I’m not an
entemolointenolobug scientician and I know nothing of the specifics of this species, so I can’t weigh in there.However, sometimes these new species have literally been right in front of our faces the whole time, it’s just that they’re barely distinguishable from other very similar and more common relatives.
This is, of course, a vast oversimplification of things, but I remember reading an article about a new beetle being discovered in some random suburb. Essentially the reason the new species was discovered is because someone was counting the number of hairs on the larval beetles’ butts and noticed the discrepancy between two different populations and then realized that they were dealing with two different species, one of which had not been previously described.
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Wait… 3-2-1-4 ahhh
I hate the reading order of Twitter.
So do I
Yes
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I don’t think that’s correct, I think it’s
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Isn’t it
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in this example?
Yes, because there is a screenshot in one of the tweets.
Ihatethe reading order ofTwitter.There! Much better!
Haha you are correct! I hate everything about it, including the reading order.
I 'ate its fur, I 'ate its guts, and I 'ate the way it’s always barking!
Agreed. The microblogging format is more for one-way communication (i.e. 1 poster to many viewers). Trying to have a discussion or even just reading a discussion on twitter, mastodon, etc. is a terrible experience.
It’s designed for soap boxing
Yeah Blue Sky is a pain in the ass too. If you go to the comments of a post, there’s no way to collapse a thread. So it’s just:
Main post
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It’s like the word balloons in a comic book. You just kinda work out the order via context.
In comics there’s variation on common forms but most have set sequences that just may vary between countries because of the directions of reading. Lots of manga even have the authors preferred style described at the start of the book now.
There’s a Disco Elysium joke here, but I can’t think of how to phrase it. Just pretend I made a perfectly worded reference.
damn, that was a nice reference to the disco elysium video game
“Incredible. A new species. The chitinous shell, the impossibly long legs, the delicate, veined wings folded tight against its back. It is a creature unlike any you’ve ever seen, a marvel of evolutionary design. The scientific community will be astounded. Your name will be etched into the annals of entomology. You lean in closer, notebook and pen at the ready, to jot down the physical characteristics. And that’s when it hits you. It… it looks exactly like a stick. The profound truth, ugly and unshakeable, settles in your guts like a stone. Of course, you didn’t find it. Nobody found it. You were just the first one to stop and stare long enough to realize that the stick wasn’t a stick.”
PATTERN RECOGNITION [Legendary: Failure] Huh, weird stick… Anyways let’s go get dinner.
Sick reference bro
I immediately thought of the Phasmid too! So this is me catching your perfectly worded reference and making a sly reply to let you know I’m in on the joke and we are both very cool for having encountered that piece of media.
Just another example of entomologists withholding crucial information about the bug kingdom from us, who do they work for anyways? The humans or the bugs?
What if there are EVEN bigger bugs out there entomologists just conveniently haven’t told us about yet…?
Think TREEbug not Stickbug.
The end is near and it is segmented into three main body sections!!
you know trees?
👀
Legend has it there are beetles out there big as a Volkswagen.
sounds like they’re working for big bug
Imagine a 15 inch chocolate coated stick bug. You can’t just get those anywhere. This is hidden information. Boycott bug and all it’s bullshit.
as in Nibbles Woodaway?
It says a lot about your stick emulation if you elude discovery that long. It has achieved peak stickness.
Pure stickcellence
I bet indigenous peoples knew about it at certain points.
Indigenous People: “Hello? Why hey, strangers, who are-”
Capt. Cook or some shit: “Hey there, you fellas good at working? Like, lots of manual labor?”
Indigenous People: “uhh… Wut?”
Capt Cook: “F it. Take the women, take their food, burn the rest.”
Indigenous People: “Bro, hold up, we got this bug that looks like a sti-”
Capt Cook: “BURN IT ALL. NOW!”
Indigenous People: He’ll never know about that really big F’in stick bug!
Captain Christopher Cooklumbus: “You don’t want to work, huh? How about if we cut off your hands?”
“I mean, it’s not like you’re using them anyway? Amiright?”
Hands, schmands!
“A new species discovered” means “hey, we noticed nobody ever catalogued that one!”
Yeah! And, I don’t even necessarily mean to discount ignoring indigenous folks, which definitely can be a thing, but it really really does come down to sometimes folks just don’t write it down. I’ve seen a video (I wanna say a Smarter Everyday video) where they were in some South American jungle/rain forest or whatever and they very casually shine a light at a cloth to get moths to land on it, and they found like one or two new species.
Wasn’t that Standupmaths?
Could be, that’s another channel I watch often. I might be getting some of Smarter Everyday’s other nature oriented videos confused because I don’t think Standup Maths does many.
I heard it was discovered many times but it did not stick.
Of all creatures I’ve met, you are the kindest.
What’s brown and sticky?
A stick!
Rip
Usain Bolt
I exist.
