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I’m afraid it’s not so shrimple
That forced me to groan. Take your upvote.
That’s a Pokémon.
Because shrimp is bugs
If these are fairies, then are mantis shrimp like some Lovecraftian monstrosity from the arthropod Unseelie Court?
Fun fact: in the northeast US and eastern Canada, you can support their entire life cycle by planting tomatoes and Monarda spp together!
More cute bugs pls
First time I saw one of these in my garden I thought I was trippin
I would love to see a diagram of how its morphology changed through time and evolution, I bet it’s wild
it’s just a hummingbird moth Who’s acting like a bird that thinks it’s a bee
They’re terrifying in real life though because they look and sound like GIANT bees. But then when you see them chilling by a flower you realize they’re actually just big ol softies
And the larvae are these giant gross green caterpillars with a horn on their butt. Big squishy things that love tomato plants.
I used to see both all the time on the farm. Both scared the crap out of me when I was small. (Thinking the caterpillar could sting and that the moth was a gigantic bee)
I used to think they were a type of bee when I was little.
Same, that’s how I learned about them, my mom had to figure out what they were so I wasn’t afraid to play in the yard!
