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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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On the Giant Water Bug (bottom left) they aren't even mouthparts, those are it's first pair of legs.
That's kinda hot
You should start a sexy bug leg/mouthparts community.
Imagine some fishnets over those puppies
isn't that technically how it works for all arthropods? Anything vaguely limb-like is in fact a heavily derived leg, including antennae.
These are real, current legs. The front 2 of the insect norm of 6