I would lean more towards focus stacking. If you see for example @alexis_orion’s photos or videos on youtube, you can get even better shots in macro-photography (even handheld!).

Wow, great article!!

Yeah, I agree with what you say, but my point is that this just doesn’t apply to the relationship of trees and fungi. It isn’t wholesome as such, it’s just beneficial to both until it isn’t and then they turn on each other. I wouldn’t want a human society that is only based on mutual aid as long as it benefits everyone and where you turn on your neighbor the moment they are weak enough to be exploited.

Are you sure you understand the relationship of plants and fungi well enough that you can make such a meme of it? Like there is a clear profit incentive for both of them. And if a tree gets too weak, the fungal symbiont might just turn against it and slowly eat it from the insight. Is this also what you want us to do? Why don’t we just say what is shitty about our human society? Projecting it onto nature doesn’t help us and just makes us feel like some things are “natural” and “unnatural”. But this is really a bad way to view the world and causes harm to yourself or others.

Ah thanks, I needed this to get what the symbols are! :)

Well, many people are busy, but yeah it should usually work. ResearchGate makes this even easier, because you can directly see who is requesting a paper and sometimes as an author you’ve got the paywalled paper already uploaded in researchgate.

If you read the actual paper, you can see that it is indeed a serious study where they try to understand how mosquito feeding and reproductive behavior works.

Wait till it flowers! It has a really nice inflorescence, although I think other Lactuca species are more beautiful overall :)

I’ve always been annoyed by all the country flags. I don’t think any country should be represented on there and am not sure how the Nato flag is much worse. But unfortunately many people seem to be pretty patriotic :(