Bug-Lover's Club

[Piney]

Oh gawd that's a little terrifying. I keep on imagining what would happen if there were carnivorous caterpillars that were big enough to eat humans. I don't want to go outside then.

[Padfootsmistress777]

Oh gawd that's a little terrifying. I keep on imagining what would happen if there were carnivorous caterpillars that were big enough to eat humans. I don't want to go outside then.

O.O that....would be terrifying o.O *hides* maybe they'd still be insectivores? Owo

[Byakugan01]

Hah, unlikely. From what I know of carnivorous insects, they go after whatever they can handle. Species does not really matter-mantises will eat snakes and rodents if they can catch them, for instance, and tarantulas will eat fish given half the chance. I want to join, but I'll do so in a bit-doing my work for the TWGG right now,

[Cassowary]

A lot of bugs just don't have a lot of information on them because there's too many to study!

Eating flies is probably actually easier, as plants don't provide a lot of nutrition while other bugs do (protein and such). So the caterpillars can grow up faster, mature faster, reproduce faster...

If you think a human-sized carnivorous caterpillar is bad, imagine a human-sized bloodsucking moth!

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[Piney]

Why is that scientist letting the moth suck her blood? I'm not too worried about the pain but the diseases. And oddly I'm not as scared of vampire moths than of carnivorous caterpillars...

[Padfootsmistress777]

Let us hope that carnivorous caterpillars never grow human sized owo well, taking the whole fast reproduction thing, they may stick to human sized flies o.o

Euggg, mosquitoes are bad enough aren't they? Moths now too?

[Byakugan01]

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[crazyflight]

Well, there are also the obvious ticks and leeches. It's not that uncommon. There's also a finch that bites animals and drinks their blood. I saw one when I went to the Galapagos.
Here it is.

[Padfootsmistress777]

Well, there are also the obvious ticks and leeches. It's not that uncommon. There's also a finch that bites animals and drinks their blood. I saw one when I went to the Galapagos.
Here it is.

You forgot vampire bats x3
And I 'm aware, though it doesn't make any less annoying x3 I like my blood inside me, not to mention the possible risk for disease...

Speaking of leeches, my aquaculture club went to a nearby stream/river to release the fish we'd been growing in class (it was all levity, we were helping repopulate a specific species of...trout I believe) anyway, we would get to go in the stream with waders and collect local invertebrae, and we actually kicked up what appeared to be like...albino leeches, I have no idea what the woman organizing the thin found out about them but they
definitely matched the physical appearance of a leech but were white like maggots...I wish I took pictures...


Edit:That finch is neat owo

[Cassowary]

Added you, Byakugan.

Could have been a different species of leech? Still weird though. Most are dark in color, to blend in. Or maybe they weren't leeches at all - there are plenty of other aquatic insects, especially as larvae.

I once had leeches on my toe. Ended up salting the little buggers to death.