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[–] ch00f 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Fun fact I like to share with everyone who enjoys shrimp. Up until the ~~90s~~ 80s they were very difficult to breed in captivity. They just wouldn’t reproduce.

Until someone figured out that it you cut out one of their eyes, they will readily breed. Nobody really knows why, but they snip off one of the eye stalks on the females to get them to breed.

[–] gibmiser 55 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] ch00f 43 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh...geeze. This read like a note found in a Resident Evil game...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The fear of death does tend to make creatures want to reproduce.

It is fucked though.

[–] ch00f 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That’s not it actually. Current theory is it has something to do with the overall decreased sensation of sunlight indicating it’s mating season or something. They won’t develop mature ovaries with both eyes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

There's also hormones they think are removed when the stalk is removed.

But really, no animal likes being injured. And they have no idea what else is going to get cut off.

If some other thing that's observing humans cuts the dominant arm off a man without any access to females, they're going to suggest doing that limits how much they want to masturbate.

When in reality they just can't masturbate anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

how did they discover that? who's just going around cutting random parts of swimmy guys??

[–] TastyWheat 18 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe some bad bitch shrimp got in a knife fight with a lobster, lost her eye and just went ham

[–] ch00f 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to where I learned it, in high enough densities in concrete tanks, some shrimp would grind their own eyestalks off on the side of the tank. Some farmer put two and two together.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

SLPT: Poke out your girl's eyeball to get some guaranteed hard lovin.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

ever eaten anything with red in it? (like the icing decorations on the pictured cake)

https://www.livescience.com/36292-red-food-dye-bugs-cochineal-carmine.html

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's pretty interesting.
You never think about it, but most of everything is dyed. And that dye has to come from somewhere.

[–] ZeffSyde 5 points 2 weeks ago

Also, ever eaten a shiny candy? Chances are is coated in confectioners glaze, which is a fancy word for shellac, which is an insect excretion.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

And they're fucking delicious.

[–] nifty 15 points 2 weeks ago

Then why don’t they call it bug fried rice? Checkmate Atheists

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Depends on the definition of bug. Entemological true bugs are a very specific class of insects, but the term bug was used to describe any arthropod for significantly longer than proper taxonomy has been around.

So if you're a biologist, no, if you're an anthropologist, yes.

Someone covered in brine shrimp would be more likely to feel covered in bugs than covered in marine crustaceans though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'd like to subscribe to more covered in sea creatures facts.

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[–] MutilationWave 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] dual_sport_dork 11 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

So is lobsters and crabs.

Eating them anyway, though.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Lobsters are commonly referred to as bugs as well.

There is no scientific definition of “bug”, but the folk definition seems to be any invertebrate, typically with more than four limbs.

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[–] sunbrrnslapper 9 points 2 weeks ago

At least the message is delivered on a cake.

[–] cm0002 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've eaten cooked bugs before, properly prepared, it's pretty good

Can't remember what kind of bug it was specifically, but I do remember it was fried

[–] MutilationWave 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Small crickets maybe? I haven't had them in years but they're delicious with the right seasoning.

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

They seemed to be a common enough ingredient in tacos for the short while I was in Mexico. They are pretty good.

[–] MutilationWave 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah the ones I had were in Mexico. So crunchy and good with salt, lime, and chili.

[–] cm0002 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds about right, I keep thinking Cockroaches, but I'd be too grossed out about those bastards so it was probably crickets lol

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[–] NegativeLookBehind 9 points 2 weeks ago

Shrimps be bugs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, you have no idea.

You can have them by the fistful like this, shell and all.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It occurred to me while playing Helldivers that all the bugs we were killing would probably taste like crab after boiling.

puts on bib and grabs the shell crackers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hmm. Deep rock too probably.

edit: ok fuck whoever posted that fake PNG

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Every time I look at the hive guards after killing them, I think how delicious they look.

I want to eat the hive guards. For democracy.

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

It's an ugly planet. A bug planet.

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[–] Hiro8811 5 points 2 weeks ago

I've been saying that for years and I call them water bugs

[–] Sam_Bass 5 points 2 weeks ago

So is crab and molluscs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

They juicy bugs though, not as juicy as lobsters though

[–] Bodom666 4 points 2 weeks ago

蛯 (Japanese "Ebi") = prawn. 蛯 (Simple Chinese "Lao") = cricket.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

People and fish are more closely related than shrimp and insects

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The taxonomy puts us right about the same, splitting after phylum. That being said, a shrimp looks a hell of a lot more like a silverfish than I do like a carp.

Well, depending on my general state of health.

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[–] Terrapinjoe 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People are fish and shrimp is bugs

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[–] PugJesus 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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