This isn’t a picture, but it’s an interesting thing, to me anyway.
Someone was recently taking about whether it’s humane to boil a lobster. I said that a lobster basically had the level of consciousness on par with an insect, but in order to demonstrate this i googled a bit. While i knew a bunch of the numbers shown here, i had never really seen a table like this before.
One of the things that i found interesting was that lobsters actually have far less developed of a central nervous system than most insects. A lobster only has around 100k neurons, total.
By comparison, an ant or a fruitfly has around 250k.
Anyway, not a picture of insects, but still neat to me.
Fascinating stuff, Timex! Your point about lobsters makes me think of how Alton Brown refers to lobsters as “bugs” throughout his lobster episode of Good Eats.
Spotted this spider on my door outside a minute ago and got her to jump on my finger for a better view. But this gal did not want to get her picture taken and made it difficult. Not the most exciting lil spider but this thread needed a bump so now maybe the better bug hunters can add some pics.
I went to but a car today, but the dealership was closed. However, while walking around looking at the cars, i encountered a Cecropia moth, which is apparently the largest moth in North America.
The variety of shapes, colours and patterns of those respectable spiders is fascinating. You can almost always spot a tiny male hiding in one of the top corner of their web, waiting for their opportunity.
Jesus, @krayzkrok. Bug spines on your eyeball, being pushed into your eyeball by your contact lenses. This belongs in a horror movie or something. Ahhhhh!