Christmas beetles

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• archonet@lemy.lol ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We know what you’re thinking but this does not want to kill you

  Says who? Maybe it desperately wants to but mother nature simply hasn’t given it a mechanism for doing so. Yet.

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @cornshark@lemmy.world is apparently the one person who downvoted this for some reason

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    • cornshark@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I downvoted this for “we know what your thinking”. The post was cute though!

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  • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I always assume if I get just one downvote on a post mixed with a bunch of upvotes, it probably is an involuntary downvote, like when you scroll and hit the button without noticing.

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    • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that may be, but the headcanon of someone going “no, actually, I have communed and become one with the beetles and they are totally chill” is funnier to me

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    • Jestzer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For me, it’s the opposite: I assume anything with upvotes will eventually be downvoted by somebody for whatever reason they may have.

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• cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They surely want to kill you, they just lack the ability to do so

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like cats

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You underestimate cats.

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We get “June Bugs” in California. They look just like this, but are brown and fuzzy and squeak when you pet them.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your June bugs are very different from the ones we get in Texas. Ours aren’t fuzzy, and they don’t squeak. They just clumsily buzz around your porch lights and hit you in the face.

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      IIRC, there’s like seven different species people call “june bug”.

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• TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Haven’t seen any of these lil guys in the last 8 years 😔

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    A similar golden beetle showed up in south America. Anyone has the scientific name?

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  • Matty_r@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    About the same for me, but I saw one about 3 weeks ago. I was so excited because it had been so long, no one else seemed to care as much.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same, just assume they’re all extinct by now.

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• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It isn’t one species. It’s a bunch.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “This beetle merely wishes to join you in the celebration of the birth of a particular Palestinian prophet, and would like to encourage you to consider including beetles into your festive goodwill”

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• UsernameNotFound404@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Got one of these in the house yesterday they’re bloody loud. It might not want to kill me but when I want to sleep it’s not long for this world

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• DylanMc6@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  what about Christmas Beatles?

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• Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Acute bug fever kills 1200. Sydney in lockdown.”

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Definitely a cute bug.

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• Rudee@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You get these in southern Africa too, but our ones are just brown

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