Insect Appreciation Thread

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

To be fair, lots of insects have seethrough wings…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

I believe this species has very unique structural wing properties, but I am not a Lepidopterologist, so I could be wrong.

[lady_deaths_head]

The caterpillar the pokemon caterpie is based on (Spicebush swallowtail)

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[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Rather cartoon-ey it’s false eyes are.

[lady_deaths_head]

I love them it looks so goofy

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

How did you manage to get so many of these?

[lady_deaths_head]

It’s not my picture, you can click on the image to get redirected

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

This is the giant weta, the largest insect: Giant wētā - Wikipedia
Imagine seeing a swarm of them outside your house!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It would be probably terrifying.
Though I don’t recall wetas forming swarms…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

I never said they formed swarms, only told you to imagine if they did and one was outside your house.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I can imagine a swarm of huntsman spiders would be more terrifying to witness…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

@JustaDumbThriver

Imagine seeing a swarm of them outside your house!

@aah31415

It would be probably terrifying.

So like the giant locust swarms in Jurassic World: Dominion?

Also, how about the smallest known insect in the world, Dicopomorpha echmepterygis?

By John T. Huber, John S. Noyes, J. Read - Huber J, Noyes J (2013). “A new genus and species of fairyfly, Tinkerbella nana (belgiumoptera, Mymaridae), with comments on its sister genus Kikiki , and discussion on small size limits in arthropods”. Journal of belgiumoptera Research 32: 17–44. Pensoft Publishers. DOI:10.3897/JHR.32.4663., CC BY 3.0, File:Dicopomorpha echmepterygis.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

There apparently exist smaller, parasitic and rather immobile arthropods…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

There is a crustacean called Dendrogaster that parasitizes on sea stars. It takes someone to tell you it’s a crustacean to know it’s a crustacean.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It doesn’t even look like they have a crust…

[lady_deaths_head]

A moth as big as a bird? Really! #atlasmoth #attacusatlas

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Probably the closest thing to Mothra we’ll ever get in real life.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Well, unless we do some genetic-engineering…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah… Add some active breathing instead of passive, and you can reach sizes of probably 5m and it will still fly.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

At some point structural and internal changes might be needed to still have such a moth be capable of becoming airborne…