bother the shrimp to display his speed
Farmer family friend has an out of control mint problem around one of his greenhouses because he had a potted mint plant that he set on the ground and it grew a tendril out of the pot which touched the soil and grew roots.
It had never occurred to me before that a potted plant could escape.
When I was in elementary school we had a ton of mint growing under a bush in our front yard and once I found out it was mint and edible I fucking devoured ALL of it in a week and it never came back
I was gonna make a “x finding mint” post or something and when I googled animals that eat mint I got this and…
Excuse me?! I did not expect to be angered over slug slander today but here we are!
Unfortunately one look at animalpeek.com tells me the entire website is AI generated due to its many "off" statements and tangents; the first thing I looked at was "80 animals that eat seaweed" and it includes animals that it claims never eat seaweed, but might if they're desperate, and seaweed contains potassium which is good for your heart, but sadly these animals could have heart disease! You know from not eating potassium rich seaweed! And so on. A tremendous volume of these "articles" that aren't terribly useful or interesting, all over the map in accuracy, and no human ever could have had the time or motive to really write.
On its own it's funny and the dumbness of the writing is cute to me because these mindless stupid programs are TRYING to understand words, in a purely inanimate unconscious sense, but yeah clickbait not even written or inspected by a human being is going to be dominating all search results soon enough 😞
This is a drawing I made! Of a... plushie(?) stuffed animal(??) I made with crochet last month! He's a really big boy, weights 2kg and it's a bit over 2 meters long. I don't have a name for it yet- But he's the most comfortable pillow I've ever had.
I finished this bc I thought posting something was better than nothing, and I'm definitely NOT procrastinating two (2!!) of my other hobbies
It's been a moment since I uploaded any macrophotography. This harvester ant stumbled onto my jacket from somewhere so I carried her out, but I did take a moment to photo and video her. Looked a little sluggish at first but she wandered off under her own power quite capably.
Ants can be a real pain to photograph, they're small, dark, and skittish, not to mention many species are extremely shiny so they're hard to illuminate. One of the masters of ant photography is Alex Wild, a doctor of entomology at the University of Texas.
Another thing filmed by 100legs_NP on twitter but I NEED you to see how this terrestrial planarian snorts around looking for prey and also how it stretches its underside into little conveyer belt feet, there’s hardly anything else quite like these animals. They kill other tiny animals by melting them by the way.















