What are y’all interested in?
de-fi
Bonnie Raitt 💖
House music, graffiti, free will vs determanalism, sneakers, why the debate on addiction is behavioral vs a brain disease, why is the speed of light and the size of the universe so far out of scale for human conception, cats, perspectives and how they shift in some but not others, is reality linear or dynamic, ego and ego death.
I'm actually intersted mostly your inspiration in such a question.
@Saysoh ~ I hope we can hang out someday... 😁
OP... hrm...?? My interest, primarily (like right this second), is in falling asleep!! And figuring out the why-for-how-come it often doesn't want to hang out with me on my terms, or at least compromise with me. Instead it just waltzes in all willy-nilly in the middle of the day, when there's stuff to be done, and makes itself at home. So rude!!
That’s an incredibly vague question. 💁🏽♀️
I'm interested in just about everything. This is evidenced by my bookcase which is full to overflowing and the excess books are working their way across my living room. The only things I am not interested in are Hollywood celebrities and the mating habits of the tsetse fly.
Amen, Bonnie Raitt 😁
Oh great, thank you @UKGuy, now I have to go and look up the mating habits of the tsetse fly. 🙄
I myself have never mated with tsetse fly, but I have been bitten by a few. It feels a little bit like being bitten by a staple remover.
Edit: that was harder to look up than I expected. Anyway turns out it is Quite Interesting.
Tsetse flies have developed an array of hard-to-believe adaptations. For example, they suckle their young in a uterus, and they give birth to live young. The phenomenon is called adenotrophic viviparity, or “gland fed, live birth.” The vast majority of insects do not show this behavior, but it is the preferred mode for all of the species in Hippoboscoidea, the superfamily to which tsetse flies belong.
A female tsetse mates once in her lifetime, on or near a target species, but she’s pregnant for her entire life, which lasts about four months. Males initiate mating when they sense a pheromone on the female’s body. The mating lasts for up to two hours. Tseste flies have two ovaries and each holds two ovarioles where eggs are developed. Sperm from the male are stored in a structure called a spermatheca in the female and kept alive there.
https://entomologytoday.org/2016/09/19/tsetse-flies-are-strange-and-dangerous-insects/
Second edit: found a video
@CuddleDuncan Fascinating! The tsetse fly lives for four months and their mating session lasts two hours, which is like a human who lives to 80 years old having a mating session that lasts 480 hours. 😂
Fascinating...