>other insects are despised?
Says fricking who? Plenty of people like bugs, and its just stuff like roaches that get singled out for being gross and instinctively repulsive.
Eastern Hercules Beetle, right? Those things are pretty cool. I found one while I was at work a while back. Kind of regret not taking him home.
As for beetles, they are an easily recognized category of bugs. Isn't known to have stinger or painful bites unless it has pinchers, and they look cool. Some of them eat other pest bugs, so the only hatred comes from ones that do target crops. A lot better than some mystery bug which bites, stings, is poisonous, smells bad, has diseases or parasites, is a parasite, is annoying, is scary looking, or runs too fast. Other bugs can frigg off.
Sir, I regret to inform you of your naïveté, but this is incorrect. The average normie has an intransigent antipathy towards all arthropods, regardless of how dangerous or docile they may be.
80% of their life is spent as a grub, the adult phase only lasts for a few months before it dies, so you basically have to breed them and look at dirt jars
I'm sure gardeners don't enjoy a bad grub infestation chewing on their vegetable roots.
Weevils are widely hated for their propensity to get into bags of rice/grain and absolutely demolishing them.
Carpet beetles are also annoying in households, especially in museums, as they'll eat preserved specimens.
So I can imagine certain professions hating beetles, and loving other insects, such as flies, for being useful pollinators, decomposers, and feed for their chickens.
I assume because most species don't bite like true bugs, they aren't obnoxious in the way flies are, and most aren't seen as pests like roaches. Also, other widely beloved insects like Mantids aren't nearly as common, and the massive variety of beetle species make them more "interesting." Personally, I love all arthropods
single-handedly ruined beetles for me. frick these homosexuals.
These frickers got into a $100 taxidermied goliath beetle I bought years ago
>other insects are despised?
Says fricking who? Plenty of people like bugs, and its just stuff like roaches that get singled out for being gross and instinctively repulsive.
Eastern Hercules Beetle, right? Those things are pretty cool. I found one while I was at work a while back. Kind of regret not taking him home.
As for beetles, they are an easily recognized category of bugs. Isn't known to have stinger or painful bites unless it has pinchers, and they look cool. Some of them eat other pest bugs, so the only hatred comes from ones that do target crops. A lot better than some mystery bug which bites, stings, is poisonous, smells bad, has diseases or parasites, is a parasite, is annoying, is scary looking, or runs too fast. Other bugs can frigg off.
Speak for yourself, I fricking despise vine boarrers with a passion
They have cute little faces and beady little eyes :3
They are big and slow.
Small and fast is creepy.
Insects are only despised if: they spread diseases, destroy crops or cause harm from biting
Sir, I regret to inform you of your naïveté, but this is incorrect. The average normie has an intransigent antipathy towards all arthropods, regardless of how dangerous or docile they may be.
I want to get one as a pet. Specifically this species. I don't know much about beetles.
Anyone know what this one is called?
Hercules beetle. They’re pretty easy to raise or breed
80% of their life is spent as a grub, the adult phase only lasts for a few months before it dies, so you basically have to breed them and look at dirt jars
>spends 80% of life eating and chilling
>becomes an unstoppable forklift frickmachine for the rest of it
If only this applied to humans.
BEETLEMAXXING
Their bulk game is insane
>Why
They’re cute
they're slow and round and look clean and simple and easy to identify.
The Beatles
>other insects are despised
Bitch, please.
>fat
>clumsy
>little face
A bumblebee is just a bee trying it’s hardest to be a beetle
Wauf is a bumblebee board. Move along beetle gays.
>not a single bumblebee thread
>three separate beetle threads full of people praising beetles
Sure lmao
If you squash them a lot of guts would come out.
That grosses me out and makes me think of them as walking guts water balloons.
>If you squash them a lot of guts would come out.
That’s true for any animal including yourself.
except you can't accidentally squash humans, you chimps
t. never driven a car
There’s a graveyard full of Chinese factory workers somewhere who’d disagree
have you never visited /gif/?
How curious, that's exactly what I think of you, anon
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They look pretty
they're cute, harmless, come in a bunch of neat colors, and are kind of clumsy, which adds to the cuteness.
I'm sure gardeners don't enjoy a bad grub infestation chewing on their vegetable roots.
Weevils are widely hated for their propensity to get into bags of rice/grain and absolutely demolishing them.
Carpet beetles are also annoying in households, especially in museums, as they'll eat preserved specimens.
So I can imagine certain professions hating beetles, and loving other insects, such as flies, for being useful pollinators, decomposers, and feed for their chickens.
I assume because most species don't bite like true bugs, they aren't obnoxious in the way flies are, and most aren't seen as pests like roaches. Also, other widely beloved insects like Mantids aren't nearly as common, and the massive variety of beetle species make them more "interesting." Personally, I love all arthropods
Oh! And many species are really big in comparison to most other insects. People like big animals for whatever reason
I fricking love beetles
Spidersisters, our response?
spiders aren’t insects
Spiders are valid, bugot!
Nah, spiders are superiors to insects.
Please refrain from using words like inferior and superior when describing living things.
>Nah, spiders are superiors to insec-ACK!
stop trying to create discord among arthropods
Arthropod can't use discord, you big silly willy.
'eetle's on the 'og
Is that an 'ick on 'eck reference on Wauf of all places?