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Look, Problems Disorder is no joke, all right? Trust me, I’m a doctor.

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@fireinmywoods‘ tags on this made me nearly need doctoring for Symptoms Syndrome after aspirating my tea:

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Anyone who draws me Bones’ medical review with Drs. Bearington, Snuggles and Fuzzbutt gets a poem, parody, joke or meta of your choice. I’m dying here. Dying as I lived: laughing about Star Trek.

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The future Dr. Leonard McCoy, consulting with his award winning medical board  on the treatment plan of one Bear Necessities, who had an Unfortunate Incident with the neighbors cat.

The decided treatment was multiple holographic band aids and a strict regimen of cookies antibiotics. They’re expected to make a full recovery.

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This is unbearably adorable!!! So good! I love it! Name your price.

I think it’s very sweet and kind that you’ve given Bones the benefit of the doubt by drawing him as a small child here. I’m pretty sure we were much less charitably envisioning him as a full-grown adult, hosting his own stuffed-animal “review” sometime after the events of Into Darkness, probably under the influence of a heck of a lot of bourbon.

…bearbon? 

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star trek star trek aos leonard mccoy jim kirk star trek into darkness mckirk bones mccoy captain kirk dr. bearington fireinmywoods @fireinmywoods i most humbly apologize for this UTTER ABOMINATION it's almost 3am here as i made it my basketball team just suffered a heartbreaking game 5 loss what can i say i might be the only person who finds this funny at all but i'm cackling at my own post so
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#1139 - Akanthomyces sp. - Entomopathogenic Fungus

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Jolita Burneikis found this on a Kurrajong at Captain Creek, Queensland. Not surprisingly, she was a bit baffled as to what it might be, since it wasn’t entirely clear if it was animal or vegetable.

It’s neither - it’s a large hawk moth that’s fallen victim to a parasitoid fungus.

Akanthomyces is an anamorph of Cordyceps - a form taken by that notorious organism when it has parasitised hawk moths, spiders, and certain other hosts. If it has sprouted from another host - or even from a caterpillar - the fungus might look completely different, and be described as a different species. Genetic studies have also split off some the Cordycipitaceae into a new family, the Ophiocordicipitaceae.

That confusion aside, there’s some 400 species of Cordyceps and related fungi, mostly in tropical areas. The majority infect invertebrates, but a few infect other fungi. Some are infamous for their ability to control the host. The Ophiocordyceps unilateralis species complex, for example, infects ants who will climb up and clamp their jaws to the underside mid-vein of a leaf, and promptly die. The the fungus will sprout from the neck of the ant, at just the right height and humidity to spread the spores over any other ants that might be crawling around below. It seems as though the ascospores hatch as soon as they find themselves in a host’s throat, punch out through the pharynx walls and into the brain, and start taking over its behaviour.

In the case of the moth in the photos, the unfortunate moth settled into a resting position, got a good grip, and died. The fungus promptly consumed the wings and all internal tissue, and sprouted from every chink in her exoskeleton.

I’ve found another Cordyceps, years ago - a vegetable caterpillar. These burrowing caterpillars sprout a long club-like growth from their heads after infection. I’m not sure how the fungus manages to infect a caterpillar that spends its life underground - perhaps the spores infect the caterpillars after they hatch, and before they burrow, and the infection stays with the caterpillar in the months or years until it’s ready to pupate, and only then takes control.

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Anonymous asked:

One thing I loved about summer in Germany were all the cool outdoor swimming pools. Like the Waldbad style? So nice. Had a great time.

willkommen-in-germany answered:

Aww, yes, they’re nice. I practically lived in them in summer as a kid. Would ride my bike there with friends at 10 in the morning and stay till 6 pm when it was time to go home for dinner. We did this from about 8 years old to 15. For those who don’t know, many German outdoor pools have all kinds of other things on site, like tennis courts, football fields, volleyball, snack bars, kiosks with ice cream, candy etc. and giant chess games, so you could spend all day there. Swimming pool tag here. It’s the season again now. :)

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