Giant wood moth,
Endoxyla cinereus,
Cossidae. Found in Australia.
Giant wood moths can have a wingspan of around 23 centimeters. Larvae are wood borers, and along with other similar species, are commonly referred to as witchetty grubs. An interesting twitter thread here explaining how the term witchetty grub was derived from an indigenous term
“In an experiment revealing the importance of having friendships, social psychologists have found that perceptions of task difficulty are significantly shaped by the proximity of a friend. In their experimental design, the researchers asked college students to stand at the base of a hill while carrying a weighted backpack and to estimate the steepness of a hill. Some participants stood next to close friends whom they had known a long time, some stood next to friends they had not known for long, and the rest stood alone during the exercise. The students who stood with friends gave significantly lower estimates of the steepness of the hill than those who stood alone. Furthermore, the longer the close friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared to the participants involved in the study. In other words, the world looks less difficult when standing next to a close friend.”
— my new favorite psychological study, done by Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci, and Proffitt and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Genuinely find the idea of magically manifesting your thoughts into reality so disturbing like I can’t imagine walking around feeling responsible for all the thoughts in my head beyond how they effect my behavior
i vividly hallucinate seeing my shipmates as large walking chicken legs, regardless of how hungry i am. a trait that will serve me well when this place inevitably wrecks, and i have to sail on a lifeboat for weeks on end with the people who once worked beside me as friends.
stardew valley: once per day you can kiss your spouse and get some energy back
me: that’s absolutely adorable. anyway watch as I kiss my wife bye every morning when I leave the house immediately after waking up
i never would’ve realized this organically through gameplay because why the FUCK would i wait to kiss my spouses?!?!??! the clock is ticking very fast and there’s a million things to do in the middle of the day and at night i race back home to beat the clock to bed MORNINGS ARE FOR KISSES
The lavender-purple coloured Ixa cylindrus is a Leucosid crab species native to the seas around Indonesia and the Philippines. The slow moving crab is sometimes captured for the pet trade, however there’s not much known about this species. I. cylindrus is probably a scavenger, it eats dead material from the ocean floor.
The name Lollipop crab is probably given due to the horizontal appendages on both sides of the fissured carapax of the crab. They are probably defensive structures, comparable to the spikes on other crabs.
Animalia - Arthropoda - Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae - Ixa - I. cylindrus
