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Generally interested in art, science, biology, ants and termites.

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Atta cephalotes 3D, Zbrush.

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@BugcatcherM @lkcnhm This may be the first record of a fruiting body associated with Macrotermes carbonarius. Nice find!

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@BenReynen @t9hyung @meen17st @auroraa428 The point being is that life doesn't exist to reproduce or survive. Human beings don't exist to be male or female, heterosexual or homosexual. These are observations of causality, itself rooted in blind and apathetic evolution. But it's just one fork of the river.

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@BenReynen @t9hyung @meen17st @auroraa428 There is no such thing as "unnatural" from an objective point of view. It's an arbitrary line people have drawn. Life is goalless. It has no purpose. It exists, like a river. How that river is shaped and where it goes, what sediment it carries and etc are just emergent phenomena.

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Hymenoptus coronatus study and 3D model

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@Pound0fFlesh where are the waxy planthoppers 😢

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@advaithj1 Hey, Discord mobile (android) keeps opening up app links (iNaturalist, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit) on my browser instead of their respective apps. It's been like this for a couple months now. Is this normal or a bug? Wasn't like this before. On most recent update.

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@GambieFinancial @MedicGrandpa @OpStCyprian @seanthorpe @arithmoquine it's kinda sad because liberal demographics don't vote as much nor do they share as much of a central ideological identity compared to conservatives. So "liberal" politicians in the US are more conservative relative to Europe despite their voters being similarly progressive.

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Hymenopus coronatus test! The model was made in Zbrush and was quickly rendered in Blender. still a WIP. 😊

#insect #entomology #art #blender #mantids

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@kani10yen なるほど、ありがとう。いつかあなたのレベルに達したいと思っています。現在、3Dモデリングの方法とZbrushの学習中です。ジオメトリを凹凸なく滑らかに保つにはどうすればよいでしょうか?ありがとう。

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@kani10yen モデルの関節はどのようにモデリングしますか? モデルの作成に Zbrush を使用していることは知っていますが、関節の作成には別のプログラムも使用していますか?

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@VilleSinkkonen How do you do the overlapping scales?

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@KsoundKaiju @czbugsart A termite, most likely in the genus Nasutitermes.

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Pipevine Swallowtail!

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@BugcatcherM Anything interesting you learned about this cool species?

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Does anyone know how hardy Termitomyces conidia can be, and if they could possibly be stored similarly to suspension of basidiospores in distilled water?

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More Aphaenogaster floridana!

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Aphaenogaster floridana from Ocala!

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REUPLOAD

How to separate Odontotermes alates from Macrotermes: The median and cubitus veins in the forewings of Odontotermes converge, while in Macrotermes they remain separate.