#phoresy

Slug caterpillar moth, Perola sericea, Limacodidae

Found in Central and South America

Name: Insectiride

Debut: Mario Party 6

Mario and friends get up to all sorts of shenanigans! Many of these are dangerous shenanigans, and I would prefer not to get involved with them. If I were to fall in lava or be hit by a barrage of hammers thrown by a turtle, I would Die! I lament this fact, but I am no scrimblo. However, some of the antics are good safe fun, and that includes the act of racing in funny bug-shaped vehicles! I wish I could do that in real life!

Though there is a snail among these insects, for the sake of simplicity, I will call all these creatures Bugs. I usually reserve that term for arthropods, but I don't feel like saying "creepy-crawlies" a bunch of times in this post like some kind of Talking Flower. So Bugs. There are some people who'd call a snail a bug without even a disclaimer! Can you imagine that?

Players begin Insectiride by choosing their vehicle out of the four unique options! I think I played this minigame once and I THINK I used the grasshopper. I think it still might be my favorite! I'm sorry to this snail, but I don't like it much. It looks like pizza, and I like pizza a lot- I regularly observe #pizzafriday- but it's just not the sort of thing I'd like a snail's skin to remind me of.

Each of these bugs has its own control scheme! The player on the ladybug must press the indicated button ten times quickly to make it crawl forward a bit. The player on the grasshopper must press a sequence of various buttons to make it hop forward a few times. The player on the stag beetle must press each indicated button that appears one at a time, each press making it push along a bit. And finally, the player on the snail must press A when its body extends fully to make it pull the shell along behind.

On the dung beetle Onthophagus ferox.

Macrochelidae are fast-moving, free-living cosmopolitan predators found in habitats that are rich in decaying organic material, including manure, and carrion, including human corpses. They're probably best known for the species that hitch a lift to the next cowpat on a convinient dung beetle, and then decimate the fly population at that pat. Macrochelids feed mainly on small arthropods such as fly larvae and nematodes, and some species are particularly promising as biological control agents.

some phoretic mites demonstrating alternative methods of host attachment on Hylastes bark beetles:

- moogle pompom

Nicrophorus vespillo Linnaeus, 1758, infested with Poecilichirus mites, Denmark (Donald Hobern, Flickr CC)

Phoresy, which is also called phoresis, is an association between two organisms, where one travels on the body of another, without being a parasite or causing it any harm. In this case, the hitchhiker is a mite, which attaches itself to a beetle, solely for the purpose of travel (above). The…

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Katydid with phoretic pseudoscorpion

Phoresy is a behavior seen in some species of pseudoscorpions (and other organisms) in which one animal uses another (usually larger) animal for transportation to new resources but does not harm it.

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