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Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:
I want to share a fun tidbit about insects and metamorphosis. I'm a biologist and I think this is really cool, but I do also recognize that a lot of regular people would find this pretty gross, so I'm gonna put all the subsequent posts in this thread behind a content warning.
So, as a kid I learned about insect metamorphosis. You see a caterpillar and a cocoon or chrysalis and then a butterfly. (e.g.) And a butterfly's body sort of looks like a caterpillar, if you don't look too close. (…)