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  • m_f@discuss.onlineOPtoGarfield@lemmy.world24 April 2025
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    I think they mean more that the panels were lazily copy/pasted, instead of drawn each time. Even old Garfield strips aren’t as lazy. I’ve superimposed these 3 panels to show that they’re identical except for the arm in the last panel:

    Compare that to today’s old strip superimposed on itself, you can tell that Jim Davis drew each panel separately and didn’t copy/paste it:

















  • m_f@discuss.onlineOPtoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works21 April, 2025
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    Huh. I was wondering if spiders would still eat them, and apparently some spiders are known to avoid them:

    https://www.monarchscience.org/single-post/new-study-invasive-joro-spiders-do-not-like-eating-monarch-butterflies

    An invasive species of spider from Asia doesn’t eat them, and even frees them when caught, but native spiders don’t mind at all:

    So it turns out that our native North American spiders will gladly eat monarchs, but yet the invasive spider from east Asia will not? Hmm…This is certainly a head-scratcher. It’s almost as if the native spiders have somehow learned “how” to eat the toxic monarchs, perhaps in the same way that some birds have - i.e. by only eating the body parts that don’t have the cardenolides. Just guessing here.

    One other cool thing we learned is that the jorō spiders seem to have the ability to detect the monarchs’ distastefulness even without physically tasting them!