he big, he attac

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• perestroika@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Realizing that they reproduce via parthenogenesis, and this involves laying eggs, I think the appropriate title would be “she big, she attac”. :)

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The downside to cloning as a reproductive system is that the entire population will have the same genetics and be vulnerable to the same diseases and poisons.

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Aphids don’t care.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Aphids do sexual reproduction in autumn. It’s just spring/summer they clone.

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  • CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t there still be random mutations caused by epigenetics over time?

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    • Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, but the population would be so similar that it probably wouldn’t make much difference.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      if the environment is stable , then parthonogenesis would be common.

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  invasive plants do this all the time, they are hard to eradicate once they become establish.

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• ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the Clone Wars would have been a lot more interesting if the clone troopers just split/budded, would explain all the different patterns and emerging behaviors

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  • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Get your stormtroopers the starfish cloning, trooper loses an arm, wait a week and two troopers

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• kraftpudding@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hope he’s at least tasty

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Too many crawdads are not a problem as long as you got a pot of boiling water

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re actually quite a big problem. They dig in the sides of canals and dikes causing them to destabilise and collapse

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    • Sidhean@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Way too many crawdads are not a problem as long as you boil the entire sea

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They have also caused the ecrevisse à pattes blanches (the native european one) to go near extinct.

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• thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He make a good snak

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  he go clack, clack, clack?

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• azi@mander.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Marbled crayfish are pretty cool. A new species that evolved in captivity

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  • Sidhean@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, these things are wild! A new species that clones itself rapidly, can carry a crayfish-killing plague, and is relatively rapidly colonizing the planet (freshwater only).

    This feels like a thing spiders do. They can produce several clutches of eggs after mating once. If, without a mate, they could just… do that, “even a single wolf spider egg can contaminate an entire planet.”

    Its a good year for crayfish sci-fi horror

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      people often forget invasive species often bring diseases with them, that they are adapted to but in a new environment with others species that have no natural immunity, it would wipe native populations faster than the actual animal itself.

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