The feather-horned beetle, ( Rhipicera femorata) , is a native Australian beetle characterized by its distinctive, large, fan-like antennae, especially prominent in males. They are found in open eucalypt forests. The male antennae are used for detecting chemical signals within their environment, assisting them in finding mates and food sources. Their preference for laying eggs in dead or decomposed wood is interesting too.
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“This is very unusual behavior,” agency research scientist Dave Kramer said Thursday.
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https://apnews.com/article/moose-trail-closed-adirondacks-new-york-c5d2332038ead4c127135ade1010ee13

Do you ever look at something and you're not sure if you like it or you hate it? This is one of those for me. What's your thoughts on this???

Ye Olde Cock Tavern, Fleet Street, London. Originally built in the 1500s, it was frequented by literary figures including Samuel Pepys, Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Dickens and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who even composed a poem about buying port in the pub. In 1886, it moved across the road to its current site to make way for a branch of the Bank of England. The only one of its former customers who seems to have gone with it is Oliver Goldsmith. A barmaid putting out the trash is said to have seen a floating head in the yard and later recognised it in a portrait of Goldsmith. A window cleaner also encountered Goldsmith's ghost, who told him not to bother cleaning the windows of the top floor. The yard of the pub is the former graveyard of Temple Church, where Goldsmith is buried. #London #history #ghosts #paranormal #pubs #literature #folklore #weird

"Sadly, the band is still without a drummer as the last one, like his multiple predecessors, unexpectedly dropped dead."
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https://laughingsquid.com/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/

The Nine Standards are large stone cairns high on the moors between Cumbria and North Yorkshire. Their age is uncertain and their origins mysterious. They may have been erected to mark a watershed, with the nearby headwaters of the River Swale flowing east towards the North Sea and those of the Eden and Lune flowing west towards the Irish Sea. A more fanciful explanation is that the Romans - or, perhaps, later the English - set the Nine Standards up to scare off the Scots, by giving the impression soldiers were massing on the hills. Often swathed in mist or under glowering cloud, the cairns remain majestic and enigmatic landmarks. #psychogeography #history #folklore #hiking #weird #gothic

Platycotis vittata, the oak treehopper is a species of treehopper found in North America. Its most striking feature is its helmet-like pronotum, potentially aiding in camouflage or mimicry. these insects communicate using vibrations through plant stems, a form of communication that is inaudible to humans. It goes through color variation during its development.
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St Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London once had an especially spooky lift. At night, whatever number floor the passenger pressed, it would always take them down to the basement. There it would stand in the dark, refusing to move, no matter which buttons were pushed. The passenger would have to get out and start the long climb up the stairs to whichever floor they required. The lift would then whirr into motion and follow its ex-passenger as they trudged up the staircase. The hospital folklore blamed this on the fact a nurse had once been murdered by a patient in the basement. However, there is no record of any such crime. This story was probably created in an attempt to explain the lift's weird behaviour. #gothic #ghosts #paranormal #folkore #weird #London #history

The George and Vulture is a pub in the City of London. There has been an inn on the site since 1142. Records show the pub was once just called the George - the 'Vulture' part of the name is said to have come from a nearby wine merchant who used a live vulture for his sign. The venue was a meeting place for Sir Francis Dashwood's riotous and blasphemous Hellfire Club. It is mentioned at least 20 times in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers' and the Dickens family still have their Christmas Day gathering in the pub. #history #pubs #gothic #psychogeography #weird #London #literature #books

Venice is haunted by a giant's skeleton. A 7-foot-tall man once worked as a bell ringer at St Mark's Campanile, a high tower on St Mark's Square. The giant was offered money by a scientist if he would leave him his bones when he died. The giant, estimating the scientist would die first, agreed, but the giant died shortly afterwards. His skeleton was placed in the Natural History Museum, where it can still be seen today. Every night, however, the skeleton is said to leave the museum and walk to St Mark's to try to ring the bells. On his way back, the giant begs coins from passers-by, in the hope he can buy his bones back and have a proper burial. #folklore #history #ghosts #paranormal #mythology #gothic #weird #Venice #death

"Woman who stopped at an intersection to allow a chicken to cross the road allegedly attacked another driver with bear mace for speeding by her and killing the bird."
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Strawberry Hill House, an extravagant gothic-revival villa designed and owned by Horace Walpole. This wonderfully preposterous house included chimneys modelled on medieval tombs, with one based on the monument of Edward the Confessor. The interior aimed to provide "settings of gothic gloomth", in which Walpole's collection of antiquarian objects could be displayed. Walpole also wrote one of the first gothic novels, 'The Castle of Otranto', thought to be partly inspired by the house. #architecture #history #gothic #weird #literature

"There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead." –Kurt Vonnegut

Cadaver tomb of Sir John Golafre (died 1442) in St Nicholas Church, Fyfield, Oxfordshire. This remarkable two-tier monument shows Sir John reposing in full plate armour above while below his decaying corpse is represented with sunken eyes, taut neck and exposed ribs. #history #churches #gothic #weird #death #architecture #grave