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I love woodlice. Those things are adorable. I used to play with them when I was a kid. And also ants.
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Hermit crabs are cute but patato bugs I think is beginning to stretch things.
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I've only played with the potato bugs Jon Boy referred to. I reserved my magnifying glass murdering rampages for ants.
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My mom called the ones Jon Boy linked to "sow bugs" which also appears on that wikipedia page. I've also heard them called potato bugs. Never heard woodlice before.
Synesthesia, sorry, don't think your potato bugs are even a little bit cute. Are you the one that also thought that the tongue-eating creature someone linked to some months back was cute?
Gotta stick with the dogs, cats, bunnies, babies if we're looking for common ground on cuteness. Although I do remember you thinking my cat's paws were very cute when I linked to a picture of him, so you get points for that. ;-)
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This is the tongue-eating thing I mentioned. (scroll down a little to see the pic)
You were not the one who said it was cute, Syn; rollainm was. But you did think something else in that thread was cute, so my memory isn't entirely flawed! (ETA: what you thought were cute in that thread were the same creatures you just linked to here)
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This is the tongue-eating thing I mentioned. (scroll down a little to see the pic)
You were not the one who said it was cute, Syn; rollainm was. But you did think something else in that thread was cute, so my memory isn't entirely flawed! (ETA: what you thought were cute in that thread were the same creatures you just linked to here)
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I agree with Utah...the first one looks like a cricket. Although Utah's potato bug might be called a rolly polly elsewhere.
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I have a very unmasculine tattoo of a lady bug. When my daughter was born, the hospital janitor took me up to the roof to have a smoke. It was completely covered with ladybugs. I've never seen so many in one place. If I were a traditional Native American, her name would be ladybug.
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I've accidentally chomped on them while eating blackberries. It taught me to carefully inspect the berry before popping it into my mouth.
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I have. They smell all buggy. Knocker-moth smelled similar.Better than the stinky cynthia moth I had.
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I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but for some unknown reason I find this photo of courting banana slugs to be adorable. If I had a significant other, I'd almost want to send a card of the photo to her.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega M.: I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but for some unknown reason I find this photo of courting banana slugs to be adorable. If I had a significant other, I'd almost want to send a card of the photo to her.
You and I can never date.
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The slugs make me want to grab some salt. Honeybee's are awesome.
I use to cup them in my hands off the tops of Dandy Lions. I think that's a maneuver only a child can pull off, without getting stung.
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"In Spinochordodes tellinii, which has orthopterans as its vector, the infection acts on the insect's brain and causes it to seek water and drown itself, thus returning the nematomorph to water.[5] They are also remarkably able to survive the predation of their host, being able to wriggle out of the predator that has eaten the host."
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