Entomologists

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• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Entomology 101 - or Bugs for Thugs, as my professor called it - was the coolest elective I took in college. You could get extra credit for bringing in bugs to share with the class. I didn’t have a proper container, so I spent one class trying to contain an Emperor Scorpion in a Chinese food container and keep it from escaping. Good times.

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  • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder if just photos would have worked if they were good ones. If I had the money, i would 100% take one of these classes.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly if you’re near a university, you can probably just show up.

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• Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “a cool wasp”

  …wait a minute, this is a setup

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The entomologist was really ten thousand wasps in a trenchcoat.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not a very good one, wasps basically hibernate when the sun goes down. Their metabolism basically slows down with the temperature change.

    (This is why it’s best to deal with their nests after dark.)

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  • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A sting operation

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha YEA!

      Nice

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, I damn near crash my car if I see a road cut with a soil profile exposed.

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• gerbler@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wtf is a Tunnel Web Spider? Do they mean Funnel Web Spider? The most venemous spider in the world? Cap.

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  • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently there is a tunnelweb spider in New Zealand. I’m guessing this was a spelling mistake though.

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  etymologists raising their fists in anger.

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• BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve only met one entomologist (by trade), in an airport in France and they were headed to a warhammer 40K tournament. We talked for maybe 4ish hours on the social complexity of ants.

  This was roughly 10 years ago, still an awesome memory.

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