m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGetting to the bottom of how red flour beetles absorb water through their buttsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down13
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkGetting to the bottom of how red flour beetles absorb water through their buttsarstechnica.comm3t00🌎@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square4linkfedilink
minus-squareCheradenine@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago lt It does this by opening its rectum when the humidity of the atmosphere is relatively high, absorbing moisture through that opening. Uhm, doesn’t everyone do this? Otherwise you lose your moisture
Uhm, doesn’t everyone do this? Otherwise you lose your moisture