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the duality of beetle (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 131 points 4 months ago

Americans hate this one simple beetle!

[-] Draces@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago
[-] IAmHisBiggestSpoon@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Tell that to Gavin Newsome

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 127 points 4 months ago

Fun fact! This beetle is illegal in Florida.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

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

/s

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

so many invasive species in flordia.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

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

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] raldone01@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

To be fair, your images are full of jpeg artifacts. But at least they're higher res.

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[-] einlander@lemmy.world 61 points 4 months ago

But there are only 2 genders, no in-between

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

what does Paul Shaffer have to do with this?

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[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

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

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

They are turning the beetles Trans!!!!

[-] afronaut@slrpnk.net 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Inter-sects

[-] ZERONOVABLOSSOM@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago
[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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..

[-] allywilson@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] owl@infosec.pub 15 points 4 months ago

Because women are always right.

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[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

That's a can opener beetle

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] oplkill@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago
[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 7 points 4 months ago

As is usually the case, the left is very horny

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 6 points 4 months ago

I feel immensely awful for this guy

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

It must be annoying having mandibles different length like that.

[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Look at you, in-in-insect!

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[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

This is some Slaanesh shit!

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

But which toilet does it use?!

[-] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 4 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.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago
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