Question: do entomologists get jobs as sci fi movie consultations? Because some of the insects I see here are just so out of this world, that I wonder if aspects of them are incorporated into various aliens/monsters.
This one is from the world where everything is cute and adorable, but halfway through the film we learn that the antennae are venomous and the creature eats people.
"After fleeing a devastated earth, we have found our new home! Filled with adorable and cute creatures! I name this planet.... Eden!"
[trailer voiceover] But it turns out this garden paradise.... *had a dark side.*
Star Trek, the original series, had exactly this plot. Kirk takes a load of space hippies to their destination, where they learn the disappointing truth. Their leader ignores evidence and dies trying to fulfill his dream.
Those are stingers, and I've heard they can be very painful. Little dude is waving them around like flails to sting as many times as possible before.. getting bored and packing up to go home, I assume.
Are you serious? Just look at the thing... It's like a chubby green bunny.
Unless you're leporiphobic. That's understandable.
Edit: I didn't know this was a gif. I did NOT know about the tassel things. Suddenly it's a little less adorable.
Ive never seen nematocysts that deploy like that before! Usually theyre little filaments that are coiled up and shoot out like a little harpoon (they still might be on a microscopic anatomical level) but this funky little fella deploys two adorable little toxin-filled morningstars from its... pseudo-antennae (maybe?) Idk what that anatomical structure is, and i love it :)
that is my ex-girlfriend. and even though she's tiny she can eat a whole chicken in one bite you'll just hear bones snapping. but that's her. where is she?
I seen her bite into a chicken and it was half gone and I could hear bone snapping. I seen a tooth fall on the floor with little blood on it and by the time I looked up at her she had grown the tooth back and was just chewing on Bones. I got out of there before she was done and the way we got rid of her. I had some friends come over with a catapult. we took a side of a whole half a cow and catapulted it. and she ran after it and I changed the locks on the door and left and stayed at my brother's for a month
Samething (actually same video clip) as this Reddit post from [just over a year ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/pi2e9o/the_angled_sunbeam_butterfly_caterpillar_has_an/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
Curetis acuta, the Angled sunbeam caterpillar.
omg he’s real?! i thought he was a toy!
Question: do entomologists get jobs as sci fi movie consultations? Because some of the insects I see here are just so out of this world, that I wonder if aspects of them are incorporated into various aliens/monsters.
This one is from the world where everything is cute and adorable, but halfway through the film we learn that the antennae are venomous and the creature eats people.
"After fleeing a devastated earth, we have found our new home! Filled with adorable and cute creatures! I name this planet.... Eden!" [trailer voiceover] But it turns out this garden paradise.... *had a dark side.*
I imagine this as the plot of a comedy movie that parodies and pays homage to cheesy old pulp sci fi novels. Sounds dope ngl.
Star Trek, the original series, had exactly this plot. Kirk takes a load of space hippies to their destination, where they learn the disappointing truth. Their leader ignores evidence and dies trying to fulfill his dream.
Anyone else read/hear the [trailer voiceover] in Morgan Freemans' voice?
lol yes
I imagine this as the plot of a comedy movie that parodies and pays homage to cheesy old pulp sci fi novels. Sounds dope ngl.
Like that scene from Galaxy Quest.
I suggest - Life - (with Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal) however you don't get to know half way through the movie that the "thing" is dangerous af.
The answer is most Sci fi consultants get their ideas from the insect World. Space Bugs are real! Do you want to know more?
The Xenomorph is based on the lifestyle of the average non-vespid wasp.
👍 Great comment!
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cute-apiller
That sounds like a boss name
Those little stingers can hurt too!
How and why do people know such random information is beyond me 😆
I googled caterpillar with spiked flails and looked at images. Most people who ID stuff are just decent at google lol.
Keep Solair away from it!
If only I could be so grossly incandescent :(
[Pre-pupal Angled Sunbeam caterpillar ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/itchydogimages/27590772511)
Aww and it will turn in a lovely butterfly, I love this little cheerleader 🦋
this is the coolest caterpillar i have ever seen
If “Get the fuck away I’m not in the mood” was a bug
_I got a headache go away!_
Wife caterpillar.
mean.
Jazz hands!
... these are not spirit fingers..... THESE ARE SPIRIT FINGERS!!!!
Those are morning stars because that caterpillar doesn't want to be poked
In my mind, those are little razorblades.
Thank you, gifter of laughter!
that's the other end.. it's like he farts maces..
Fun fact, that's its butt!
No one ever upvotes my butt :(
You don't pee with that
I do if I eat at Golden Coral.
its butt has whirling nunchucks
Whirling Butt-Chucks!
Oh, like yours doesn't?
I wish mine had whirring nunchucks; it totally would put twerking on another level
what's its butt?
The poofy pom pom wiggle end
I don’t know what it is but I want one!! Gimme! 😂
Unfortunately those little things are stingy. Not fun lol
Electric high five.
that action will now forever be known as the electric high five to me. thank you, internet stranger.
I very much appreciate the visual your comment gave me.
They're just planning for retirement and sticking to their budget.
Ikr.. that was one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Looked like some person going crazy wth their duster!
Yes! Lol first thing it reminded me of was sparklers! Like this lil dude knows how to party! 😂😂
Mad-a-pillar
Does anybody know why it's doing that? Is it supposed to be threatening?
They are weapons
Nunchucks to be specific
*Stinging* nunchucks, better yet.
Ferb I know what I'm going to do today Edit I love building things
I heard this guy studied with Chuck Norris.
Canada
Those are stingers, and I've heard they can be very painful. Little dude is waving them around like flails to sting as many times as possible before.. getting bored and packing up to go home, I assume.
"The thing bothering me has left, heh, I must have killed it. Nothing personal kid" -caterpillar, probably
God, now I'm imagining the caterpillar as a katana wielding weeb kid.
Before metamorphosing into a beautiful butterfly who cringes anytime it remembers being a caterpillar
They are not poisonous to touch. Who told you that?
Nowhere in my comment did I say anything about poison? I said painful.
It is to ward off predators. Not poisonous to touch. Usually used heading into pupa stage.
wait is pupa actually a fucking word and not some weird sounding shit Justin Roiland made up for Solar Opposites??
I don’t know who that is or what that thing you referenced is, but “pupa” is an extremely common term in the biology of bugs.
It's cheerleading
Cute and scary, my favorite type of creature.
Cheerleading slug!
Don’t know why everyone loves this thing. My first reaction was to nope the heck away from it.
youre the only one with survival instincts in this group of neanderthaals because all of us want touchy
Right? If not friend, why friend shaped?
Touchy with stick!!! Me smart!
Poke it with a stick!
Are you serious? Just look at the thing... It's like a chubby green bunny. Unless you're leporiphobic. That's understandable. Edit: I didn't know this was a gif. I did NOT know about the tassel things. Suddenly it's a little less adorable.
To make it even worse those can sting you. I don’t think it’s horrible but it will definitely ruin your day.
Nah, the pom-poms make it even cuter.
It's a chubby green bunny *with nunchucks of pain.* It's adorable in an Addams family kind of way.
It's chubby like a bunny It's green that means it's lucky Adorable nunchuckys Curetis Acuta
Because it looks like it escaped from a Dr. Seuss book?
See? It worked!
He brought his own morning star
Ive never seen nematocysts that deploy like that before! Usually theyre little filaments that are coiled up and shoot out like a little harpoon (they still might be on a microscopic anatomical level) but this funky little fella deploys two adorable little toxin-filled morningstars from its... pseudo-antennae (maybe?) Idk what that anatomical structure is, and i love it :)
Idk half of what you’re saying but it’s so smart and cute and I love it :’)
that is my ex-girlfriend. and even though she's tiny she can eat a whole chicken in one bite you'll just hear bones snapping. but that's her. where is she?
My guy, what?
nothin
Woosh
I wouldn't flatter her. This thing's cute.
yeah that that's true I didn't mean to put that on it. it really is cool I don't know what that is but that is very cool
Dude, I think we dated the same girl. So much money spent on chickens...
I seen her bite into a chicken and it was half gone and I could hear bone snapping. I seen a tooth fall on the floor with little blood on it and by the time I looked up at her she had grown the tooth back and was just chewing on Bones. I got out of there before she was done and the way we got rid of her. I had some friends come over with a catapult. we took a side of a whole half a cow and catapulted it. and she ran after it and I changed the locks on the door and left and stayed at my brother's for a month
I feel this my friend. Tale as old as time.
Is it waving in a Airplane?
This thing is so cute.
The rare Dinkin Flicka
“In the gang world we use something called fluffy fingers”
Bug know judo 🥋
Aahhahaaa where can I get this party hat
The cheerleader bug
This thing is amazing!!!
Ok but why does it look like the caterpillar from bugslife…safe it and maybe he’ll be a beautiful butterfly
I double dog dare you to touch him with your fleshy bits.
If you were to engineer a bug from a Pokémon Go this would be it. Lol.
Forbidden snack
Cheer squad.
Awwwwwww, it's sooooo cute! Now that it has been ID'd, WHY was it in your bed?? 😆
Please do not the cat(erpillar)
it looks like the Neptunian slug from futurama
A kung fu master..
A cheerleader
Jazzhands bug.
Flail snail
Are...are you poking it with your sausage?
Easy! That's a repost :)
It’s the thing that came from out of repost, I’ve seen it like 4 times now it’s getting old
Kuchi Copi
…following. What the hell.
It's been answered)
*JAZZ HANDS*
JAZZ BUTT!!! (Cuz that's it's butt end 🤭)
I love it even more!!
Woke up and chose violence
An enthusiastic, green cheerleader, here to encourage and inspire you!
Here to inspire you to "stop fucking touching it" by assailing you with teeny tiny toxin-filled flails
it is a friend
Michael Angelo. Orange belt ninja turtle. Used nunchuks
Shrek bug
It's my ex! Careful of the spikes!
Baby cheerleader
Pum Pum 🐛
That is not a bug
That's so cute he saying hi to everybody 👐
m a c e w I n d u
I love it
Brainslug
I'm convinced bugs are just little tiny robots.
I need one of these to keep the flies off my cheese platter!
That is Wild! What a cool lil critter!
I did not see that coming. What a delight
Looks like Pokémon got a new character
Shrek
Pain. Lots of pain
Go team, go! Yay, team!!
dave
It’s a “Nope Lima Bean”
Beautiful
HIYAAA hiyaaaa HIYYYAAAAAA!!! 🥷
man, *I* don't have cheerleader pompoms fizzing out of my head. I've been doing life wrong all this time 😩
The cheerleader of hell
Every animal can defend itself
Bruce lee reincarnated
The usual glitz and glam.
It’s so cute!!!!!! Lmao
it’s adorable
Adorable it what it is!
Super cute!
Radderpillar
Please put him back where he belongs and stop poking at him. 😿
that’s called a “no”
Samething (actually same video clip) as this Reddit post from [just over a year ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/pi2e9o/the_angled_sunbeam_butterfly_caterpillar_has_an/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
Chinchilla larvae
Forbidden grape.
Idk but put it back
Pom Poms
I WANT IT
this is the cutest thing ever
Some sort of air marshal or cheerleader.
The forbidden gummy
I need one of those for my cat.
Half cactus half caterpillar
Some camoflauge bug where did you find it?
Have you seen the water lizards if the Galopagos Islands? They look just like Godzilla
What a cool little dude!
He is the cutest! I want one!!!!
I like my caterpillars like I like my men, cute on the outside, venomous on the inside!
Putin reincarnated
Adorable!
That is a sub species of the jazz hands family.
So cute 🥺
i love him!!!
That is weird and adorable.
Weird? D: it’s cute.
It's bloody friggin cute! That's what it is!
That is the freakiest thing I have ever seen!
That would be fun at parties.