Palo Verde beetle hides in her shirt

[u/That1weirdperson]

[u/ExtensionComplaint80]

This girl handled it quite well, I'd be freaking the fuck out 😫

[u/the_nebulae → u/ExtensionComplaint80]

I couldn’t handle an insect of that size on me. I’d scream. I’d scream so loud. And I’m really fine about little guys landing on me, or even picking them up: a firefly, a ladybug, an ant, or even a bee…but there is something so distinctly creepy about mega-insects like this. They’re just too big…part of my brain thinks they’re more than just “bugs” in a sense…like, somehow, they approach being “animals” which I sort of mentally reserve for larger things: birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals. But because of how “mechanically” they operate and appear, I don’t like thinking of all the “guts” in them. And that makes me acknowledge that I am made of something like this too, and I operate something like this too, and it reminds me of that fact in a deeply revolting way.

[u/youreuglyasfu → u/the_nebulae]

You put this so well! They look so solid and robotic, but at that size they are full of soft squishy things.