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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I am ignorant in this field. If not an insect, what is it? [Serious question]

[–] SmoothLiquidation 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

These are part of their own family of invertebrates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychophora

Insects are a specific family that have 6 legs. So a bee or an ant are insects but a spider or a rolls polly is not.

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