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fleshandshutter:

Fuck, I love Australia.
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don’t u see that fin

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look at liam,louis lol

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insectlove:

sinobug: Early instar moth caterpillars making short work of the buffet table and looking very pretty in the process. 

The survival rate for many Lepidopteran larvae is staggering low so a common strategy is to mass-produce progeny and for them to congregate together, particularly during the earlier instar stages, to magnify any innate defences they may have, to make themselves look bigger and more imposing to a potential predator and to simply beat the odds.

Late instar of this caterpillar……

This is the first in a series of ten posts entitled SAFETY IN NUMBERS. Click HERE to view the others….

Pu’er, Yunnan, China

See more Chinese caterpillars on my Flickr site HERE…..

so many eww

breakingnews:

Scientists find 4-pound goldfish in Lake Tahoe

LiveScience: Scientists searching Lake Tahoe for invasive fish species ended up finding an unusually large goldfish.

The fish, weighing in at 4.2 pounds and measuring nearly 1.5 ft. long, was likely dumped in the lake by an aquarium owner. The fish is one of about 15 found in a certain part of Lake Tahoe.

Scientists are concerned as goldfish are considered an invasive species that could wreak havoc on Lake Tahoe’s ecosystem. 

Photo: Handout / Reuters

omg thats crazy right my grandma’s fish is big but not that fat

rhamphotheca:

The Effects on PLANTS… IN… SPAAAAAAACE

by Sid Perkins

he lack of gravity in space doesn’t seem to affect certain aspects of root growth in the botanical equivalent of lab rats, a new study suggests. In 2010, researchers sent petri dishes loaded with seeds of two particular strains of Arabidopsis to the International Space Station, where astronauts tended growth experiments on the plants—the first to monitor root development in great detail, the scientists say.

Specifically, the researchers measured how roots “waved” (how the root tip wandered through a small circle over the course of a 24-hour period) and “skewed” (began growing at an angle when it touched a surface) every 6 hours during their first 15 days of growth. Previous studies, all of them earthbound, have suggested that these traits are genetically determined but that gravity also plays a major role in waving and skewing, but the new findings reveal otherwise, the researchers report online today in BMC Plant Biology…

(read more: Science NOW)               (image: NASA)

this.is.what.happens.when.you.take.a.plant.to.space