2026-07-31 19:00 UTC
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@ophis@brain.worm.pink 2026-07-31 19:08
@alexwild@mastodon.online https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-5/
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@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca 2026-07-31 19:17
@alexwild@mastodon.online the North American "Indians" of the ant world. I wonder what the ants call themselves.
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@ngons@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-31 19:40
@alexwild@mastodon.online idk, i feel plenty of us don’t always live up to sapiens
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@sbourne@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 19:56
@alexwild@mastodon.online Maybe it's because her thorax looks like a cube?
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@smfr@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 19:57
@alexwild@mastodon.online At least we have scientific na…oh wait
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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-07-31 20:01
@alexwild@mastodon.online I once thought that all of these things had to be written down, well organized, somewhere. But instead I keep finding rabbit holes. Today's mystery? Why does this chart say Camponotus planatus is from Cuba, but iNaturalist says it's introduced there? https://antwiki.org/wiki/Camponotus_Species_by_Subgenus I will add the "Cuban Polyrhachis" to my list of confusing things about the natural history of ants.
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@markwyner@mas.to 2026-07-31 21:10
@alexwild@mastodon.online wow. That’s a gorgeous insect.
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@nshr@hhsocial.de 2026-07-31 21:47
@alexwild@mastodon.online Imagine your species name is a mistake. The Homo Sapiens. Thought to be knowing. Turns out it does not. Edit: @ngons@mathstodon.xyz had the same idea. Only quicker.
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@WorldTravelerAll7@mastodon.world 2026-08-01 00:42
@alexwild@mastodon.online wait...it lives in South Africa because of a labelling error? that seems unfair. i think it should be allowed to live in Cuba. plus, Cuba doesn't have any Polyrhachis ants, so it's a win/win. not to mention, the South African ants are now going to think they're colonizers
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@ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social 2026-08-01 11:50
@alexwild@mastodon.online Asclepias syriaca, Common Milkweed, has nothing to do with Syria and never did. Linnaeus can be forgiven for doing the best he could with new world species, I suppose.
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@AinsleyLowbeer@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 22:01
@alexwild@mastodon.online Cuba also doesn't have any oil or economy, so that tracks.