Insect appreciation thread - You WILL love the bugs

[vomitusdeux]

TEAM COLEOPTERA.
Also OP for the love of bugs thumbnail those images

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Nah that won't happen unless you push it off a shelf. You should make sure the nest material is strong enough so that the ants won't tunnel it.

Yeah its just the thought of them breaking free that didsuades me, a nightmare scenario,

I've seen videos of people having pet wasps . I wonder if you spent enough time with the queen snt, the colony would be relatively docile

 

[Weeb Slinger]

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It is Eurycantha Horrida. One of the less breakfastable stick insects.

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

I'm sick of the Cicada hate. There's too much of it, and it's undeserved. They can be annoying when the broods come out en masse, I get it, but they're some of the coolest lil dudes. See below my "Why Cicadas rock list"

• Beautiful singing voices
• Unable to bite you
• Can come in pretty colors
• An essential part of the summer vibe
• Act as an all you can eat buffet for woodland critters, after they fuck and soon after die, littering forests with their corpses
• An important motif in cultures around the world, both ancient and modern
• And so much more!

 

[Cats]

one day outside of work I discovered a tiny mantis only 1-2 centimeters. He landed on top of my ID card sitting on the table and was looking up at me. I picked the card up to eye level and the mantis assumed a combat stance and displayed its claws while swaying side to side.

 

[Android raptor]

Anyone else roach-pilled?

 

[TyrasGuard]

I'm a sucker for catterpillars, I find them as cool if not more than after they become moths/butterflies. I remember finding one inside my house and like a retard I took it outside because I thought he wanted to eat grass or something only to find a bird trying to peck at it. Thankfully it lived but I never saw it again.

The fuzzy ones are the best. If there was a way to build like a space for them and keep them as pets I totally would.

 

[Teghern]

Caterpillars are adorable, even the ugly ones, and as the only non-disgusting larvae they're honorary vertebrates IMO.

 

[Used Homunculi Salesman]

Step aside, buglets.
The Real insect order is here.

ODONATA​

Absolutely dumpstering every other predator to evolve before or since with a K/D ratio that would make any competitive e-sport player kill themselves in shame. Achieving as high as a 95% success rate when they hunt, the highest of any recorded animal. This thing can fly in every direction you can think of: up, down left, right, backwards? Hell, this thing can flip upside-down mid-chase to take down it's target. And when it comes to speed, it's borderline unmatched in the insect world. Usually averaging at a lightning quick 36–54 kilometers an hour (22–34 mph for the mutts in the room), with the fastest species reaching a mindboggling 97 km/h (60 mph).

Like the shark and the crocodile, it was born as a winning design. Unlike those two, when God created the Dragonfly, he realized he peaked.

Meganeura: a dragonfly the size of a EAGLE, was so fucking powerful, that God himself had to shrink it down to a fraction of that size.
Just to give the rest of his creations a fighting chance.

Even as a baby it is a top-tier killing machine. Hunting with some straight up alien bullshit.

Using that feeding mask (basically an extra arm purpose built for fucking shit up) it lives like a tiny crocodile, decimating prey in even the smallest of ponds.

Until it does this:

When was the last time you saw a crocodile climb it's fat ass up a lamppost & shed it's skin into a dragon?
Never.
Dragonflies do that shit so much we put it in their goddamn name.

I'm sorry? Is all this Pure Testosterone too much for you feeble body to handle? Don't worry, because the order of Odonata was made to be enjoyed by all people with two eyes and a brain.

This is the Damselfly: All the glory of the Dragonfly squeezed into an effeminate package for women & homosexuals like yourself.

​

Speed. Power. Precision.
Odonata.​

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

Anyone else roach-pilled?

Hissing cockroaches are neat, but any other roach freaks me out. I could hold a tarantula in my hand and be fine, but a roach? No way José.

 

[TyrasGuard]

Anyone else roach-pilled?

I've gotten jumpscared a lot by them suddenly remembering they have wings

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

This is the Damselfly: All the glory of the Dragonfly squeezed into an effeminate package for women & homosexuals like yourself.

Dem silly eyes.

You won me over this insect, it looks like a killer machine and has pretty colors. Nature can be so pretty that creates perfect predator animals from time to time.

 

[Teghern]

Anyone else roach-pilled?

I had one invade my hotel bathroom once, big fat fucker.
Got him under an ashtray and thought it was over, he fucking decapitated himself squishing the back of his abdomen out of the tiny little nook at the back.
The head was still twitching when I tossed it out the window as his headless body ran off.
I don't think they'll ever evolve to replace us because they've already peaked adaptationally speaking.

 

[Android raptor]

Hissing cockroaches are neat, but any other roach freaks me out. I could hold a tarantula in my hand and be fine, but a roach? No way José.

Hissers are actually a bit better for handling than tarantulas because tarantulas are so delicate. Giant cave roaches are pretty good to handle as well. And rhino roaches but they're $$$$$$$ and hard to get.

 

[Mister Baranavichy]

Shout out to the giant African Snail.


I know it's technically a mollusk, but they deserve some love too.

 

[Checkerboard Hero]

Shout out to the giant African Snail.
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My nigga.

 

[Toolbox]

Unable to bite you

Oh they can, just don't handle them so long they think you're a tree. They are a 'true bug', however unscientific that definition may be. https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/do-cicadas-bite-or-sting/


Periodical doing it, footage.
(Can't get it to embed properly. It's on that page, but also directly here.)
If they do inject it's genuinely because they're just dumb and can't realize you aren't their food source, I doubt they do it defensively. But I'm betting it'll hurt if that thing can pierce bark.

 

[Strange Looking Dog]

I like spiders are spiders a bug? I like spiders. Hymenopterans are cool too though

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Wow so frickin trve

Anyone else roach-pilled?

Wow this is a really humanizing character trait

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

Oh they can, just don't handle them so long they think you're a tree. They are a 'true bug', however unscientific that definition may be. https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/do-cicadas-bite-or-sting/

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Periodical doing it, footage.
(Can't get it to embed properly. It's on that page, but also directly here.)
If they do inject it's genuinely because they're just dumb and can't realize you aren't their food source, I doubt they do it defensively. But I'm betting it'll hurt if that thing can pierce bark.

I suppose I should've realized they had those stabby proboscises, since they are true bugs, but not once in all my years of handling these critters have I had the misfortune of getting bit by one. I wouldn't be surprised if they do it out of stupidity, and not aggression or defense though, sounds about right for these doofuses.


Now giant water bugs on the other hand, those guys are probably some of the scariest hemipterans out there. Somewhat related video:

 

[FierceBrosnan]

I keep ants and they're extremely low-maintenance. You only need to feed them, provide water, change the nest every few months and clean the arena.

I miss Japanese Bug Fights