MSPain posted:

entomologist here. i can tell you exactly what's going on in this clip. the yellow bird bit the long crab in half. all parties involved have worms (if you look closely you can see little six-legged worms running around on the ground)

R.L. Stine posted:

etymologist here, the word mantis comes from the ancient greek word 'mantis'

MSPain posted:

entomologist here. i can tell you exactly what's going on in this clip. the yellow bird bit the long crab in half. all parties involved have worms (if you look closely you can see little six-legged worms running around on the ground)

MSPain posted:

entomologist here.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/WsdHlMq.mp4

R.L. Stine posted:

etymologist here, the word mantis comes from the ancient greek word 'mantis'

Inceltown posted:

Which is a shortened version of "man tits". Those ancient Greeks loved them some moobs.

Takes No Damage posted:

Well this is embarrassing, I've been pronouncing it "mantis" for years

MSPain posted:

entomologist here. i can tell you exactly what's going on in this clip. the yellow bird bit the long crab in half. all parties involved have worms (if you look closely you can see little six-legged worms running around on the ground)

Nobody Interesting posted:

I have questions and I'd like a bug lawyer to answer them.

The mantis is eating a hornet, and a hornet is eating the mantis. Is the mantis-eating hornet doing it out of like...an attempt to 'save' the other? Like are they that coordinated that the hornet has an interest in its hornet buddies staying alive?

And why doesn't the mantis stop? It's determined that eating the other hornet is a higher priority than keeping its loving legs?

Vampire Panties posted:

IANABL, but the mantis looks like it has parasite worms coming out of its abdomen. Its probable that the mantis is basically a zombie and reflexively grabbed & ate the wasp, because praying mantises will eat anything

any entomologists in the house wanna chime in?

By popular demand posted:

I weep because I'll never experience a meal so perfect that I'll miss some sneaky sod removing half my body while I'm eating.

By popular demand posted:

I weep because I'll never experience a meal so perfect that I'll miss some sneaky sod removing half my body while I'm eating.

axolotl farmer posted:

I am an actual entomologist. Here's my take.

The 'worm' things are the cerci, appendages at the tip of the abdomen in insects. They're sensory organs, like antennae, but at the other end.

The first hornet tried to kill the mantis, got grabbed.

Second hornet also tries to grab mantis, suceeds, since the danger end of the mantis is busy handling the other hornet.

Insects that catch and eat other insects often start the process by severing the head from the rest of the body. This is what the second hornet is doing. Since the nervous system of insects is a lot more distributed than in vertebrates, the head and forelegs of the mantis are too busy handling prey to care that it's about to be severed between the first and middel thoracic segment.

Ants are incidental.

Cartoon Man posted:

So somebody had a great idea to do a live action “walk through” event of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. They used AI images to advertise what it was going to look like.




Unfortunately the reality came up a bit short…






Willy Wonka’s meth lab looking great though.

Patrons were so pissed off they called the cops.

https://news.sky.com/story/police-called-to-willy-wonka-inspired-experience-in-glasgow-as-families-demand-refunds-13081554

By popular demand posted:

Low effort Willy Wonka should be a thread.

Cartoon Man posted:

By popular demand posted:

I meant low effort WW cosplay and possibly roleplay too, maybe I'll start one tomorrow.

davidspackage posted:

"Oh and great idea to have a person dressed in a terrifying outfit to come out and scare all the kids. They were all crying - it was terrible, shocking and embarrassing to be honest," wrote one parent.

A shame that there's no photos of this, but it probably couldn't live up to the mental image.

ultrafilter posted:

https://twitter.com/bene25_/status/1762631362597519859

davidspackage posted:

Apparently "the Unknown" was ChatGPT's idea for a Willy Wonka antagonist in the AI-generated script, but I wonder whose idea it was to dress and act him as a dark hell man who kids will imagine crawling from behind their mirror for years to come.

Karate Bastard posted:

You have heard of uwu capitalism. Get ready for ohno capitalism.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

I demand a legally distinct Ciaran and the Chocolate Factory Caramel Distillery that's just a bunch of kids illegally put to work in a dodgy Scottish factory.