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That would have been a much better post title!

What an absolute beast!

I wonder if they'd nibble on a human?

Great post 👍 those photos of the sparrow are really something.....

Cheers!

I'll look forward to the giant dragonflies stealing my sandwiches instead of seagulls, if I'm not an irradiated husk of carbon by then....

This is the mad thing, autism and ADHD must have an advantage otherwise it wouldn't be showing up in people today, and also if humans have selectively bred herding dogs for hyper focus, being less socially inclined etc these are useful/desirable qualities (and hereditary too, fuck Andrew Wakefield for the MMR nonsense)

Whenever I go out into the countryside or even just a park, if there's an interesting bug/beetle hidden in the grass I'll find it. I can scan for visual differences very quickly (colour, texture, shiny surface, movement, a faint noise out of place) these things would have been useful from a hunter gatherer point of view....it's just a massive shame that the modern world is not made for autistic/ADHD people

Sorry for any word salad, but this is a topic (special interest, no less) that really interests me, and thanks for the information!

Your studies are more important right now, and I'll look forward to when you start to post again 👍

This came up when I posted it to awwnverts, and I did a bit of looking...

The info I found stated that indigenous Maori did and still eat a grub called huhu, but it mentions nothing about weta....so I'd imagine they're probably inedible, (lets face it if anything tastes good, or even 'tastes like shit, but you can live off it' us humans will add it to our diets, especially in leaner times)

Huhu are still eaten by some Māori today, especially the inland, bush iwi and hapū. They are prised from rotting logs and have a buttery-chicken taste.

They've also put it in a pump bottle rather than the usual glass droppers which will please a few people, no doubt

I generally use tret, but it's always good to know that if my supply dries up there's alternatives....

Any idea why NIOD don't have a retinol product like The Ordinary? I know you can mix and match it's just struck me as something missing from their lineup especially considering as NIOD is a step up in potency (and price)

Brilliant! I'm looking forward to reading your post

Totally cute, definitely!

That was an amazing read! Thanks for writing and sharing it. Two things that struck me are

PTSD has been documented in canines who served in the military. [1] Additionally, it is believed that dogs are capable of suffering from autism

I'm on the spectrum so the fact that dogs can be autistic is really interesting, and it's unsurprising about the PTSD, given the fact that they can have really bad anxiety and trauma if they experience their owner dying

You have a fascinating blog which I'm going to bookmark and explore, cheers for the share!

I honestly thought I was looking at one of the 'less accurate' attempts at taxidermy while scrolling..... 🤣