FYI that's called "fascination". Dandelions can get weird in some interesting ways
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I witnessed an older (late 50s) white male coworker tell a young (early 20s) Puerto Rican female coworker who happened to be sweeping that she was "pretty good with that broom". I thought it was pretty weird.
broomin is a skill. skill recognizes skill.
I actually disagree lol, sweeping is such a simple task that you can really only be bad at it imo
Neat! Any idea what type of caterpillar that is?
a fucking big one
it was the size of a hot dog
You put it in a bun?
of course? how else would I get the mustard on?
That's called Fasciation, and it can happen to lots of different kinds of plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation
Didn't really technically see this, but:
(A little context is that I'm a maintenance man for the local housing authority.)
We cleaned out an apartment after a resident left 2 sets of twin bunk beds, 3 queen-sized beds, LOADS of clothing and random trash, etc... all absolutely covered in bed bugs.
Tossed it all in a big dump trailer, taped the area off with caution tape, and covered the trailer in a tarp.
2am, our executive director gets a call from one of the neighbors asking why we're "throwing all this good stuff away."
They had climbed inside the trailer and taken a couple of comforters into their own apartment.
Why?
Why would you do that?
Why climb into a dumpster full of obviously soiled objects? Why call the director at 2 in the morning?
Everyone in this complex saw us all wearing hazmat suits when packing the stuff out.
So now we're treating two apartments for bed bugs.
You should just seal off their apartment and let the best man or bug win
Given enough time, the bugs would win - they are tenacious little creatures, and I can't help but admire them.
most likely its a fasciation its usually due to infection, injury, inborn error.
(reacting to your picture)
