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  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.onetoScience Memes@mander.xyzI'm doing my part
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    18 days ago

    Given that you are asking in a thread that is the subject of fireflies, we are going to assume you are asking for suggestions to improve firefly accommodations.

    In this regard, do not ever clean your yard of any loose leaf vegetation or damp rotting vegetation and it will attract fireflies. Do not remove the weeds unless you can positively identify they are harmful to people, or are invasive non-indigenous. Go to nearby privately owned plant nurseries and ask them for native species for your garden. They will be significantly more expensive to purchase from, and will likely be less aesthetically pleasing plants.

    If you don’t care about insects, and are asking simply to project to us a fake progressive personality, then resume decorating your yard with non-native invasive species from your local commercial/franchise garden center, from what it sounds you are currently doing.



  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.onetoScience Memes@mander.xyzI'm not okay.
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    19 days ago

    It’s likely because of the recent storms causing damp leaf and damp vegetation clutter, which is what they like to hide in during the day, where they lay eggs, and where they live.

    You clearing your yard of all the leaves into non-biodegradable plastic bags into the dumpster and having an ugly as fuck monoculture grass lawn isn’t helping these insects recover from being at risk of going extinct.








  • There is a species of slug (Limax maximus) that fuck by sword fighting each other using their barbed slug cocks, all while hanging from a singular strand of mucus where death below awaits them. Often after fucking, one of them chews the dick off the other in order to get unstuck because either one or both penises have succeeded in stabbing the other to inject their semen.

    Many species of mantis and arachnids (Dolomedes tenebrosus) have the enormous females eat the males alive while they are still copulating.

    There is also a species of






  • I just JBOD a bunch of random sized disks in various forms of enclosures (a 4-bay cheap piece of Chinese shit filled with 4 random sized HDDs harvested from dead PCs, a couple of USB-3 external laptop drives, two random sized SSDs in their own enclosures harvested from dead laptops) within a linux LVM using WSL2 to host all the drives using a VM of Debian running on a Windows PC.

    I think I’ve kludged together approximately 20 Tb of total disk space, and all i need to do to enable Striped RAID on it all is wait for a refurbished single enormous NAS drive to go on sale on Amazon and enable RAID on the LVM as a separate volume.