flora_explora
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- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 1 day ago:
This is the source, so no, this isn’t real :)
- Comment on STOP. IDING. PLANTS. 4 days ago:
Lol, good one!
- Comment on Sleepy Bees 4 days ago:
I quite often find bees sleeping in flowers in my garden. Especially inside Campanula flowers. Always so adorable to see them :)
- Comment on wrappers 4 days ago:
Cute!!
- Comment on MOREL DILEMMA 6 days ago:
You actually can eat the individuals that have not yet emerged from the ground. They look like eggs and are pretty weird in touch. But if you slice them really thin and fry them, they are delicious. (Disclaimer: I’m living in Germany and it might be different for the stinkhorns elsewhere.)
- Comment on the lifestyle 1 week ago:
What? Making a nice graph in excel? But yeah, ggplot2 does have a pretty steep learning curve. Once you learned it a bit it is really nice though. I love ggplot2 ❤️
- Comment on burden of knowledge 1 week ago:
In German, some people (especially men) use the phrase “I have pee in my eyes” for when they feel emotional or might want to cry. Maybe they are not emotional but instead are truly lobsters after all??
- Comment on Come to Biotech! 1 week ago:
Luckily Elizabeth Holmes isn’t in biotech anymore (because she is in prison)!
- Comment on Pants 1 week ago:
Maybe both? One leg goes this way and the other that way around…
- Comment on Caves 2 weeks ago:
Not sure where you live, but in central Europe (I live in Germany) you definitely have spiders, harvestmen, mites, millipedes, isopods, slugs, beetles, cockroaches (in my case cute little wood cockroaches), moths (their larvae at least). Maybe not directly inside your living room dancing on the table. Although there are some cockroaches that do run around everywhere in my home. But have a look around in your cellar, garage, any spaces that aren’t frequently heated or where you store food and you’ll find them.
- Comment on Faries are real! 3 weeks ago:
Ah thanks!! :)
- Comment on Learning Botany 3 weeks ago:
I agree. Especially because Ornithogalum is definitely not an Asparagus kind of plant. If maybe Ornithogalum had been in the Asparagus genus before but got split, well OK. But calling any plant in this huge family asparagus, is wild.
- Comment on Faries are real! 3 weeks ago:
Any idea what is the species in the upper right corner? It is super cute!!!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I guess in some parts of the world it is already wednesday, isn’t it?
- Comment on My markup has my cat's contributions. 5 weeks ago:
Wow, this is really neat!! I tried getting into vim some years ago but never managed to get it working smoothly with latex like this. But this looks really great!
- Comment on Fruit Flies 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, that brings up memories. We had to do the same experiments in genetics lab, too. I’ll never forget the smell of fruit flies :/
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
Well, they actually do have their ecological roles and it is always a hard decision if one should interfere on such a large scale with biological systems. We might think that we understand it, but it could be totally wrong. Really hard to predict. Mosquitoes are an important food source for other animals and are also pollinators.
- Comment on Joy & Curiosity 5 weeks ago:
This is fucking amazing!!! :O
- Comment on Invincible 💪 1 month ago:
- Comment on Going out the way he lived 1 month ago:
Wow, intense!!
Staffed with 18 to 20 crew members, including pilots and scientists, a normal hurricane reconnaissance or research mission can last from 9–10 hours, while a surveillance (“fix” mission) mission will typically last 8 hours,
- Comment on tall, dark & handsome 1 month ago:
Wow, I initially thought that she spontaneously chose her caretaker as a mating partner, but the process was apparently much more involved!
In September 2004, Walnut arrived at NZCBI’s Virginia campus, where scientists regularly breed cranes that have behavioral or physical limitations by using assisted reproduction techniques, including artificial insemination. By observing and mimicking how NZCBI’s male white-naped cranes interacted with their mates during breeding season, bird keeper Chris Crowe gained Walnut’s elusive trust. He pair-bonded with her by flapping his arms in a manner similar to the species’ unison dance, offered her nesting materials and brought her food. Once she was receptive to breeding, Crowe was able to use sperm collected from a male crane to artificially inseminate Walnut without the need for physical restraint.
Really cute though how the caretaker was really also close to her:
“Walnut was a unique individual with a vivacious personality,” Crowe said. “She was always confident in expressing herself, an eager and excellent dancer, and stoic in the face of life’s challenges. I’ll always be grateful for her bond with me. Walnut’s extraordinary story has helped bring attention to her vulnerable species’ plight. I hope that everyone who was touched by her story understands that her species’ survival depends on our ability and desire to protect wetland habitats.”
- Comment on bamboozled 1 month ago:
Nope, that’s not how the definition of a tree works. Look at swednek’s definition in the comments: it is a woody trunk with branches. There are many other plants you could make toothpicks out of (e.g. that are woody) that aren’t trees. For example, shrubs and lianas.
- Comment on Anthropologists: "You motherfuckers!" 1 month ago:
Haha yeah. The thing is, I’m a biologist so I felt misrepresented in this meme ;)
- Comment on the flies 1 month ago:
Well, it is certainly a sign of good critical thinking skills to ask a question like this! And thanks to you I actually had a look at the study itself :)
- Comment on Anthropologists: "You motherfuckers!" 1 month ago:
The difference is between having absolute knowledge or being limited in our knowledge (like we will always be). We cannot fully explain human behavior by genetics and neurobiology. Biologists who say otherwise are not serious scientists. There is a lot of bullshit in neuroscience that gets projected onto the brain and that gets debunked some years later.
- Comment on Anthropologists: "You motherfuckers!" 1 month ago:
You are posing a different question though. The argument in the meme is that all behavior is explainable through genetics and neuralbiology. This would be true for someone with absolute knowledge, but no biologist is able to fully explain human (and most other animals’) behavior by genetics and neurobiology.
Regarding your question: the building blocks and involved factors might be simple, but you can still have synergies at play that are not fully described by the basic level parameters.
- Comment on Anthropologists: "You motherfuckers!" 1 month ago:
I don’t think this is a majority opinion in biology though. Especially not regarding humans.
- Comment on the flies 1 month ago:
If you look at the study you can see that they also had a treatment of black stripes on black cows to control for just that:
The cows were assigned to treatments using a 3 × 3 Latin-square design. The treatments consisted of black-and-white painted stripes (B&W), black painted stripes (B), and no stripes (CONT) as a control (Fig 1).
- Comment on 🤢🤮🤢 1 month ago:
Meat is so energy inefficient that it would never be enough to feed everyone. And the scale of meat production would have to be so huge that we help on climate change quite a bit as well…
- Comment on 🤢🤮🤢 1 month ago:
Well, the problem then is that we’re not only killing off all the bees but also other pollinators. Although, many plant species are also wind-pollinated and/or wind-dispersed. But good luck feeding all human life with this small selection of species only…