🪲💧 Ripple #bugs live their entire lives on the surface of streams, pivoting in less than the blink of an eye while stirring the #water beneath them into swirling vortices.
#Biomechanics researcher Víctor Ortega-Jiménez spent five years figuring out their secret: feather-like oars on their middle legs that deploy and collapse in just 10 milliseconds. Engineers are now building small #robots that mimic these water-skating abilities.
#biomimicry #physics #engineering #insects #biology #science #animals #Berkeley #discovery #innovation #nature #research #technology #tech #tksst #video
🪲💧 Ripple #bugs live their entire lives on the surface of streams, pivoting in less than the blink of an eye while stirring the #water beneath them into swirling vortices.
#Biomechanics researcher Víctor Ortega-Jiménez spent five years figuring out their secret: feather-like oars on their middle legs that deploy and collapse in just 10 milliseconds. Engineers are now building small #robots that mimic these water-skating abilities.
#biomimicry #physics #engineering #insects #biology #science #animals #Berkeley #discovery #innovation #nature #research #technology #tech #tksst #video
For my first “real” post I’d like to share this absolutely INCREDIBLE moth I found on campus a few days back. This is *Cosmosoma myrodora*, the Scarlet Bodied Wasp Moth. This striking moth is native to the southeastern US and is named because its appearance is believed to be mimicry of wasps— If I had to guess, likely a Polistidae species. This moth is a tiger moth (Arctiini) in the family Erebidae, much like the Salt Marsh Moth (*Estigmine acrea*) that is also native to Galveston, though I don’t think anyone is at high risk of confusing the two as they look very different. *C. myrodora* larva feed on *Mikania* genus plants called hempvines. Unless I’m mistaken, there’s an absolutely massive hempvine by the parking lot on campus. Maybe I’ll pop over there and see if I can find some larvae or pupae.
Sources:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/217647-Cosmosoma-myrodora
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN996
#insect #insects #moth #moths #nature #bugs #photo #texas #scicomm #entomology
For my first “real” post I’d like to share this absolutely INCREDIBLE moth I found on campus a few days back. This is *Cosmosoma myrodora*, the Scarlet Bodied Wasp Moth. This striking moth is native to the southeastern US and is named because its appearance is believed to be mimicry of wasps— If I had to guess, likely a Polistidae species. This moth is a tiger moth (Arctiini) in the family Erebidae, much like the Salt Marsh Moth (*Estigmine acrea*) that is also native to Galveston, though I don’t think anyone is at high risk of confusing the two as they look very different. *C. myrodora* larva feed on *Mikania* genus plants called hempvines. Unless I’m mistaken, there’s an absolutely massive hempvine by the parking lot on campus. Maybe I’ll pop over there and see if I can find some larvae or pupae.
Sources:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/217647-Cosmosoma-myrodora
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN996
#insect #insects #moth #moths #nature #bugs #photo #texas #scicomm #entomology
you can’t make this stuff up
@luna "I found a bug - what is the best way to report it?
You can email me at help@serializd.com
Alternatively, you can post in the #bugs channel on the Serializd Discord."
Of course…
At some point in the future I might figure why Firefox last 2 tabs stop reacting to any mouse feedback on the longest running Firefox window.
I'm pretty sure is not a Hyperland issue since it is THE window.
there's another reason for why i hate gemini other than it just being AI, whenever it (randomly!!) opens on my phone it turns off my headphones. It doesn't stop the video or plays a different sound, it doesn't simply disconnect the bluetooth, it somehow TURNS OFF my headphones.
whenever gemini does this i need to put the earbuds back in the case and take them out again. how is this a thing
I wonder if gemini is why my ear buds are now randomly going to my phone when I'm using them with my computer. #bluetooth #technology #bugs#PixelBugs #hacking
ah, a man and his big, strong armoured wife :’]
trilobite beetles!! i’m fascinated by all of the Platerodrilus beetles but P.paradoxus takes the cake in terms of style. the females keep their larval form, and reach up to 80mm in size while the males are tiny, around 8mm. and i love them 😊
ah, a man and his big, strong armoured wife :’]
trilobite beetles!! i’m fascinated by all of the Platerodrilus beetles but P.paradoxus takes the cake in terms of style. the females keep their larval form, and reach up to 80mm in size while the males are tiny, around 8mm. and i love them 😊
"It's not a feature, it's a bug"
#nature #naturephotography #bugs #wildlife #wildlifephotography #insects
Black Swallowtail - Bug Diaries - 1
#bugs#BugDiaries #comic
"It's not a feature, it's a bug"
#nature #naturephotography #bugs #wildlife #wildlifephotography #insects
Black Swallowtail - Bug Diaries - 1
#bugs#BugDiaries #comic
'Minimalismus' #fotovorschlag