Maybe the column on the right is waist circumference.
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But we scared it away with an asteroid the size of 3 million mice.
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'Sright! squeak squeak squeeeek
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That’s not the Ecclestone scale.
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At work we grow lots of wheat grass to feed the locusts. Today when I walked in I saw this laminated card posted to help the new vet tech that is doing the planting. I don’t know who made the card, but the cup to ml conversion is really making my head hurt
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What if an inexpensive kitchen scale just appeared in the grow room?
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pardon my ignorance, por favor,
why are you feeding locusts?
i mean, your handle - scientician - must be a clue…
but i admit i haven’t a clue. are you fattening them up for making chapulines? i could go for some chapulines and guac, right now. with some Tecate.
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…Have you seen what happens when you don’t feed the locusts? 
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very. good. point.
pero, chapulines, guacamole y tostadas, con cerveza frio este muy sabor
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I’m not not breeding a mind-controlled genetically engineered locust swarm. Who said I was?
I’m doing neurobiology work on visual processing, escape behavior, etc. Locusts and related grasshoppers are super hardy which makes them good for physiology because you cut them open and stick in electrodes and they don’t care. Recently started working on genetics in the locusts to figure out why some swarm and others don’t. Also chapulines are tasty
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that is fucking awesome.
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Oddly specific denial, but OK…
(backs away slowly, trying not to make eye contact)
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It isn’t related to the thread, but since we just released these videos describing the project today, I’ll share them for anyone interested in the causes of locust swarms:
full version (7 min):
short version (1.5 min):
French and Spanish translations are on youtube if anyone prefers
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on my watch list. thank you for the follow up. i meant it when i said i think this work is awesome.
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That’s fascinating work.
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