Bee fly

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Venezuelan Poodle Moth

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  ecoservantsproject.org/the-venezuelan-poodle-moth…

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  • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s cute but by the tilt of the eyes we know it’s evil

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More mischievous, I think.

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  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It looks like a felt art project! Yet another reason to conserve the rainforest

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  • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not real, as another commenter pointed out that looks like a felt animal

    Below is what the “Venezuelan poodle moth” looks like, from www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/4207478815/

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    • specimen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Somehow that looks even faker

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  • Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re cuter than the bee fly.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I want one as a stuffie

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• turdas@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The larval stages are predators or parasitoids of the eggs and larvae of other insects. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetles, wasps, or solitary bees.

  Larvae live parasitically in the nests of various solitary bees and wasps.[2] When the fly larva locates a host larva, it will consume it slowly, greatly increasing in size as it tightly holds onto the host, eventually becoming a pupa and overwintering.[9]

  haha yeah, adorable

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  • ynthrepic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean we consider human babies adorable, and they can grow up do some pretty horrid things. Also cats.

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    • fascicle@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess if human babies attached and ate a host slowly before getting huge we wouldn’t think of them as adorable. These flies are us in reverse, they start horrible then grow into teddy bears of the sky

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      we consider human babies adorable

      Tbf, there’s a lot of people that don’t find babies cute

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They kinda look like adult botflies too lol. Why do the most horrific things grow up to be so cute?

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    • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Me posing for a mugshot cutely after commiting horrific murder.

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  • Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look, if you decide to be a beetle, you know the risks!

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    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Statistically speaking, you’re more likely to be a beetle than a human

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could make the human reproductive process sound pretty gross, too. But then we get all horned up, and it sounds like a great idea!

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ladybug is adorbs, but they’re a demonkin if you’re something they eat.

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like nature stuff idk. Is cute though.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    robber fly, its basically the fly version of dragonfly, they love to intercept mosquitos and other fly prey.

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    • CatAssTrophy@safest.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why would bat flies have no wings? Bats famously have wings!

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• shweddy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cutiefly

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  • VivianRixia@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I too, immediately yelled Cutiefly when I saw the pic. So that’s where it comes from. The real thing is just as adorable.

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Inb4 Nintendo sues for copyright infringement

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought Cutiefly is completely fictional, TIL.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Humans: flies are so disgusting

  God: lemme add a little bee in there

  Humans: 0.0

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bee flies? I sure hope it does!

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  • Kefla@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i dream of a world so safe the bee does not need to tire herself out with flight. hundreds of bees just happily strolling along blob-no-thoughts

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• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the lower right photo I can hear him yelling "wheee!"

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• JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still stand by my standard fluffy bumble bee! They love my lavender!

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• ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who the fuck downvoted this

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• Quokka@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would’ve called them Fairbees.

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe we can teach them to bee.

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• lurkerlady@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  insects with hair are my soft spot

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• kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oviballus vidae AKA the Sheepy Jumper

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  121clicks.com/…/adorable-macro-unseen-cute-bugs/

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• btbt@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll take that advice any day of the week

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• IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  miniature flying cat

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh. My. God.

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