Posted on 05/27/2022 8:19:59 PM PDT by algore
When a male cockroach wants to mate with a female cockroach very much, he will scoot his butt toward her, open his wings and offer her a homemade meal — sugars and fats squished out of his tergal gland. As the lovely lady nibbles, the male locks onto her with one penis while another penis delivers a sperm package.
If everything goes smoothly, a roach’s romp can last around 90 minutes. But increasingly, cockroach coitus is going really, weirdly wrong
Back in 1993, scientists working at North Carolina State University discovered a trait in the German cockroach, a species that inhabits every continent except Antarctica. Specifically, these new cockroaches seemed to have no affection for a form of sugar called glucose, which was strange because — as anyone who has ever battled against a cockroach infestation knows — cockroaches normally cannot get enough of the sweet stuff.
So, where did these new, health-conscious cockroaches come from?
It seems we created them by accident, after decades of trying to kill their ancestors with sweet powders and liquids laced with poison. The cockroaches that craved sweets ate the poison and died, while cockroaches less keen on glucose avoided the death traps and survived long enough to breed, thus passing that trait down to the next cockroach generation. In lab experiments, Dr. Wada-Katsumata and her colleagues showed that glucose-averse females are more skittish of males than wild-type cockroaches, which is what the researchers call the roaches without glucose aversion. However, they also found that glucose-averse males seem to compensate for this by more rapidly transitioning into sex after offering his gift.
“The glucose-averse females might spend, say, three seconds feeding on the male’s secretion,” said Coby Schal, distinguished professor of entomology at North Carolina State and an author of the study.
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I can no longer activate any of my physical Photoshop versions except for the lame Elements stuff.
They want to force me into the pay-per-month Cloud crap.
Any suggestions?
My CS 6 suite is now useless.
Snails don’t need any of this drama.
They just knock up themselves.
Hm?.....That is an interesting observation. Yes, it was common when I was a child to hear men whistling.
All of my great grand dads sailed their sloops and pungies in and around the Bay. Some traded along the coast from Cuba to Boston. My dad’s dad’s dad was killed by his cook in Richmond and his boat brough to the Balt inner harbor where my dad, as a boy, saw the blood on the deck.
I rented a house in FL that had previously been occupied by about 30 Mexicans. It was so loaded with German cockroaches that dozens were squished on the fridge door magnet/seal. We simply cleaned the place really well and the roaches went away. Never used any spray, powder, liquid etc. If they have nothing to eat, they die or leave.
Not sure what your comfort level with Photoshop is and how much photo editing you do but I’ve been a huge fan of GIMP for years. It’s free, works on PC/Mac/Linux, and has everything I could possibly need for my photos (I especially take a lot of concert photos, not a pro just a fan with a smartphone) Before that I used Paint Shop Pro but I just checked and they want $80 for full version, yea no I’m good with GIMP.
Ahhhhh, nature adapts and a lot more quickly than climate alarmists assume.
I feel your pain, Salamander. You can be assured, if there is anyone...ANYONE who despises subscription software more than you in this wide world, it is...ME.
I had been using Photoshop since 1993, and had last purchased a CS3 upgrade in 2008 (I think)
Then, at some point, Adobe or Apple disabled the “check in” authentication function which really pissed me off.
I spent a total of about eight hours on the phone, until I got one Indian tech so exasperated that he gave me a link to download a copy of CS3 that didn’t require the “check in”, but...eventually my CS3 became incompatible with Apple.
Not 1, but 2 2 2 Penesus!!!???
I take it back. i dont want to be an eagle in my next life, i wanna be a cocka’roach!!
[In his cell in Las Vegas, Glen muses on a cockroach skittering around the prison floor.]
Glen Bateman:
You’re quite a piece of work, Mr. Cockroach. We could take a lesson from you, especially in light of recent events. I have an idea that… I’ll be gone, come this time tomorrow. But you’ll still be trucking, won’t you? Running your little roach errands.
[Suddenly a boot stomps on the roach. Pan up to reveal a grinning Flagg.]
Randall Flagg:
That’s a wrap on the roach.
After reading this I had an image of AOC and her Birkenstock boyfriend doing the deed.
Have they added this to the extensive list of Climate Change effects (which seems to the result of programing by a al-gor-ithm)?
In addition, boric acid around walls and water, under sinks, etc. usually irridcates them, thank God. Living in a crowded city sometimes means dealing with such.
Wow. It’s great to know family history like that.
That was my first thought when I read that.
I think I’ve only heard it once in decades, now.
That’s interesting. I never knew that most snails are hermaphrodites:
https://www.snail-world.com/how-do-snails-reproduce/
So it’s pointless to tell a snail to go F itself, basically.
;D
Things started going sideways with Win10, not surprisingly.
I should drag out an old Win7 laptop and see if it’s screwed, too.
I have ALL my PS copies since PS4.
Pretty much only useful as coasters, now.
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