Struggle Session: what is the best bug?
And why is it this cute Weevil?
And why is it this cute Weevil?
fireflies. never saw em growing up out west. loved seeing them when i lived in michigan for a couple years
I'm in a small college town in NW Ohio and we have been getting more and more lightning bugs the past few summers and it has been incredible. Thousands of them light up the walling trails by the river at night and i get dozens of them around my home.
Praying mantis, because one time I had one square up and try to fight me and I am incredibly amused by that kind of single-minded Oblivion NPC confidence in a creature two inches tall
Always been my favorite bug, to the point where Scyther is my second favorite Pokemon after Cubone. Its just so freaking cool. Gj evolution.
The skiing bug in the OG Tribes that the devs caught during development and decided to keep bc it was so fun.
This one from Lego Star Wars 2 where if you die at the same time as the spider droid you were riding you become one and then can turn it into a normal character that you can still ride on top of
Also the brown-belted bumblebee so fuzzy
I prefer my bugs to to big and fluffy, so moths and tarantulas.
Bumblebees can be honorary good bugs, but they're too small to really do it for me.
Praying mantises. They look cool, there's over 2000 species of them, ans they're one of the few arthropods with true 3d binocular vision
I like horse flies.
They hurt when they bite but I really respect and identify with them, they never ever give up lol.
They're kinda pretty but mostly ugly. They're annoying and perseverant amd courageous. They like to drink blood.
No one else will agree but for me? The best bug is a horse fly.
They have cool eyes and may have the fastest flight speed of all bugs (still hate the bastards though)
Dragonflies & Mantises are cool as hell. Among the cutest bugs IMO is the Pellucid Hawk Moth
Funnily enough we get Hummingbird Hawk Moths around here, which are probably actually just birds if you think about it
Dragonflies, while not true bugs, are super cool. I'm a fan of any predator that biologically perfected their anatomy to be hunters millions of years ago and never had to change much. Crocs and sharks too.
Can't bring them up without mentioning the statistic: Dragonflies are the most successful hunters on the planet, catching 95% of the prey they try to take.
The praying mantis because it befriended a bullied kid in school and taught him kung fu to stand up to his bullies mantis style.
Weevils were all over my grains the other week! For this crime, they are not cute 😤
But...that weevil is kinda...cute. If it would ask me nicely, I would pass my grains over. Sharing is caring.
I like ants - not in my kitchen, obviously, but I think the way they've organized into an entire little society entirely through pheromones is pretty cool. I'd say the same thing about bees but I'm kinda scared of them.