Looked it up because I hadn't heard of it. Wikipedia say the following:
Common names in English include Indian borage, country borage, French thyme, Indian mint, Mexican mint, Cuban oregano, broad leaf thyme, soup mint, Spanish thyme.
What? So does it taste like a mix of borage, thyme, mint and oregano?? Sure, they are all Lamiaceae (except for borage), but they have wildly different aromas!
How is bread and sugar not plants?? Oversimplifying stuff doesn't make it better...
Yes, that's what I wondered, too. In ant nest parasites they usually are visually very different from the ants, but get the pheromones right. In this example here, visual clues have to be important for the beetle to have evolved such a sophisticated mimicry.
It's maybe comparable to a bee hive or ant nest losing it's workers. Each single one of them isn't important at all. But if nearly all of them are gone, the hive/nest will do much worse or even collapse.
Nice, thanks!!
Really not a beautiful presentation of the data though :/
Maybe a logistic function/sigmoid curve then?
Oh wow, the first one sounds mean. Never heard of an isopod parasite (but I'd now guess there are many more aquatic ones?). And inducing necrosis of the tongue to be the new fish's organ, ouch :O
And what a wild ride the second story is! Thanks for sharing :)
Lol, found an iNat guy in the wild! I immediately knew @neontetraploid because I've tagged them hundreds of times on iNat :)
Oh of course, I didn't consider the "I know you don't either" part. Thanks, I got it now :)
Thanks for the explanation, but I cannot follow on this line
Since he knows that Bernard doesn't know given just the row, each ball in that row is in a column that contains more than one ball.
Why is that? Why couldn't it be A2 or A3? In this case neither Albert nor Bertrand could tell what row/column this was either, because it would be in a row/column with another ball. How can you exclude any row with overlap with any single-ball columns?
OK got It, so mostly oregano-ish with notes of thyme :)