#large wasps

[whatnext10]

The Beautiful Scoliid Wasps are a Good Reminder of Nature’s Interconnectedness

The Beautiful Scoliid Wasps are a Good Reminder of Nature’s Interconnectedness shows several photos of these pretty wasps. It explains why the author/artist is so fond of them, and why they’re important in the balance of nature.

Another Hungry Wasp I have always been captivated by the exquisite beauty of scoliid wasps, including this one that was one of the many pollinators that I encountered in the tamarisk on my last hike. These fascinating creatures possess a unique charm that I cannot help but admire. With their slender bodies, vibrant colors, and fuzzy bodies, scoliid wasps are truly a sight to behold. Have you…

[artbymyth]

No mourners. No funerals.

[tributary]

I think what you've been saying on Minhaj has been really interesting: something that came to mind as I read the New Yorker piece was another article I'd read a couple years ago - "The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment" by Jaya Saxena.

Obviously someone doxxing a previous partner and re-examining childhood cafeteria memories are not the same, but both (imo) deal with the pressure for individual members of a minority group to reinforce a narrative about their oppression. Like when a broad swath of life stories get boiled down to a few popular experiences, to shirk those experiences can be to deny the total oppression you've faced in your own life.

Also to be clear I think this isn't something most people consciously do, and something that probably rings true for marginalized groups outside of USA racial minorities!

(re: this and this)

this is a great article to bring in conversation with the hasan minhaj discourse. you’re absolutely right; there’s pressure to fit a narrative so that your experiences can be seen at all.

from the article:

The expectation that being brown or an immigrant in America inherently meant suffering and shame was frustrating to both Ren and Subramanian. “[It was alienating] as a kid because I just thought that’s how I was supposed to be and feel, because activists [and] progressives were positioned as good and insightful, and if I didn’t agree, it meant I was a bad and clueless person about my own experiences,” said Ren.

Others confronted feelings of shame about their family’s food derived from media and culture, even if they found support (or indifference) among their peers. Food writer Karon Liu, whose parents moved to Toronto from Hong Kong when he was a baby, said he can’t remember anyone getting teased for their lunch in his school full of Chinese and other immigrant kids. But it didn’t take bullying to make him feel ashamed of Chinese cuisine anyway. “So much of my feelings toward food were shaped by television and pop culture,” he said. The movies and TV shows he watched positioned Chinese food as “weird,” full of “gross” ingredients and prone to making people sick. He began throwing out the lunches his parents packed him, even though many of the kids at school ate the same things, and asked them to cook him more Western food. But he still enjoyed himself at Chinese restaurants. Even with the discomfort, his relationship with Chinese food wasn’t black and white.

Stories about white people finding unfamiliar food off-putting, like the scene in A Christmas Story where the family is shocked and disgusted at the head on a Peking duck, and immigrants feeling shame about their food resonated with Liu as a child, but he thinks they may have limited his understanding of the breadth of the immigrant experience. During an interview, he recalls asking Elaine Lui, of Lainey Gossip, if she felt ashamed of Chinese food growing up. “I was expecting the answer where it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, I was made fun of all the time, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.’ And then Lainey was like, ‘No, I never resented Chinese food — it’s delicious and my family made me proud of it, so no.’” Shocked, Liu realized that while his feelings of shame were very real, they were also enforced by cultural narratives implying that mortification and bullying are the only experiences an immigrant can have. “Now I’m kind of wondering if I rebuilt my childhood memories in order to fit that narrative.”

it’s a flattening of The Experience into shame and suffering. it’s not the same thing, but i’ve spoken about this in the context of being a woman without some of what are assumed to be Universal Female Experiences—it makes you feel that you are not real, that you do not matter. the incentive is to reshape your memories to fit the popular narrative so that you can belong.

if you want a seat at the table, you learn that you have to bring something for others to consume. that is the lesson of the lunchbox moment, packaged for readers hungry for accounts of alienation and suffering.

[hemaris]

For Personal Reasons I Am Fleeing The Country and i didn't book a return train ticket so basically for the next 5 to 10-ish days i can go anywheeeeerrrreeee... the world is my oyster etc etc. or at least the part of the world that's within an 8 hr train ride away

[orbleglorb]

there's always wasps in my yard but i can't find where the nest is. i really want to find it so 1) i don't accidentally trod all over it and 2) i can put water out and be their friend. then whenever i start gardening they will be so so nicies to me

[thedickcavettshow]

One of my enemies has been leaving parts of a wasps nest on my front step, presumably to try to intimidate me, but I don’t think she realizes that I study entomology so I just think it’s cool.

[aptericia]

Trying to guide a trapped bug to an open window feels exactly like those annoying FE Three Houses maps where you have to keep bunch of over-enthusiastic NPCs alive

[waspcup]

can we not .

[kappatater]

Sorry for not posting as much here. Anyways, a messy wake-up doodle of a big pretty man looking at a wasp.

[mthomasapple]

WASP-76b is a hellish planet - but with "glory"

There are many words that could be used to describe WASP-76b — hellish, scorching, turbulent, chaotic, and even violent. This is a planet outside the solar system that sits so close to its star it gets hot enough to vaporize lead. So, as you can imagine, until now, “glorious” wasn’t one of those words. https://www.space.com/hellish-exoplanet-rainbow-glory-effect-cheops This planet (located in…

[housedyke]

In case any of you thought I was brave for some reason: I'm hiding in my sister's room because there's a wasp in the house

[whatnext10]

Just Another Beautiful Ammophila Wasp

Just Another Beautiful Ammophila Wasp shows readers a macro photo of this fairly uncommon Florida wasp. It explains that although they are generally uncommon the author/artist has encountered them frequently this year.

Tiptoe Through the Sumac These guys are fairly uncommon wasps, and I had never seen one before this spring. They’re uncommon enough that they don’t even have a common name, just Ammophila pectipennis. I guess they have liked our unusual weather this year because I’ve been seeing them all over all this summer. They’re very pretty and quite docile, so I’m happy to have another pollinator in the…

[funkbun]

i need ppl who apply human morals to Literal Animals in order to talk about how "Evil" they are and how they "Shouldn't be allowed to exist" should shut the fuck up forever actually

[macadam]

I’ve only been in this fandom a few weeks but you mean the world to me. I want to study you like a bug.

Thank you this is the highest honour actually. (And I cannot stress that enough. I'm blushing)

[buckpaws]

my apex ocs be like *villain* *antagonist* *morally ambiguous little guy*

[funkylilomen]

if i see another goddamn wasp in this house i will cry /hj