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Gremlin Art ! #1
The caddisfly larvae will form a protective sheet with whatever it can find. Wood, stones, snail shells…
In the 80´s french Artist Hubert Duprat supplied these little bugs with gold, pearls and crystals to create unique jewelry !
Here you can see them in their little shells.
And here’s an example of a finished product after the larvae transformed into an adult.
The Brothers Lionheart / Bröderna Lejonhjärta (1977)
"I Have Committed Many Crimes But My Worst One Of All Was Being Small"
wow ive actually posted art? unbelievable!
check out la speedpainte here
Fuck it. Reblog this with a photo of your f/o and I'll assign them a slug/snail or beetle. You heard me.
(Obviously warnin for this whole thing: if you don't like bugs then yk. You might not wanna check this out, sorry bout that mate </3)
Edit: I think I'm gonna go ahead n close this
Anyways here's these fuckass cats 4 compensation
I love these sooo much...
Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.
Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.
Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.
And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.
Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.
So over the course of the last week of being the god of my wingless fruit fly civilization called Yeast Crawls i've learned something verrrry interesting about fruit flys and the different mutant strains. But first, let me tell you a bit about how you handle your flies.
You see, fruit flies are small. really small. So small you usually have to look at them under a microscope to really see anything about them. Unfortunately, fruit flies have this tendency to skitter arround and even fly off sometimes, which is not condusive to inspecting them under a microscope. So we use ether to knock them out. Simple solution, right?
Well as it turns out diffrent mutant fruit fly strains have diffrent resistances to ether.
I found this out after first handling the yeast crawls (apterous mutation) who are very receptive to ether. You just put them in a lil container with ether for about a minute and the fall asleep, and they will stay asleep for a solid 15 minutes. so I was expecting the flies of my other mutation (bar eyes) to also be easy to knock out.
I was wrong.
Turns out bar eye fruit flies have stupidly high resistance to ether. As in "put them in the etherlizer for 10+ minutes for them to finaly go down, take them out to put them under a microscope, they're already getting up and trying to fly away in 30 seconds" resistant to ether.
So yeah these lil flies with smaller, misshapened eyes are an absolute pain in my butt. JUST GO TO SLEEP ALREADY YOU NEAR SIGHTED NATTS.
The longer I live on this earth and the longer I spend in my genetics class, the more I think bug scientists are honestly right. These lil guys are so stupid and I love them so much.
Look at these little guys.
They're so small. They have such big, dumb, inocent eyes. They don't know that there's thousands of beings so much larger than they could ever comprehend who all think these lil flies are fantastic. They don't even know.
.... wait I was trying to write a post about cool things I've learned about these guys uuuHH-
hello yes plz keep us updated on the yeast crawls
Yall I have some FANTASTIC news: today I saw the first little F2 generation* larvae. It was so honking tiny. I could barely see the lil guy.
*F2 generation means the second generation after your original parents, so basically the grandkids of your first organisms you had bred. F2 generations also tend to be very.... sweet home Alabama, shall we say, which is done to get the resessive traits to get expressed in their ofspring that was expressed in the original parents.
Oh thats a HORRIFYING addition.
Can you imagine how much yeast a cat sized yeast crawl would consume??? There would be absolutely no way they wouldn't just flat out break out in their desire for yeast, and then they'd find the local brewery and eat all of their brewer's yeast, and I live in a small university/bar city so the local government would definitely come for my head for daring to harm the beer production.
They wouldn't care about the fact that scientific horrors had been unleashed on the public tho, they'd only care about the beer.
Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.
Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.
Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.
And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.
Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.
May I request a praying mantis gifset?
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