A full night's sleep? In this economy?

Woke up in the wee hours of morning from yet another very vivid dream, although this time it was with a strong sense of looming dread rather than laughter. In the dream preceding, I had moved all the furniture in my apartment around (which I did do IRL the other day) but when I went back out into the main living area, it was back where it had started. So I moved it again, and again the next time I checked it was back where it had been originally.

I expressed to a friend that something weird was going on and she didn't believe me, and then when I pulled up the camera roll on my phone to show proof—apparently I'd taken pictures of the rearranged furniture for use in just this scenario—all the photos of the furniture showed it as it had previously been and all the photos in my camera roll of people had gaping black holes where their eyes should be.

I woke up just after, feeling aimlessly scared. Dog 1 noticed that I was up and took herself to the door. I thought she needed some water so I mustered the courage to get up—and actually said out loud to myself "if the furniture is moved when I get out there I swear to God"—and let her out into the hall, where she proceeded to pee on the laminate. At least it wasn't the carpet, small blessings, and of course the furniture was exactly where it's supposed to be.

Still took me about an hour and change to get back to sleep, and I had to remind myself a couple of times that I had gone out and seen the furniture and that it was exactly where it was supposed to be. This semi-lucid dreaming bullshit is really more than it's cracked up to be sometimes.

Tunnelers of Love: the Most Boring Bee in America

I did another bee post! You can read it here.

Have a snippet to whet your appetite:

Other newly discovered species have been long extinct—take the Kem Kem Abelisaur, the fossilized bones of which were believed to be those of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex until earlier this year—or are teetering on the brink of extinction themselves, like the Brazilian Dinizia jueirana-facao tree, which can grow as tall as a 12-story building and weigh up to 62 tons. Despite its imposing size, this massive 2017 addition to the legume family escaped the notice of the scientific community for many years because there are only 25 of them left in existence.

The insect world in particular is considered to be fertile ground for new species to be identified. As is true in many instances, the smaller things are, the easier they are to overlook. And sometimes, even after those small things have initially been discovered, they get stuck in a drawer and forgotten for a few decades before someone with the time and inclination to properly classify them comes along.

Such it was with this week’s terrific tunneling species: the pueblo bee.