs, but they've gained one more feature, a sort of horn that protrudes from their heads, and appears to be just as sharp as their forelimbs. Speaking of their heads, they don't appear to have occeli, nor mouthparts of any kind, the only other notable features of their heads apart from their horns being their antennae, which oddly stand in such a way that they're positioned slightly backwards, and their compound eyes, which are purple, a color only really found in iridescent species of Hymenopterans. Their stinger, too, something that is most typically black, is purple in these deadly bees, as well as being oddly big and visible. Finally for their appearance, their mesosoma (functional thorax) seems to be quite dark, while their head and metasoma (functional abdomen) are lighter in color, a feature found in a multitude of Hymenopterans, but not the ones we generally call "bees".
Ah, but they're not the only bees in this game, as there are several other reused assets bee variants to be seen, notably the Killer Bees and Doom Bees (I feel like I remember a blue variant too but I'm not sure and information on this entire franchise is honestly kinda sparse 💀 so do tell me if I missed one).
[Image IDs: Two screenshots, one of them being of the Killer Bees, a red and white variant with yellow wings, while the other is of a Doom Bee, a black and grey variant with red eyes and blueish wings /End IDs.]
The first one, the Killer Bees, have a red and white coloration that resembles very few bugs, perhaps vaguely comparable with certain ichneumon wasps amongst Hymenoptera, but much closer to the colors of a red cotton stainer from the order Hemiptera.
[Image Sources: BugGuide.net, Judy Gallagher, and Lucidceentral, PestNet | Image IDs: Two photos, one of a red, black, and white ichneumon wasp on a green leaf, and the other of a red and white, red cotton stainer bug on the underside if a very thin twig /End IDs.]
While the latter, the Doom Bees, I actually can compare directly something we would typically categorize as a bee, Megachile aurifrons, or the Golden-browed Resin Bee! Not a one-to-one comparison with that golden brown frons (the particularly fuzzy facial plate), but at least it's something.
[Image Source: Nature's Place/Being Mark, Mark Berkley | Image ID: A photo of a grey, black, and golden brown Golden-browed Resin Bee with red eyes preparing a burrow /End IDs.]
Theeere's not all that much else too 'em though, and they all generally have the same attack pattern too, with a slashing gust of wind from their forelimbs and a direct charge reminiscent of a horned mammal. Oddly, they don't used those massive ovipositors for anything at all, maybe this is a family that doesn't have that stinging venom, in which case they'd more likely only really use them on something they'd consider to be prey, which is a good thing for the Denpa Men I suppose.
That said, there's not much more that can be extracted from the game in terms of their behaviors, considering they're enemies in a fairly simple RPG with no in-game encyclopedia or Pokédex equivalent to speak of, and there isn't much documentation on the Wiki for them anyway. Even the screenshots I had to get directly from the game myself, and the Wind Bees are very early game! So, I believe we can end things off there, my conclusion being, they have some similarities and an honestly really cool design, but they're obviously fantastical in nature, and thus not very accurate! That's entirely fine for a fantasy creature, but since we're being analytical here, my rating has to be...
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Overall: 5.5/10
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Headcanons — magic school bus kids + social media
arnold: has a side instagram just for posting pictures of cool rocks he sees. loves a news podcast, probably listens to all things considered every day to stay up to date. has an instagram story highlight documenting every time his friends get him into a ridiculous situation, and looking tiredly into the camera.
carlos: trying unsuccessfully to get a joke tweet to go viral. joined tumblr years ago for the memes and is no longer sure if there’s a way out. probably loves commentary youtube and the r/dadjokes subreddit. secretly reads back through all of dorothy ann’s old goodreads reviews when he misses her. posts tiktok skits using his friends as mediocre supporting actors.
dorothy ann: has a propensity for getting lost in youtube video essay rabbit holes. absolute queen of goodreads, constantly accidentally making other people feel bad with how quickly she meets her yearly reading goal. has an immaculate linkedIn. listens to a bunch of different science-y podcasts, like hidden brain and radio lab. comments on all of nasa’s instagram posts.
keesha: runs a recipe blog. posts lots about different social justice movements. has a facebook with exactly one friend; her grandmother, who hasn’t learned how to use anything else and just likes to send her granddaughter things. takes and posts lots of cute candids of her friends. queen of the curated pinterest board. likes to record mini vlogs of her outings with friends.
phoebe: thinks the internet should exclusively be used for watching cute animal videos, but has to get her phone pulled away from her and forcibly stopped from writing rant comments to people who don’t properly care for their pets. loves taking pictures of plants, if there were such a thing as iNaturalist influencer she would be one. streams animal crossing on twitch for a dedicated following of three subscribers (one of them is arnold).
ralphie: never escaped 2010s geek culture; probably follows a bunch of star wars and marvel meme pages. live tweets sports games; everyone else mutes him during the world cup. wants to start a bro podcast, but knows keesha would stop being his friend if he did.
tim: runs an art instagram with a pretty decent following. likes to log foreign art films no one else has seen on letterboxd. definitely had a vsco when that was a thing people did. forces the gang to maintain a curated discord channel.
wanda: posts tiktoks of her doing the same prank on arnold over and over and it scaring him every time. secretly runs a molly cule fan page. likes to edit together cool videos of her doing skateboard tricks set to pop punk. reposts memes that are too niche or weird for anyone else to find funny on her insta story almost daily. had a months-long streak of planking in strange places for her bereal.
#magic school bus#msb#arnold perlstein#carlos ramon#dorothy anne rourke#dorothy ann hudson#keesha franklin#phoebe terese#ralphie tennelli#tim jamall#tim wright#wanda li#cartoon#cartoons#the magic school bus
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Day 3240 - Had a pretty successful iNaturalist year!
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INATURALIST HAS A WRAPPED??????? year in review look at how many strange bugs you found. awesome site
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forget spotify wrapped. i wanna see your iNaturalist year in review
#the east coast is a beautiful place full of creatures and plants i never saw in the pnw!#restarting my plant id journey over here#inaturalist#spotify wrapped#plants
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