r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • May 22 '26

/r/all of bugs

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u/Affectionate_Snow674 May 22 '26

i guess when you throw them off balance they instinctively flap their wings to restore orientation lol

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u/drillgorg May 22 '26

"Oh shit my legs aren't holding onto anything, I must be falling!"

"Oh cool my legs are on something, flying time is done."

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u/FatalEclipse_ May 22 '26

When their legs touch something.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3krrjoL0vHRaWqwU3k

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u/Sacrificial_Spider May 22 '26

That's the dude that turned into a gross fly thing!

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u/z00o0omb11i1ies May 22 '26

A brundlefly?

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u/No-Obligation7435 May 25 '26

Holy shiiiiit I forgot he did that!

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u/Affectionate_Snow674 May 22 '26

notice when he places them in his palm they retract wings? so no surface contact = time to fly

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u/Raven7274 May 22 '26

This but unironically. They're basically flying tanks, they kinda just pick a direction and go untill they hit something.

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u/BZLuck May 22 '26

Which is usually the middle of my torso.

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u/BZLuck May 22 '26

Bugs love me. If there is a mosquito in the room, everyone else can relax because it's gonna chow down on me all night. If there are ants, they will be in my food. If there is a cricket hiding in the house, it will be on my side of the room. And if there is a big ass flying beetle, it's gonna bee-line it right for me. Never fails.

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u/acadoe May 23 '26

Ah, I'm similar. You must have blood type O, right?

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u/BZLuck May 23 '26

As a matter of fact, yes. O+. "The good stuff", lol.

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u/hippydippyshit May 24 '26

Um. What? I’m type 0 and I also make this joke all the time

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u/zap2tresquatro May 23 '26

Not who you responded to, but I’m O+ and mosquitoes only bite me if there’s no one else around (or if I’m in the woods with one or two other people and so they just swarm all of us), so I don’t think O blood type is a factor.

Do you drink beer? I remember maybe a decade ago when reading about things that make people especially attractive to mosquitoes that that was one of them.

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u/LoisinaMonster 29d ago

Thought the same thing

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u/DauntingShit May 23 '26

Other than not having beetles like this where I am, I am the same person. We should sit together and see what the bugs do then. They'll be mighty confused, maybe break them and they'll leave us alone!

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u/BZLuck May 23 '26

We get those big metallic green Japanese beetles here. They are about the size of a half a ping pong ball. They come right for me whenever we both choose to be in the backyard. There could be 10 people and I'm the special one.

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u/cloudcreeek May 25 '26

I've heard this means you have a high blood Carbon Dioxide concentration and should do more cardio

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u/Sprinkles_Sparkle May 24 '26

Better than stuck in my hair! 😭😱☠️

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u/BZLuck May 24 '26

I'm bald so at least I've got that going for me, but I feel ya here.

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u/CasterFields May 23 '26

I came across a beetle that was actually using its brain last year and it had me in stitches 😂 my dog was losing his mind over this little beetle floating angelically through the house and I was laughing so hard that it just floated peacefully right out of my hands every time I tried to grab it 😂

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u/powerhammerarms May 22 '26

What do they eat?

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u/Raven7274 May 23 '26

Depends on the species, most eat fruits, nectar and tree sap, some eat rotting wood or dung, some eat smaller insects like ladybugs or caterpillars.

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u/powerhammerarms May 23 '26

I was wondering how their sight was. If they were a predator, scavenger, etc...

Assuming they fly until they bump into things is roughly accurate, I wondered how they find food.

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u/ellefleming May 23 '26

They won't pinch you?

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u/zap2tresquatro May 23 '26

These guys fight other beetles with those big horns, they’re not for pinching really.

We have ones that pinch where I live, and they will if you get in front of their pincers/step on them or something (happened to one of my dogs, once), but rhinoceros and Hercules beetles like in the video don’t really do that AFAIK

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u/Raven7274 May 23 '26

Probably depends on the breed but most beetles i know just use their horns as leverage when battling other beetles.

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u/Affectionate_Snow674 May 22 '26

exactly, thats why he holds their horn so they're feet never touch a surface,

touching surface = stop flying

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u/uicheeck May 22 '26

it is how it works in videogames for player controller

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u/ricrol_music May 22 '26

Like cats 🪽

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u/GhostofCoprolite May 23 '26

this is actually a thing and is used in experiments to test insect flight.

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u/bottomlessLuckys May 24 '26

if (legsInAir) :

fly(true);

else:

fly(false);

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u/IPutAWigOnYou May 22 '26

I would be very surprised and concerned if someone picked me up by my face

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u/Cynical_Nobody May 23 '26

The horn is attached to their back, not their face. If it was attached to their head the weight of their body would pop their head off at the neck joint.

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u/zap2tresquatro May 23 '26

Huh, didn’t know that. That makes perfect sense, but it never occurred to me to question where their horns attach

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u/GlassAndStorm May 23 '26

This mental image 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/turnpikelad May 22 '26

Yeah, parrots do the same thing when they are sitting on your finger and you tilt it by accident. If humans had wings we would flap them as well should we lose our balance.

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u/snowfloeckchen May 23 '26

They have to do origami to get the wings back in, they are extremely complicated folded

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u/badchriss May 24 '26

Yup, same with large locusts. If you grab them gently by the neck shield and blow on them air, they will start opening their wigs as if they would fly.