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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fun fact I like to share with everyone who enjoys shrimp. Up until the ~~90s~~ 80s they were very difficult to breed in captivity. They just wouldn’t reproduce.

Until someone figured out that it you cut out one of their eyes, they will readily breed. Nobody really knows why, but they snip off one of the eye stalks on the females to get them to breed.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago
[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago
[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh...geeze. This read like a note found in a Resident Evil game...

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago

The fear of death does tend to make creatures want to reproduce.

It is fucked though.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That’s not it actually. Current theory is it has something to do with the overall decreased sensation of sunlight indicating it’s mating season or something. They won’t develop mature ovaries with both eyes.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's also hormones they think are removed when the stalk is removed.

But really, no animal likes being injured. And they have no idea what else is going to get cut off.

If some other thing that's observing humans cuts the dominant arm off a man without any access to females, they're going to suggest doing that limits how much they want to masturbate.

When in reality they just can't masturbate anymore.

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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

how did they discover that? who's just going around cutting random parts of swimmy guys??

[-] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe some bad bitch shrimp got in a knife fight with a lobster, lost her eye and just went ham

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

According to where I learned it, in high enough densities in concrete tanks, some shrimp would grind their own eyestalks off on the side of the tank. Some farmer put two and two together.

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[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

SLPT: Poke out your girl's eyeball to get some guaranteed hard lovin.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

There is an indoor shrimp farm in Indiana. Really. They also claim they farm sustainably.

https://www.rdmshrimp.com/

Downside: they don't shell them or cut any bits off or anything. That's your job.

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[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 weeks ago

ever eaten anything with red in it? (like the icing decorations on the pictured cake)

https://www.livescience.com/36292-red-food-dye-bugs-cochineal-carmine.html

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's pretty interesting.
You never think about it, but most of everything is dyed. And that dye has to come from somewhere.

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Also, ever eaten a shiny candy? Chances are is coated in confectioners glaze, which is a fancy word for shellac, which is an insect excretion.

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[-] Davel23@fedia.io 17 points 2 weeks ago

And they're fucking delicious.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Then why don’t they call it bug fried rice? Checkmate Atheists

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago
[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on the definition of bug. Entemological true bugs are a very specific class of insects, but the term bug was used to describe any arthropod for significantly longer than proper taxonomy has been around.

So if you're a biologist, no, if you're an anthropologist, yes.

Someone covered in brine shrimp would be more likely to feel covered in bugs than covered in marine crustaceans though.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago

I'd like to subscribe to more covered in sea creatures facts.

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[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

So is lobsters and crabs.

Eating them anyway, though.

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[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago
[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 2 weeks ago

Lobsters are commonly referred to as bugs as well.

There is no scientific definition of “bug”, but the folk definition seems to be any invertebrate, typically with more than four limbs.

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[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

At least the message is delivered on a cake.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I've eaten cooked bugs before, properly prepared, it's pretty good

Can't remember what kind of bug it was specifically, but I do remember it was fried

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Small crickets maybe? I haven't had them in years but they're delicious with the right seasoning.

[-] jawa21 5 points 2 weeks ago

They seemed to be a common enough ingredient in tacos for the short while I was in Mexico. They are pretty good.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah the ones I had were in Mexico. So crunchy and good with salt, lime, and chili.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds about right, I keep thinking Cockroaches, but I'd be too grossed out about those bastards so it was probably crickets lol

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Shrimps be bugs

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, you have no idea.

You can have them by the fistful like this, shell and all.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

C R O N C H

[-] Talaraine@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago

It occurred to me while playing Helldivers that all the bugs we were killing would probably taste like crab after boiling.

puts on bib and grabs the shell crackers

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hmm. Deep rock too probably.

edit: ok fuck whoever posted that fake PNG

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[-] Starayo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Every time I look at the hive guards after killing them, I think how delicious they look.

I want to eat the hive guards. For democracy.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Steam crabs, don't boil them

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's an ugly planet. A bug planet.

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[-] mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr 5 points 2 weeks ago

They juicy bugs though, not as juicy as lobsters though

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I've been saying that for years and I call them water bugs

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

So is crab and molluscs

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

People and fish are more closely related than shrimp and insects

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

The taxonomy puts us right about the same, splitting after phylum. That being said, a shrimp looks a hell of a lot more like a silverfish than I do like a carp.

Well, depending on my general state of health.

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[-] Terrapinjoe@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

People are fish and shrimp is bugs

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