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💥 SigAmiWeek 2024 day 2!! Quest!💥

The two are out questing on Pwurp Island! (Kinda wished their Quest outfits were used more often, I kinda like them!)

[Heres the sketch!]

"Shrimps are bugs" or "Shrimps is bugs" or whatever it was.

This is making me question what people consider to be a bug. Not the "True Bugs", which is a scientific thing, but in the colloquial sense.

They have exoskeletons. But so do clams, and clams aren't bugs.

They have more than four legs, but so do tardigrades and they're not bugs

It can't be everything under arthropod because barnacles are arthropods. They're not bugs.

It's not wings because arachnids are considered bugs, and it can't be the eyes because there are eyeless spiders.

the dictionary definition of bugs says thst bugs are insects, yknow the whole six legged deal— so technically that definition wouldnt fit arachnids or millipedes/centipedes etc etc but calling them bugs just rolls off the tongue better. plus theyre just as fun to observe

Yes, the screaming is a lot, but they’ve been extremely quiet neighbors for thirteen years, cut them some slack as they go through the most fraught time of their lives.

@jjongs-tae-and-biscuits submitted: This little lady surprised us on a walk up the mountain, and we all immediately had a little photoshoot and guided her off the path. I've since identified it as a mountain katydid (checks out on location), but I still wanted to share bc it's the first time any of us had seen one. And also, interesting 💕

Yes, it's a mountain katydid! And a female, as you said. Males are more normal-katydid-shaped. The females have a surprise under their wings!

Wow, terrifying. They flash those spooky colors if they're alarmed. If I were a predator I would not eat her.

peace and love on planet earth