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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the one time one lived longer than a week it became an early game Dark Souls boss

[–] PrinzKasper@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

There was another time where one of these moths tried to overthrow god and became the final boss of FlyKnight

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

it lived solely to have a shitload of projectiles fired at it before dispersing a fog wall

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How does it?

Edit: Me when caterpillars exist: 😯

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Ah yes, from the much less frequently remembered "I have no mouth and I must fuck"

[–] erictile@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Cream

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

There was a lot of fucking going on in the original too

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can also use their wings for invisibility potions

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Waaait, I thought they would help me with my own search for mating. This explains a lot!!

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ok where does the mass come from? It has to consume something.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It gets all its mass from eating during it caterpillar stage. It loses its digestive system during metamorphosis.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s pretty fascinating evolutionarily. It has a metamorphosis stage literally just so it can get wings to better find a mate, fuck, and die.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think we and our closest relatives are the weird ones. If I remember right, most species of animal can reproduce until they die, and many die after reproducing. We kinda complicated things not just by looking after our children but also their children too.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Our caterpillar stage is being socialized and learning the current culture. It’s interesting that many cultures have rites into adulthood, like a symbolic cocoon stage.

“It takes a village” is evolutionary advantageous perhaps; mixing avoids extremes.

[–] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago

Energy is from fat stores created while a caterpillar.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Creationists: God works in mysterious ways.

[–] lars 9 points 1 week ago

I salute our boys and blue and the sky wizard who benevolently grants cancers to our children. Blessed be.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If anyone ask you: "What's the meaning of life?"

You just tell them: "Born, Fuck, Die, maybe add a little crime in there 💣🧨💥🔫"

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Fuck, die, maybe crime.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Mayflies: Pathetic

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We get tons of these lil bastards in my warehouse around this time. Why do they end up in my warehouse and why are their lives so short?

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

why are thier lives so short

See above where they have no mouth or digestive system.

Edit: typo and added digestive

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Look for the caterpillars and cocoons. Those very hungry caterpillars are eating a lot of something, let's see....

"this caterpillar constantly munches on the leaves of walnut, hickory, sweetgum, and paper birch trees."

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who's that fella on the bottom?

[–] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All I Know Is That I Must Kill is Image of a Russian OMSN MVD RF servicemember wearing a Maska SCh1 helmet. It is most common used either sincerely or ironically about gamers and their attitudes to games, particularly first-person shooters. It is used in a similar capacity to the Stealth is optional for this mission meme and is related to the Lord Tachanka meme as they both a similar look by wearing the Maska SCh1 helmet.

Source.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's an interesting-looking thumb.

evolution is stupid