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Published: 2009-06-07 18:04:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 9805; Favourites: 108; Downloads: 139
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LEARN ABOUT LERPS AND BELL MINERS HERE: [link]...But I intended this comic to have the same effect whether or not you know the background story. In fact, I think it works even better if you don't.
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See www.facebook.com/bellminercolo⦠This is an awesome representation of one of the hypotheses of dieback but there is no evidence to suggest that is actually what happens. There is more to the story
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I just. I don't even.
..Bravo, good sir.
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A bit hard to tell who's good and who's bad in this.
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Really? I thought only the wasp appeared "bad"
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Well, that is if you don't read what's on the link, parasitic wasps are used to keep pests down.
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Bad for the bird and lerps, good for the wasp and tree.
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"LEEEERRPS!!!" 
You seriously need your own tv show or published magazine or something. Adults need to be as curious and amused by fascinating science and cartoons as kids are. maybe you could be like a fucked up adult cartoon series on the Discovery Channel someday. This is great.
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Goodness me, I did a lot of research on bell miners, lerps, dieback, effect on other birds etc, last year and late 2007. What an unusual topic for a comic strip! I commend you for depicting such an off-beat topic, and I agree with Skragga that Parasitica is... a bit too happy.
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You might be one of the only people who understood it off the bat
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well, without any previous knowlege on the subject, i would assume that parasitica is laying her eggs in the larve, which the birds eat to protect the larvae, but the lerps (or parasticia-eggs) already at them??
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The bottom of the comic has the URL to an article where I write about lerps
Bell miners eat the sugary cases that Lerps secrete and protect them from most predators, but can't protect them from parasitic wasps.
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oh... i was wayy off then >.<
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Well it was very enjoyable! By the way, you've got a cool avatar too.
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This is possibly your most adorable comic yet.
The first time I read it I hadn't read the article yet, and I still thought that a bird crying "LERRRRRRPS!" was a damn funny punchline.
"Lerps" is probably one of the funnest words in existence to say out loud. Lerps. Bell lerps. Have you met my bell lerp?. They're lovely and lerpful. They're lerptastic. Lerp lerp lerp lerp lerp. There's something wrong with me, isn't there?
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it's at the very bottom of the page of the link
about those crap hats
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Yeah, I know, I was just wondering who you were talking to when you mentioned it was there
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Nature has it's epic and dramatic moments and you had displayed it well. It's a great learning experience, yes?
Naughty....wasp, Parasitica.
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Loving how Frank Miller the bell miner is.
And the wasp is creepy. "AWWW YEAH!"
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My favorite comic of yours to date, fantastic.
And I take this oppertunity to say that the way you write your articles is great; Sweet, syrupy knowledge laden with juicy nuggets of wit and puns. I probably should have wrote this ascomment on your site seem as though that's where you want them...
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I laughed. I cried. I asked some questions. And I peed a little.
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Two comments:
1. I can vouch for the fact that this is hilarious to someone who had no frame of reference when they read it.
2. That buxom wasp will be in my nightmares tonight.
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Oh, she'll be in my "nightmares" too, if you know what I mean.
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I mean that I find the wasp attractive.
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1. Hooray!
2. Hooray!!!
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Hell, reading this without knowing the backstory just makes it take on a whole different kind of awesome, in a sort of "I don't know wtf I just read but it was WONDERFUL" kind of way.
Also, "lerp" is my new favorite animal name ever. It's so fun to say!
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So THAT's what those things on the leaves around here are!
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... ew.
Yet yours are both adequate and adorable.
LERRRPS!!
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Yep, all the different lerps are Australian
I didn't even change very much, though:
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Those are the females it would seem, while males are colorful and winged!
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Oooh, wow! I did a little search for the males, and I've seen them before too. :3 This is what you get for being the odd girl in your class staring at the local insect life. XD
I did always wonder what those things on the leaves were, though. Awesome.
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ANOTHER new article without announcing it on your front page! Naughty that is. Naughty.
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I remembered to update the RSS this time, though!!!
If you click the orange RSS button you can see all the newest stuff
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Revenge is sworn for the dead feces coated bugs!
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It might just be me but when I went to the page you linked to I could not read some of the text because it was covered by either a gray bar or a photo.
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Yes, I get that complaint often but there's utterly nothing I can do about it. My website is hosted by yahoo, can only be edited with their software, and it just has that glitch on some computers for some reason :/
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OK it might be because I'm on a mac.
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I've asked yahoo about it several times and they've never responded >:/
I should be getting better for $14 a month D:
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Yahoo has a shit reputation I would never trust them to do anything right.
$14 a month is not that much but they should at least make the site readable.
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LEEEEERRRPSSS!!! I detect a new battlecry being born.
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More nature fun! You have the best educational articles and comics.
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I'm not sure which is funnier - the "unf unf unf" expression of the wasp, or the phrase "mouth-watering crap-hats".
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ha ha ha. "mouth-watering crap hats.". i thought they were scale insects or mealy bugs at 1st. and the lerp miner i thought would be a type of leaf miner at 1st. but very interesting and clever way to traffic to your site. make obscure references that your site conveniently has the answers to.
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I like it too without the knowledge of the bg story. The superhero vs. super villain with the helpless Bell Lerps as the innocents concept is great and they were all funny. And then there the link reveals what a Bell Lerp and a Bell Miner is and I go "I see". What a slow Bell Miner.
Yeah that Parasitica enjoying is hilarious too 
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Or a column in a nature magazine or something.
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