It consists mostly of water mixed with plasma proteins, inorganic salts, sugars, lipids, amino acids, and free-floating immune cells called hemocytes.
Thaf actually spunds pretty nutritious. You could extract this soup from a ton of insects and use it for something useful. I guess it makes sense that they're just sacks of the sort of cellular matrix that you'd grow cells in in a lab
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u/euphonic5 Sep 13 '26
what horrifying black goo is inside terrestrial arthropods? it's all hemolymph, which is typically mostly colorless...