"Stranger than science fiction." That's how an ecologist describes a strange fungus that hijacks cicadas’ bodies and behavior, turning them into "zombies."
CNN reports on the the fungus Massospora cicadina and how it's impacting some of the cicadas emerging this year: https://flip.it/cxfw5K
This crittur, which I think is a bee fly, was sniffing around my seed pots, for some reason, literally putting its head to the compost as if sniffing, then moving to the next pot. #gardening@gardening#bugs
Ooof. Never argue with an ant colony. Cleaning out a storage box in the garden. One corner has an ant colony in it, partially destroyed by my clearing. Also present: Two 3cm-ish false widow spiders, shiny black. Can't escape the box now the contents have been removed, sides are too smooth.
Left the job and went to have lunch, expecting to need to re-home the spiders. Figured they had plenty of ants to eat. On return, no sign of the smaller spider. The larger has had a disagreement with the ants. It has not ended at all well for the spider.
This week’s episode under review: Bugs S03E10 – Renegades.
Simon and Eugene discuss whether this episode was always intended to be the finale of season 3, whether it’s another sequel to the Cybernauts, and Eugene gives us his interpretation of Australian Eric Idle.
'I keep molting.
To become a shiny cool compact car that can fly.
But right now I'm still a baby.
So I'm taking a nap wrapped in a wafer paper-like blanket.' 🐞
BTW, we went "the hard way" and picked the sourcehut todo service as a bug tracker and project management tool for RDE, Ares, Arei and neighboring projects.
It's very bare-bone, but we could implement cross-project milestones via labels, it's already have basic filtering and searching and integrates nicely with email and git.
Will be developing the rest of the functionality as we go. Probably via API or by upstreaming patches to sourcehut.