#notaworm

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• grubberfly@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s funny how the bottom image is still true on its own

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am ignorant in this field. If not an insect, what is it? [Serious question]

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  • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These are part of their own family of invertebrates.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychophora

    Insects are a specific family that have 6 legs. So a bee or an ant are insects but a spider or a rolls polly is not.

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    • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Rolls polly

      reptanicalshop.com/…/Gold_Metallic_Dangomushi_02_…

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well… The taxonomy of invertebrates is pretty complicated and diverse and there are many huge groups of invertebrates. Velvet worms (Onychophora) seem to be their own thing, so maybe just think of them as another invertebrate group. Like molluscs (snails, mussels, cephalopods), or tardigrades or nematodes, these are all their own groups as well. But obviously this is all much more complicated if you look at it in detail.

    Insects are also invertebrates, but are just one group within the arthropods, which also contain e.g. spiders, crustaceans, millipedes. Maybe a good rule would be that there aren’t any worms in the insects. And that all insects have six legs. So if something has more legs, it’s not an insect.

    Hope that helps? The more you dig down into taxonomy, the more interesting it gets!! And insect taxonomy in itself is just so huge and mind-boggling :)

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  • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a Pokémon

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  • Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mollusc probably

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  • sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t help with what it is, but I can say why it can’t be an insect. All insects have per definition exactly 6 legs.

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    • atyaz@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But don’t insect larvae sometimes look kind of like that

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  • courier8377@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They constitute their own phylum, Onychophora!

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• sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  cutest insect

  I’ll bet that when someone touches it they’ll die an horrible death.

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  • huginn@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It does shoot cum ropes out of its face to catch prey

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      its existence is so good, the moment something touches it

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmCAs9HFlA

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    MOOPSY!

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are we going to talk about it’s goop?

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  • MrFappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No Gwyneth, we are leaving that off the table of discussion for now.

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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah Gwyneth

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bortles? Is that you?

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• kspatlas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What about the rosy maple moth?

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