Bug isn’t even a technical term. Lobsters are considered bugs!
That’s a great point you big dumb bitch.
I’m sorry but you’re simply incorrect.
Bug is a technical term. Only insects of order Hemiptera, categorized by the ability to fly and the presence of piercing, sucking mouth parts, are considered true bugs.
Lobsters are certainly not considered bugs.
I’m sorry but you’re simply incorrect. Bug can be a technical term, but that doesn’t also preclude it from also being a non-technical term, because words often have more than one meaning. See also: theory.
The scientific taxonomic system was made, in part, because traditional colloquial terms are a mess. For example, “daddy longlegs” refers to a type of spider in my area, but there are two other animals and three plants that it could refer to depending on where you grew up. Taxonomists saw that there are ten different standards, decided to make a new one to replace them all, and for once, it actually worked out for the most part.
“Bug” is one of those old terms. It might have been mapped post hoc on top of the modern taxonomic system, but it didn’t start that way, and isn’t always used that way. I wouldn’t expect an entomologist to use the term at all in formal contexts.
Crawdads are still mudbugs though.
But commonly it’s a catch all for any creepy crawly, including arachnid. The classification is even called True Bug, not just Bug
fewer beer
So close. Less beer, fewer beers. Both acceptable.
The number one rule for pedants is: if you’re going to be pedantic, you’d damn well better be correct.
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.
What’s your favourite?
Portia jumping spider! It’s such a crazy little machine.
What about you?
i like beetles in general. i have a special place in my heart for weevils but not because of memes, Otiorhynchus is my first ID.
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.
It’s an unfortunate false friend that the German word Gift means poison in English.
Funnily there is also the word “Mitgift” (Dowry) that has nothing to do with poison at all and is closer to the english “gift”.
Same root though. In Dutch it wasn’t differentiated until recently so the same word has vastly different meanings between Afrikaans and Dutch. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gifte#Middle_Low_German
Original meaning seems to be something that was given. So a snake would gift you Poison just like snot nosed brats would gift you a cold during Thanksgiving dinner.
Same meaning as dose in that sense. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dosis#Latin
The word has been used as a euphemism for “poison” since Old High German, a semantic loan from Late Latin dosis (“dose”), from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “gift; dose of medicine”).
I wondered how the heck it got that meaning. Pretty strange to apply a term for giving something in general to poison specifically.
None that I know of. I think the OC was just mocking a bit on how some people can get so bent out of shape when the word is used colloquially.
There is a distinction to make. For example some snake venom is not poisonous when traveling through your digestive system, and only becomes a problem when it enters the blood stream (usually from a bite).
I don’t think it matters in most contexts. When people are casually talking about it, venomous and poisonous are both stand-ins for “it has venom.” They’re not telling other people, “actually, don’t eat spiders.” I was just joking about the classic pedant line about spiders.
But it does make a difference on paper. I’m curious how you would express this in German: A black widow is venomous and in theory a healthy human can eat a dead black widow with no ill effects.
They eat spiders too.
Stupid science bitch couldn’t even understand the joke.
A retort in three parts;
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It’s bugs (colloquial), not Bugs (texanomic),
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There’s being pedantic and then there’s being a jackass - that’s you, jackass, and
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@eat_roadkill should embrace their name and go chow down on a three-day-dead skunk.
Also, Op never called spiders a bug to begin with
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that bud is hops
Nobody would eat hops you big dumb bitch.
As long as you decarb it first, I don’t see an issue. Throw it on some peanut butter crackers and have a good time.
Who among us has not dined on their bud’s ass after a few beers? It’s just common courtesy.
It was said by a big dumb bitch
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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.
That’s a typical case of someone who is so eager to sounds right in an argument that they will not bother double checking to see if they missed the original point or true meaning before replying.
There are a lot of people like that on Reddit. Well, I assume there still are I deleted my account a while ago. What a toxic place.
Uhm lmao
Neil Degrasse Tyson tier reply
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