So.... what is the creepiest type of Insect?

Borachio said:
What's yuck about it?

I'm just amazed by the things. Imagine trying to build one of those yourself from scratch! And where do the batteries go?
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Tolni said:
That's not a robot.
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Borachio said:
No. It's an amazing living self-replicating creature!

(I still don't know where the batteries go.)
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Tolni said:
The best part is that it needs no batteries. It fuels itself through carbohydrates and all that. You don't even need to plug it in!
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Borachio said:
Wut? It runs on marmalade sandwiches? Just like Paddington Bear? That's cool. But sticky.
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:lol::lol::lol:

10 Internet cookies for Borachio's brave and enduring stand-off against the seriousness (and autism) of the Internet.
 
Ah. Well. It takes two to tango. And I suspect Mr Tolni's mind works in a similar way to my own. He's all good.

But thanks for the cookies. Nymm! (Or something. I forget the orthography for that, atm. Nyam, nyam? No, that's not it. Nyom? Nope.)
 
That award almost certainly goes to the house centipede.

Don't get me wrong, they're quite beneficial, and certainly one of our "friends" in the big wide world of bugs, but damn they are creeptastic. Everything about them: how they look, how they walk (they sway side to side), how fast they can run, how many big long legs they have...

Spoiler :
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Centipedes are arthropoda, not insects :( (try dissecting their repeating ring parts into 3 neat segments ;) ).

And yes, centipedes are the vilest looking crawlers of all.
 
If they limited themselves to mice instead of taking the sick, young, elderly, and sleeping too: I'd probably like them.
 
did you know, you eat at least one centipede when you sleep, although if you're lucky, you might get two.

the rest is spiders.
 
Can't believe no one has pointed out that insects are also in the phylum arthropoda! Anyhow my favourites are the parasitoid wasps. Take Aphidius for an example. It lays its egg inside an aphid (these wasps are only a few mm long) and the larvae hatches and eats the aphid from the inside. What's more amazing is that it targets the non vital organs first to keep it alive as long as possible. The longer it is alive, the more it can feed, and the more food the larvae gets in turn. When ready to pupate the larvae kills the aphid, cements it to the leaf and pupates. When developed into the adult the insect bursts out of the aphid, finds another wasp to mate with and the process continues!

Fascinating. I heard once that they were the inspiration for the alien films, but I may be wrong on that point.

Forgive any minor errors, this is all from memory.

AS.
 
AncestralSpark said:
Can't believe no one has pointed out that insects are also in the phylum arthropoda! Anyhow my favourites are the parasitoid wasps. Take Aphidius for an example. It lays its egg inside an aphid (these wasps are only a few mm long) and the larvae hatches and eats the aphid from the inside. What's more amazing is that it targets the non vital organs first to keep it alive as long as possible. The longer it is alive, the more it can feed, and the more food the larvae gets in turn. When ready to pupate the larvae kills the aphid, cements it to the leaf and pupates. When developed into the adult the insect bursts out of the aphid, finds another wasp to mate with and the process continues!

Fascinating. I heard once that they were the inspiration for the alien films, but I may be wrong on that point.

Forgive any minor errors, this is all from memory.

AS.
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Indeed, centipedes are Myriapoda, while - as you noted - Arthopoda are an over-class including insets as well, since it signifies they are beings with jointed legs. Thanks :)
 
^Not at all, i gained this TIL through it, cause i did use to think the arthopod class was not including insects (and had not looked up its specific etymology either), so thanks a lot AncestralSpark :)
 
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