• Buglefingers
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    11 day ago

    I’ve only met one entomologist (by trade), in an airport in France and they were headed to a warhammer 40K tournament. We talked for maybe 4ish hours on the social complexity of ants.

    This was roughly 10 years ago, still an awesome memory.

  • @[email protected]
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    802 months ago

    Entomology 101 - or Bugs for Thugs, as my professor called it - was the coolest elective I took in college. You could get extra credit for bringing in bugs to share with the class. I didn’t have a proper container, so I spent one class trying to contain an Emperor Scorpion in a Chinese food container and keep it from escaping. Good times.

    • @VelvetStorm
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      112 months ago

      I wonder if just photos would have worked if they were good ones. If I had the money, i would 100% take one of these classes.

    • @ChicoSuave
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      182 months ago

      The entomologist was really ten thousand wasps in a trenchcoat.

    • FuglyDuck
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      42 months ago

      Not a very good one, wasps basically hibernate when the sun goes down. Their metabolism basically slows down with the temperature change.

      (This is why it’s best to deal with their nests after dark.)

  • Track_Shovel
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    292 months ago

    Meanwhile, I damn near crash my car if I see a road cut with a soil profile exposed.

    • @[email protected]
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      192 months ago

      A geo professor once took us on a road trip as a “lab”, without telling us where we were going. I actually was driving the school van, so that motherfucker had me driving for nearly 10 hours with stops at all the very best road cuts in the Midwest (one would hope.)

      I am sure I would have liked it somewhat more if I weren’t the one driving.

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        2 months ago

        Take some glaciolacustrine deposits with laminae for a booby prize

        This is 75 m above the adjacent lake water level

  • @gerbler
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    142 months ago

    Wtf is a Tunnel Web Spider? Do they mean Funnel Web Spider? The most venemous spider in the world? Cap.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      Apparently there is a tunnelweb spider in New Zealand. I’m guessing this was a spelling mistake though.

  • @Crackhappy
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    72 months ago

    etymologists raising their fists in anger.