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I’m afraid it’s not so shrimple
That forced me to groan. Take your upvote.
it’s just a hummingbird moth Who’s acting like a bird that thinks it’s a bee
Now the moth defeats the mouse and man, it’s messing with the plan, it can’t be believed.
Sadly they ravage tomatoes and other nightshade while theyre caterpillars so people often kill them with impugnity. Probably contributes to why theyre not commonly seen.
I would love to see a diagram of how its morphology changed through time and evolution, I bet it’s wild
That’s a Pokémon.
More cute bugs pls
First time I saw one of these in my garden I thought I was trippin
Sometimes a cutie is just a cutie, defying classification
Like those damned jumping spiders. They freak me out, but I can’t deny they’re cute as hell.
When they look at me with those big mirror eyes, I say “just take my house it’s yours now”
Fun fact: in the northeast US and eastern Canada, you can support their entire life cycle by planting tomatoes and Monarda spp together!
If these are fairies, then are mantis shrimp like some Lovecraftian monstrosity from the arthropod Unseelie Court?
Because shrimp is bugs
I’m guessing, it’s this species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_thysbe
(Apparently, this species is also referred to as “hummingbird moth”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth )
this is the kind of thing i want to see in fantasy/scifi media, everything looks broadly the same until you get closer and realize all the trees are actually heavily derived insects.
