Man, caterpillar heaven looks pretty rad.
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Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Think I killed one of these in Dark Souls
rockerface@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Got a cool magic spear from it, too
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
PRAISE THE
SUNLAMP!\ 🦋 /
abfarid@startrek.website 7 months ago
What happens if we put them on IV? How long will they last? Will they go full Mr. Meeseeks? What are you doing over there, scientist?! We need answers!
variants@possumpat.io 7 months ago
They will just mate nonstop
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
mp3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
His name is Buck
androogee@midwest.social 7 months ago
Mfw butterflies don’t have feet
Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
Some people made this a lifestyle
morrowind@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Also see: mayfly
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Has anyone bothered to ask if they have other interests?
inverted_deflector@startrek.website 7 months ago
A lot of insects live for years as their “larval” or nymph form and then come out into the more recognizable “adult form” just to mate and die. In a lot of ways their larval form is their actual form with their adult lifestage being just a flash in the pan to continue the species.
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You sure “years” isn’t a stretch? Non-rhetorical, I thought it was months at best.
inverted_deflector@startrek.website 7 months ago
Cicadas can stay underground for up to 17 years for example and dragon fly larva live 2 years just to come out of the water and grow wings for a few months.
ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 months ago
Also getting combined with glowshrooms for invisibility potions
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Pretty normal lifestyle for many lifeforms.
Kuori@hexbear.net 7 months ago
same tbh
D61@hexbear.net 7 months ago
pretty much all moths, right?
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
if they don’t eat, where do they get the energy to create offspring?
figaro@lemdro.id 7 months ago
Good question, it all actually comes from the great predecessor moth who imbued its children with the energy needed to carry on for generations. This singular imbuement of life has carried them for the last four thousand years, and it is unknown when it will run out. When that time comes, the Luna moth will be no more.
D61@hexbear.net 7 months ago
The larvae is where they do nothing but eat and grow and eat some more. Then they turn into flying sex organs.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
Stored from being a larvae i guess.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Hey look it’s me, not eating because depressed but also doing the very healthy thing of engaging in too many dating apps to find sex…
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I wish the quality of this pic weren’t so awful
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Who would win? ![A beautiful drawing my ex made] (lemmy.world/…/58303d59-9338-4bf3-971b-ce447d8d5d2…), or one sullen, spiky boi?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So…ok, I’m missing something, then. How does the population get energy into the system, then? They don’t photosynthesize, somebody has to eat SOMEthing at SOME point, or they won’t have any energy at all for…activities.
Pyro@programming.dev 7 months ago
The caterpillar stage.
Wikipedia says it’s 6-7 weeks long.
androogee@midwest.social 7 months ago
Become alive. Eat until I literally dissolve into goo. Become alive again. Fuck. Die.
nezbyte@lemmy.world 7 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_moth
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh that makes so much sense. I completely forgot it about metamorphosis.
Bezier@suppo.fi 7 months ago
I hear they gather the energy during the caterpillar stage.
popcap200@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I googled it. They have energy stored from when they were caterpillars.