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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago

You get me closer to god

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My whole existence is flawed.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My whole existence is ~~flawed~~ jawed

You bring me closer to maw

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Hahaha. Yes.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Nine inch mandibles

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Can they actually bite using those things or are there just there to look scary?

[–] Saeveo@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

On the Giant Water Bug (bottom left) they aren't even mouthparts, those are it's first pair of legs.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You should start a sexy bug leg/mouthparts community.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Imagine some fishnets over those puppies

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

isn't that technically how it works for all arthropods? Anything vaguely limb-like is in fact a heavily derived leg, including antennae.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

These are real, current legs. The front 2 of the insect norm of 6

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Afaik, only the ant bites. The others use them for flinging opponents or grappling with them.

Unlike me, I grapple so I can bite

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The lower left is a toe biter water bug with one of the most painful venoms on the planet

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm getting very mixed answers here (someone else said that's it's legs

[–] TheMetaleek@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

They are its legs, however they are heavily modified legs made for strongly grappling prey

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ohhh. Well the big parts that grab stuff are mandibles. They aren't legs but they originate, evolutinarily speaking, from legs. Same with antennae! The parts closer to the head do the eating but sometimes mandibles help with that.

For venomous arthropods sometimes it's the mandibles that have the venom (like spiders, where they are called Chelicerae), for some it's saliva and they use various mouthparts (the water bug uses a proboscus), for some it's their tail end (like ants), etc etc.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago

We don't deserve ants