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🪲 ICYMI: While most common #woodlice appear slate gray, the St. Lucia variety stands out with bright oranges, golds, and spotted #patterns. In a #timelapse by Tiny Sanctuary, hungry jelly bean #isopods of all sizes gather to feast on #sweetpotato chunks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/jelly-bean-isopods-eat-sweet-potato
#animals #bugs #insects #crustaceans #detritivores #food #macro #vegetables #science #entomology #tksst #video
🪲 ICYMI: While most common #woodlice appear slate gray, the St. Lucia variety stands out with bright oranges, golds, and spotted #patterns. In a #timelapse by Tiny Sanctuary, hungry jelly bean #isopods of all sizes gather to feast on #sweetpotato chunks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/jelly-bean-isopods-eat-sweet-potato
#animals #bugs #insects #crustaceans #detritivores #food #macro #vegetables #science #entomology #tksst #video
🪲 ICYMI: While most common #woodlice appear slate gray, the St. Lucia variety stands out with bright oranges, golds, and spotted #patterns. In a #timelapse by Tiny Sanctuary, hungry jelly bean #isopods of all sizes gather to feast on #sweetpotato chunks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/jelly-bean-isopods-eat-sweet-potato
#animals #bugs #insects #crustaceans #detritivores #food #macro #vegetables #science #entomology #tksst #video
🪲 WATCH: While most common #woodlice appear slate gray, the St. Lucia variety stands out with bright oranges, golds, and spotted #patterns. In a #timelapse by Tiny Sanctuary, hungry jelly bean #isopods of all sizes gather to feast on #sweetpotato chunks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/jelly-bean-isopods-eat-sweet-potato
#animals #bugs #insects #crustaceans #detritivores #food #macro #vegetables #science #entomology #tksst #video
Fontana et al. propose a new way to think about leaf litter selectivity as a process-related trait, defined by trait-mediated interactions across trophic levels.
Available now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741913
Okay so the reason for this poll started as a kind of joke between myself and a local friend who is a permaculture designer and also rather alternative. The joke basically landed at a certain point on "maggots are disgusting, and we abhor larvae and find ourselves nauseated by them because intuitively or evolutionarily we know they're very likely to spread disease". To that, I jokingly offered to make her a maggot tattoo, which she thought was hilarious but also horrifying and she said she would never.
Later that week, I was working at a coffee shop on, of all things, some really basic thumbnails of blowfly larvae, but I became so disgusted and self conscious about having these enormous pictures of these nasty maggots up on my computer for all to see that I stopped, and the sheet turned then into just a moth that I photographed at the ranch, and now has sat for a while because I can't bring myself to stare at maggot photos for a half hour to make really nice flash from them.
But the more I think about it the more I think it's actually a neat concept: what is more undervalued than these ubiquitous detritivores, who work endlessly even in the harshest or most razed environments? They're kind of like the cockroach: they're pioneers. They and their parents are always going to be there, to find any bit of dung or moist detritus to lay eggs in and wriggle from, devouring them and transmuting, and leaving something better in their wake. But also, they're horrifying and they spread disease. They're at once a memento mori and a symbol of life: they remind us of our bodily fragility, but also of the persistence of life even in the most unlikely of circumstances.
So if you read all that, have you changed your mind at all? Are you starting to dig the concept? Or would you still be disgusted to wear the image of these little beings on your skin? Once again, there are no wrong answers!
Finally, I need to know something very important. This is very important, please do not scroll past:
Would you, or would you not, get a maggot tattoo?
I have reasons for this question, but I want to know your initial, kneejerk reaction first. Don't think too hard, another poll is coming after I give some context.
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🦐🦘 Roly polies are terrestrial #crustaceans that evolved from marine-dwelling ancestors.
They share a specific trait with #kangaroos because both carry their young in a brood pouch. Female pill bugs carry their #eggs and newly-hatched young in a special pouch called a marsupium.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/roly-poly-pillbug-marsupium-video
#animals #babies #birth #bugs #detritivores #mating #nature #parenting #insects #marsupials #isopods #evolution #science #wildlife #entomology #zoology #ecosystem #tksst #video
🦐🦘 Roly polies are terrestrial #crustaceans that evolved from marine-dwelling ancestors.
They share a specific trait with #kangaroos because both carry their young in a brood pouch. Female pill bugs carry their #eggs and newly-hatched young in a special pouch called a marsupium.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/roly-poly-pillbug-marsupium-video
#animals #babies #birth #bugs #detritivores #mating #nature #parenting #insects #marsupials #isopods #evolution #science #wildlife #entomology #zoology #ecosystem #tksst #video
@markhburton Good times to re-read "We, the detritivores" http://detritivoros.com/ (A bunch of versions, in different languages and extensions in that site)
Index of contents of "We, Detritivores":
- The detritus that turned us into colossus.
- The extinction of Homo colossus.
- Human population's natural ceiling.
- How will the population collapse happen?
- Obstacles and paths searching for survival.
- A final dilemma.
"The so-called Green Revolution might be expressed better as the Black Revolution—in reference to both the color of the petroleum that made it possible and the future it was condemning us to as a
species"
#detritivores #greenrevolution #agriculture #fossilfuels
"The detritus we feed on is none other than the fossil energy treasures—first coal, then oil, then natural gas—that our species learned to exploit and that has, in an interval of scarcely two hundred years, allowed us to multiply the world population by a factor of seven, a population which had always remained below one billion3 until the 19th century."
#detritivores #overpopulation #overshoot #fossilfuels
"After the Industrial Revolution, humans became a sort of detritivorous species –that is, one which feeds on detritus. This name comes from: “Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change” by American sociologist William Catton [...]"
#detritivores #history #williamcatton #overshoot
10 years after it was translated, I'm happy to announce the online publishing of my long article (or short essay) "We, detritivores" in English. I couldn't find a publisher for a printed version, so I decided to publish it for free in our 15/15\15 magazine: @revista https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/download/we-detritivores/ #detritivoros #detritivores #overpopulation #PeakFossilFuels #hunger #collapse
Remember that all versions of this text (shorter and longer, and in various languages) are referred at http://detritivoros.com