• Stamau123@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    If crabs could get into our houses as easily as ants we’d hate looking at them too

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    2 days ago

    I hate insects because I don’t know which ones bite and they carry disease. Fish have parasites but that is only a real issue if you don’t handle them properly and intend to eat them.

    With that said, if shrimp constantly entered my house and propagated unrelentingly I would hate them too.

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    2 days ago

    Dawg. Insects broke away from the arthropods in the ocean and came on land in the fucking Devonian period. That makes crabs and insects about as related as you and a lobe-finned fish.

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      “Bugs” (obviously not specifically Hemiptera) includes a Lot more than just insects. If you go back to the most recent common ancestor of everything commonly called a bug, I’m sure it’s Way back there and its descendents would include not only ocean arthropods but I’d guess probably most things with shells. Possibly just most animals

      And yes, we are that closely related to fish

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        My point is that crabs and grasshoppers are separated by 400 million years of evolution, and are extremely different from one another, just like fish and people are extremely different from one another. I’m trying and failing to understand your point, and don’t at all get what you’re using the word “bugs” to describe

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          24 hours ago

          The original post used the word bugs, not insects. (Although the pic does seem to show only insects, I’d interpret that as a stock image fail)

          Bugs are such a wide group already that to me it seems reasonable to include branches separated by 400 million years of evolution, much the way ‘fish’ is such a wide group that by a scientifically reasonable definition it can include all vertebrates as a subgrouping.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    bug, air

    bug, in saltwater which significantly reduces illness and other parasites in the bugs.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    I know some folks down north who eat pan-fried ant butts. The ants in question are typically flying adults of the genus Atta (leafcutters), so specially large.

    That hints to me that one of the main reasons people prefer sea bugs over land bugs is size and texture. Like, you can extract the meat from a crab leg just fine, but you can’t do it with most insects, you’ll be biting through the chitin, you know?