What insect would you be?

[Beltaine]

I am kind of curious to know what you guys would choose to be as a insect,

i'm kind of a big bug nerd and idk..i guess it kind of just interests me (':

1. what insect

2. how come that insect?

mine:

1. darkling beetle

2. because;

they are beautiful, and have three stages of colour (white/brown/black),
they are so cute and come from mealworm pupae/mealworms (what are also cutee),
the beetle is slow, calm and docile..but it can be super speedy if spooked.

and they have a defense were they produce a gross gas to get predators to go away, whats frickin cool dude.

also watching them hatch is cool as hell.

p.s they are really good bugs to look after, and you can have tons what don't try to kill each other! (basically not the same like crickets...cause crickets..god they eat each other a lot..)

(pic from google)

and yeh i own them! i have a breeding thing for mealworms/pupae for my gecko to eat!

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Oooh! I love insects and arachnids.

Okay. I'd be a Carpenter Ant. I work. A lot, and I'm very dedicated to my job. Also when it comes to art, I'm really tenacious and put my head down and practice as much as I can.
I can be really sarcastic sometimes so I've got a bit of a bite, and...I've been known to eat toothpicks. XD (when I was younger. Also ants. I ate a lot of ants as a kid. Don't ask.)

[Beltaine]

aahhh yess! :DDD

did u know you can eat chocolate ants? maybe try that out >->

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I was little, and I liked how tangy they were xD I'd just sit there and smash them with my finger. Also I'd read about those Honeypot Ants that store a sweet type of honey in their abdomen, so I wanted to find out if all ants were like that. They weren't.

[Beltaine]

oh
my god
you are like, a titan from attack of the titan when u were little

you were the ant killer titan uwu

[Crusoe]

I'd probs be a bee haha, I work hard, I love sweet stuff and I'm short, chubby and soft. (Also relatively harmless unless I'm really out to get you.)

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Yeah...yeah I was a terror to those poor hapless creatures (◕ᴗ◕✿)
When I got older I liked to have different kinds of predatory insects fight each other. Assassin Bug vs Praying Mantis ended pretty epically. They double ko'd each other.

Nowadays...I look back and realize I was pretty uh...cruel to insects.

[Beltaine]

awh cute!! and wholesome!

@nathanKmcwilliams

yeh ): i mean, at least you realized..ykno?

[Phantomlight]

I like pill bugs a lot, they're adorable and look like a bug form of an armadillo, since I'm kind of a shy person in real life, I think they're kind of fitting for me. And they also hold a special place in my heart because me and my siblings used to have them crawl onto our hands as kids. To be honest, I wasn't really a bug person as a kid, BUT my appreciation and interest in them has changed when I got older. Pill bugs were the only bug I loved as a kid even when I was afraid and disliked bugs back then.

[Beltaine]

awhhH! finally! i was hoping for this soon

i honestly love my pill bugs, i have a tank full of them and they are so adorable c: they are kinda escape artists tho

[Phantomlight]

uwu they look like they're ready for battle with their armor body but they're so shy and will roll up in a ball, it's just so juxtaposed to what you'd think xD I love them. I remember we tried keeping some in a tank, but they escaped, so yeah, I hear ya xD They're like "You can't contain me, human! I was born to have a ball" (get it? xD) Do you name your pill bugs?

[Beltaine]

i sadly can't, since they reproduce so much. they do have a big tank but i have like..250 of them..or maybe up to 300? it's hard to count since so many are under the mud/wet wood

[Phantomlight]

xD That's a lot! They're building an army >:3

[Beltaine]

yeh ^^ i love my pill bugs

[Phantomlight]

This actually reminds me, today I found this webcomic:

Rose Buzz

Perhaps you'll like it! I like it so far, it's cute and it's about bug people, which I haven't come across before :3 It's refreshing!

[Beltaine]

i'll give it a shot o: tho it is on webtoons

[Phantomlight]

Yeah, I do follow some webtoon comics, but I don't have an account. I do perfer Tapas format, among other things, but Webtoon isn't bad. Just not my preference ^^

[ar-ninetysix]

Fireflies! They just seem super chill overall! They don't bother anyone, they're not likely to be bothered either bc apparently, they don't taste good for their predators. Bonus points for having a bright butt that makes any scenery nice to look at

[Phantomlight]

I like your answer, I like it a lot

[HaltArrtay_RangerGod]

I would be the bombardier beetle. The bombardier beetle can mix a chemical fuel with a catalyst inside it's body to create an explosive defensive action.