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This week in science in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Great summary, thanks!

Despite the great images of IO the linked article comes with this mud pearl "[University of Arizona's Large Binocular Telescope] With two primary mirrors measuring 8.4 m (~27.5 ft), it has a collecting area slightly greater than that of a 30-meter (98.4 ft) telescope."

Caption this. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Original sketches for the drinking scene on the Predator movie.

Panel Discussing Potential Clinical Implications of Geert's Viral Shift Predictions [Jan 2024] (JN1) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"Published on 13 Jan 2024"

1h01m57s "ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are very valid options"

sigh...

Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

A -190°C liquid nitrogen tank.. how long did it take to boil off?

Rare cross-shaped reliquary unearthed from medieval knight's home in Poland in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

according to Science in Poland.

A cross from the 15th century.

Was Poland not widely Christian by that time?

NASA's Curiosity rover reaches Mars ridge where water left debris pileup in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Same content on archive .ph

Can you help me id this larvae in c/bugs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks! Seems like handpicking the larvae on the first generation was not thorough enough. Now it's a horde. Today it's looking bleak for one of the 4 plants ':)

The consumption of leaves is astonishing.

On the positive, this has been a good science project for my 5 yo. Catching larvae and pupae, and watching the birthing moth.

We're not eating tomatoes (from these house plants anyway) but we're having some fun.

That Regal moth is awesome! The caterpillar too. And I think i'd surrender the tomatoe plants to them the first time I saw them around.

Rising methane could be a sign that Earth's climate is part-way through a 'termination-level transition' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You could start a submariner company to visit famous sunk ships.

Can you help me id this larvae in c/bugs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I believe now this is a Tomato Looper, aka Golden Twin-spot moth

Chrysodeixis chalcites.

From a 12yo reddit post with a very very similar larvae on tomato plants, somebody said it was a cabbage looper (wiki).

But after chancing a search for "tomato looper" I finally found a different species with a very very similar larvae and from there a name and good photo for the moth, Golden Twin-spot.

Now to find how to save the plants!..

Can you help identify this? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks! Had seen that paper once you guys pointed me to R. sanguineus and I had a chance to shower the kid.

I also found this site useful for ticks anatomy, on TicksSafety.com.

Can you help me id this larvae in c/bugs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Would be lovely, but the butterfly/moth is quite a bit less colourful.

Can you help identify this? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Visible eyes? Capitulum? Would not know where to look for that. Is there any online resource where I can learn on that?

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Found it on my tomato plant. I'd seen them before in sizes up to 4-5 cm. They eat the tomato leaves like crazy. And (naturally) poo a lot. Some black granade like aggregates. Once grown they molt into a moth that I saw a few days ago. And now my tomato plants are again riddled with these buggers.

This photo was done with the help of a stereoscope. The grid squares are 4mm inside, and 5mm outside the lines. So this juvenile has about 1cm.

I'd love to ID them. Any advise on how to control them without pesticides is also welcome.

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Can you help identify this? (mander.xyz)

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Found it on my son's hair after a 10min visit to our veggies garden. My guess is that it might be a tick but we are not in an area of lime disease and although it's an open, rather unkept, field the only mammals I see around are 2-3 stray(?) cats.

The photo was done using a stereoscope+smartphone. The dark lines underneath are .4 to .5 mm.

Any pointers would be welcome.