what mad scientist transplanted a megachile ass onto a leafhopper
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Male Jumping Spiders Lure Aggressive Females with Peek-a-boo Paddle Game
by Andy Coghlan
Species: Jotus remus
Habitat: Trees and leaf debris on a mountain plateau in the Barrington Tops National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Males of a newly discovered species of jumping spider spend hours waving special paddle-shaped legs at prospective mates, in an effort to copulate without being attacked – or even eaten.
Mating can potentially cost you your life if you are a male spider. To avoid becoming lunch, Jotus remus plays a game first to tire out hungry females.
It begins when a male positions himself on the other side of a leaf to a female, and starts sticking a paddle out from underneath and waving it at her (see gif, above). When the female tries to pounce on what she thinks is prey, the male darts across to the other side, and repeats the paddle action…
(read more: Wired Science)
photograph by Jürgen Otto
Yay I have a new home :p cicada truly left if for good … my eyes can’t lie ^^’
Porcelain crab aren’t crabs… they are an example of carcinisation, whereby a non crab-like animal (in this case a relative of a squat lobster) evolves into an animal that resembles a true crab.
Porcelain crabs can be distinguished from true crabs by the apparent number of walking legs (three instead of four pairs, the fourth pair is reduced and held against the carapace), and the long antennae originating on the front outside of the eyestalks.
Porcelain crabs have large chelae (claws), which are used for territorial struggles, but not for catching food. They feed by combing plankton and other organic particles from the water using long setae on the mouthparts.
Here a Petrolisthes granulosus feeding in the Chilean Intertidal
- video: Cristobal Bianchi
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It’s a mushroom in a wig! A wig made of pure mould.
Bonnet Mould (Spinellus fusiger) is a kind of fungus that attacks another kind of fungus, specifically, certain mushrooms known as Bonnets.
A healthy Bonnet is… well, it’s a bonny thing, I guess. They’re pretty, little mushrooms.
Not so much when they get infected with Bonnet Mould.
Boonet Mould grows throughout the mushroom’s cap and emerges in a bizarre breakout of pins. Each pin is topped by a little blob packed full of spores that eventually blow away in the wind, hoping to find themselves landing on a Bonnet of their own.
…Images: Mike Kempenich/Harry Harms/BiteYourBum.Com Photography
