Inflatable Hairy Bits
October 22, 2017 6:45 AM Subscribe
Recently posted on YouTube was a video of a Creatonotos Gangis moth from Southeast Asia. Consider it your Sunday morning dose of NOPE.
Beautiful plumage!
posted by prismatic7 at 6:59 AM on October 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by prismatic7 at 6:59 AM on October 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
A creationist moth! Direct from god!!
posted by DMelanogaster at 7:04 AM on October 22, 2017
posted by DMelanogaster at 7:04 AM on October 22, 2017
A closer look at the mechanism.
posted by jason_steakums at 7:15 AM on October 22, 2017 [15 favorites]
posted by jason_steakums at 7:15 AM on October 22, 2017 [15 favorites]
I dunno. Once the initial shock wears off, it's kinda cute in a heavy metal sort of way.
posted by SansPoint at 7:21 AM on October 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by SansPoint at 7:21 AM on October 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
How can that cameraperson possibly risk getting so close when those giant furry bits are so CLEARLY designed to leap up and latch onto your face, sucking all the juices out of your body and turning you into a shriveled husk in which the moth can lay its eggs???
I mean, beautiful creature, wonder of nature, isn't the universe fascinating etc.
posted by pretentious illiterate at 7:21 AM on October 22, 2017 [7 favorites]
I mean, beautiful creature, wonder of nature, isn't the universe fascinating etc.
posted by pretentious illiterate at 7:21 AM on October 22, 2017 [7 favorites]
Wow! Thanks for this post! Rather than Nope, I think this is marvelous!
posted by dhruva at 7:52 AM on October 22, 2017
posted by dhruva at 7:52 AM on October 22, 2017
How can that cameraperson possibly risk getting so close
Portrait mode derangement. And it's the size of a fingertip.
posted by adept256 at 8:19 AM on October 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
Portrait mode derangement. And it's the size of a fingertip.
posted by adept256 at 8:19 AM on October 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
Right now I'm just grateful that human males don't have those. I mean, imagine.
posted by Mary Ellen Carter at 9:00 AM on October 22, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Mary Ellen Carter at 9:00 AM on October 22, 2017 [4 favorites]
Why do I hear that rumbling bass line of "If ya think I'm sexy"?
posted by symbioid at 9:03 AM on October 22, 2017
posted by symbioid at 9:03 AM on October 22, 2017
I enjoyed the revelation that the relative sexiness of each male moth is dependent on how much toxins he ingested while a caterpillar. I imagine this evolved due to cruel pranks and peer pressure on impressionable adolescents. "Go on, Joe! Girls go crazy for a guy who's eaten poison!"
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:46 AM on October 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:46 AM on October 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
Interesting!
Er, on video. In my house, perhaps not so much.
posted by thomas j wise at 11:10 AM on October 22, 2017
Er, on video. In my house, perhaps not so much.
posted by thomas j wise at 11:10 AM on October 22, 2017
"Go on, Joe! Girls go crazy for a guy who's eaten poison!"
Yeah. I fell for that one starting in senior year of high school.
posted by Splunge at 12:29 PM on October 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
Yeah. I fell for that one starting in senior year of high school.
posted by Splunge at 12:29 PM on October 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
Consider it your Sunday morning dose of NOPE.
Where by NOPE you mean AWESOME.
posted by DarlingBri at 1:44 PM on October 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
Where by NOPE you mean AWESOME.
posted by DarlingBri at 1:44 PM on October 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
Lepidoptera Priapismus
posted by grumpybear69 at 3:17 PM on October 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by grumpybear69 at 3:17 PM on October 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
Saw one of these on r/whatsthisbug the other day and am still not sure it is real.
posted by Bee'sWing at 3:35 PM on October 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Bee'sWing at 3:35 PM on October 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
Er, on video. In my house, perhaps not so much.
If I had a dollar for every time I've said tthat!
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:34 PM on October 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
If I had a dollar for every time I've said tthat!
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:34 PM on October 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
It's like something I'd expect to see in a Jim Woodring comic.
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:09 PM on October 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:09 PM on October 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
That's at least twice my daily allowance of NOPE.
posted by pattern juggler at 2:30 AM on October 23, 2017
posted by pattern juggler at 2:30 AM on October 23, 2017
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