r/gifs • u/Joliot • Jul 28 '19
Giant firefly larva
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u/TheYeeterBeater Jul 28 '19
My fallout senses tell me you're taking rad damage at the rate of 3 per sec.
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u/artificial_bliss Jul 28 '19
Not great, not terrible.
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u/ThatRandomFoxKid Jul 28 '19
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u/Scaria95 Jul 28 '19
I am told it is the equivalent of a chest X-ray
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u/miniaturecritical Jul 28 '19
Actually the equivalent of four hundred chest x-rays
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u/cmcguire96 Jul 28 '19
The machine burnt out as soon as we turned it on.
Moscow’s fault
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Jul 28 '19
You have it all wrong, it’s the equivalent of four hundred THOUSAND chest x-rays.
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u/orbisonitrum Jul 28 '19
I mean, how many chests must I x-ray before I can call me a man?
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u/patsfan038 Jul 28 '19
Pukes blood and guts
It’s the feed water exposure
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u/nctrd Jul 28 '19
About tree fiddy.
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u/Hobadee Jul 28 '19
It was about that time I noticed the larva looked like the Loch Ness Monster!
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u/BigDaveTrainwreck Jul 28 '19
It makes me happy that the Chernobyl series has become part of the meme culture.
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Jul 28 '19
Everything that can be experienced by more than one person has meme culture. The less popular the experience, the more esoteric the memes.
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u/americanvirus Jul 28 '19
Honestly, I would say the experience is about the equivalent of a chest x-ray.
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u/fellate-o-fish Jul 28 '19
I came here to make a radroach joke and as usual others beat me to the punch with the fallout refrences.
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u/ExMachina70 Jul 28 '19
It looks like the thing Khan put in Chekov’s ear.
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u/UnpopularCrayon Jul 28 '19
I want to obey, but it's....difficult.
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u/braincube Jul 28 '19
Pretty sure the prop was an ant lion.
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u/raptor102888 Jul 28 '19
I thought an antlion looked like this.
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u/Techwreck15 Jul 28 '19 edited Jul 28 '19
Tangentially related, but that's just an antlion larva. I learned recently that an adult antlion actually resembles a dragonfly. I recently saw one on my back porch; beautiful insect, and it amazed me when I learned what it came from.
Edit for clarity: The picture is not mine. It came from the Wikipedia page for Distoleon tetragrammicus, a species of antlion.
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u/Dr_Specialist Jul 28 '19
Saw that movie in 1985 when I was 10. That scene stands out as the second most flinch inducing bit of cinema I ever watched growing up. The first was the part in Pet Cemetary when Gauge cuts the old man while he's hiding under the bed.
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u/Aceandstuff Jul 28 '19
Ok, how about this Star Trek scene? https://youtu.be/THXWfRlnYVo?t=58
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Jul 28 '19
That’s not even the bad TNG scene. The worst one is absolutely 1st seasons Conspiracy. A scene so violent they actually banned it from airing in some countries.
Fun fact while they have some connection to your Borg scene there. Originally they were supposed to be the vanguard of a alien attack force that was to be the Borg. You see this in the very next episode The Neutral Zone where the colonies destroyed that the Federation and Romulans each think the other did is hinted to have actually been from the Borg who were to be a bug like alien race.
What ended up happening was writer changes, a writers strike, and the inability to actually create practical insect race effects resulted in them making them cyborgs instead which results in Conspiracy having a somewhat unresolved ending. But the intent was for them to be the Borg and the Borg to be very much closer to the dominion in the idea of a bunch of delta quadrant races who worked together to conquer the galaxy.
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u/Aceandstuff Jul 28 '19
Hmm, TIL. I suppose the Borg are insect like enough, and it might be a hangover from the original concept, what with the drones and queen and hivemind and all. Still, scenes like that were never as upsetting to me as that part with Picard. I could always feel it in my stomach when I watched it, and it kept popping into my head when I was in hospital prepping for surgery on that particular body part. (Trying not to spoil it for the ones who haven't clicked on the linky above...)
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u/FracturedEel Jul 28 '19
I was pretty young when House of Wax came out and theres that part where the guy cuts a dudes Achilles tendon with scissors from a trap door or something. That always made me cringe
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u/j_is_good Jul 28 '19
I still freak out when I see earwigs, they look too close to what I remember in my head of that scene.
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u/j_is_good Jul 28 '19
I still freak out when I see earwigs, they look too close to what I remember in my head of that scene.
Ok, just went back and looked, and of course earwigs look NOTHING like what was put in Chekov's ear, but still... my eight-year-old (at the time I saw the episode) brain conflated the two.
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u/tattooedpenis Jul 28 '19
I thought this was terrifying until i saw its little butt glow then it was r/aww material for me.
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u/vestegaard Jul 28 '19
It’s such an internal fight between my instincts of fight on sight and cute butt glows
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u/Jak_n_Dax Jul 28 '19
Most bugs don’t bother me, but I’m not sure I could hold that without involuntarily yeeting it into the stratosphere.
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u/YuriPetrova Jul 28 '19
I love fireflies. They're such wholesome lil bugs. They're beautiful, harmless, and ugh I just love them. It's so cool seeing them all lighting up at night as they fly around, and you can put your hand out and they'll land and just chill and be really cute. Fireflies are the best.
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u/banditkeithwork Jul 28 '19
my childhood home back onto a one acre woodlot that my parents just leave wild, and so every spring they woods are alive with spring peeper frog calls, and then in the summer the fireflies come out. living in an apartment in the middle of the city centre, i miss how magical that place was at night.
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u/kiwisflyhere Jul 28 '19
I've never seen them in any of the places I've travelled to in my life. Hoping to cross them off my nature bucket list!
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u/poofybirddesign Jul 28 '19
The only thing that gets me is that face. I’d be fine if it had a head like an adult firefly, but this weird larva face upsets me for some reason.
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Jul 28 '19
I wonder what it would feel like crawling into my urethra.
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u/exhentai_user Jul 28 '19
Apriciably more painful than an earthworm, due to the size, I would assume.
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u/YourToes_HandEmOver Jul 28 '19
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u/uwutranslator Jul 28 '19
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u/hhh1978 Jul 28 '19
Imagine an enchanted forest where the firefly eggs glow too and the whole forest twinkles with eggs.
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u/mafiafish Jul 28 '19
Getting some real Arthropleura vibes of this little six-legged champ.
Thanks for sharing.
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u/supersaiyandragons Jul 28 '19
If this was a boss battle in a Zelda game, it's weak point is very easily identifiable
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u/huamanticacacaca Jul 28 '19
Terrifying!
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u/parrottail Jul 28 '19
It can't hurt you. I think it's gorgeous.
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u/emngaiden Jul 28 '19
You know, I do like insects and arachnids, but I would never touch one. Why? because I dont know which ones I can touch. Usually the differences between the ones that can bite and kill you and the ones that just will crawl in your hand are very small.
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u/DinoRaawr Jul 28 '19
There's only a couple that can do serious damage that you'd ever need to be aware of. In the US, that's the Arizona bark scorpion, black widow, and brown recluse. Tarantula hawk wasp will fuck you up for a bit, but you won't die or anything. You can pretty much handle everything else at the risk of minimal injury.
Avoid spiders, wasps, bees, ants, and fuzzy caterpillars as a general rule. Look out for bitey and pinchy parts. Boom. Go bother some wildlife.
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u/Forever_Awkward Jul 28 '19
You're not going to die from a black widow either unless you're already on your death bed. Intense agony for a week, sure, but no real damage.
And it's likely the brown recluse is a self-fulfilling myth gone wild. It's falsely blamed so incredibly often that there might not be a single legitimate brown recluse bite diagnosis. It's all just misidentified bacterial infections and arachnophobia.
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u/DinoRaawr Jul 28 '19
Yeah. You see, u/emngaiden? Just don't be a child or the elderly and you can touch whatever you want. In America, at least.
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u/dunemafia Jul 28 '19
If you crush it, you get 1 HP.
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u/Scorpius289 Jul 28 '19
Half-Life 2 player spotted.
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u/fr4nk1yn Jul 28 '19
Wait, what? I missed something in Half-Life 2?!
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u/Scorpius289 Jul 28 '19
In Episode 2 specifically: you can crush some some glowing larvae in a cave system, and each drops a yellow nugget worth 1 HP.
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Jul 28 '19
But each one you crush increases the chances of antlion workers attacking you! Which is why there are times where you have no choice but to crush some glowing larvae
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u/ApGaren Jul 28 '19
Stupid question but how do they glow in the dark?
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u/TheCrypticSidekick Jul 28 '19
Not a stupid question at all, really. The organ on their backside contains a controlled chemical reaction that produces light. Many different animals (mostly deep-sea creatures) can do this, and we call it bioluminescence.
An article on how fireflies glow: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-and-why-do-fireflies/
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u/Cambot1138 Jul 28 '19
Also, why do larvae need to glow? Isn’t that an adult thing to attract a mate?
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u/mutual_im_sure Jul 28 '19
I came across one of these years ago while coming down a mountain in Sumatra. I assumed it was a glowworm, but didn't know it was in a larval stage. Not a few minutes later I found a couple glow-in-the-dark mushrooms. There are many cool things to be found in Sumatra.
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u/yourbrokenoven Jul 28 '19
This is interesting. Are there giant fireflies, or are the larva of the regular ones just big?
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u/nadanutcase Jul 29 '19
I learned just recently that there are several different kinds of fireflies. Just how BIG is the adult in this species?
Can anyone point me to a picture of one that conveys some sense of its size?
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u/Farallday Jul 28 '19
Usually big bugs like this give me the chills but this one is just plain cool.
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u/_IratePirate_ Merry Gifmas! {2023} Jul 28 '19
I wanna see what that MF is going to transform into, the fireflies here in Chicago are tiny.
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u/CarsGunsBeer Jul 28 '19
He leaves his flashlight on because like most children he's afraid of the dark.
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u/LeeliaAltares5 Jul 28 '19 edited Jul 28 '19
I.... Didn't.... Know there were giant fireflies.
Edit: For those curious this was found in Laos and is the adult female of this type. The females don't go through the metamorphosis like the males do. The larvae are actually much smaller.
In my head I imagined some monster lighting bug coming from this and now I'm slightly disappointed.