Fairies 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♂️

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• rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m afraid it’s not so shrimple

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  • jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That forced me to groan. Take your upvote.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it’s just a hummingbird moth Who’s acting like a bird that thinks it’s a bee

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  • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now the moth defeats the mouse and man, it’s messing with the plan, it can’t be believed.

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• r4venw@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sadly they ravage tomatoes and other nightshade while theyre caterpillars so people often kill them with impugnity. Probably contributes to why theyre not commonly seen.

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• LVLN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Infamousblt@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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)

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used to think they were a type of bee when I was little.

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    • Infamousblt@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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!

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  • Barabas@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I usually do a double take thinking they’re a bumblebee before noticing that they move different when I spot them.

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a Pokémon.

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• benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would love to see a diagram of how its morphology changed through time and evolution, I bet it’s wild

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  More cute bugs pls

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• Townlately@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sometimes a cutie is just a cutie, defying classification

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  • slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like those damned jumping spiders. They freak me out, but I can’t deny they’re cute as hell.

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    • Townlately@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When they look at me with those big mirror eyes, I say “just take my house it’s yours now”

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• froggycar360@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  First time I saw one of these in my garden I thought I was trippin

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• LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fun fact: in the northeast US and eastern Canada, you can support their entire life cycle by planting tomatoes and Monarda spp together!

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  this is the kind of thing i want to see in fantasy/scifi media, everything looks broadly the same until you get closer and realize all the trees are actually heavily derived insects.

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• slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If these are fairies, then are mantis shrimp like some Lovecraftian monstrosity from the arthropod Unseelie Court?

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• unknown@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because shrimp is bugs

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m guessing, it’s this species: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_thysbe

  (Apparently, this species is also referred to as “hummingbird moth”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth )

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