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Chimera-gui
Mar 20, 2014
The beetle that took you back to Dirtmouth is actually a European rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis), a member of the genus Oryctes of the subfamily Dynastinae:


Other notable Dynastinae include the Japanese rhinoceros beetle (Allomyrina dichotoma):


The elephant beetle (Megasoma elephas):


The Atlas beetle (Chalcosoma atlas):


And the Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) Mateo posted earlier.

Chimera-gui fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 2, 2017

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Chimera-gui
Mar 20, 2014

Samovar posted:

So, the bug people are able to make trams, but the fast travel utilises giant beetles.

Okay.

I think that tram may have actually been a toy laying around for some reason.

Chimera-gui
Mar 20, 2014
It's amateur entomology time again and like Stag AKA the taxi, Willoh is actually a real life insect called the giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa):

Chimera-gui
Mar 20, 2014
The fungis you and Travis were thinking of is called the cordyceps.

Chimera-gui
Mar 20, 2014
I believe the term Wang was looking for is patriarchal which is what a society run by men is called.

Chimera-gui
Mar 20, 2014
Didn't Paul get screwed over by a machine as well? I distinctly remember that in the Disney short, he made a bet that a machine couldn't match him and lost by a narrow margin forcing him to spend the rest of his days in Alaska.

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Chimera-gui
Mar 20, 2014
And Travis' comment about moths and flames made me think of this rather sad song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3oRdO68M3A

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