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>Fireflies are not flies
>Dragonflies are not flies
>Sawflies are not flies
>Mothflies are flies
>Ladybugs are not bugs
>Stickbugs are not bugs
>Shieldbugs are bugs

Why are little things so weird named? Like why not Light-up Beetle and Wood-looking walky thingy?
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OP is not a human being but an empty shell that once held hopes and dreams
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>>2095016
interesting little tidbit for you:
in America, the names of insects are deliberately separate or conjoined based on this fact. Honey bees ARE bees, so its two words. Dragonflies are not flies, so it is one word. House flies, Dobsonflies, etc all follow this rule. In Europe they don't give a shit so its honeybees and whatnot.

>inb4 some butthurt european starts rambling about Celsius or Kinder eggs because they take this as a personal attack on their way of life
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>>2095048
Useful.
>Dobsonflies
JESUS CHRIST HOW HORRIFYING
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>>2095048
i bet you have a mutilated dick
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>>2095048

Celcius you fucker

>Australian
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>>2095063
>put your finger up to one
>it reluctantly tries to grip you with those pincers with the force of a thousand amoebas

might as well call em dobsonbros
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>using common names
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>>2095069
But I'm a girl
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>>2095016
>camel spiders aren't spiders
>sea spiders aren't spiders
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>>2095048
America is bad, okay?

Amercan are fat and stupid. Need car to goa nywhere, and believe earth is flat.

:DDD
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>>2095016
>Mantis Shrimp
>Not a Mantis
>Not a Shrimp
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>catfish aren't cats
>alligator snapping turtles aren't alligators
>chinese algae eaters aren't from china
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>>Ladybugs are not bugs
>>Stickbugs are not bugs
How do you figure this?

"Bug" isn't really a specific thing, it's just a common term used to describe insects, spiders, worms, etc. By that definition they most certainly ARE bugs.
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>>2095151

I'm assuming he's talking about "true bugs" Hemiptera.
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>Thrigmopoeus psychedelicus is not actually taking psychedelics.
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>>2095151
Worms don't even have armor bits. Wouldn't clams and snails fit better as bugs?
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>>2095016
Dumb frogposter.
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