Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/29/fist-sized-hercules-beetle-pup.html
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Horror bugs from planet nightmare!
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Nope.
Because a post requires 9 characters:
Nope, nope.
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This is a pupa… which means it gets bigger?
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Please tell me this person has itty bitty Trumpian hands.
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After all this talk about eating insects, now we can have steaks or fillets?
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Awww! Can we keep 'em?
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Shellfish and mollusks are the kinda of food that aliens always seem to feed visiting humans in sci-fi.
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Now that’s a pupa to write home about.
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Huge bugs rock!!!
(As does my obvious erudition.)
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I thought pupae (?) were supposed to be immobile, and that I’d gotten it confused with the larval stage when I first saw this. I guess not.
Beetle pupae can usually do that little butt wiggle. (unlike a chrysalis) The moth pupae I’ve seen all seem to be able to do it as well.
Also, these things are SO COOL! (I want!)
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It’s fist-sized herculus beetles all the way down, so I wouldn’t exactly call it a menagerie (I had such high hopes!). Wonderful creatures though!
Please don’t kill. Feel free to leave the house screaming.
When I was about eight, I saw a huge stag beetle, beaten to death by an ignorant grandmother with her shoe, cheered on by a bunch of children. Some of my respect for humanity got lost that day.
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- A chrysalis can, too, wiggle. For a large part of its existence, anyway.
- I think “wanting” brought a lot of “exotic” wildlife to the brink of extinction, so I don’t, personally. But I’m happy to be able to admire those species which still are allowed to share this planet with us. Glorious.
Excuse me. I need to go wash my hands now. A lot. I may be gone the rest of the day.
So, um, how many worms do these emit when baptized?
That mantis had to be at least 108% hideous writhing by volume; and these things have a lot more volume involved.
