Species Connect | limulus | Activity https://speciesconnect.com/members/limulus/activity/ Activity feed for limulus. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:47:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 2ec85e8f5b6d99d2a236ef8e5d7c753f limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624998 Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:28:42 -0400 From sicence.org :
World’s oldest chocolate was made 5300 years ago in a South American rainforest.
Ancient pots shift the nexus of chocolate making from Central America to modern Ecuador

]]> 0 b42b1bf6c1f0f35f44d081aac76daaea limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624899 Sat, 24 Sep 2022 17:28:17 -0400 Ants also pollinate. Proformica longiseta ant pollinating a dwarf cushion plant Arenaria tetraquetra in the Baetic Ranges, Southern Iberia.
Observation and image by Carlos Herrera TW: @cmhmaliani . Follow him […]

]]> 0 61150eae13c93bc9ff92c81481f8ed4b limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624283 Thu, 26 May 2022 20:01:14 -0400 Apopo.org Save Lives By Training Giant Pouched Rats (Cricetomys ansorgei) To Rid The World Of Landmines And Tuberculosis.
#Domestication #Mutualism #Interspecies

]]> 0 74e899bfd298cede9babe3f3636a7a26 limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624280 Thu, 26 May 2022 19:43:00 -0400 On the Origin of a Novel Parasitic-Feeding Mode within Suspension-Feeding Barnacles.
The barnacle Anelasma squalicola is a parasite of the velvet belly lantern shark.
It extracts nutrition from the host via […]

]]> 0 f6335a702097a9c4bf510e8e199213f9 limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624180 Fri, 13 May 2022 15:20:08 -0400 Rose-breasted Grosbeak male eating Succulent Oak Gall Wasps.
Shared in TW by Against forced-birth @backyardbeyond

]]> 0 27605b348f4e24c31ae8523a1d851229 limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624063 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:22:19 -0400 Great ink painting/drawing of peach leaf curl disease caused by Taphrina deformans.
Art from Helen Pennington TW @hgpennington

]]> 0 aa1330ff3f3d3d55f801d3fa893538b0 limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623778 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:08:54 -0400 Two pigs fought off a black bear in Connecticut that hopped over their enclosure and began attacking. CBS evening news

]]> 0 64a28f7c514ec86b207bef4fb7d30408 limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623721 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:11:12 -0500 This bumble bee is stealing nectar and not pollinating the plant. Great observation by TW: @cfe_FLOWerLab

]]> 0 83725d0369423f241faf87eb1ab6303f limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623693 Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:30:35 -0500 Mussel fish parasitism. Some mussels use lures that mimic worms and other fish food to spray their larvae on the fish using them as offspring protection and dispersal.

]]> 0 6f8bdc75a1aec457903f38f93b08914f limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623573 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 20:11:18 -0500 Larvae from a parasitoid wasp emerging from a Peacock butterfly caterpillar. Parasitoid wasps include some very large groups, some estimates giving the Chalcidoidea as many as 500,000 species, the Ichneumonidae […]

]]> 0 38fef835581ba36ea8024eed785fbc91 limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623288 Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:52:53 -0500 This flower seems to have many parasitic insects

]]> 0 6db159c7bf515f47d261c050f538997f limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623242 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:29:25 -0500 Here’s What Fruits And Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them. Great examples of the changes that we made to our food by selecting breeding over thousands of years. Genetically modified foods inspire […]

]]> 0 d1cd2d77e7cfe7cf3382c242eacc47de limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623202 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:25:45 -0500 Azteca ants repair damage to their Cecropia host plants. Some Azteca ants are well-known symbionts that defend their Cecropia host plants against herbivory. The authors demonstrate that ants repair damage to the […]

]]> 0 95718c6ce5cd8bc248a42d54a62cd236 limulus wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623185 Sun, 02 Jan 2022 20:09:56 -0500 Parasitellus mites are obligate kleptoparasites of bumblebees and eat their food such as pollen. Nymphs hitchhike in their period of diapause.

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