Peach trees are dumb.

AvoidingRealWork

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We have a peach tree in our yard. It's so laden with fruit that the limbs are breaking (and this is after regular thinning).

Can you think of another species that is so obsessed with reproductive acts that it places them above health and well-being?
 
We have a peach tree in our yard. It's so laden with fruit that the limbs are breaking (and this is after regular thinning).

Can you think of another species that is so obsessed with reproductive acts that it places them above health and well-being?

Peacocks tails, human brains are similar grotesque overdevelopments arising out of sexual selection
 
Aphids are born pregnant.

And there is a species of mite that is born pregnant. And the young eat the mother alive.

Mother Nature is weird.
 
I suspect that peach trees are that way because we made them so. Humans are clever and manipulative that way. We probably made the peaches plumper and juicier too. Mmmm - I'm jealous.
 
My pear tree is exactly the same way, and I can't give them away fast enough.
 
We have a peach tree in our yard. It's so laden with fruit that the limbs are breaking (and this is after regular thinning).

Can you think of another species that is so obsessed with reproductive acts that it places them above health and well-being?

Do you remember Melanie in "Gone With the Wind"? There are some women who are so anxious to become mothers that they risk their own lives. And, there are husbands who help them. :(

I'm not going to say any more. I see no need to turn the tread political.
 
My nectarine had so many fruit this year that, even after I took 80% of it off, the brancher broke. And the fruit was lousy, too.


So disappointed . . .
 
We have a peach tree in our yard. It's so laden with fruit that the limbs are breaking (and this is after regular thinning).

Can you think of another species that is so obsessed with reproductive acts that it places them above health and well-being?

pear trees. and those crabs where the male has one REALLY big claw.
 
There was a species of deer in England whose antlers got so big the males couldn't hold their heads up anymore.

("Hey, check out the rack on THAT one!")

*Approaches lecturn, fiddles with notes, adjusts glasses on bridge of nose*

Ahem!

That turns out to be a fallacy (but not a phallusy) based on the idea that it was structured like a red deer, or what is knows in North America as an elk. However, we now know from the evidence of cave paintings tht the animal actually had a hump of additional muscle on its neck allowing for sufficient strength to hold up the enormous antlers.

Thenk yew,
 
Male spiders and preying mantises. They usually get eaten by their mates immediately after consummating THE ACT. :eek:
 
*Approaches lecturn, fiddles with notes, adjusts glasses on bridge of nose*

Ahem!

That turns out to be a fallacy (but not a phallusy) based on the idea that it was structured like a red deer, or what is knows in North America as an elk. However, we now know from the evidence of cave paintings tht the animal actually had a hump of additional muscle on its neck allowing for sufficient strength to hold up the enormous antlers.

Thenk yew,

Thanks for the info, VM!
 
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