Glowworm
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 04 Sep 2024 12:58
https://mander.xyz/post/17616524

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atocci@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 13:21 next collapse

Tim Burton is the most Glowworm Beetle director I’ve ever seen.

Damage@feddit.it on 04 Sep 2024 15:09 next collapse

It’s gotta have great reception

brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 04 Sep 2024 15:38 next collapse

What does it do with them?

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/48118b9d-d24d-4e99-b166-91927b869962.jpeg">

Besides be all like

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/fc944aca-2924-4c82-a7cc-7cb405aaa38d.jpeg">

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 04 Sep 2024 19:03 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/96ce1fbf-2530-40b8-87ae-26300b67f23f.jpeg">

2ugly2live@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 13:20 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d773c4a3-ad40-41e3-9791-16c638880f6a.jpeg">

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 05 Sep 2024 16:04 collapse

Gurl

gofsckyourself@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 15:40 next collapse

I wonder why this one’s antennae are curled. Most pictures show them straight.

<img alt="" src="https://lh4.ggpht.com/-ezbEZyqP7Ck/U_ykPnfpRcI/AAAAAAAA1ws/-figOD1F5J8/glowworm-beetle-11%25255B6%25255D.jpg">

idunnololz@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 17:21 next collapse

He’s gay

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 18:17 next collapse

Chemicals in the grass turning our fricken beetles gay!

MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone on 05 Sep 2024 02:20 collapse

I’d feel happy with those on my head too

Classy@sh.itjust.works on 04 Sep 2024 18:20 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/321c074a-4849-4f62-8079-db1996d4d892.jpeg">

Here’s one I photographed a year ago

casmael@lemm.ee on 04 Sep 2024 20:06 collapse

What a lovely fellow he’s waving at you :3

Classy@sh.itjust.works on 04 Sep 2024 21:02 collapse

He seemed very jolly. He was preening his antennae, folding them over his hands and wiping them off. Very fun to watch

boogetyboo@aussie.zone on 05 Sep 2024 02:46 collapse

Might not be a live specimen

doc_dish@lemm.ee on 05 Sep 2024 12:53 collapse

Or one that’s just emerged from its pupa(?)

Disclaimer: I know nothing about the lifecycle of glow worms

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 16:00 next collapse

Just got her lashes did.

dmention7@lemm.ee on 04 Sep 2024 17:02 next collapse

Anyone else do a double-take at that thumbnail while quickly scrolling?

Alrighty then, carry on

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 04 Sep 2024 18:07 next collapse

Oh good it’s not just me. I was worried I would have to bonk myself.

Anyways…bonk

RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com on 04 Sep 2024 18:09 next collapse

I opened expecting something else, not going to lie. But it’s a nice little bug.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 05 Sep 2024 13:11 collapse

As I said in another reply, two words… threadbare merkin.

dmention7@lemm.ee on 05 Sep 2024 14:44 collapse

Threadbare Merkin would be an excellent band name!

mayo_cider@hexbear.net on 04 Sep 2024 17:29 next collapse

Best 5G reception on the block

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 2024 18:16 next collapse

Or Dr. Seuss.

Etterra@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 02:47 next collapse

When you hear radio playing at night and you wake up and see this.

niktemadur@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 03:09 next collapse

More specifically - this is the most Helena Bonham Carter in a Tim Burton movie… etc

betahack@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 03:11 next collapse

…that thumbnail was very misleading

psud@aussie.zone on 05 Sep 2024 06:21 next collapse

I’m failing to see whatever it is you see, though I clicked through to the full size picture before looking at the thumbnail, so my view of the thumbnail was influenced by having seen the full size picture

Dalvoron@lemm.ee on 05 Sep 2024 06:36 next collapse

I don’t have thumbnails set on my phone so I only ever saw the full image. That said, I looked at it without my glasses with my arm outstretched and I’m going to guess they saw either buttcrack or titcleft

oce@jlai.lu on 05 Sep 2024 12:42 collapse
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 05 Sep 2024 13:09 collapse

A threadbare merkin

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 05 Sep 2024 13:15 next collapse

why does it have curly tim burton antennae?

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 05 Sep 2024 13:51 collapse

Increased surface area. Only male glowworms metamorphose into adult forms and they use their feathery antennae to track females down by their pheromones. Increased antenna surface area helps them pick up those pheromones.

gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Sep 2024 13:22 collapse

dont get dimmer