#Herbivore
2022: Oldest leaf mine trace fossil from East #Asia provides insight into ancient nutritional flow in a plant–herbivore interaction

#ichnology #paleobotany #palaeobotany

Yume Imada, Nozomu Oyama, Kenji Shinoda, Humio Takahashi & Hirokazu Yukawa
February 18, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Up now on SplatNet: Herbivore Tee with Sub Power Up #splatnet2
February 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM
My last pittie was a poop eater. Thankful he preferred herbivore poop.

They sound like a good team.
Best friends can get each other into trouble, as I’m sure you know.

The fences are particularly worrisome though. Especially at night.

Perhaps the strategy is not to keep them from running off
February 18, 2026 at 4:07 AM
It is and it should happen more often methinks

sometimes I like to imagine maggie being in the world of Monster Hunter and just getting eaten whole by literally everything, even the docile herbivore monsters that don't even attack
February 17, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Is it humiliating to be eaten and digested by a herbivore? By a prey species?
February 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
A root symbiont rewires tomato polyamine network to enhance herbivore resistance | bioRxiv
A root symbiont rewires tomato polyamine network to enhance herbivore resistance | bioRxiv
Plants rely on specialized metabolites to defend against herbivores, yet how root-associated symbiotic microbes influence their regulation, coordination, and overall contribution to defense remains widely unknown. We hypothesized that symbiotic microbes can reprogram specialized metabolic networks, thereby enhancing herbivore resistance, with a particular focus here on polyamine metabolic network. Using the fungal symbiotic endophyte Trichoderma harzianum, tomato, and the herbivore Spodoptera exigua, we combined greenhouse bioassays with molecular, genetic, and metabolomic analyses to investigate how Trichoderma symbiosis reshapes the plant polyamine metabolic network, and affects plant-herbivore interactions. We found that in the absence of the root symbiosis, herbivory primarily activated polyamine uptake transport and catabolism, reflecting a stress-driven turnover response. Trichoderma symbiosis markedly reconfigured the polyamine network. Symbiosis primed uptake transport and catabolic responses, enhanced polyamine flux through activation of the ornithine decarboxylase pathway, and redirected polyamines into conjugated metabolites with anti-herbivore activity. Genetic analyses confirmed that this metabolic rewiring contributes to Trichoderma-induced resistance to herbivory, linking primary metabolic routes to the accumulation of specialized defense compounds. Our study highlights root symbionts as key modulators of plant metabolism, showing that specialized metabolite diversity can be shaped by symbiotic interactions.
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February 17, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Does it really count as being vegetarian if you’re already a herbivore?
February 17, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I also find the idea of:
Nothing but herbivore microorganisms go to heaven because by taking a single step you're already killing something. Also, due to the microorganisms just doing their thing, heaven is entirely a wet, stinky swamp.
February 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
one of the foundational ideas in [the coiled sun] is that there are many, many earths, and the world is peopled by naturalized beings from many of them.

i'm currently writing some material about the clade [shepherds] belong to, how it is and isn't like arthropoda, about exoskeletons and ecdysis…
February 16, 2026 at 10:20 PM
#Endosoma #Endo #Vore

🐭 Herbivore preds are on the mind. I just want to be eaten by a horse or a goat.
February 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I think the most wtf moment of #WAVP was the talk suggesting that Troodon was an obligate herbivore based on eggshell nitrogen and nothing else. The same talk implied that Maiasaura was specializing in eating rotten conifer logs when gravid. Definitely puzzling but now I want that Maiasaura paleoart
February 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I show chat a picture of my Fridge and they proceed to start roasting me for how I organize it-

😭
February 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Herbie isn't the cow's name "herbie" is a slur towards herbivore furries
February 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Kinda fucked up how it has sharp teeths but it's eyes are still positioned like an herbivore....

The carrots and cabbages must be crazy over there
February 16, 2026 at 5:31 AM
I think that the carnivore/herbivore dichotomy (as applied to lesbians) would be a very interesting toy, but I'm sure other people have already gotten their teeth all over it, so,
February 16, 2026 at 4:47 AM
[ She prefers a more herbivore style, but that does sound pretty cool and cute. ]
[Depends but usually they're uh - Kind of like twin oni horns probably is the best way to describe them-?]
February 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
I could be wrong… but imagining a lover is some fantastical beast is probably more comforting and ‘safe’ for some women than imagining ‘random guy’.
Also, minotaur is a bull- a literal herbivore! It has no meat chewing teeth! Lol
February 15, 2026 at 10:26 AM
On a side note, I saw the most ridiculous thing on TV last night. That women are so fed up with herbivore men, they are fantasizing about sex with beasts like Minotaurs. The evidence was the uptick in romance fantasy literature involving such beasts. That we are secretly wanting to be ravished. 🤦‍♀️
February 15, 2026 at 6:14 AM