Hi @michaelrothnj.bsky.social, I'm trying to decide who to vote for in the upcoming primary.
If you are elected, will you commit to rejecting congressional bills that undermine the equal rights of your transgender constituents?
I hope this is self-evident, but I have never used gen-AI for any of my research, writing, illustrations, or coding.
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Fully a third of the spider book is appendices.
WHOOPS
Can't give details but multiple ivy league schools are fighting over me lol
Does anyone know a good resource that breaks down habitat loss (historical and ongoing) by habitat type around the world?
Those are probably true widows too... 😅
I apologize if I misunderstood your original comment.
There really is a lot of color variation in Latrodectus hesperus (the Western Black Widow), including many red and white spotted forms. Even late-instar females are not always solid black.
why does my back hurt 🦌
You're telling me! 😵💫
Nvm I remembered the paper I was thinking of. I think you're right! I had no idea that Mygalomorph morphology was so different.
zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Figure 4 of this paper shows a great ventral view of Liphistriidae.
I think in Mygalomorphae the maxillae are more like hairy plates but I'll try to double check once I'm in the office today
Godspeed friend!
A cropped anatomical diagram of the ventral side of a cobweb spider. Four legs are splayed out on either side of the central cephalothorax. The cephalothorax is tinted green, the legs blue, and the opisthosoma purple. Several small labels point to various features: (3) chelicera, (4) maxilla, (5) sternum/basisternum, (6) epigyne. The labium is barely visible beneath the maxillae.
Here's a close-up of a diagram from my upcoming book. Sorry for the poor quality - I'm not at my laptop rn
Yes! That area contains 2 maxillae and 1 labium. A maxilla is kind of like a sideways jaw. The labium is like a normal lower jaw that rests underneath.
@franzanth.bsky.social
There are about 40 different widow species around the world. The widows you're describing are most common in the western United States, though they are far from the only ones.
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The females are not always black, and the males are not always brown! I'll have a new field guide about widows out in a few months if you're curious. 😊
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Sometimes I'll be so inundated by straight culture that the whole world will feel gray. But then I'll see some sapphic media that makes me go OH RIGHT, THAT'S what life is supposed to feel like!! And it's like standing in a dark field and seeing the stars after spending too many months in the city
Thank you sapphics and lesbians for being one of the best things in the whole world ❤️❤️❤️
My mom: what happened to the roof of your car?
Me: oh, I stood on it so I could see into a field where there was a Swainson's hawk
Mom: (visibly proud)
This is one of the best compliments I've ever received. 🤣
Bonk
I WILL NOT BE USING THE LEGENDARY WEAPON ON SPIDERS
Boquila trifoliolata❣️ The vine was first described in 1817 but has only recently been documented as a leaf mimic of multiple hosts. What else are we overlooking???
A photo of me (a woman with long brown hair, a magenta shirt, and glasses) smiling while standing in the office, holding a bundled shipment of metal robotics frames like they're some sort of JRPG weapon. However, I've never held a JRPG weapon before, so I look rather more like someone's white mom about to try kayaking for the first time.
Tremble before the might of the LEGENDARY WARRIOR who wields MACHINE_COMPONENT_SHIPMENT_0410!
WHAT A SILLY LITTLE GUY!
Aaaand I missed the screenshot, lol.
Not my fault, it went by too fast!
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Even your study organisms are (mostly) round. 😄
I think you have at least as much charisma as a Spheal, Louis.
Does anyone else have the autism where you have to use a thesaurus to remember the normal way people say things