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Drag King Portraits, London, Paris & NYC (1995-1997), The Drag King Book, Del LaGrace Volcano

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The uh. The spones brainrot

Poses for the last two were inspired by mellonsoup and forecastoctopus on TikTok respectively I think

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by masayoshi matsumoto

i love imagining the riverdale characters aging and getting excited each time something they already knew about from the future gets invented. kevin being like oh thank god i'm allowed to reference grind'em in conversation. archie finally getting to use his chime card again. 90s toni walking into the new store 'old navy' and feeling pure bliss

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Tiles! I want to have a kitchen wall full with different designs

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Drag King Portraits, London, Paris & NYC, (1995-1996), The Drag King Book, Del LaGrace Volcano

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Directed by: David Lynch

CAMILA MENDES
Photographed by Daria Kobayashi Ritch for Rodarte’s Fall 2022 Collection

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a couple of the many beautiful Kikihia scutellaris cicadas molting last night :-)

[Image Description: two photographs, each showing a freshly-molted cicada alongside its old exoskeleton; their new wings iridescent like blown glass. End image description.]

Christian Cowan Essentials

Great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis)

The great diving beetle is a large aquatic diving beetle native to Europe and northern Asia, and is particularly common in England. The great diving beetle, true to its name, is a rather sizable insect. The larvae can grow up to 60 millimetres (2.4 in) in length, while the adults are generally between 27–35 millimetres (1.1–1.4 in). These beetles live in fresh water, either still or slow-running, and seem to prefer water with vegetation. The male’s wing cases are shiny, while those of the female are finely grooved. A voracious predator, this beetle hunts a wide variety of prey including small fish. They are able fliers, and fly usually at night. They use the reflection of moonlight to locate new water sources. This location method can sometimes cause them to land on wet roads or other hard wet surfaces. Before they dive, they collect air bubbles in their wing cases which goes through the spiracles.

photo credits: wiki, wiki, wiki, Mark Skevington

Grote's Bertholdia: when bats are detected nearby, these moths emit a rapid series of ultrasonic clicks that act as a "jammer," interfering with the bat's sonar signals so that the moth can avoid detection

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The Grote's bertholdia moth (B. trigona) is capable of emitting about 4,500 ultrasonic "clicks" per second. While there are other types of moths that use ultrasonic signals (in various ways) to avoid being preyed upon by bats, none of them have a more rapid-fire pace than this species.

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The barrage of signals provides the moth with a way to remain hidden, because it interferes with the echolocation that bats use to navigate and locate prey.

As this article from Smithsonian explains:

... when approached by the bats, the moths produced their own ultrasonic clicking sounds at a rate of 4,500 times per second, blanketing the surrounding environment and cloaking themselves from sonar detection.

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This article also expands upon the use of ultrasonic signals among moths:

Like other nocturnal insects, moths need to contend with bats. Unlike grasshoppers or beetles, they have soft bodies without spines or hard cuticles to protect them. Yet bats’ reliance on echolocation has given moths a way to avoid ending up as food: by tapping into their predators’ acoustic signals. Many have evolved ears that can hear the calls of bats. Some moths make ultrasonic squeaks, chirps, or clicks to warn their predators (honestly or not) that they are poisonous. Others generate near-constant, ultrasonic buzzes capable of jamming bat sonar. 

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