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Hello! Some of you may have seen this post of mine yesterday, and I’m pleased to say that after over 36 hours of staying still, this little guy has FINALLY moved and possibly moulted overnight, as one of his filaments looks a lot longer. However I can’t help but notice that one of his filaments appears longer than the other! Is that a bad sign?? Did he have a rough moult, maybe?

I found him on the ground this morning, sitting on a dead brown leaf, so I placed it on the milkweed to give him easy access to food and to keep him out of sight of any predators. However, as far as I can tell, he hasn’t eaten any of the milkweed yet and just kind of keeps pacing back and forth on this one leaf waggling his filaments and occasionally looking around. I hope he isn’t sick or injured, but he does seem to be pretty dang resilient LOL

Hello! Yesterday I made a post about this little guy (here) and his green vomit. He’s seemed alright since then, however I’m a bit worried at the moment because he’s been sitting under this teeny tiny leaf of a minuscule plant beside my milkweeds for 24 hours now. He’s barely moved at all, and while I know that can be normal I’m a bit worried!

He had fallen off his milkweed yesterday before he traversed to his current position, and since my mom raised him from an egg inside (terrible, I know, hence why I released him), I’m worried that he doesn’t know how to get back to the milkweed! You can see one of the plants in the background, but I don’t know how good his navigational skills are and I’m nervous about the fact that he hasn’t eaten in a day and is showing no sign of making a J or anything.

Last night I placed a leaf underneath him which had broken off one of my milkweeds, in case he was hungry, but he just thrashed angrily at me so I immediately left him alone. I’m so nervous! I’ve never experienced a maternal instinct in my life before, yet now I’m sooo worried about this silly little caterpillar LOL. Would it be a terrible idea to move him to a milkweed? Is he going to starve?? Am I worried over nothing?? Thanks in advance, you were all very kind and helpful yesterday :)

This guy is in his fourth instar, probably approaching his fifth pretty soon. He’s been eating like a machine the past few days (third picture was taken this morning).

However, for the past couple hours, he’s been in the same position motionless on the underside of a leaf - and he’s folded his tentacles up against his head (see first pic). I just checked on him and noticed this foul-smelling green liquid leaking down the leaf, appearing to be coming from his head. What the hell is happening??

For context, I don’t use pesticides on my milkweeds. He’s been chewing on this plant for a while with no signs of issue. It rained lightly earlier today. I haven’t seen any other critters crawling on or around the milkweeds. Did he smush himself between the leaves and damage his tentacles??? Could something have attacked him?? Is he dying?!?

I’m so nervous, he’s been the healthiest and most active of all the cats on my milkweeds and I’d hate for something to be going wrong. Please help!

It just sort of irks me when someone is like “I made a female Ben 10 OC, here are her alien forms.” And then all of the designs look like this.

I can sort of understand this kind of design for humanoid aliens like the tetramands, but when wildmutt and stinkfly are drawn with tig ol’ bitties it just feels like uninspired gooner slop imo. Especially when there’s aliens that have canon designs for female members of the species! Like in the Gwen 10 episode, her pyronite form looks more or less exactly like heatblast, if a little slimmer. Not like heatblast with an hourglass figure?

I dunno, obviously everyone is entitled to their creative liberties, but I just personally feel like it would be more interesting to come up with unique designs instead of copy and pasting a bunch of generic sexy aliens

Can anyone tell me what each of these might be? I think at least one might be from a wild turkey, as I live in a forest and we get lots of those around here, but I’ve also seen lots of hawks around lately and have heard plenty of owls in the past so I’m hoping one of these is from a cooler bird LOL

Thanks!

Hi there! I know nothing about foraging mushrooms but I found this little beauty on a walk in the woods where I live. My girlfriend was in disbelief when I told her I didn’t harvest it - I guess they’re uncommon? I think I might head back and take it, but I just had a couple questions if anyone would be willing to answer them! Thanks in advance :)

• Is this a true morel? How do I know for sure?
• If I pull/cut it, will that damage the mycelium network underneath? The main reason I didn’t take it is because I’m nervous that I’ll kill the rest of it/it’ll never regrow etc etc
• If I do take it, is there a way for me to try and “replant” some spores in the forest before I eat it? I know they grow under very specific conditions and there’s no guarantees, but if I could have the chance of growing more of these on my property then that would be cool haha.

Sorry for all the silly questions - as I said, I’m totally unfamiliar with mushrooms. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!