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Hardly meows , sleeps 16 hours , playful most of the time , Never catches mice , ant , insects Fastidious, Connoisseur of fresh food 🙃

A cicada

On a hot afternoon, I found this cicada next to its exuvia. I’ve always found insects to be very interesting 🥰✨

Fun fact

Leptocyon was an extinct genus of small, fox-like canids that lived in North America from the Oligocene to the Miocene epochs (around 34 to 10 million years ago) and is considered the earliest member of the dog family (Canidae). These delicate animals, weighing around 2 kg, had long jaws and were... read more

Thai-style fried insects

How about some fried grasshoppers and silkworms? High-protein Thai style 😋

Memory Leak

If software mishaps got named bugs because of literal insects messing with computer relays, can we start calling memory leaks "cats" because of my literal cat laying on the keyboard opening hundreds of browser tabs making my system run out of memory 😂

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This jay's busy anting - а behavior observed in some birds. It's thought to release chemicals from the insects, like formic acid, which may help with feather maintenance and parasite control.