Would be nicer with a photo where you can actually see the leaves in detail. They are really beautiful plants :)

Wow, never heard of Gnetum until now. Incrediblethat it is in the Gymnosperms while looking so much like an Angiosperm :O

Yeah, I’m pretty sure you’re right. But what is new to me is that they apparently molt only halfway?

I mean, these are leaf beetles, so you would probably only need their host plant(s) and a controlled environment. But there are 3000 species in this subfamily that all look different. If you are talking about this specific beetle here, it is probably Stolas imperialis, which is a Brazilian species. So you would need to have access to this beetle first, probably deal with very strict export/import regulations and then also do the same for the beetle’s host plant(s). And then you have to probably have to figure out there life history, e.g. what they need to reproduce, where they lay there eggs and a ton of experimentation more…

What has discipline got to do with it? I feel it’s pretty independent or may even get in the way of learning. If you force (discipline) yourself to learn something, it will feel much harder than if you do it out of joy. But maybe I didn’t fully understand what you were saying.

Who parsed the text in the description? There are several mistakes that totally change the meaning of these. Bats impacted by pigeons and not alcohol, no mention of pasta sauce etc…

It was more of a rhetorical question ;)

Are the straights alright? Why not just plan a date together?

That’s not totally untrue. Iirc the first cat memes were postcards people send each other at the beginning of the last century. I guess the difference is that postcards and letters only reach a single address, tweets can reach many people at once

For more info: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240923-100-year-old-cat-memes-that-predate-the-internet?_bhlid=1c058316a20fc3e97842651e2c5adcfa06ced996