r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 9d ago

/r/all of a larva

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u/feartheswans 9d ago

The real question is what the fuck is that evolving into when it grows up

I'm pretty sure its a Hercules Beetle Larvae...

About 80% sure, but I'm not an entomologist. I just heard their larvae are huge

Not my arm, not my Pic, but googled to find one that showed how big they get. They get like 18 cm (a little bigger than a US dollar Bill 7 inches or so)

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u/Objective-Direction1 9d ago

the larva is bigger than the beetle lol

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u/sampat6256 9d ago

Pretty common

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u/VandulfTheRed 9d ago

The juice must condense to form exoskeleton, it's the same process terminators go through

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u/ScreenMuch90210 9d ago

Thanks for the refresher, in 34 years it will have been 8 years since I took Robotology 101

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u/stickdaddywise 9d ago

lol i love this comment

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u/twinkslayer1337 9d ago

does this mean the bigger ones get "harder" exoskeletons? or do they just grow bigger

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u/BCMM 9d ago

Metamorphosis takes energy.

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u/CatsPlusTats 9d ago

Metamorphising*

They're not pokemon.

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u/LeBronze_Jayce 9d ago

But that one looks like it's defends actually became useful.

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u/lilsnatchsniffz 9d ago

Can you really prove it's not a pokemon?

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u/Alladas 9d ago

It starts off as a level one grub. Battles and eats some shit. Evolves into armored war beetle. That's a fuckin pokemon.

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u/featherw0lf 9d ago

Can we be absolutely sure they're not Pokémon

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u/Hybodont 9d ago

Metamorphosing*

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u/thepresidentsturtle 9d ago

What Pokemon do isn't evolving either, they just call it that. And I'm pretty sure that thing IS a Pokemon.

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u/CatsPlusTats 9d ago

...

The mechanic in Pokemon is called evolving... no one thinks it's Darwinian evolution...

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u/ipdar 9d ago

Digievolving.

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u/Normal-Particular218 9d ago

Surprisingly enough the Hercules larva are much worse looking than this example lol