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[–] [email protected] 134 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Americans hate this one simple beetle!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Tell that to Gavin Newsome

[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact! This beetle is illegal in Florida.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Got dammit, when will they get these illegals out of here already?!?

/s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

so many invasive species in flordia.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Here's a super rare, cool, and interesting beetle!
*posts a super low quality image*

Here you go, since OP doesn't care about quality.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Appreciate your images. But I don’t think that shade on OP was necessary lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

…and you have 0 posts on your account.

There is a shortage of posts on lemmy compared to active users. So no use outproportionally criticising someone who is posting a post based on something like image quality of a reposted meme lol. That’ll just make people who bring content to lemmy less likely to continue.

Obviously it’s okay to criticise bad posts, but I think in thise case the criticism was more just insults. (and especially in a meme community, like dude we don’t expect 4k image memes).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This is a meme?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The shade absolutely was necessary. This isn't reddit; have some standards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The one tagged "female" was just a bottom view and they both look similiar? Is that the joke?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No there's no joke. It's the same beetle, top and bottom. Split down the middle to be genetically male and female

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ohh ohh damn lol. Posting two pictures was extremely confusing given "left" and "right"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reminds me of something I drew a while back.

I screwed up the equal length of the mandibles from the reference image. They look very similar to this bettle though. The body texture and shape is not quite right though.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (14 children)

But there are only 2 genders, no in-between

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

what does Paul Shaffer have to do with this?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

Obviously beetles aren't smart enough to comprehend 5th grade science.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

They are turning the beetles Trans!!!!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Inter-sects

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Only one way to find out.

*Squish*

With this character's death, the threads of prophecy have been severed. You may load a saved game, or persist in this doomed world that you have created.

Yup..

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's really interestng. I assume it's the left photo from above and the right photo from below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynandromorphism

Genuinely an interesting mutation, it's weird that it's listed as happening in Rodents but not other mammals? Is that just a numbers thing I wonder?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, you can see where the legs connect on the right one, but not the left one, so yeah

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Elon Musk’s least favorite beetle that isn’t named after Hitler

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because women are always right.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

That's a can opener beetle

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

It's the difference in eyes that messes with me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

As is usually the case, the left is very horny

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I feel immensely awful for this guy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look at you, in-in-insect!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It must be annoying having mandibles different length like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

But which toilet does it use?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This is some Slaanesh shit!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

So toilets are usually female - male but beetles are male - female to make circle - female symbol on toilet. Noted, from now on when I spot beetle I will compare it with toilet to figure out if it's male or female.

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