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  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzWasps
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    5 months ago

    I have some Goldenrod plants in the backyard where every summer a few hundred 5-banded Wasps congregate. The males mob a few plants to show themselves off, covering every leaf and branch and stem until they’re weighing the whole plant down, while the females buzz about checking out the dudes to decide who to mate with.

    I’m grateful to support that colony; they’ve been on and around the neighborhood longer than I have, and honestly, they’re pretty chill. They’re not going to attack unless you do first, and they’re pollinators.

    And for those people who view a mob of several hundred wasps on a single plant as being “gross”, just chill. They got a right to life like we do <3



  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.worldOPtocats@lemmy.worldMeet Nami
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    5 months ago

    Adorable.

    Can you pay the cat tax by providing an image of said cat? :)

    We had a very special cat who did a lot of chirping and trilling, and at night in the summer we’d keep the back door open with the glass screen door shut, and all sorts of animals could come by and she’d watch them and make various excited noises to let me know when animals were around.

    Possums, raccoons, other cats, groundhogs, they all brought excited trills to let me know we had a nocturnal visitor.

    One night she was making agitated sounds, but before I got there to see what it was, she made a clear as day “uh-oh” sound, but with a meow. I hurried over to see a fox staring down through the glass at her, while she stared back nervously. Never heard the “uh-oh” before or after except that night.