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What's everyone's favorite bug? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/Bugs@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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My favorites are bumblebees and jumping spiders, cute little critters!

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d say isopods… but… they’re crustaceans, not insects, and they got way more than six legs, so not bugs really.

So… bristletails. They like leaf litter or sandy rocky soils. Eating algae, lychens, and general detritus. Some have notably adapted to digesting cellulose, a rare capability in animals (most animals who eat cellulose rich plants have some bacteria that do the digestion for them).

They’re also some of the most basal insects, having diverged from the rest of the group around 400 million years ago. They’re a distinct lineage without anything particularly close to them. A little evolutionary island like tuatara or platypuses.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 21 hours ago

Well, I consider isopods bugs too.