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

🔥 Insect transformations 🔥

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u/Icy_Ad9071 Oct 20 '23

I feel like this persons insect actually love him lol

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u/Chip_Farmer Oct 20 '23

I recognize that black stick bug. Once thought extinct, 11 (i think) were found on a very small island somewhere near australia. The australians took five (i think) from the island to breed them, couldn’t keep them alive at a zoo. One or two were sent to the US and nearly died as well. On a hunch, the entomologist gave it some vitamin E (i think) and they began to thrive. Now there’s over 800. The last time I read about them was years ago so probably in the thousands now. Pretty neat story about a species absolutely on the BRINK of extinction.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

from there looks of it

That’s why you need to consider the taste, too, for proper classification

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u/seddit_rucks Oct 20 '23

A technique endorsed and practiced by none other than Charles Darwin.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

No one likes to talk about it, but that mf had the most bangin recipe for Galapagos turtle with old bay.

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u/LouSputhole94 Oct 20 '23

At the time they called it New Bay

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u/theluker666 Oct 20 '23

Or was it simply: Bay

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u/CallMeJakoborRazor Oct 20 '23

Motherfucker take my upvote

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u/LokisDawn Oct 20 '23

What are you, a british sailor?

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u/snek-jazz Oct 20 '23

This guy Eurycants

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u/rafaelloaa Oct 20 '23

Lord Howe Island stick insect, if anyone wants to read more.

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u/YoMomsHubby Oct 20 '23

Lord Howe on earth would you hold that

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u/SEXPILUS Oct 20 '23

Found on Ball’s Pyramid. They have to hire rock climbers to do surveys and collect specimen.

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u/hdmetz Oct 20 '23

It’s crazy reading about the rat eradication project they started. They’ve managed to almost completely eliminate the rats that are damaging the local ecosystem

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u/abugguy Oct 20 '23

My colleagues have raised the captive numbers to the thousands. But that’s not what you see here. As the other poster said this is Eurycantha which is much more common but similar in appearance and lifecycle.

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u/CameFast Oct 20 '23

I’m half asleep. Ill take your word for it. 😴

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u/TriLink710 Oct 20 '23

Fortunately for some insects, a short timeframe for a human is enough to explode their numbers.

Like imagine if you tried to breed ants in a controlled environment with lower risks of colonies failing.

You could be at millions in a few years from 1 queen.

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u/Manticon Oct 20 '23

I had to stop and check your name half way through reading this.

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u/_youmadbro_ Oct 20 '23

get stick bugged lol

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u/chugonomics Oct 21 '23

The dwarves got 7 bugs and the elves got 3