• Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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    4 days ago

    Somebody’s been watching Clint’s Reptiles.

    Or maybe not, otherwise they wouldn’t group snails (assuming that weird human skull thing is supposed to be a snail) in with “bugs”. But anyway, the link is a detailed look at what’s morphologically wrong with all these plastic skeletons.

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      It’s not like “bug” is a scientific word or has a universally accepted definition. The narrowest (and possibly the original) definition is just hemiptera, an order of insects. It being more broadly synonymous with “insect”, is pretty common; so is the broader definition including all land arthropods. But an even broader definition including all land invertebrates isn’t unheard of.

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        I would argue a snail is not a bug under any circumstances. That’s would either be a poor grasp of English, complete inability to count, or impressive levels of ignorance.

        But I would totally accept if someone failed to distinguish a hemipteran from another six-legged arthropod and called them both bugs. That’s normal.