Jun 18, 2023
I once handed an ant to a Frenchman.
Excitedly, he said "for me?"
Hang on I gotta check something
Okay yeah that's funny
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I once handed an ant to a Frenchman.
Excitedly, he said "for me?"
Hang on I gotta check something
Okay yeah that's funny
Let's hope i can keep this up then!
9. Summer
Makeup?
Okay, discussion time! Which bug would you say is the best parent?
My vote is centipedes for the whole "i am the nest" mommy egg hug.
That's a good example! But I'd have to say the spiders that literally let their babies eat their body until they are dead. What greater sacrifice is there?
Read about it here: https://entomologytoday.org/2015/03/27/arachnid-matriphagy-these-spider-mothers-literally-die-for-their-young/
Warning: there are photos in the article of the babies eating the mother, including one where she is already dead.
Bugs be like "Holy shit, I have wings now! ... but why am I so F--KING HORNY!?"
Must be very disorienting emerging as a whole new creature
A curiosity that I just thought of: we know of a lot of bugs that do mimicry to avoid predators (moths looking like bird droppings or wasps, spiders looking like ants and so on and forth). Are there any bugs that do double-mimicry?
Like, let's say a fly is mimicking the looks of a beetle, but that beetle itself is mimicking something else. I mean, it's easy to say they both are mimicking the third thing, but has there ever been a case where it's clear the X is mimicking the Y, who itself is mimicking the Z?
I don't know of any examples of that off the top of my head, but I think it would be hard to definitively say that X is mimicking Y which is mimicking Z and not just X and Y are both mimicking Z, especially if they all live in the same environment and thus would need protection against the same predators.
No bug photos because it's very winter here right now. Too cold.
But I did dream about being in a store where I found an aphid with forelegs 20 times longer than its own body, who was high on coffee and a white dragonfly with raspberry pink patterns who refused to leave my nose alone.
So that was neat.
In one of the infinite universes out there, both of those exist and I love them.
YOU NEED TO BOOP! YOU'RE A CAT! That's like, 70% of all they do!
I DO NOT CONTROL THE TIME AT WHICH I GET TO GO HOME