One Stop Invert Spot mkII

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CROWS EVERYWHERE: Dec 17, 2012; CAW CAW CAW; Dinosaur Gum

I remember there was a previous incarnation of this thread, or something similar, which included lots of cool moths. (Silkworm moths, mostly, I think.) I quite liked it because moths are very cute (they are like butterflies but fluffy :kimchi:

). But it also had links to a kind of horrifying experiment where the moth pupae were cut up then reattached or sealed up and how they developed was recorded. Like, cutting off the front half of the pupa, sealing it, and allowing it to develop and you'd end up with the front half of a moth, while the back half didn't develop at all. Or, sealing it all back together with pins and glue, and the moth would grow up and develop as normal. And the worst, reattaching the two halves with a glass tube between the halves, and the moth would develop both front and back halves but then be a kind of body horror moth golem thing lurching around with a glass tube being a third of its length. It was recorded as not being able to fly very well.

It was all pretty :stonk:

and I have vivid memories of being freaked out by it but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. Has anyone got links to it or pictures of it saved? I must convince myself that I didn't dream this up!

I don't have any pictures of my own creepy crawly pets (because I don't have any, sadly; I had a giant burrowing cockroach as a kid though), but have this picture of a regular wild spider I took to convince people I live in Australia and have a hand.