Bug isn't even a technical term. Lobsters are considered bugs!
That's a great point you big dumb bitch.
Yeah I always assumed "bug" was like "vegetable"
it's a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are "true bugs" so maybe the analogy isn't completely sound.
(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)
Agreed. In my mind "bug" has always meant arthropod. So it's include insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc.
You wouldn't say that if you ever tried those tomatoes https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/01/17/culture/foodTravel/tomango-tomato/20210117130800678.html
I'd even call them candy.
But they wanted to feel smugly superior! Poor fella can't even be pedantic properly...
fewer beer
So close. Less beer, fewer beers. Both acceptable.
Jesus Christ someone get that dude a therapist.
But his username is mentally healthy so how could he need a therapist?
The number one rule for pedants is: if you're going to be pedantic, you'd damn well better be correct.
Display Name: Mentally Healthy
Username: EAT_ROADKILL
Dude is at odds with himself.
Duality of man
I'm not a scientist, but I'm the kind of person to keep black widows as pets and create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area. I'd allow spiders being called bugs, or even insects. Even poisonous is alright but it does hurt a little.
create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area
You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)
We're going to need a link
It was a Google site (from years ago) so all that's left is a random archive somewhere. I had all the local spiders+favorites, but the only original content were pictures of Latrodectus and Kukulkania Hibernalis. Beautiful spiders.
Are some spiders poisonous? Are all animals that are venomous also poisonous? Also I'd like to say that there is no linguistic difference between the two in some languages. There is no distinction between the two in German for instance. It's either giftig or it isn't.
They eat spiders too.
Stupid science bitch couldn't even understand the joke.
- there is no scientific definition of "bug". the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
- this person's first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren't
They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.
ah yes, thank you, my bad
All good my dude... It didn't make sense to me on my first past either so I figured that it might have gotten you in the same spot too. Just glad to see the community is not throwing down votes at ya anymore, because your comment just felt like an honest misread. Cheers.
TIL, vegetables are a social construct.
This article illustrates this nicely:
https://athensscienceobserver.com/2019/09/30/vegetables-are-a-social-construct/
Neither of those two sentences define the spider as either insect or non insect. Did you even read them?
*Edit: I understood wrong your comment is valid but phrased weirdly
username doesn't check out...
Anyone know what the first known case of 'bug' exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It's a very English-language term so it surely wasn't when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.
Except...what do spiders eat? Hence, a bug-lite would fit perfectly with their favoured prey. Big-brain missed the obvious.
Uhm lmao
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