Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they’re still in there!
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they’re still in there!
So are you saying we can eat woodlice like we eat crabs?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I mean I’ve read that the giant marine isopod Bathynomus giganteus is popular in Vietnam, so probably – although there’s probably a good reason beyond scarcity that it’s not a widely popular delicacy. I might be concerned about bioaccumulated heavy metals in terrestrial ones, they’d be highly inefficient to prepare, and I’ve never heard of any culture that eats them. But I’m sure it’d be doable. Just to what end, you know?
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
lemonwood@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
I mean, exactly half of those are actually true.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
“All corners of the globe” and “pre-date the ice age”, obviously, but what’s number three?
ameancow@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
any female born after 1983 can’t cook… all they know is leaf litter, curl they shells up, scuttling, lay eggs, eat rotten plant matter and lie
perishthethought@piefed.social 5 hours ago
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Women, amirite?
5715@feddit.org 10 hours ago
I was 8 when I learnt thoroughly that not everyone wants to switch place with woodlice for a day when waiting for the school bus. 06:45 during an autumn storm would be much better as a woodlouse underneath comfy foliage.
tomiant@piefed.social 4 hours ago
This dude thinking about little girls too much.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
… Go on…
davidgro@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It is cute when they curl up into a ball.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Shit, it happened again. I’ll get it right next time, I promise.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 8 hours ago
What did you do to make them curl up into a ball, David?
David? What did you do?
tetris11@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Tickled them with implied consent