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World's Second Kinkiest Wizard

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MYSTERY CATERPILLAR OF THE AMAZON!

family Sphingidae, Manu Biological Station, Peru

Apparently, for years, the identity of this caterpillar has been a mystery. We may be very close to solving the mystery!

People have seen this large gorgeous caterpillar for ages, but have never been able to figure out what it grows/metamorphoses into... what species is it?

Entomologist Gwen Erdosh (Gwentomologist), currently the Volunteer Coordinator at the Manu Biological Station in Madre de Dios, Peru, has collected one, determined its host plant, and got it to pupate!

Luckily, I got to meet the larva before it pupated, and snap a few photos.

Hopefully, we will know soon, and the mystery will be solved!

- Paxon

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Reblogged bunjywunjy
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Please help me. One of my brothers asked for my help doing an art and when I said “okay first off let’s get some reference images” he said “oh I don’t do those.”

my brother in Mom what the fuck do you mean you don’t do that

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String identified: a . t a g a at a a “a t t’ gt c ag” a “ ’t t.” t at t c a ’t tat

Closest match: Erithacus rubecula genome assembly, chromosome: 5 Common name: European Robin

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wildstorkmel asked:

The inquiring Mel mind must know if you used a Mellotron for the brand new song Peggy Guggenheim!

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tmbgareok answered:

JF: okay-I listened to the track to ponder these questions. No I think the sound you are hearing as a mellotron (at, like, 1:05?) is actually probably the four trumpets playing the head of the song.

(The idea of the track was inspired by this electronic harmonizing gizmo both Mark Pender and Curt Ramm used when we were touring with just a trumpet player rather than a horn section. On a bunch of things we would have an octave below play along to the trumpet and it sounded quite like a trombone playing along, but in one improvisational moment in the show we set it to a whole tone higher which added this very odd, Jon Hassle-like harmonic swirl to everything the trumpet played--and the precision of hearing a whole note harmony play to whatever was happening was a very surprising effect.

So putting the song together, I actually set up keyboard to play a trumpet sound AND a whole note about whatever I played and cooked up the melody lines with that odd harmony idea baked in. When we did the actual recording, I just had those parts charted out, and Pender stacked it in octaves, which makes it sound quite synthetic because the unusual moves the real trumpets make kind of mimic a sound that would be more easily conjured out of a mellotron)

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Reblogged whyispickingausernamesohard
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mold pisses me off so much

oh you have to eat your produce the moment it leaves the store or the fuckin Hungering Dust will get it. and. poison your food

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I ran into this post years ago and to be honest, it has completely reoriented the way I engage with food.

Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.

But now I’m just like.

Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.

Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?

Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.

That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.

Life-changing.

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