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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 51 points 6 days ago

Just a fellow creature. Nothing suspicious here. snacks please.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

... And it was at that moment that I realized he was a three story tall monster from the Paleolithic era!

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

FUCK OFF NESSIE

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 73 points 6 days ago

So you’re a termite?
“…uhhh totally.”
What do we like to eat?
“Stuff and wood and junk.”
Okay good enough.

[-] MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 66 points 6 days ago

This is some Pokemon shit.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 6 days ago

Pokemon is really just some real animal kingdom shit.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

And not even like…“but cuter!”. Japan has some insanely cute critters.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 21 points 6 days ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh... we were supposed to drop our evidence? Very well...

Shima Enaga (long tailed bushtit / snowfairy)

Rosefinch

Tanuki


Fire bellied newt

Their honey bee

and for the weirdos.. the murder hornet... ( i wouldn't call these fuckers cute, but I'm sure somebody does. Their moms, maybe.)

Far from exhaustive, but eh, these are my favorite Pokémon. (Okay so murder hornets are ugly, but they’re murderous!)

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

where are there honey bees that don't look like that?

also might want to scale the hornet image down, that could share the shit out of someone

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorry, this might freak you outBut those fuckers are freaking huge.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 9 points 6 days ago

long tailed bushtit

So this is what perfection sounds like

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

the various common names of birds have convinced me that ornithologists are mostly horny perverts that have spent too much time alone in the woods.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Tanuki is Zigzagoon! Right? It's gotta be.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

Thank you! never saw something of these and now my life is changed for the better.

[-] Sasnak@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

I immediately thought of mimikyu!

[-] NessD@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

The wild thing is: These are hundreds of mutations of several generations that happened randomly until it looked like this.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I want to know how it even started. Like, what was its equivalent of a half eye so that the termites would start feeding it?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 6 days ago

I think we have one of those in the Office of President of the United States of America

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 32 points 6 days ago

"You get free food for life but you gotta wear this giant yellow foam cowboy hat and never take it off. Even to shower"

[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 6 days ago

Disguise skill level: Agent 47

It's wild that the benefits of this outweigh the cost of making it enough to stick around.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Getting Vincent Adultman vibes.

[-] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

How do you do fellow termites?

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 days ago

wonder if I could seduce your mom that way

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

You have to grow either a vodka bottle or a crack pipe puppet to seduce mine.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

how about a vodkipe cottlerack puppet?

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 14 points 6 days ago

says a lot of how insects identify each other

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 6 points 6 days ago

Yes, that's what I wondered, too. In ant nest parasites they usually are visually very different from the ants, but get the pheromones right. In this example here, visual clues have to be important for the beetle to have evolved such a sophisticated mimicry.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

That's what happens if you only have access to a handful of brain cells.

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 days ago

my mom has some of those

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

As evidenced by homo sapiens

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

That must have been such a wild evolutionary arms race. I wonder how it even began.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

What do you mean? We're watching it happen in real time right now with people; vtubers learned to put on costumes of animals, insects or even mythical creatures to get weird internet losers to give them money to feed themselves.

You also have that giant cockroach that learned to put on a human skin called asmongold to get people to subscribe to its twitch channel.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

I'm not saying I've never covered myself in feathers and sat naked in a tree waiting for birds to feed me. I'm not perfect, no one is, we're all on a journey of learning and improving. Growing a termite on your back just seems like it'd take so long before it would trick the termites.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

Must be desperate. Imagine the millions of dead bugs trying to get fed by termites. One after the other failing to be a convincing termite. Until finally the perfect one was born.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Hey bro, I am not a beggar bro. I am just carrying this termite to the hospital. Can you give some food for the road bro, promise I am not a beggar.

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

That's so freaking cool

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

Evolution: I'm winning it.

[-] catty@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Imagine if incels grew kittens on their back to lure lonely women...

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Who is this Mimi which is crying?

this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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