They are slow and squishy. They have soft bodies and no shells. They have basically no way to defend themselves, from what I know.

I'd assume that there are some poisonous species, but other than that: how have these things not died out yet??

Like, when did you get a 'pregnancy belly', so that people could tell you were pregnant just by looking?

No stupid questions was largely unhelpful on this (suprise suprise), so I thought I'd try here.

(note: this is for a fanfic)

"Noticeable" mainly as in, "when does the belly become big enough to for people to notice it's pregnancy and not just being fat". Any further insight from anyone who has been pregnant would be welcome.

My favorites are bumblebees and jumping spiders, cute little critters!

I didn't believe it when my friend sent me this but it really works. I wonder what kind of psychology is behind it?

About a month ago, I bought a bag of beets and left most of them in the fridge (in the opened bag), naively thinking my family would eat them while I was away. Now they have grown these leaf-like thingys. Are they beyond salvation?

I want to give a character of mine a wound infection on his leg. Something severe enough to raise the stakes, but not lethal. Something that would be interesting to write about. The setting is very much pre-modern in terms of medicine.