Looks delicious.
I’d share, but I’ve only got enough for the bigger spiders — these are more expensive than mealworms, but aren’t they festive?
Humans at my house are going to have to settle for a vegetarian shepherd’s pie.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Manducca sexta? You’re giving me flashbacks to my undergrad work/study position.
Eughhhh! Bird, Great Tit attacks other birds, kills them and eats their brains. Brains! Zombie birds!
https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/4c21t9/great_tit_attacks_another_bird_to_eat_its_brain/
Very very turquoise!
If I was going to name them I’d call them Capelli, Gugelmin and March after the old (late 1980’s-90’s) F1 team with that distinctive colour scheme…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyton_House_CG911
PS. Or, very much a match for the colour of the astronomical body first “named” 34 Tauri and considered a star then rediscovered and thought tobe a comet by William Herschel before astronomers realised it wa sactually a planet that they were going to name Georgium Sidus (George’s Star), or the “Georgian Planet” before eventually settling on calling it for the Greek name fro the later Roman god Chronus – Ouranos. Only, weirdly, they chose to spell it the latinised way didn’t they? Sigh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#History
PPS. Am I the only one thinking they look vaguely confectionary~(lollies)~~ish here?
Take it these are caterpillars or larvae of some sort..
Far as I know Ouranos is the only astronomical body thought to be a star, a comet and a planet ever.
Now if we can just get the IAU to redefine it as a dwarf planet since ice giants are a dime and dozen and its really not that big anyhow .. ;-)
Hmm.. a lot of supposed Super-Earths are kinda in its mass range (14 earth masses) so.. ;-)
Or future missions could destroy it –almost totally leaving just a very tiny bit of its core unvapourised as an asteroid to make Ouranos fall into pretty much every category of astronomical body.. Then direct the course of the now reduced to asteroid Ouranos into impact with another world as a meteor and eventually meteorite..
Oven-baked of deep fried?
StevoR @3
If they were orange instead we might be promoted to lament Skidplategate. Still too soon for me :-(
@ ^ Hemidactylus : Well the Quatar F1 GP is this weekend and things are set up rather intrestingly for that and the final F1 race fro 2025.. It does give Piastri a reprieve of sorts and Verstappen has really benefitted. Not that I’m a fan of his but, yeah, looking intresting title~wise now. Go Oscar!
The nickname for them in the pet community is “gummi worms,” so yeah, many people think they look like candy.
Or you could have some tomatoes paste and possibly share your spiders’ choice of meal….
I’m not familiar with this species, but the tomato hornworms we get are huge.
I’m looking forward to seeing a pic of a relatively small spider taking one of these monstrosities down…
Monarch butterfly caterpillars look just as juicy, and Mary grows milkweed…
(Not just Thanksgiving!)
Many juvenile spiders do, too…
More spiders:
Anton Petrov:
“Cave in Europe Is Full of 110,000 Social Spiders Living in a Web City”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=BNTGpuqaeWo