Google Lens thinks it’s a masked hunter? They eat other bugs.
I’ve never seen such a big beetle-type bug in this city and I don’t like it.
Thank you for your search.
My cat ate it.
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Good job cat.
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I don’t have pothos but I believe I’ve read that the immature leaves aren’t fenestrated and later ones are? So perhaps a pup in the same pot coming off mom with first cycle leaves? Unsure, curious what people have to say!
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I love the word fenestrated 
I think it’s partially from being taught in high school that the 30 Years War was started by defenestration. Hilarious as a teenager, and still a ridiculous word now.
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Pothos be like that! I have some different styles of pothos that look like two different plants in the same pot but they are from one plant. I’d take a picture but they are downstairs and I am upstairs and I had a hard night so that’s too much right now. But mine are the variation of plain green leaves next to variegated leaves.
eta Yes, this:
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I was like, some leaves haven’t been thrown out a window? And some leaves HAVE???
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My random question: I hurt my lower back from too much cycling. I’ve spent the last week sitting or lying down. Now my legs and hips are restless and stiff. I’m improved enough that I can stretch a bit on my back or stomach. Any recommendations for gentle stretches that can help?
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If your back will let you: slow, gentle walks every day
Figure four stretch
Lay on back and pull one knee in at a time and hold, then hold both knees
Child’s pose
All listening to body and not pushing it
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Thank you!!
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@LBF Rad wagon in orange with one orange and one blue yepp maxi. And the cage bar thingy.
@mj also stretch your hip
Flexors either bridge pose or lunges. Meowmalades foundation training 12 min video is annoyingly effective
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Someone in my household left a meat thermometer with a plastic base on the side of a pan while cooking, and the plastic melted onto the pan. I do think I could fully get the burned plastic crumbles off the pan with baking soda and time, but should I? The plastic crumbles do touch somewhere food would cook in the future.
(My instinct is pan gotta go but I think the other decision maker would disagree)
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What kind of pan?
Hexclad hybrid pan
Okay, that’s got a proprietary coating in the valleys, but the internet thinks it’s at least partly PTFE (Teflon). So I would not try to abrade it off since you’d damage the coating. Frankly, if there’s a lot of melted plastic, I’d remelt and carefully pour off what you can and see where that gets you. You could remelt with a high smoke point oil in the pan so that it will float in the oil once it melts and lets go of the surface; that would likely get more of it off.
Alternately, you could try acetone* and see if the unwanted plastic will just let go with that - it might, and the PTFE will not be affected. Just wash the acetone off as you usually wash. Don’t heat acetone at all or put it in a hot pan!
*Standard fingernail polish remover is diluted acetone but won’t hurt to try.
What you don’t want to do is mechanically damage the PTFE in the valleys. I’ve chosen to avoid Teflon and just use stainless steel myself, but that’s mostly because I always damage it and then it flakes off. I think you could salvage this pan if you wanted to and have found the hexclad design works for you.
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Thanks! That all makes sense, I appreciate you talking through the science of it. It’s in the realm of, I don’t know enough to look into it effectively? We’re slowly transitioning to all stainless steel too, so this might be a good excuse to pull the trigger for this size of pan.
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This science was brought to you by Husband mostly. He’s the polymer guy in this house.
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Actually - I would try using a hard plastic tool or fingernail to pop the melted plastic off. Kind of like the wax or gum strategy.
Good idea - it might just separate. Could take out some layers of PTFE, but that sort of damage should be much more limited in the hexagons than in the solid coating I’ve used before.
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