Tomorrow's post will be related to this animal:
I'm pretty sure a couple of my readers will find this an easy one to identify. Attribution, as always, to follow.
Update: Identity now available here. Photo from here.
Simple, atypical but neat estimation of energy released in fission
2 weeks ago in The Curious Wavefunction
This is a "sausage fly" i.e. the gigantic male of an african driver ant (Dorylus). I've been lucky enough to witness a mating swarm (in Maun, Botswana). It was awesome. We fed large numbers of these to a fledgling owl our friend had rescued...
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