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[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

What does it do with them?

Besides be all like

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Here's one I photographed a year ago

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Chemicals in the grass turning our fricken beetles gay!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'd feel happy with those on my head too

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Might not be a live specimen

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

Disclaimer: I know nothing about the lifecycle of glow worms

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

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

...

...

Alrighty then, carry on

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

Anyways…bonk

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Threadbare Merkin would be an excellent band name!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Just got her lashes did.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's gotta have great reception

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

....that thumbnail was very misleading

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

A threadbare merkin

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Or Dr. Seuss.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

why does it have curly tim burton antennae?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

dont get dimmer

this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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