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Hairy Ideas (ideaswithhair@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 13:04:04 JST 
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Andrea is resting (thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 00:34:26 JST 
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@mutualaid why y'all reblogging an anti-black post with a racial slur in it (edit 1: among other abusive and bigoted posts)? Please vet the posts you repost
Edit 2: I understand how the bot works now, thanks
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 04:04:50 JST 
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faggot of the year imo -
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cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 03:10:35 JST 
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@Pawlicker @Tadano @Dullahan Lmao that painting -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 03:41:01 JST
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🚨 ARTHROPOD OF THE DAY 🚨
Trapdoor Spiders are a medium-sized mygalomorph (an infraorder of spiders), spiders that construct burrows with a cork-like trapdoor made of soil, vegetation and silk.
Trapdoor spiders make up the family Ctenizidae of the order Araneae. The species is common in the southwestern United States.
A Trapdoor spider does not have a web like other spiders do. It has a trapdoor on top of a burrow. A Trapdoor spiders burrow is around 30 centimetres deep and 5 centimetres across. Sometimes they like to make their burrows beside creeks or rivers so they can catch little fish.
Trapdoor spider colony - Image source
Trapdoor spider colony – Image source
The trapdoor that these spiders construct is difficult to see when it is closed because of the plant and soil materials that effectively camouflage it. The trapdoor is hinged on one side with silk.
The spiders, who are usually nocturnal, typically wait for prey while holding onto the underside of the door with the claws on their tarsi (the cluster of bones in the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus).
Prey is captured when insects or other arthropods venture too close to the half-open trapdoor at night. The spider detects the prey by vibrations and when it comes close enough, the spider jumps out of its burrow and captures it. Female Trapdoor spiders never travel far from their burrows.
A Trapdoor spiders enemies include wasps, scorpions and people. If a wasp finds the burrow it will quickly run into the spiders burrow and sting the spider. The only way to save itself is for the spider to hold the door with its fangs.
The wasp usually wins, because it cuts the lid of the burrow with its sharp fangs. When they have stung the spider the wasps lay their eggs (usually one per spider) on its body. Other predators of Trapdoor Spiders can include birds, bandicoots, centipedes, scorpions, parasitic wasps and flies. -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:39:36 JST
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🚨 ARTHROPOD OF THE DAY 🚨
Spike-headed katydid, or Panacanthus, is one of the conehead katydids. With a length of just 3 inches, it is considered one of the most fearsome animals on the planet among the 6,500 species of katydids.
There are about 7 types of spiny devil katydid. The common feature of these types is that their bodies are covered with spikes, from their head to their thorax to their legs. These spikes help them easily blend into their environments to hide from predators.
In the Ecuadorian Amazon region near Puerto Misahualli, you can find spike-headed katydids residing in the lush tropical rainforest.
These insects are equipped with formidable mouthparts that allow them to feed on their food, despite the absence of teeth. Their jaws are so powerful and sharp that they can easily pierce your skin. But don’t worry, they do not pose any significant harm. -
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GeneralMouton (genmouton@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 14:07:08 JST 
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@haberdasher @graf @Sui @JeffTheJoker @Jonaschuzzlewit @Silverwolf @Gameplayer2099 Safety First! -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:30:06 JST
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Schizodactylidae is a family of orthopteran insects found in Asia and southern Africa, known as dune crickets or splay-footed crickets. They are usually found in desert and sandy areas.
Entomologists who first came across this insect in the early 19th century categorised it as just another species of the cricket family. It was years later that detailed studies were undertaken that established that although it belonged to the order Orthoptera (which includes the grasshoppers and crickets), it was not of the ‘true’ cricket family, as thought earlier.
Schizodactylus monstrosus, although known to very few, is among the most common in India. When noticed, the most frequent reaction the insect invites on itself is a stomp of the shoe. Not unlikely because manhandled, it bites ferociously.
These insects have an important role in the desert ecosystems. The adults as well as the nymphs are exclusively carnivorous, preying on beetles, grasshoppers, and other small insects for food. Survival of the fittest is the operant principle in the life of these ferociously cannibalistic creatures, which are even seen to pounce on each other when they come out of their burrows in search of food. In the desert food chain, these crickets are fodder for reptiles like snakes and lizards and birds such as partridges (chukar), falcons and whistling ducks. -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:09:09 JST
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🚨 ARTHROPOD OF YESTERDAY 🚨
The peekytoe crab, otherwise known as the Atlantic rock crab, is a cold-water species. It is named as such because of its brown coloration with purple spots on its shell. “Peekytoe” is a nickname given to the crab because of the pointed shape of its legs.
This crab is moderately sized with a diameter of about 5.25 inches (2.4 meters) long.
Peekytoe crabs used to be considered pests by fishermen, getting caught in the nets of lobster fishermen. They were thrown back as annoying bycatch until about 1997 when they became a common crab sought after by cooks. -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:08:27 JST
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Arthropods missed while SPC was down:
Clown Isopods
Sawfly
Man-faced Stinkbug
Lily Leaf Beetle
Death-head Hawkmoth (silence of the lambs)
Mountain Katydid
Owl Butterfly
Indian Domino Cockroach
Steel-blue Cricket Hunter Wasp
Tailed Emporer
Porcelain Crabs
Rhododendron Leafhopper
Crystal Red Shrimp
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:08:24 JST
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The jewel moth is a member of the family of Dalceridae moths. Caterpillars of these moths are known for their beauty, which is comparable to a jewel, thus nicknamed ‘Jewel Caterpillar’.
Feeding on different types of plants such as those in the citrus family, Jewel Caterpillars are native to Central America.
They live in or around moist forests of Mexico, or Guatemala and they can be abundant by not necessarily truly harmful to their host trees or plants.
When the wings are opened, they are buff with a narrow brown submarginal line. When the wings are closed, there is a brown mix between the outer margin and the inner brown line. -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:08:18 JST
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Thwaitesia argentiopunctata known as the sequined spider, mirror spider, or twin-peaked Thwaitesia is a species of spider found in all the states of Australia. Body length is around 3 mm (0.12 in) for males, 4 mm (0.16 in) for females. The abdomen is attractively patterned with cream, green, yellow and red.
The scales look like solid pieces of mirror glued to the spider's back, but they can actually change size depending on how threatened the spider feels. The reflective scales are composed of reflective guanine, which these and other spiders use to give themselves color. -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:08:18 JST
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Gribble - any of the approximately 20 species of wood-boring, marine crustaceans constituting the genus Limnoria, in the order Isopoda. They feed on algae, driftwood, and the submerged wood of docks and wharves and sometimes attack the nonwoody insulation of submarine cables.
Limnoria lignorum, which occurs throughout the seas of the Northern Hemisphere, grows to 5 mm (0.2 inch) in length and has a gray body consisting of 14 clearly defined segments. It burrows about 12 mm into wood. L. tripunctata occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from New England (U.S.) to Venezuela and in the Pacific Ocean from California to Mexico. It even penetrates wood that has been impregnated with creosote, an offensive chemical that repels most wood-boring invertebrates. L. pfefferi is found in the Pacific and Indian oceans; L. saseboensis is found on the Atlantic coast of the southeastern United States and on the coast of Japan. -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:08:17 JST
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The Pale Tussock moth is a common species throughout much of the southern half of England, becoming scarcer in northern regions.
The species is also recorded in Northern Ireland and throughout much of continental Europe.
The moths are nocturnal and fly in a single generation from late spring to early summer when mainly the males in are attracted to light.
Males have a wing length of up to 22mm and have comb-like antennae.
When settled the moths extend their hairy front legs out in front.
The caterpillars are between 40-45mm in length and feed on a wide variety of deciduous trees as well as many other plants such as bramble and hops.
They were once commonly found on hops growing in the south east of England where the pickers referred to them as Hop Dogs. The hairs of the caterpillars were reputed to have caused quite severe allergic skin reactions among the pickers. -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 11:52:08 JST
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cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 07:52:45 JST
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They made the block clearing game a narrative game??? -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 07:46:42 JST
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Myrmarachne formicaria is an elongated jumping spider that takes the appearance of a small ant. The spider has long and slender legs just like those of an ant, and the banded forelegs are slightly thicker to resemble antennae. The cephalothorax has a depression to echo the segmentation in ants separating head from thorax. The abdomen is long with a narrow connection to the cephalothorax, reminiscent of an ant’s petiole. Surprisingly, in this species the pedipalps (normally a distinguishing character between males and females) are swollen in females, a trait usually seen only in males. Males on the other hand have enormous toothed chelicerae that stick right out of their faces.
A recent study looked into the locomotion of Myrmarachne formicaria jumping spiders and found that they do not move like their peers. First of all, instead of jumping like most salticid spiders, they move forward in a series of short sprints. But they also move in a pattern that resembles the movement of ants following a pheromone trail, back and forth in a winding wave motion, instead of random strolling and stopping often we see in other spiders.
Myrmarachne often wave their forelegs in the air to mimic the ants’ antennae, but the legs also hide their most recognizable feature, the bulging front eyes. Females seem to do a better job at this than males, transforming into ants right before our eyes. -
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 08:17:44 JST
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Fulgora laternaria, also known by the name of alligator bug, peanut-headed lantern fly, peanut headed bug, lantern fly, jequitiranaboia, machaca, chicharra-machacuy, and cocoposa, Is a large species of neotropical plant-hopper.
The insect has a very distinctive appendage on the head Which resembles a peanut in shape and is lined up with markings that resemble a grin. The appendage also has two prominent false eyes suggesting that it may allow the insect to mimic a reptile. F. Laternaria generally spends a majority of it’s time beautifully camouflage on a tree bark during the day.
The appendage on the forehead likely resembles a reptile specifically a caiman, acting as a form of mimicry. Another related suggestion is that the elongate structures of lanternflies distract predators away from the true head, something that is also aided by the presence of large eye spots on the edges of the peanut-headed lanternfly’s wings, predators usually strike the head-fist.
In order to attract a mate, the insect bops its head against the bark of a tree, creating vibrations which are perceived by any potential mates. -
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Ricotta :windmilloffriendship: (ricotta@yggdrasil.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 08:19:30 JST 
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kho (kho@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 08:08:49 JST
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The zebra longwing butterfly or zebra heliconian, Heliconius charithonia, is unmistakable with its long narrow wings, which are striped black and pale yellow. This species is common in Mexico and Central America and it is also found in most of Florida and in some areas of Texas, where it can be seen year round. Occasionally it wanders farther north as far as South Carolina and some of the central states, although it is not likely to survive the cold. Florida designated this striking creature as its state butterfly in 1996.
They fly slowly and gracefully and are not easily startled. They gather in roosts to spend the night returning to the same place daily; all this making it easy to observe them. After mating the female lays eggs on one of several species of passion flower plants Passiflora. The caterpillars feed on these plants and acquire some of their toxins; this makes them distasteful to predators. The striking colors and pattern of the adults advertise their toxicity.
Most butterflies can only sip fluids with their specialized mouth parts, but the heliconian butterflies take some pollen as well as nectar. Their saliva enables them to dissolve the pollen and to take their nutrients. Pollen is very nutritious, rich in proteins, unlike nectar which contains almost no proteins, just sugars. This diet allows the butterflies to prolong their lives and also enables them to continue producing eggs for several months.
Zebra longwing and other heliconians have a reputation for being very intelligent insects. They have a social order when roosting; the oldest ones choose the best places. They also gently nudge the others early in the morning to get going. Another interesting characteristic of heliconian butterflies is that they can remember their food sources and return daily to the plants where they fed previously, a behavior known as trap lining.
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