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Glowworm (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does it do with them?

Besides be all like

[–] gofsckyourself 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's one I photographed a year ago

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] idunnololz 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He's gay

[–] Anticorp 8 points 2 months ago

Chemicals in the grass turning our fricken beetles gay!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd feel happy with those on my head too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Might not be a live specimen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

Disclaimer: I know nothing about the lifecycle of glow worms

[–] atocci 23 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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Alrighty then, carry on

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

Anyways…bonk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Threadbare Merkin would be an excellent band name!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] aeronmelon 8 points 2 months ago

Just got her lashes did.

[–] betahack 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

....that thumbnail was very misleading

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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] 1 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

A threadbare merkin

[–] Etterra 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It's gotta have great reception

[–] Anticorp 2 points 2 months ago

Or Dr. Seuss.

[–] niktemadur 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

why does it have curly tim burton antennae?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

dont get dimmer