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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I resist the urge to kill spiders because I hate mosquitoes even more.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I swear one of my cats can smell these fuckers.

Or they're just noisy on some level, and I don't wanna think about that.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 7 months ago (17 children)

Creepy. And I learned something. Reminds me of another comic strip that cracked me up. The gist:

God said to the insects "you may each pick three traits." The millipede said, "I want legs!" The centipede agreed. God nodded. "And for your second trait?" The millipede smiled brightly and said "More legs!" The centipede request the same. God asked for their final request. "More legs!" The millipede shouted smiling even brighter The centipede gave a sinister grin and growled. "Teeth."

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

I wish I had a couple of these guys. Nothing else I've done has gotten rid of the roaches in this shit-ass apartment. Might as well try more bugs.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

How could anyone look at that cute fucker and say such a thing?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (4 children)

these mfs are usually a canary in a coal mine. if you start seeing these everywhere in your house, chances are you have roaches.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What kind of insect is that? I can't think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Insects have 6 legs. If I had to guess its a centipede drawn with too many legs per segment.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

Commonly known as a house or carpet centipede.

The drawing is pretty accurate.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Are there silverfish big enough to eat roaches?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Makes me wonder if we ever do meet intelligent aliens will we instantly try to kill them not because we're a tribe based war loving species, but if it's simply because we're so absolutely and deeply repulsed by something so different than us on an instinctual level.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Or, as various sci fi stories have laid out, will they immediately try to kill us, because they are an insect based race and we are dealing with drones that only follow basic instinct, and we’d need to commune with the queen or some such to get them to understand that each of our species has a consciousness and free will, and we don’t exist in a hive mind

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's fine, we'll train a ten year old prodigy to kill their entire race.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Speak for yourself, I exist in a hive mind.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

That's the plot of Starship Troopers.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever met a Belgian? Same thing

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There's two things I can't stand. Intolerance, and Belgians.

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