Any beekeepers on /an/?
I am hunting for a career that an anxious sperg like me will enjoy. Beekeeping has been brought up a few times and from afar it seems like a very good pathway. I've been considering visiting a local club to get introduced to the craft.
Any advice? I live in the suburbs which may make finding room for hives a hassle.
>>2453680
I'll give you a bump OP. We had a beekeeping general up last week that was really good, maybe some of the guys will see this thread.
>>2453680
The only money to be made keeping bees is to do polination work, which is a pain in the ass.
The honey market is flooded with cheap mixed shit from China.
Look at my dog.
>>2453601
"That isn't a dog" It is a cat.
>>2453601
Pretty S M A S H E D there bro
What line is he? Toadagi x mini crimeboss?
>>2453601
ur dog has autismXDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Given this bag of peppers from a co-worker, rip me
>>2453490
plant them!
>>2453490
eat them!
shove one in pooper
Hey /an/, thinking about getting my first snake. I'm torn between the ball python and the corn. I want the ball because of its weight and girth, and its chill nature when handled, I want the corn because of its energy and lack of feeding issues and strict habitat standards
Any personal experiences with one or other?
>>2453412
Getting a ball python is one of the best decisions of my life. Once you get the habitat set up and get the temperature and humidity right, it's super easy and fun. 10/10 would recommend
get neither and join the hognose masterrace instead
>>2453767
This
Best of both worlds
There's been a mouse in my house for a while and my cat finally found it. But it ran under my fridge and won't come out, what can i do to get it out, /an/?
>>2453386
put the cat under there
>>2453386
keep the cat away for a little while
put some peanut butter out near the fridge
let cat out while mouse eats
>>2453386
cute cat OP
>The ads have been trying to persuade me not to kill house centipedes on sight for the past few months
>the ads probably key off of my extreme hatred of house centipedes to some extent
It's like marketers think that they can overturn millions of years of evolutionary programming. The absolute worst thing that they could have done in the course of making their point, was to /actually post a picture of the animal/. I will always kill house centipedes on sight, and so should you, /an/. I don't give a good-god-damn what insects they kill - and neither should you.
If there were a single animal species on this earth that I could cause to go extinct, it would be the house centipede.
Always, ALWAYS squish house centipedes, and take a perverse satisfaction from seeing their many limbs twitch while their trunk is just a pile of goo.
Did a centipede crawl into your bunghole when you were a baby or something,anon?
>>2453375
It is not necessary for me to provide some triggering event from my youth to justify my rightful opinion, anon. Look at it.
LOOK AT IT.
If you cannot see a thing worth destroying, then that in and of itself shows that you are a deficient human being, with a deficient moral and aesthetic sense.
>>2453372
I, too, was in despair
Any ideas what kind of spider this is? It's a little smaller than a quarter and not very fast. I keep finding them under my bed and under my covers. I know it's kind of a garbage picture, and the jar I grabbed it in was too warped to see details.
I should also note I live in Georgia.
Gnaphosid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_spider
Or maybe Metaltella simoni. They're known sexual assailants.
>>2453356
That does look very similar. There's a new one every couple of days so I was just making sure it wasn't a dark brown recluse or something...
>>2453365
Just look for the violin on their cephalothorax. They're rarely very dark in color too, especially not the ones you'd find in Georgia.
I'm sitting at a coffee shop in California and an insect flew onto my table I've never seen before. Can anyone help me identify? I have a couple more photos I'll post
2/3
3/3
>>2453218
some kind of leafhopper. they are related with cicadas
https://www.nature.com/news/the-sparrow-with-four-sexes-1.21018
How is this different from the development of a subspecies? If tan-white pairings become the only viable thing, won't they eventually produce some sort of "hybrid" offspring that can only mate with the hybrid "subspecies"?
Or... just evolution? New species forms, old species becomes unable to mate? Dies off?
>>2453204
A subspecies is geographically separated from other subspecies within a species and generally breeds with its own subspecies more often than with other subspecies. When you get a subspecies it usually indicates some form of genetic drift where one population or more is slowly evolving in a different way from other populations. In this case both color morphs occur together throughout the entire range and they ONLY breed with each other.
There's no hybrid offspring because the chromosomes align to produce birds that are only tan and birds that are only white--nothing in-between. That's why they were saying it's like a second set of sex chromosomes.
That said, this article dumbs it down pretty hard. There's a lot of variation within the colors related to age and sex, and it doesn't going into any of the science in their studies. It's more of a human-interest story than a science story.
>>2453319
>It's more of a human-interest story than a science story.
Pretty much. Reading it I could already see it being passed around SJW and tranny social media circles as if this odd and poorly understood mutation and sexual selection process in one location in a non-human species gives them some sort of cover for cutting their own dicks off and pretending to prance about in the form of a little girl.
He's 10 years old and i don't know what his parents look like.
Clearer pics would help
looks like a cat
I'm pretty sure that's a Norwegian Forest Cat.
found a bunch of theses mothafuckas in my garden; they're killing a lot of my plants (mostly flowers), does anybody know what animal is this and how do I kill them without damaging the plants?
>>2453098
aphid larva
>>2453121
actually these are probably syrphid larvae
>>2453121
>aphid larva
This isn't even a thing, what the fuck?
Hey /an/ I'm a map nerd who also happens to like animals and nature. I am looking for some help collecting some cool animal related maps. I know /an/ can help. Infographs are very welcome as well. thanks in advance.
>>2452943
>the dragon
>tfw have plastic nailed to that fucking tree
>>2452943
What do you mean Animal related maps? Like animal named areas? Maps with animals on it?
>>2453323
Bird migratory flight patterns would be nice, endangered animals regions, things like that.
My lasius niger queen's first workers have arrived in the test tube, and I soon have to home them to a permanent living space.
Would building something like suffice?
I have no prior experience with ant keeping, so any tutorial on how and what to build would be most welcome.
It'll last about 3 before they eat through the plastic to expand their territory. They're seriously territorial and once they get out and perceive something as their territory, they'll destroy anything that lays foot there.
So will something like that suffice? That's for you to decide.
>>2452834
I could do it in a glass tank too, I haven't bought any materials yet.
>>2452837
Glass would be better, but they'll eventually gnaw through the glass as well. It depends on how much of a cruel bitch the queen is. She tells everyone what to do in the hive, and she knows damn well how hard it is to chew through plastic or glass. Basically 40-50% of queens are sadists, if you are lucky you won't get a sadistic queen and you'll never have to worry about it at all
Found a small tank while clearing out my old room. I used this many years ago as a temporary tank for my fish while I cleaned my main one, but that has been lost to the ages and I am left with just this one.
What could I put in it, that won't feel constricted or cramped?
Sizes are:
L 25cm
W 13cm
H 23cm
your dick
>>2452679
What should I feed it?
>>2452677
vernal pool crustceans.
you can check out places like arizona fairy shrimp for egg packs - kind of like sea monkeys but murkier but with more variety.
You guys wanna post a wallpaper size/quality picture of an elephant shrew for me?
These are the best I could find.
>>2452618
>>2452619
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