It took me quite a while to figure out what the article is about. These don’t seem to exist over here.
Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)
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#22What are these for? In Europe we normally put a sticker directly on the bread, if at all. Is this for sliced bread?
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#23What are these for? In Europe we normally put a sticker directly on the bread, if at all. Is this for sliced bread?
I’m pretty sure we have bread in plastic bags in Europe too. At least here in the less civilized regions. In these parts they’re usually the plastic-clad aluminum wire sort though.
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#24What are these for? In Europe we normally put a sticker directly on the bread, if at all. Is this for sliced bread?
I’m pretty sure we have bread in plastic bags in Europe too. At least here in the less civilized regions. In these parts they’re usually the plastic-clad aluminum wire sort though.
We have bread like that even in the more civilized parts.
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#25What are these for? In Europe we normally put a sticker directly on the bread, if at all. Is this for sliced bread?
They seem attracted to sliced bread in plastic bags here in the Nordics. They attach to the end of the bag so as to seal and hold it closed, regardless of the labeling on the bag.
There are some positive side effects to this, which is probably the reason we're so tolerant of their presence.
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#26At first , by the title, I thought there were parasites growing on these clips. Anyone else?
Not seeing the forest for the trees
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m pretty sure we have bread in plastic bags in Europe too. At least here in the less civilized regions. In these parts they’re usually the plastic-clad aluminum wire sort though.
We have bread like that even in the more civilized parts.
Out in the sticks, we just eat the bread after we make it.
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#28> The outside (or ‘edge’) of the occlupanid is often smooth, but many species sport palps, or tabs. These have unguessable purposes for mating, locomotion, defense, take your pick. I propose that these palps or tabs are remnants of the reproductive cycle, vestigial points of contact in the budding process. This phenomenon can be observed in some other classes within phylum Plasticae, and I see no reason to assume it…
It's like a bellybutton!
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#29It took me quite a while to figure out what the article is about. These don’t seem to exist over here.
They're the American (perhaps other places) equivalent of the little wire ties, almost exclusively used for bread. They're supposed to be quick to close the bread bag back up but in my experience they're I'll equipped for that purpose as they either break or maul the plastic.
I thought they were commonplace until I moved outside the US; at least here in Germany I never see them.
As kids you'd break off one of the half-circle parts, stick it on your finger and flick it to make a makeshift ninja star.
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#30It took me quite a while to figure out what the article is about. These don’t seem to exist over here.
Perhaps the species hasn't spread to your area of the world yet - where are you?
I'm familiar with them from Australia, where Orthogonidectes seems the most common, and was a helpful addition to our bread freshness as a child. However in northern Europe these days the same niche is occupied by an entirely different variant not present on this page, more akin to a twist-tie (metal covered in plastic, which bends.) Both kinds attach to the same location on the host bread bag, enclosing the mouth of the bag and helpfully holding bread in while preventing airflow. How fascinating to see the same niche, with a different alternative.