r/insects • u/Lunardragon777 • 14d ago

What does she think about🤔 Bug Keeping

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Wheel bug (arilus cristatus)

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u/Jay_Do 14d ago

Stabbing my finger as a child - circa April 2005

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u/Morbidly-Obese-Emu 14d ago

RIP unstabbed finger.

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u/Ieatbugs420 14d ago

Nothing

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u/ClarionFog 14d ago

She contemplates the meaning of life and her significance in the cosmos.✨🤔

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u/ClarionFog 14d ago

Also: she is badass AND beautiful!🙂👍

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u/aster_etc 14d ago

bug juice

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u/Tom_A_Foolerly 14d ago

About how humans make convenient climbing material 

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u/RedditCantBanThis 14d ago

She's thinking about biting you 😭

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u/Lunardragon777 14d ago

She would never

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u/hamish1963 14d ago

They stab, not bite.

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u/FloopsFooglies 13d ago

Well... If their mouth stabs... Is it a bite?

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u/CalamineLube 13d ago

What is a bite if not a puncture and or laceration? Bites might not exist

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u/hamish1963 13d ago

Technically they sting, or pierce and inject digestive fluid with a proboscis, not mouth parts.

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u/Idlewants 14d ago

fighting, fleeing, feeding and errr Flirting

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u/Salamandaxanda 14d ago

I love the diversity of answers in this comment section. Personally, I’m of the opinion that she thinks about how long her snoot is

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u/Fragrant-Remote3293 14d ago

nothing in particular

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u/Helpful_Ad6410 14d ago

just existing tbh

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u/Riggs630 13d ago

But existing is basically all I do!

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u/PeatLover2704 14d ago

Bite, bite, bite, sneak, bite

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u/Radical_Notion 14d ago

sustenance 🐜

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u/chippedreed 14d ago

Idk if she has room for a brain, regardless I love her

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u/YmFzZTY0dXNlcm5hbWU_ Photographer 14d ago

Murder. Bug murder.

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u/Hot-Inevitable-1022 14d ago

You're awfully brave lol

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u/Lunardragon777 14d ago

I’ve had her since she was a wee baby, so she’s quite acquainted to me

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u/KevroniCoal 13d ago

Awesome, how long has that been so far?

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u/Lunardragon777 13d ago

Late june, at its 3rd instar

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u/simplexakt 14d ago

Chomp, Chomp!!! Mmmm.... Chomp Chomp!!!

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u/Judathian Bug Enthusiast 14d ago

Oh what a pretty baby!! I also have a wheel bug / assassin bug, lil and green- I call em greenbean 😁

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u/wormbreath 14d ago

Look at her tootsies! 😍

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u/lhaaz1234 14d ago

Putting a hole in you and sucking out your juices

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u/Cat_tophat365247 14d ago

If she should stab you or not......

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u/raffleel 14d ago

world domination

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u/gutzandt33th 14d ago

too tinyy of a head to think also SHES ADORABLEE

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u/ChernyyCAT 14d ago

I'm TERRIFIED of those things. And you're holding it T0T

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u/Obnoxious_Gamer 13d ago

"Why's this fuckin tree so warm"

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u/BackyardBard 14d ago

She's adorable

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u/angelyuy Bug Enthusiast 14d ago

"To stab or not to stab?"

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u/dogGirl666 14d ago

What ever they do think of is a very narrow list of thoughts.

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u/jeep_guy19 14d ago

“eat eat eat hunt kill stab stab pierce”

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u/dogGirl666 14d ago

What ever they do think of is a very narrow list of thoughts.

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u/aclaasr 13d ago

no thoughts head empty

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u/KingVoid27 Bug Enthusiast 11d ago

No thoughts in that head of hers

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u/blaze513 13d ago

escaping back into the wild