Blue. Canadian, non-binary, queer biologist and enviro-scientist. Tumblr old. Pronouns = they or she or he (i'm ambivalent about mine but will respect the hell out of yours). Nerdy as fuck.
Yes, the username is a Madness of Angels reference.
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My problem child, (the) Dean (of Lizard Arts) has led me to inadvertently acquire a pet silkworm.
He goes wild for mealworms, and now ignores the BSF larvae I was feeding him - but mealworms are the potato chip of the insect world, and are an impaction risk besides, so I need to find something else he’ll actually eat, instead of giving him mealworms just to make sure he’s eating something.
But the silkworm I bought to try, the smallest they had, is still too big.
He tried it twice, and dropped it both times.
So now I’ve got a silkworm. It has its own little house. I got some emergency chow from a kind Petland employee (shockingly, difficult to buy silkworm food on short notice). And we’ll see how it goes.
It took me a solid thirty seconds to realize that Phragmites was probably the genus name of the plants in the picture and not, like, an ancient Greek warrior waiting in the marshes to attack.
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