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While isopods can sequester heavy metals within their bodies, this is a temporary solution. Upon their death and decomposition, the heavy metals are released back into the soil, so they do not permanently remove these contaminants from the environment.
So like where do they put it? Do they break it down into non metal, does it get placed elsewhere, or leech back into the soil from their corpse?
They accumulate it in a specific organ, but they aren’t magical alchemy machines. It stays in their bodies until they die, then they decompose and it goes back into the ground.
they aren’t magical alchemy machines
Biggest disappointment of this week.
Need a new survival craft game where you can tame isopods to collect precious metals.
So it’s more like moving heavy metal from soil?
Yeah, unless you’re going around and picking up all the tiny little bugs, you’re not really doing anything to fix the pollution…
Are isopods the scientific name for pill bugs, aka roly-polies?
Isopod (Isopoda) is the order they are in.
Armadillidium vulgare is a common species. But there are probably hundreds of species that share the same nickname because most people don’t know the differences.
You shouldn’t eat precious minerals little loot bug!
I killed an isopod, and I’m not so proud about it!
This is one of my all time favourite comics thanks for posting x
So it’s the isopods’ fault that the band sold out. They were much cooler when they were underground.
You just know some weirdo millionaire is gonna try and train them to go eat heavy metal and shit someplace useful.
And I’m not even mad, probably the most environmentally friendly mining operation…
