Loving all the animal facts in here!!!

Here's a few more.

-Birds are reptiles and even more fun and specific, they are dinosaurs. So those dinosaur chicken nuggets? Technically made from actual dinosaurs, since chickens are dinosaurs. Just in the shape of other non-chicken dinosaurs.

-Related to that, crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards & snakes.

-Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are the largest family of spiders in number of species. There are over 6,000 species of Salticids across the world! This is about 13% of spider species. And they're all super cute!

-Salticids also have the best vision among spiders (most of them have very poor vision).

-Dragonflies are the most successful predators (95% success rate catching prey).

-Horseshoe crabs are not crabs, they aren't even crustaceans. They are chelicerates, and more specifically, may even be arachnids!

-Similarly to the birds are reptiles thing, insects may very well be crustaceans!

-"Daddy longlegs" is a very confusing common name for wildlife because it is applied to many different things, largely depending on region. It can refer to the order Opiliones (harvestmen), the family Pholcidae (cellar spiders), the family Tipulidae (crane flies), or three different species of plants (Caladenia filamentosa, Stylidium divaricatum, Brassavola cucullata).

-Scientifically, "bug" refers exclusively to insects in the order Hemiptera.

-only female mosquitoes bite, specifically only gravid ones (gravid = pregnant for egg laying animals). They feed on blood to provide nutrients to the eggs. This is also not something every species does, and otherwise these animals are eating nectar (males obviously only ever eat this as they have no need for blood).

-Honeybees are not native to the US. They are livestock animals introduced for agricultural purposes, and often have negative effects of native bees, sometimes out competing them. "Save the bees" is something we should be focusing on for sure, but on native bees, not on these invasive ones.

-Wolf spider (family Lycosidae) mothers carry around their egg sacs while the eggs are developing. After they hatch, the spiderlings (also can be shortened to "slings") ride around on their mom's abdomen until they are old enough to go off on their own! Wolf spiders are the only family of spiders to do this sort of thing.

I know a lot of these are arthropod focused, but I want to be an entomologist someday, and as a result, tend to fill my brain with much more arthropod facts compared to other animals.

Edit - wait wait one more!

-"Fish" is not one group. If one were to make a monophyletic group containing each group we call "fish", it would just include all vertebrates.

Welcome back!!!!

I have her, she's a fun pony. I wouldn't mind getting an upgrade eventually though because the ribbons in her tail have been cut, and I love that gimmick of hers.

So happy to see their real stock photos! I hope there will be more places to order them from online besides Amazon.

Plasticizer leakage is definitely annoying, though it's toward the bottom of my list of flaws I care about since it's not cosmetic at all (aside from when it happens to Divine Shine G3s). Since all the ponies who go through it will eventually anyway I don't really bother separating my sticky ponies from my non-sticky ones, either. They're gonna do it eventually, might as well get it over with, right?

She's so funny! I want her, but I wish she was cheaper haha.

I love concerts! I still don't drive yet so my dad always takes me to them. I want to try to start learning to drive later this year (like around October or so) so hopefully then I won't need to rely on him to be able to go to them.

I think this these are all the ones I've been to:

-Roger Waters (performing The Wall, May 24th, 2012)
-Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band (July 14th, 2012)
-Paul McCartney (July 19th, 2013, tbh what I remember most from this is tripping on the sidewalk of Seattle and scraping my legs really badly on the way to the venue....)
-Ninja Sex Party (September 26th, 2017)
-Protest The Hero (opening acts Thank You Scientist and Closure in Moscow, April 2nd, 2018)
-Thank You Scientist (opening acts In The Presence of Wolves, Kindo, & Black Sun Moon, May 1st 2019)
-Babymetal (opening act The Hu, October 16th, 2019)
-Between the Buried and Me (August 27th, 2021)
-King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Opening act Leah Senior, October 6th, 2022)

As far as who I'd like to see..... I guess just anybody I'm actively listening to right now. At the moment I'm really wanting to see Devin Townsend, an artist I just got into a couple months ago. I heard that he's said he will be doing an NA tour this summer, but it's not officially announced with dates and cities yet or anything. Once it is I guess I'll have to beg my dad to let me buy tickets.

now concerts are way too expensive...  and I despise the Ticketmaster system... I used to wait in line in-person but they eliminated that method pretty much...

Ahhh yeah Ticketmaster sucks. I hope their downfall comes sooner rather than later. I think I've only had to go through them once myself thankfully (at least for shows I've gone to since working and making my own money, the first three shows I went to were when I was still in grade school and thus didn't have a job, my dad paid entirely for those ones,wouldn't be surprised if those had been through Ticketmaster considering they're such big names).