How do people go through life not knowing what weevils are? I was talking about ants to a teacher the other day and mentioned something about weevils & they were like "what are weevils?"
"Like beetles but with the long snoot to drill acorns and trees."
"drill acorns!?"
"That's how they end up hollow"
"oh."
"That's how acorn ants have a place to live!"
"oh. I didn't know so much was going on in acorns."
"That's not even the tip of the iceberg!"
I'm astonished.
I guess they must think acorn ants hollow out the acorns themselves... but obviously they are too tiny to do that!
But then I realized that he might also not know about the acorn ants. And I had to just sit and be quiet for a long time thinking.
@futurebird I can’t believe no one has posted this yet, but I can’t stop thinking about this XKCD when reading these two toots: https://xkcd.com/2501/
For the record, I’ve only vaguely heard of weevils and had no idea what they were before I saw this 😅 also never heard of acorn ants
@bwebster @futurebird this one time, in home economics class, I included the step where you should sieve out the weevils from the flour before making scones and my teacher was quite horrified to say the least..
@DrErinne @bwebster @futurebird Weëvilsieve is the name of my metal band.
