Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they're still in there!
Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they're still in there!
So are you saying we can eat woodlice like we eat crabs?
I mean I've read that the giant marine isopod Bathynomus giganteus is popular in Vietnam, so probably – although there's probably a good reason beyond scarcity that it's not a widely popular delicacy. I might be concerned about bioaccumulated heavy metals in terrestrial ones, they'd be highly inefficient to prepare, and I've never heard of any culture that eats them. But I'm sure it'd be doable. Just to what end, you know?
I was 8 when I learnt thoroughly that not everyone wants to switch place with woodlice for a day when waiting for the school bus. 06:45 during an autumn storm would be much better as a woodlouse underneath comfy foliage.
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davidgro@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 189d
It is cute when they curl up into a ball.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 189d
Shit, it happened again. I'll get it right next time, I promise.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 14 pts · 189d
What did you do to make them curl up into a ball, David?
David? What did you do?
tetris11@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 189d
Tickled them with implied consent
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
I looked at it funny
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
Lifted the log up.
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 53 pts · 189d
lemonwood@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 189d
I mean, exactly half of those are actually true.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 189d
"All corners of the globe" and "pre-date the ice age", obviously, but what's number three?
lemonwood@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 188d
The navigation, technically. Building a compass and using it.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 188d
That wasn't even one of my guesses, but it makes sense. Flood raft and danger pheromones were my guesses.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
No I know a lesbian who can feel magnetic north with her eyes closed (she has some kind of electric implant)
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 188d
Yeeeaaaah, that's where she got it from. Absolutely, definitely
[They're onto us, girls. Meet me at the usual.]
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 188d
[the carbiners are set around the perimiter, word is spreading, as am I, over?]
Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 188d
https://xkcd.com/1610/
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 189d
Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they're still in there!
Edit: Wait, fuck, is that one girls?
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 189d
So are you saying we can eat woodlice like we eat crabs?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
I mean I've read that the giant marine isopod Bathynomus giganteus is popular in Vietnam, so probably – although there's probably a good reason beyond scarcity that it's not a widely popular delicacy. I might be concerned about bioaccumulated heavy metals in terrestrial ones, they'd be highly inefficient to prepare, and I've never heard of any culture that eats them. But I'm sure it'd be doable. Just to what end, you know?
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 189d
Hopefully in one end and out the other.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
Hopefully. You don't want one of those things to latch on
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
Supposedly if you boil them they turn pink like shrimp.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 189d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
Eat hot rotten plant matter and lie
perishthethought@piefed.social · 20 pts · 189d
Pics, 'cause it happened.
ETA: Proof
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 189d
Women, amirite?
Edit: I’m being serious. Am I right? Are those women?
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 188d
Yes. I think it is one of the names for them
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 188d
Wait those lousy things are woodlouse? I've been calling em rolly pollies! Aw I look like an idiot
greenhorn@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 188d
Look at the common names section of the Wikipedia article, they're called all sorts of things
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
Szewek@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 188d
XDDDD NSFW I almost chocked on my suppressed giggles
arcine@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 188d
5715@feddit.org · 5 pts · 189d
I was 8 when I learnt thoroughly that not everyone wants to switch place with woodlice for a day when waiting for the school bus. 06:45 during an autumn storm would be much better as a woodlouse underneath comfy foliage.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
New Halloween group costume idea
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
... Go on...
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
We call 'em Rolly-Pollies where I'm from. Much better name.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 189d
This dude thinking about little girls too much.