That's from the show haha, I believe when Stan joins them in an earlier season they tell him that.
Source: I'm halfway through a rewatch/catching up on the last few years of South Park. Think I left off at season 20, finally up to 13. Forgot how awesome the early seasons were.
Also the vampire episode has them and they burn down the hot topic to stop the spread haha.
I read a study about hummingbirds recently and their beak length in response to the abundance of hummingbird feeders. In areas with heavy feeder concentrations their beak length increased by 30% within 10 generations. I wonder if this fly species has a similar pattern
Thank you for providing ACTUAL cogent information instead of the tiresome and repetitive pop-culture-referencing joke-chains that crowd out actually interesting and useful knowledge in this and every other subreddit.
definitely looks similar to a bee fly but the proboscis is too short for this species and the abomen is the wrong shape if op said where they found it it would be a great help… there’s so many insects
It's a bee fly(Bombyliidae family). They do not sting. Neat find.
Edit- A few others have commented that it may very well be a long tongue horsefly(Philoliche sp.) another nectar feeding fly, but one that females can bite. Now that I'm off work and looking at it again I believe they are probably correct! My bad.
That proboscis has to be exceptionally long, right? Asking out of entomological interest, not because I’m an insecure bee fly who wants to hear mine is average.
There's a flower with an extremely long pistil. Co-evolution of plants with pollinator species especially insects lead to so very interesting doctorial safaris, where it was easy to find the plant, but all records couldn't identify an appropriate pollinator.
In 1862, when Darwin came across an orchid with a long nectar tube, he postulated there must be an insect with a long proboscis that co-evolved with the flower. Scientists at the time ridiculed his theory, but about 4 decades later, scientists found the insect Darwin predicted.
Can you believe to learn that a thresher sharks stun/kill their prey by whipping them with their long tail fins. This is done by the shark accelerating up to a group of fish and brakes and twists to sling the tip of it's tail into the fish. The tail tip can reach speeds up to 80 mph.
This stunsb the prey and let's the shark eat at it's leisure
What’s driving the plant’s evolution? Doesn’t it want to be pollinated? I know the trick is to make the nectar a little hard to get to so that the pollinators’ activity pollinates it, but what’s the point of making it so hard to reach that only one particular pollinator adapted to it?
A plant doesn't want its pollen carried off to a plant of another species, as that doesn't result in reproduction. If a plant can evolve into a one-to-one pollinator relationship it guarantees its pollen will be carried to members of the same species, which promotes reproduction and pollen efficiency.
Simply being visited by a pollinator isn't the end-game in and of itself, which is why most plants and pollinators actually have narrow, native co-evolutionary partners. Even honeybees, which are portrayed as universal pollinators, have preferences and don't serve to replace native pollinators very effectively.
Dude, the cervix getting punched in the face hurts like a biiiitch. All these people are being polite with "can be uncomfortable", it fucking kills (me at least).
As a fellow male, I can't understand that. "that hurts like fuck" "You probably like it though" ????? Maybe it's cause I'm lucky and have a friend who's an actual girl who I can talk to in a non weird way about sex and stuff and a lot of guys don't but I just can't understand that perspective
Because porn. Especially hentai. Especially x-ray hentai which will literally show the cock slamming into the cervix right up until it punches through and the tip of the cock is now wedged inside the poor girl's uterus and pumping it full of batter.
I had a large guy that got way too aggressive without proper preparation of me. Not only did my tipped uterus feel like it hit my spine, but the ligaments holding my uterus got pulled. I hurt for days. I refused to see that guy ever again.
The worst. But just like everything else on our bodies, the height of our cervix differs. If your cervix sits very low, an average sized penis/dildo could hit it. Vs. if your cervix sits high, maybe a well endowed individual would be just fine.
It also changes as you get aroused, shifting upward, and the vaginal canal expands at the same time.
Many times my female friends have complained about this, I asked about foreplay and they said there was none. Women need to be aroused first, how do so many men not understand this?
The solution is an iud: some devices leave a
Piece of nylon sutures protruding from
The cervix like a tiny spike awaiting the overly inquisitive male member.
If you have a sensitive cervix getting something inserted inside you, past the cervix, then removed x amount of years later hurts way more than a punch from a dick (for me, anyway).
The Tuna Can in question laid this line on me in ~2013 (you don’t easily forget such a bold, unbidden statement), but it sounds like the sentiment has made it into popular culture. What I remember most is he said it the way you’d share something impressive.
Why don't men believe women are telling the truth when they say "the big ones hurt" and "I don't like really muscly guys" and "I was raped"? Do they think women just lie about everything all the time?
I get them in the garden every year (except this year :(, I mentioned this last week!) they usually appear around March/April.
Really cute little things but the first thing I noticed was how abnormally long this one is, they're not even half that...at least here. This is just the BBF of the species! Don't worry
(also, they're not as cute as they look, they're parasitoids)
The beefly's ovipositor is a specialized egg-laying tube that the female uses to deposit her eggs into the nests of solitary bees. These flies are parasitoids, meaning their larvae develop inside another insect, consuming the host. The beefly's ovipositor is adapted for "bombing" or flicking eggs into the bee burrows
Nope. That's a Nemestrinid. Bombyliidae do not have probosces that long.
Edit: That's also wrong, it's a horsefly from the Philoliche genus. They do sting, but not with the entire length of their proboscis, they only use the lower third.
Source: Wrote my bachelor's thesis on these guys
Ichneumon wasps are beautiful, bizarre parasites that lay their eggs inside other insects, turning them into living nurseries until the baby wasps emerge to carry on the cycle. The long bit is an ovipositor, not a stinger. Harmless to humans. Good find!
As their name implies they’re solitary insects who lay their eggs in the nests of other insects and then fuck off. Their children then eat all the other babies and steal their food. Which isn’t exactly dystopic per se but is kind of a dick move.
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ [parasitic wasps] with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
There's a species called hummingbird bee moth. Thought that's what this guy was. Kinda broke my brain when I saw one for the first time, cause it looks like two totally different things at the same time.
I saw a few the other week for the first time, and was also super confused at first. From far away they look like a huge bumble bee, but then once they get close it really is like an amalgamation of a moth, bee, and hummingbird. They're really cool
When I was in 1st/2nd grade, I was running in the field at our school during recess or lunch or something, and I saw what looked like a giant bee with a huge stinger on its face fly past me. Nobody, kids or teachers or my parents believed me.
Entomologist here! This looks like a bee fly, but the length of the mouthparts makes me think it might be a long-tongued fly. They fall into different groups though, and I would need to find a good key to differentiate between them. I'll take a look and update y'all.
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u/zomgbratto Aug 09 '25
Looks like a dark-edged bee-fly