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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What does it do with them?

Besides be all like

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's one I photographed a year ago

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks 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 (1 children)

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 2 weeks ago

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

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

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

Anyways…bonk

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

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

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

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 2 weeks ago

Just got her lashes did.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's gotta have great reception

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

Best 5G reception on the block

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

....that thumbnail was very misleading

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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] 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

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

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

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

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

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] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or Dr. Seuss.

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

dont get dimmer