Ask yourself, is it really worth it?
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What the fuck? Who deep fries their croissanterpillars?
That first pic is the thing Kuzco and Pacha eat at the restaurant in Emperor's New Groove
So that's how they're made. TIL.
Is it really worth it? 😔
Omg is that critter in the 1st image real? Its so cute tell me it's not AI
I really envy people who find stuff like this cute. To me, it causes feelings of intense ick and disgust. I think anything with more than four legs, my brain just doesn't like
As far as I'm aware, humans have only two natural phobias (a fear of heights and of loud noises). Everything else, disliking spiders, snakes, rats, big larvae, is learned cultural behavior and can be reversed (heights and loud noises can be reversed too, but it's much harder). Happily this means you can join us in appreciating the cute buggies if you really want!
As with all emotion, fear has an evolutionary basis. There seem to be some 'natural fears', such as the fear of spiders and snakes, which, although learned from cues by adults, humans seem predisposed to. Our ancestors needed to be afraid of picking up snakes or hurting them, and with time, features of our visual system that helped us detect snakes were selected and favored by evolution. It has been shown that the primate visual system responds selectively to mosaic patterns which are generally rare in nature, but common in snakes. Other fears that seem to be the result of natural selection are the fear of pointed objects and that of leopard spots.
Snakes are adorable and constrictors are cuddly and very smooth and nice to touch.
Venomous snakes are terrifying because they'll kill you but otherwise if they're not bites they can be very nice if they're raised in captivity.
They are still cold blooded killing machines but there isn't really much to worry about unless it's enormous or you're a rat
Some amount of fear is required for our survival, but most of even those essential fears appear to set in only a little later in life, and by observation of fearful behaviors in adults. Scientists have found that two fears are inborn in humans—the fear of falling, and that of loud noises.
Short of zapping our amygdalas, which seems a bit extreme, constant and scientific exposure to whatever it is that we fear seems to be what will do the trick.
The full article does in fact address this! I perhaps should have been more clear about what a natural phobia is and included a long rambling bit about how the visual processing stuff is being poorly explained in that article - recognition of the patterns they're talking about are absolutely present but do not contribute a fear response in their own. The important part however is that they can be reversed!
but it only has two. it's basically a human 😌
Myself I prefer seeing them from a distance, but I still think they are veri cool. Appreciation of insects comes with time, I was never a butterfly lover but bumblebees... Best creatures on earth, I tell ya
i think it's the larva of this big boi
the wikipedia didn't have a good image of the adult, here's it compared to a hand:
One of these was hanging out outside my ex wife's work not long ago. While people were waiting for their appointments, she was taking them outside and showing it to them. She took this old man with a cane out there and the motherfucker smashed it with his fucking cane!
Sometimes a single action is all you need to know about someone. This guy was walking around, existing in the human world, unable to think beyond the level of bug=smash.
Sorry, I think these beetles are amazing. I think about that guy a lot and I wasn't even there.
IRL im pretty shy and cant remember a single time where ive raised my voice at a stranger, but even I would've absolutely lost it at that dude. fuck that guy
What a sad day to have eyes
I... I hate you.
I YATE YOUU
