flora_explora
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- Comment on Are you feeling lucky? 3 days ago:
Damn that’s good!
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Just to be clear:
1/4 of all mammal species are bat species.
But only a tiny fraction of all mammals are bats.
Or this might be a giant conspiracy and there are trillions of bats living in underground cave systems and only come out when no one is watching!
- Comment on 3 days ago:
My thought exactly!
- Comment on Scientists identify fusion point of Robertsonian chromosomes, hinting at how chromosomes evolve 5 days ago:
Interesting read! Thanks for sharing :)
- Comment on help 1 week ago:
Would be nicer with a photo where you can actually see the leaves in detail ;)
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 1 week ago:
Wow, never heard of Gnetum until now. Incrediblethat it is in the Gymnosperms while looking so much like an Angiosperm :O
- Comment on LOOK AT THIS NERD 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m pretty sure you’re right. But what is new to me is that they apparently molt only halfway?
- Comment on tortoise beetles are hella tite 1 week ago:
I mean, these are leaf beetles, so you would probably only need their host plant(s) and a controlled environment. But there are 3000 species in this subfamily that all look different. If you are talking about this specific beetle here, it is probably Stolas imperialis, which is a Brazilian species. So you would need to have access to this beetle first, probably deal with very strict export/import regulations and then also do the same for the beetles host plant(s)…
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
What has discipline got to do with it? I feel it’s pretty independent or may even get in the way of learning. If you force (discipline) yourself to learn something, it will feel much harder than if you do it out of joy. But maybe I didn’t fully understand what you were saying.
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2 weeks ago:
Who parsed the text in the description? There are several mistakes that totally change the meaning of these. Bats impacted by pigeons and not alcohol, no mention of pasta sauce etc…
- Comment on Hello there 2 weeks ago:
It was more of a rhetorical question ;)
- Comment on Hello there 2 weeks ago:
Are the straights alright? Why not just plan a date together?
- Comment on The New Guy 2 weeks ago:
I would think it doesn’t really matter. A “species” isn’t a true characteristic of the world, it is rather the concept we develop in order to differentiate one type of organism from others. In so far the species in this example is brand new, because we didn’t know a type of organism like that could exist. And frequently a species might be split up into two or more species. The real world isn’t changing, we just update our understanding of it to better match what we see.
- Comment on Mood 3 weeks ago:
That’s not totally untrue. Iirc the first cat memes were postcards people send each other at the beginning of the last century. I guess the difference is that postcards and letters only reach a single address, tweets can reach many people at once
- Comment on Chicken of the Woods 3 weeks ago:
I’ve eaten this species many times and liked it every time. But it also depends on what tree species it grows, because iirc some conifers or oaks make it inedible or even slightly toxic.
- Comment on What goes here? 4 weeks ago:
So having a foot doesn’t count as having a leg also?
- Comment on Baby sized bolete of some sort 4 weeks ago:
Not artificially, but by taking many photos of differing depths and computationally stitching them together. Various cameras have the in-build ability to automatically take many pictures in sequence with a variable amount of depth (which in itself is calles focus bracketing). And there is software especially designed to then compute a single photo with increased depth of field from a stack.
- Comment on The Bog 4 weeks ago:
Wolf spiders are harmless, so there is hardly any incentive to invest in another solution I’d guess…
I wish they weren’t so shy though, it’s really hard to take good photos of them because they are so fast.
- Comment on Average plant behavior 5 weeks ago:
It’s because of domestication and growing plants outside of their natural habitat that they get sensitive. Also, apparently some sensitivity is by design:
Modern roses emerged in 1867 with the development of the first hybrid tea, according to the American Rose Society. These varieties tend to have a reputation for being fussy, requiring constant attention.
“The conception is that they’re not tough, that they require spraying, that you have to have the perfect culture. And a lot of that has been breeding; to breed these perfect flowers, but they bred out characteristics that made the rose easy to grow in our backyards,”
(From the OP’s article)
- Comment on Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering 5 weeks ago:
I wish there was a queer MTG group in my city where I could play in. I tried playing with some straight cis dudes once and it was just such a strange experience…
- Comment on here there be lions 5 weeks ago:
Actually that’s not true, male lions are usually hunting alone and in dense vegetation. Newer studies show that male lions actually hunt as much prey as female lions! It’s just harder for us to track that.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 weeks ago:
Same in Germany. Last year I asked some people who got vaccinated if they think I also should get another shot and all of them told me that I’m not in a vulnerable group (or a caretaker) so I shouldn’t bother. So we basically repeat what we know from the normal flu (influenza) and just vaccinate vulnerable people. I’m not sure if this is the best way to do it, because I think many people die each year of the flu as well. However, death statistics are hard and I couldn’t find any reliable data on this either.
- Comment on Messenger signals that cue plants to ‘eat’ and ‘breathe’ revealed for first time 5 weeks ago:
We know a lot more about plant metabolism including hormone signalling and various different metabolic pathways and strategies. It just isn’t common knowledge to people outside of plant science. So this is less of a new field to research, but rather something new that science communication has been exploring the last few years.
- Comment on Messenger signals that cue plants to ‘eat’ and ‘breathe’ revealed for first time 5 weeks ago:
Hm, I feel like this study does actually fall into the latter “meh” category. Sure, it is great to have the information what molecules in particular control the stomata to open and close. But we do already have so much knowledge of the intricacies of plant metabolism that this is yet just another tiny puzzle piece in the grand scheme of things. So they try to sell their research here as leading to much more open research questions, but I doubt that they actually found any actually new compounds that no one has ever found before.
- Comment on #FGLAE 1 month ago:
I would lean more towards focus stacking. If you see for example @alexis_orion’s photos or videos on youtube, you can get even better shots in macro-photography (even handheld!).
- Comment on REDRUM 1 month ago:
Wow, great article!!
- Comment on Zotero is still better. 1 month ago:
Ah thanks, I needed this to get what the symbols are! :)
- Comment on 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 1 month ago:
Well, many people are busy, but yeah it should usually work. ResearchGate makes this even easier, because you can directly see who is requesting a paper and sometimes as an author you’ve got the paywalled paper already uploaded in researchgate.
- Comment on Mosquito Sprites 1 month ago:
If you read the actual paper, you can see that it is indeed a serious study where they try to understand how mosquito feeding and reproductive behavior works.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 1 month ago:
Wait till it flowers! It has a really nice inflorescence, although I think other Lactuca species are more beautiful overall :)