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[-] Shirasho@lemmings.world 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I hate insects because I don't know which ones bite and they carry disease. Fish have parasites but that is only a real issue if you don't handle them properly and intend to eat them.

With that said, if shrimp constantly entered my house and propagated unrelentingly I would hate them too.

[-] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 4 points 2 months ago

Very few insects carry disease...

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

That's just what an insect would say!

[-] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Da faq u say?

[-] protist@mander.xyz 25 points 2 months ago

Dawg. Insects broke away from the arthropods in the ocean and came on land in the fucking Devonian period. That makes crabs and insects about as related as you and a lobe-finned fish.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Bugs" (obviously not specifically Hemiptera) includes a Lot more than just insects. If you go back to the most recent common ancestor of everything commonly called a bug, I'm sure it's Way back there and its descendents would include not only ocean arthropods but I'd guess probably most things with shells. Possibly just most animals

And yes, we are that closely related to fish

[-] protist@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My point is that crabs and grasshoppers are separated by 400 million years of evolution, and are extremely different from one another, just like fish and people are extremely different from one another. I'm trying and failing to understand your point, and don't at all get what you're using the word "bugs" to describe

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The original post used the word bugs, not insects. (Although the pic does seem to show only insects, I'd interpret that as a stock image fail)

Bugs are such a wide group already that to me it seems reasonable to include branches separated by 400 million years of evolution, much the way 'fish' is such a wide group that by a scientifically reasonable definition it can include all vertebrates as a subgrouping.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Sure, people are fish and insects are crstaceans, but that has nothing to do with edibility.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I still don't understand what point you're trying to make...

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think the comic is pointing out a funny hypocrisy that we usually have between land bugs and sea bugs, but they are all bugs.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 19 points 2 months ago

bug, air

bug, in saltwater which significantly reduces illness and other parasites in the bugs.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Dawg you can literally see the intestines in shrimp, chock full of shrimp poop. No way that is any cleaner than eating a fully cooked cricket.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Dawg we take that out first

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

Speak for yourself.

slurp

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is why people like lobster and crab legs

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

bugs in saltwater have way more parasites than the flying ones. they are practically riddled with it. they have the ones that do alot of harm to people who eat it.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Wait really?

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago

Just eat plants

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

I know some folks down north who eat pan-fried ant butts. The ants in question are typically flying adults of the genus Atta (leafcutters), so specially large.

That hints to me that one of the main reasons people prefer sea bugs over land bugs is size and texture. Like, you can extract the meat from a crab leg just fine, but you can't do it with most insects, you'll be biting through the chitin, you know?

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Shrimps is bugs. Bugs is good eats.

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

If crabs could get into our houses as easily as ants we'd hate looking at them too

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

He shaved between takes

[-] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 months ago

Fish bugs yum

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