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Making wild dolmas this evening with my sweetie with Basswood (Tilia americana) leaves I harvested today. The leaves are the perfect substitute for grape leaves and make a delicious dolma. The filling here is onion, garlic, jasmine rice, yellow split peas, tarragon, dill, parsley, basil, cilantro, mint, dandelion greens, golden raisins, lemon, black locust flower, salt and pepper. Covered in olive oil and ready to eat tomorrow!
I often hear that house centipedes have “too many legs” from people who aren’t as fond of all the Appendage as I am.
however, did you know that they aren’t born with all those legs?
this little bug nugget is an hours-old baby house centipede, with only 4 legs to her name!
as she grows, she’ll add a pair or two each time she molts her exoskeleton, until she reaches 15 pairs in the sequence 4-5-7-9-11-13-15. the purple capsule at her butt is a legless segment where the new ones will come in when they’re ready!
house centipedes can grow all their legs in just one summer, but will probably not be sexually mature for another year or two. since they keep slowly molting and growing after adulthood, some of the huge, ancient ones you see might be over 5 years old—what secrets the elder basement fairies must know, gleaned from cobwebs and crevices
oh, and if you were curious, here are some Scutigera coleoptrata eggs! unlike giant centipedes and soil centipedes, house centipedes mothers don’t provide their offspring with any special care other than tucking them singly in the soil where they’ll remain hidden (I’d gathered these to incubate).
a few of the giant Asian scutigeromorphs have bright pink eggs, which is something I’d love to see!
it is so so so ludicrous that every single job that matters is understaffed to the absolute limit and underpaid with insane hours. all of the jobs DOING anything are inhospitable to human life it is despicable
i miss that little bit of time where neuralblender was free to use and also so weird. i kind of had made friends with the hyperion blend mode. she was weird and a little confused about where things went but whenever i asked for something to be happy she would make it baby pink and sunshine yellow and pretty bright teal
i miss u
i love STONE FRUITS thank you stone fruits i love you forever
the thing is this dashboard change isnt the end of the world ill get used to it whatever im just fucking dying of embarrassment that its supposed to look like twitter
twitter gets run over by a bus and the next day tumblr comes 2 school wearing her clothes like. oh my god come on
