bugs : science

[–] [email protected] 104 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Bug isn't even a technical term. Lobsters are considered bugs!

[–] danc4498 61 points 7 months ago

That's a great point you big dumb bitch.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I always assumed "bug" was like "vegetable"

it's a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are "true bugs" so maybe the analogy isn't completely sound.

(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're culinary vegetables. My wife likes to say it like this: intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing that it doesn't go in a fruit salad.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

I always love the "explaining dnd stats with a tomato" bit:

Strength is being able to throw a tomato really far.

Dexterity is being able to catch the tomato thrown really far.

Constitution is being fine after eating a bad tomato.

Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is knowing a tomato doesn't go in fruit salad.

Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.

Also, obligatory "salsa is tomato in a fruit salad".

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Agreed. In my mind "bug" has always meant arthropod. So it's include insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't say that if you ever tried those tomatoes https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/01/17/culture/foodTravel/tomango-tomato/20210117130800678.html

I'd even call them candy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Injected with.. stevia?

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[–] Lizardking27 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I'm sorry but you're simply incorrect.

Bug is a technical term. Only insects of order Hemiptera, categorized by the ability to fly and the presence of piercing, sucking mouth parts, are considered true bugs.

Lobsters are certainly not considered bugs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry but you're simply incorrect. Bug can be a technical term, but that doesn't also preclude it from also being a non-technical term, because words often have more than one meaning. See also: theory.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Merriam-Webster, definition 1:

a: any of an order (Hemiptera and especially its suborder Heteroptera) of insects (such as an assassin bug or chinch bug) that have sucking mouthparts, forewings thickened at the base, and incomplete metamorphosis and are often economic pests

called also true bug

b: any of various small arthropods (such as a beetle or spider) resembling the true bugs

c: any of several insects (such as a head louse) commonly considered obnoxious

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The scientific taxonomic system was made, in part, because traditional colloquial terms are a mess. For example, "daddy longlegs" refers to a type of spider in my area, but there are two other animals and three plants that it could refer to depending on where you grew up. Taxonomists saw that there are ten different standards, decided to make a new one to replace them all, and for once, it actually worked out for the most part.

"Bug" is one of those old terms. It might have been mapped post hoc on top of the modern taxonomic system, but it didn't start that way, and isn't always used that way. I wouldn't expect an entomologist to use the term at all in formal contexts.

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[–] Voyajer 65 points 7 months ago (1 children)

fewer beer

[–] disguy_ovahea 50 points 7 months ago

So close. Less beer, fewer beers. Both acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago

Jesus Christ someone get that dude a therapist.

[–] chetradley 43 points 7 months ago

The number one rule for pedants is: if you're going to be pedantic, you'd damn well better be correct.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Display Name: Mentally Healthy

Username: EAT_ROADKILL

Dude is at odds with himself.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Duality of man

[–] mhague 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

I'm not a scientist, but I'm the kind of person to keep black widows as pets and create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area. I'd allow spiders being called bugs, or even insects. Even poisonous is alright but it does hurt a little.

[–] Endmaker 16 points 7 months ago

create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area

You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We're going to need a link

[–] mhague 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

It was a Google site (from years ago) so all that's left is a random archive somewhere. I had all the local spiders+favorites, but the only original content were pictures of Latrodectus and Kukulkania Hibernalis. Beautiful spiders.

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[–] HowManyNimons 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They eat spiders too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're autonomous content scraping internet bots. Aka web crawlers.

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[–] Delusional 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Stupid science bitch couldn't even understand the joke.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's a science removed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Curses are probably replaced with "removed" for you.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (5 children)

there is no scientific definition of "bug". the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
this person's first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren't

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ah yes, thank you, my bad

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

TIL, vegetables are a social construct.

This article illustrates this nicely:
https://athensscienceobserver.com/2019/09/30/vegetables-are-a-social-construct/

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[–] Etterra 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

A retort in three parts;

It's bugs (colloquial), not Bugs (texanomic),
There's being pedantic and then there's being a jackass - that's you, jackass, and
@eat_roadkill should embrace their name and go chow down on a three-day-dead skunk.

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[+] runswithjedi 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

that bud is hops

[–] roguetrick 10 points 7 months ago

Nobody would eat hops you big dumb bitch.

[–] Passerby6497 8 points 7 months ago

As long as you decarb it first, I don't see an issue. Throw it on some peanut butter crackers and have a good time.

[–] CptEnder 7 points 7 months ago

Who among us has not dined on their bud's ass after a few beers? It's just common courtesy.

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[–] AppleMango 14 points 7 months ago

username doesn't check out...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Anyone know what the first known case of 'bug' exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It's a very English-language term so it surely wasn't when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.

[–] Timbo1970 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Except...what do spiders eat? Hence, a bug-lite would fit perfectly with their favoured prey. Big-brain missed the obvious.

[–] TheEntity 44 points 7 months ago

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I'm guessing you missed where that was stated in the image.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Uhm lmao

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