bowelfly:onenicebugperday:atrax-phoneutria:bowelfly:one of my favorite beetles, the camphor shoot bo
bowelfly:onenicebugperday:atrax-phoneutria:bowelfly:one of my favorite beetles, the camphor shoot borer (Cnestus mutilatus), loves ethanol so much that they’re known to burrow into plastic gas cans and drown just for a sip of that tender sauce @onenicebugperday confirm deny? It is true, but @bowelfly knows more about beetles than I do, so I wouldn’t question them anyway! okay huh i DEFINITELY made a post about them in the past but can’t find it so i can only assume it got murdered during the big stupid 2018 purge. booooooo fuck u tumblr anyway so camphor shoot borers are, first and foremost, extremely cute:beyond that, they’re ambrosia beetles that feed on a special fungus that they cultivate in the xylem of weakened and dying trees. ethanol is an abundant byproduct of necrosis in trees, so the beetle is highly attuned to seeking it out.gas also contains ethanol, so sometimes this happens:(image source)RIP little kings -- source link
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