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Since some people are more militant about age checks on here than people working a liquor store: Old enough to have lived through 9/11, young enough to not remember where I was when I heard the news

grim that the ideology of the family is so fundamentally ingrained that even reporting that is appropriately horrified by a legislature passing The Child Molestation Act has to stress that it is extra special super bad because they don't even ask the child's parents for permission to molest them

Megalopyges are cute but beware, they are danger boys as well

(Florida, 12/27/18)

lettin one walk on you is so brave but I bet it feels silly

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danger boy? How dangerous are we talk-

@onenicebugperday I need more information…

Megalopyge is a genus of moth! In the US, the most common species is the southern flannel moth. The caterpillars (usually called puss caterpillars), as you can see above, are very cute and fuzzy! They can be grey, brown, tan, white, or even orange-ish. The one shown in the post looks like a fairly large later instar, but they can be quite tiny:

Photo by connlindajo

But this dude is one of the reasons I tell people not to handle bugs they can’t ID. It might be cute, but it has venomous spines on its body hidden within the hairs. It could likely crawl on your hand like above without risking injury because the underside isn’t fuzzy, but I wouldn’t risk it. If you brush the top hairs against your skin it’ll cause a rash of fluid-filled raised red bumps that radiate terrible pain away from the area. And like it says above, the pain can be so intense that it feels like a broken bone, and it can last hours.

It’s recommended that if you come in contact with one, you use tape to try to pull out any remaining hairs, wash the area with soap and water, apply an ice pack, and take an antihistamine.

On the plus side, the adult moth is VERY fuzzy and 100% safe:

Photo by barbara_thurlow

immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

how it feels to be a zoologist when my friends send me a cute social media video with an animal in it that 100% should not be there

cute caracal! why is it in your house.

what a handsome alligator! why is it in a kiddie pool in a living room.

what a beautiful cobra! why is it being kept in a walmart $5 critter keeper.

such a beautiful fox! why is it in a two foot long metal crate.

wow! footage of an endangered species of insect! NO NO NO WHY ARE YOU TOUCHING IT

'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now

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