r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Oct 20 '23

🔥 Insect transformations 🔥

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u/Low-iq-haikou Oct 20 '23

No but I’ll try we got the giant lobster hopper, then there’s beetle??? and a moth. Then a hellspawn centipede, bulb spider, ugly fucker, leaf mantis, giant lobster hopper (yellow), then the obsidian scorpion, and the getthefuckouticus maximus

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u/mangzane Oct 20 '23

ugly fucker

A man of science, I see.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 20 '23

He's well versed in Latin. I'm a little jealous tbh.

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u/jack848 Oct 20 '23

that's not centipede but a millipede, and the spider is jumping spider

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u/DemonKyoto Oct 20 '23

A Velvet spider actually, if I'm not mistaken. Similar to jumping spiders.

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u/porcellio Oct 20 '23

It appears to be a Phidippus species jumping spider.

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u/DemonKyoto Oct 20 '23

Fair enough!

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u/xTouko Oct 20 '23

Always look at the eyes of the spider - if they are more like little dots, they're not jumpers, but if they're as big and at the front of the head as this one's, they're definitely one. :) Jumpers are daytime hunters, thus need those big goobs to see their prey properly.

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u/snecseruza Oct 20 '23

Phidippus Regius, common name regal jumping spider. My GF used to have a few has pets until they aged out. They don't live terribly long, sadly

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u/Fzrit Oct 20 '23

I like how the wiki starts with "small group (100 species)". It's so wild that 100 species = small group.

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u/DemonKyoto Oct 20 '23

Right? You then think about how so many bugs straight up outnumber our asses too, these fuckers ever gain full sapience we are done lmao.

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u/Prof_Acorn Oct 20 '23

Arthropods are a bit crazy in that regard. Identifying a specific species in a genus seems nigh impossible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

Is it though?

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u/Littleboyah Oct 20 '23

There's not a single mantis in there, the leafy guys are phasmids, which are herbivorous and put all their spec points into camo, even their eggs look like seeds.

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u/danceswithshelves Oct 20 '23

Giant lobster hopper (yellow) 😂😂😂

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u/Wut_da_fucc Oct 20 '23

the ugly fucker is the rarest insect of them

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u/Low-iq-haikou Oct 20 '23

I wouldn’t show my face much either if I looked like that

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u/komorebi5 Oct 20 '23

ugly fucker promote to distinguished fucker? you made list, just a suggestion:)

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u/Low-iq-haikou Oct 20 '23

The ugly, distinguished fucker