There are moths who look like twigs
[img]https://butterfly-conservation.org/sites/default/files/styles/srcset_large/public/2018-05/15901251690_141d53f4ed_o.jpg[/img]
"The Buff-tip has gone one stage further and is not just the colour of a twig, but the same shape too! And it resembles a specific type of twig; that of a birch tree with its characteristic silvery coloured bark. As if that was not enough, it even looks exactly like a broken birch twig!" - from [url=https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/why-moths-matter/what-are-moths/moth-camouflage]here[/url]
There are moths who look like twigs
"The Buff-tip has gone one stage further and is not just the colour of a twig, but the same shape too! And it resembles a specific type of twig; that of a birch tree with its characteristic silvery coloured bark. As if that was not enough, it even looks exactly like a broken birch twig!" - from
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assuming "bug" means arthropod, here
ants are smart enough to maintain farms
^ termites too
ants are smart enough to ranch aphids
ants put their dead into tombs
scorpion anatomy is weird
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/resources/articles/scorpions/scorpion-anatomy-1024.gif <-- scorpion anatomical diagram
scorpions have mating dances
scorpions glow under uv light due to the structure of their exoskeleton
whip scorpions are not scorpions (more closely related to spiders)
bees have incredible senses of smell, and possibly olfactory memory
wolf spiders are great mothers
spiders eat their webs sometimes
both wolf spiders and scorpions carry their babies on their back
(citation for which species of scorpion needed)
mosquitos are herbivorous, the females suck up blood for egg protein
they have an anticoagulant in their spit that technically makes them venomous
assuming "bug" means arthropod, here
ants are smart enough to maintain farms
^ termites too
ants are smart enough to ranch aphids
ants put their dead into tombs
scorpion anatomy is weird
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/resources/articles/scorpions/scorpion-anatomy-1024.gif <-- scorpion anatomical diagram
scorpions have mating dances
scorpions glow under uv light due to the structure of their exoskeleton
whip scorpions are not scorpions (more closely related to spiders)
bees have incredible senses of smell, and possibly olfactory memory
wolf spiders are great mothers
spiders eat their webs sometimes
both wolf spiders and scorpions carry their babies on their back
(citation for which species of scorpion needed)
mosquitos are herbivorous, the females suck up blood for egg protein
they have an anticoagulant in their spit that technically makes them venomous
leafcutter ants don't actually eat the leaves they collect, they use it to feed a fungus that they then eat! they're entirely unique fungi found only in ant nests :]
bugs love to look like other bugs. there's jumping spiders that look like ants, flies and moths that look like bees and wasps, for every poisonous species of butterfly there's probably a harmless one that looks exactly like it
different species of fireflies flash different patterns to attract mates, and the females of some species will mimic the pattern of a smaller species and eat the males that show up
[img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/1a688e5d02660f42947489cf379bb99e/0f172c7854017b51-06/s540x810/77739284175fc69c858940bd04ea6049ac26b37d.jpg[/img]
sometimes grasshoppers are barbie pink (it's a condition called erythrism)
you know how some moths have those big long tails? part of the reason for those is they throw off bat's echolocation
that's all i can think of offhand but this is a good thread i love me some bug facts
leafcutter ants don't actually eat the leaves they collect, they use it to feed a fungus that they then eat! they're entirely unique fungi found only in ant nests :]
bugs love to look like other bugs. there's jumping spiders that look like ants, flies and moths that look like bees and wasps, for every poisonous species of butterfly there's probably a harmless one that looks exactly like it
different species of fireflies flash different patterns to attract mates, and the females of some species will mimic the pattern of a smaller species and eat the males that show up
sometimes grasshoppers are barbie pink (it's a condition called erythrism)
you know how some moths have those big long tails? part of the reason for those is they throw off bat's echolocation
that's all i can think of offhand but this is a good thread i love me some bug facts
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