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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Is both roly and poly.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

So I probably shouldn't boil, mash or put in a stew? Damn, that's a lot of time I've wasted..

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That’s definitely a bug, just not an insect

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Technically not a ‘bug’ but ok.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

That there's your standard issue roly-poly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also called a pillbug. Okay, I'll defer to you - maybe sowbug lol a little flatter.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We call them slaters, or slater beetles in Aus

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It is a pill though.

Pops one

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

makes you taste colors

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's definitely a bug. Bug isn't a taxonomic term.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"You know what, fuck you, taxonomy."

Un-deads your butterflies

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's an isopod!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Land Crustacean

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think I saw another post where it's good at heavy metal spoil extraction.

Is it the same type of creature?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We should call them prawntatoes instead

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