Science Memes @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 8 mo. ago

LIES

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Is both roly and poly.
So I probably shouldn't boil, mash or put in a stew? Damn, that's a lot of time I've wasted..
That’s definitely a bug, just not an insect
- Technically not a ‘bug’ but ok.
  
  I could see it both ways. Crustaceans are arthropods and this resembles a true bug about as much as a spider does, but I’ll give you that crustaceans are probably not top on people’s list of “looks like a bug.”
  
  I lean towards using it for most kinds of “small invertebrate pest,” because those are the factors about bugs that I care about. Even a tiny, annoying hummingbird would only seem like a bug to me until I looked at it, but something with chitin almost always feels like it counts
Am I missing the point by saying that's not a potato bug? Not even sure it's a pillbug, but maybe is. Looks like a sowbug.
- That there's your standard issue roly-poly.
  
  Also called a pillbug. Okay, I'll defer to you - maybe sowbug lol a little flatter.
It is a pill though.

Pops one
- makes you taste colors
That's definitely a bug. Bug isn't a taxonomic term.
- I believe it is. A bug is a range of insects with piercing mouthparts. Like sap-sucking guys, or assassin bugs. I don’t think mosquitoes count though. I could be wrong.
  
  Bug is a taxonomic term? Fucking taxonomists. Taxonomy is a garbage pseudoscience that takes our living natural language and turns it into a dead, useless thing like their pinned up butterflies.
It's an isopod!
Land Crustacean
I think I saw another post where it's good at heavy metal spoil extraction.

Is it the same type of creature?
- Yep!
We should call them prawntatoes instead

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