i feel similarly about eusocial insects and redwood groves but lack a different word
October 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
i feel similarly about eusocial insects and redwood groves but lack a different word
The human-LLM relationship is eusocial and I am their queen
October 15, 2026 at 10:54 PM
The human-LLM relationship is eusocial and I am their queen
Babylon but the Babylonians are giant monochromatic eusocial stomatopods
October 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Babylon but the Babylonians are giant monochromatic eusocial stomatopods
In #AnimalMicrobiome
Gut microbiome mediates an evolutionarily conserved social behavior in eusocial insects
Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.1186/s42523-026-00560-x
Gut microbiome mediates an evolutionarily conserved social behavior in eusocial insects
Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.1186/s42523-026-00560-x
October 15, 2026 at 8:53 AM
In #AnimalMicrobiome
Gut microbiome mediates an evolutionarily conserved social behavior in eusocial insects
Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.1186/s42523-026-00560-x
Gut microbiome mediates an evolutionarily conserved social behavior in eusocial insects
Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.1186/s42523-026-00560-x
[!]: There should be more bug-themed drone #TF, imo. I mean, eusocial insects pretty much already operate under IRL drone rules, so you’d think they’d make a more common pairing.
#TFSky #Transformation #Transfur #Dronification
#TFSky #Transformation #Transfur #Dronification
October 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
[!]: There should be more bug-themed drone #TF, imo. I mean, eusocial insects pretty much already operate under IRL drone rules, so you’d think they’d make a more common pairing.
#TFSky #Transformation #Transfur #Dronification
#TFSky #Transformation #Transfur #Dronification
#bugtober #bugtober2026
Day 13: Colony!
today I bring you anelosimus eximius, a species of social spider! they do not have defined castes and so are not considered eusocial, but they do live in large colonies that care for each other's young, and cooperate in prey capture and food sharing
Day 13: Colony!
today I bring you anelosimus eximius, a species of social spider! they do not have defined castes and so are not considered eusocial, but they do live in large colonies that care for each other's young, and cooperate in prey capture and food sharing
October 14, 2026 at 2:51 AM
#bugtober #bugtober2026
Day 13: Colony!
today I bring you anelosimus eximius, a species of social spider! they do not have defined castes and so are not considered eusocial, but they do live in large colonies that care for each other's young, and cooperate in prey capture and food sharing
Day 13: Colony!
today I bring you anelosimus eximius, a species of social spider! they do not have defined castes and so are not considered eusocial, but they do live in large colonies that care for each other's young, and cooperate in prey capture and food sharing
My fear of eusocial insects and their power vindicated as totally rational actually
Ants have been waging a cataclysmic world war for the past few centuries
The Sun Never Sets on the Ant Empire
A community for UC San Diego biology students
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October 15, 2026 at 6:29 PM
My fear of eusocial insects and their power vindicated as totally rational actually
I suspect that the 'biological decision' is that they have been 'unsexed' for the purposes of the eusocial reproductive structure - but agree this stuff is wierd and wierder and wierder the closer you get. Plus biology doesn't care too much for neat conceptual boundaries. All granted.
October 15, 2026 at 9:47 AM
I suspect that the 'biological decision' is that they have been 'unsexed' for the purposes of the eusocial reproductive structure - but agree this stuff is wierd and wierder and wierder the closer you get. Plus biology doesn't care too much for neat conceptual boundaries. All granted.
Like theres an insectoid eusocial military state, unethical lab experiments, there's deep seated childhood friendship, there's push/pull romance, there's WORLD-BUILDING and ORIGINAL SPECIES lore and culture. Its stupidly in depth and I need to YAP.
October 12, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Like theres an insectoid eusocial military state, unethical lab experiments, there's deep seated childhood friendship, there's push/pull romance, there's WORLD-BUILDING and ORIGINAL SPECIES lore and culture. Its stupidly in depth and I need to YAP.
I bet the FRIEND Cat(?) colony is eusocial like nekkid mole rats.
October 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I bet the FRIEND Cat(?) colony is eusocial like nekkid mole rats.
i could soapbox about eusocial animals like termites and particularly, termite-raiding ants having germ theory and triage systems that they ardently abide by (even when attempted to be disrupted by external application of pheromones that communicate different signals) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dL...
October 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
i could soapbox about eusocial animals like termites and particularly, termite-raiding ants having germ theory and triage systems that they ardently abide by (even when attempted to be disrupted by external application of pheromones that communicate different signals) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dL...
New paper in @plos.org Computational Biology highlights the importance "of apparently 'lazy' individuals in eusocial societies" and suggests "that they contribute to colony resilience rather than representing inefficiency" 🧪🐝
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🔓
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🔓
October 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
New paper in @plos.org Computational Biology highlights the importance "of apparently 'lazy' individuals in eusocial societies" and suggests "that they contribute to colony resilience rather than representing inefficiency" 🧪🐝
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🔓
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🔓
iirc the accepted theory for the development of eusocial insects specifically is: if you're all sisters, helping each other out DOES pass on your genes, even if you only share some of them. not hard to look at this and extend it to realize that community is a protective strategy as a whole!!
October 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
iirc the accepted theory for the development of eusocial insects specifically is: if you're all sisters, helping each other out DOES pass on your genes, even if you only share some of them. not hard to look at this and extend it to realize that community is a protective strategy as a whole!!
Yet when an actual raid falls apart people get extremely angry. And no hive mind is an actual thing. Eusocial animals actually have hive minds. How do you think ants and bees form coordinated swarms. They communicate view a unique type of intelligence via chemical pathways and behavior.
October 12, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Yet when an actual raid falls apart people get extremely angry. And no hive mind is an actual thing. Eusocial animals actually have hive minds. How do you think ants and bees form coordinated swarms. They communicate view a unique type of intelligence via chemical pathways and behavior.
oh absolutely, insects (eusocial especially) are suuuper cool to look at with this in mind. I did a research project once in my undergrad looking at rates of asexual vs sexual reproduction in a species that could *theoretically* have a way to chose between them. lots of cool strategies in nature!!
October 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
oh absolutely, insects (eusocial especially) are suuuper cool to look at with this in mind. I did a research project once in my undergrad looking at rates of asexual vs sexual reproduction in a species that could *theoretically* have a way to chose between them. lots of cool strategies in nature!!
So students of Christianity, like the Church clergy who chose Mathias as her focus ... of beatification in ... lifelong study, had pointed out teaching at a Christian Children Students Camp: that Paul was not an original disciple--Peter--Mathias "bees", to gamble eusocial. A probability: drawn lots.
October 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
So students of Christianity, like the Church clergy who chose Mathias as her focus ... of beatification in ... lifelong study, had pointed out teaching at a Christian Children Students Camp: that Paul was not an original disciple--Peter--Mathias "bees", to gamble eusocial. A probability: drawn lots.
Regulated apoptosis is a conserved mechanism pausing female reproduction and contributes to establishing the sterile worker caste in the eusocial wasp, Polistes
#Drosophila
#Drosophila
Regulated apoptosis is a conserved mechanism pausing female reproduction and contributes to establishing the sterile worker caste in the eusocial wasp, Polistes
#Drosophila
PubMed link
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 9, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Regulated apoptosis is a conserved mechanism pausing female reproduction and contributes to establishing the sterile worker caste in the eusocial wasp, Polistes
#Drosophila
#Drosophila
Sans sin! Redeemed?
Or no longer human beings?
Sin is redemption. Senryū
#Poem #Poetry #μvers #micropoetry #Original #Sin #Evolved #eusocial #Nature #soteriology #severs #soul #moral #will
#Dignity #trumps #transgression
#theology #philosophy #Kierkegaard
Or no longer human beings?
Sin is redemption. Senryū
#Poem #Poetry #μvers #micropoetry #Original #Sin #Evolved #eusocial #Nature #soteriology #severs #soul #moral #will
#Dignity #trumps #transgression
#theology #philosophy #Kierkegaard
October 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Sans sin! Redeemed?
Or no longer human beings?
Sin is redemption. Senryū
#Poem #Poetry #μvers #micropoetry #Original #Sin #Evolved #eusocial #Nature #soteriology #severs #soul #moral #will
#Dignity #trumps #transgression
#theology #philosophy #Kierkegaard
Or no longer human beings?
Sin is redemption. Senryū
#Poem #Poetry #μvers #micropoetry #Original #Sin #Evolved #eusocial #Nature #soteriology #severs #soul #moral #will
#Dignity #trumps #transgression
#theology #philosophy #Kierkegaard
Reasons for the changes.
There is a eusocial species of Pistol Shrimp, as in they have a queen, like bees.
The Kabuto joke I made (Kabuto is a horseshoe crab pokemon)
Immortal Jellyfish are quite literally immortal, and Leif is very old.
There is a eusocial species of Pistol Shrimp, as in they have a queen, like bees.
The Kabuto joke I made (Kabuto is a horseshoe crab pokemon)
Immortal Jellyfish are quite literally immortal, and Leif is very old.
October 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Reasons for the changes.
There is a eusocial species of Pistol Shrimp, as in they have a queen, like bees.
The Kabuto joke I made (Kabuto is a horseshoe crab pokemon)
Immortal Jellyfish are quite literally immortal, and Leif is very old.
There is a eusocial species of Pistol Shrimp, as in they have a queen, like bees.
The Kabuto joke I made (Kabuto is a horseshoe crab pokemon)
Immortal Jellyfish are quite literally immortal, and Leif is very old.
We are still just animals competing for survival and the more difficult that is the more desperate and savage we become. We are not a eusocial species and cannot act as one.
I think working with human nature instead of against it is going to see better results.
I think working with human nature instead of against it is going to see better results.
October 10, 2026 at 10:23 PM
We are still just animals competing for survival and the more difficult that is the more desperate and savage we become. We are not a eusocial species and cannot act as one.
I think working with human nature instead of against it is going to see better results.
I think working with human nature instead of against it is going to see better results.
you can always improve, even if you need help to improve,
that doesn't mean you don't deserve to get better,
being human means you're eusocial and may need help from time to time,
and being human means that people will gladly help without feeling burdened by it in the slightest,
that doesn't mean you don't deserve to get better,
being human means you're eusocial and may need help from time to time,
and being human means that people will gladly help without feeling burdened by it in the slightest,
October 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
you can always improve, even if you need help to improve,
that doesn't mean you don't deserve to get better,
being human means you're eusocial and may need help from time to time,
and being human means that people will gladly help without feeling burdened by it in the slightest,
that doesn't mean you don't deserve to get better,
being human means you're eusocial and may need help from time to time,
and being human means that people will gladly help without feeling burdened by it in the slightest,
I have lore worms. kind of a biopunk psudo-dystopia (or at least it looks like it from the outside, it's more eusocial so the people inside have no problems with it). But it's also very #nfsw in a guro-adjacent way so I don't know how much I want to make it real.
October 9, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I have lore worms. kind of a biopunk psudo-dystopia (or at least it looks like it from the outside, it's more eusocial so the people inside have no problems with it). But it's also very #nfsw in a guro-adjacent way so I don't know how much I want to make it real.
Oh I love her!! I'm fascinated by wasps overall, eusocial animals are fascinating in their whole own right but parasitoid wasps deeply fascinate me, and the onesie thing is a brilliant idea!!
October 5, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Oh I love her!! I'm fascinated by wasps overall, eusocial animals are fascinating in their whole own right but parasitoid wasps deeply fascinate me, and the onesie thing is a brilliant idea!!
I spent some time learning about eusocial wasps because I was working on my fear of them lol education always helps me with irrational fear. So I do appreciate those guys, we see a lot of them because of our reclaimed prairie meadow lawn insect utopia lol but man, those parasitoids...
October 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I spent some time learning about eusocial wasps because I was working on my fear of them lol education always helps me with irrational fear. So I do appreciate those guys, we see a lot of them because of our reclaimed prairie meadow lawn insect utopia lol but man, those parasitoids...