Does anyone know how the water veneer moth's lifecycle works? Wikipedia says only some of the females can fly. So do only some of the females mate or do some of the females mate in the water even though they are wingless?
This month in our ongoing series celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the GOSH community, we’re featuring the work of Nicolás Méndez, a biotechnology researcher in Argentina. Read about his work over the years with GOSH here: opensciencehardware.org/2026/04/gosh10…
Monopis moth with grey background (speckled dust of grey and white mist), it's long thin body with golden abdomen and defined black wings neatly folded. It has beautiful yellow marigold scales that glistened when lights hit on its body and its legs.
Few months back, took up the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here's the 12th moth. Meet the little bright Monopis moth! (Monopis laevigella) 💙 #monopis #moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek mothing with
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Im still confused by this part:
Females come in two forms, one fully winged, the other with rudimentary wings and flightless. Wingless females swin below the water surface. Mating takes place on the water surface. Winged adults swarm at night, in June in our area.
Via BugGuide:
Larvae are aquatic and overwinter underwater in cases attached to milfoil leaves; females are wingless and stay on the water surface where they breed with winged males in midsummer; univoltine (one generation per year)
www.bugguide.net/node/view/10...
Does anyone know how the water veneer moth's lifecycle works? Wikipedia says only some of the females can fly. So do only some of the females mate or do some of the females mate in the water even though they are wingless?
The Water Veneer moth is an aquatic insect. Apparently the caterpillars live underwater and make an underwater cocoon filled with air. Males and only some females apparently fly out of water briefly to mate!
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Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
More and more i have been getting upset about how i jave stopped expressing myself in various media because of how they have been co-opted into the soulless, hypey form of endless content.
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
Michael crichton was 6'9" when he wrote Jurassic park. Imagine the dinosaur adventure Robert Wadlow could have wrote. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (6'1"): The Lost World (1912) Michael crichton (6'9"): Jurassic park Robert Wadlow (8'11"): ???????????
The Mothbox / Dinalab team will be in Vancouver area May 9-16! Let us know cool suggestions or connections! (We have never been before!)
Also we are looking at it as a potential re-location spot for a new homebase, so hit me up!
Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position
Some folks came to our #Mothbox Workshop during the #ICTC conference and ended up taking the mothboxes they built to the Manu biological Field Station where they've been doing all kinds of cool new stuff! They even got tree climbers to install them in the rainforest canopy! @wildlabs.bsky.social
In the future cyberwar, we will have that tense scene from Inglourious Basterds, but instead of the shiboleth being numbers represented on a finger, the spy will be found to be a robot by responding with an emoji.
Like 3️⃣ instead of "3"
happy tax day
This post above a post about a science finding about wheat with charts
First thought was, "damn, dude HATES wheat vernalization"
Look how high up they got that mothbox!
Look how high up they got that mothbox!
Alt text cuz bluesky kept.crashing
tree climber installing a mothbox in the rainforest canopy at night
Some folks came to our #Mothbox Workshop during the #ICTC conference and ended up taking the mothboxes they built to the Manu biological Field Station where they've been doing all kinds of cool new stuff! They even got tree climbers to install them in the rainforest canopy! @wildlabs.bsky.social
Our Open Healthware Conference will take place in San Francisco this year on July 9th and 10th! Grab your free in person or virtual tickets at Bit.ly/OpenHealthwareConference2026 !
Book highlight that says: "A not-wholly-unfair analysis of academic publishing would be that it is an industry in which academics compete against one another for the privilege of providing free labour for a profit-making company, which then sells the results back to them at monopoly prices."
Enjoyed reading "The Unaccountability Machine" by Dan Davies: at turns thoughtful and hilarious. Goes deep into cybernetics, history, neoliberalism, and accounting (!).
A friend sent me this quote which is pretty funny and on target unless you're an academic; then the joke is on you (and me).
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Bags packed and heading out for the next couple months of the MOTHBOX WORLD TOUR
40 boxes worth of gear going to get dispersed to scientists in
Ohio
Seattle
Oregon
Vancouver
Berlin
Denmark
Europe
+ more
#YearOfTheMoth
Water veneer moth staring at you with dark compound eyes, background with white blue-ish dust dew. Moth is light brown with a tinge of light orange and pink. Its legs extended dark hairy legs.
3 months ago, took up the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here's the 11th moth. Meet the Water veneer! (Acentria ephemerella) 💙 #water #veneer #moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek mothing with
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The U.S. takeaway from Hungary is that Democrats need to run a guy named John American.
Screen cap of reddit comment from a human-verified account, Franky-47, reading "I cannot express enough how bad this guy was here and how unprepared he was (I work for the government (Foreign Ministry) here in Pakistan). Basically the Iranians had a team of 71 people with experts (from banking sector, to health, infrastructure, agriculture, trade/commerce, as well as nuclear scientist and many others) yet Mista JD there did not even know what he was being offered to him, instead would avoid giving any final or interim answers and kept opening new chapters as in new agenda items (topics/subjects) within an expanding list of demands for the agreement for Iran to comply on. On top of that, at each agenda item (topic/subject) this guy would call Trump, Marco, and Pete for guidance and keep asking them what they thought and needed to be done?!? It was as if JD was insincere or passively trying to sabotage the deal. At the end without summarizing his final or interim answer on each old and new demand, he just got up and told them you know what we want and what we do not, then went back home in a hurry, just like that,... I say the enemies of the USA are from within not outside."
Reddit has an apparent inside account of Vance's failed negotiations and the sheer puerile idiocy of the American regime.
www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/co...
Top view of a tiny invert with 8 legs and pincer-like pedipalps that resemble those of scorpions
Side view of a tiny invert with 8 legs and pincer-like pedipalps that resemble those of scorpions
Unexpected visitor at our moth light in the Perth Hills last night… a Pseudoscorpion (possibly Chernetini sp.)
This guy was small, only ~4mm long, and was hitching a lift on the back leg of a Cycad Weevil, a behaviour known as phoresis
#inverts #ausinverts #wildoz #arachnids #inaturalist #bugsky
