It's cute but by the tilt of the eyes we know it's evil
turtlesareneat 25 points 3 days ago
BarneyPiccolo 1 point 3 days ago
More mischievous, I think.
NottaLottaOcelot 12 points 3 days ago
It looks like a felt art project! Yet another reason to conserve the rainforest
tpyo 9 points 3 days ago
That's not real, as another commenter pointed out that looks like a felt animal
Below is what the "Venezuelan poodle moth" looks like, from https://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/4207478815/
via
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artace
Draconic_NEO 3 points 3 days ago
They're cuter than the bee fly.
wonderingwanderer 1 point 3 days ago
I want one as a stuffie
turdas 50 points 3 days ago
The larval stages are predators or parasitoids of the eggs and larvae of other insects. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetles, wasps, or solitary bees.
Larvae live parasitically in the nests of various solitary bees and wasps.[2] When the fly larva locates a host larva, it will consume it slowly, greatly increasing in size as it tightly holds onto the host, eventually becoming a pupa and overwintering.[9]
haha yeah, adorable
fascicle 17 points 3 days ago
I guess if human babies attached and ate a host slowly before getting huge we wouldn't think of them as adorable. These flies are us in reverse, they start horrible then grow into teddy bears of the sky
mnemonicmonkeys 2 points 3 days ago
we consider human babies adorable
Tbf, there's a lot of people that don't find babies cute
LibertyLizard 10 points 3 days ago
They kinda look like adult botflies too lol. Why do the most horrific things grow up to be so cute?
RogueBanana 4 points 3 days ago
Me posing for a mugshot cutely after commiting horrific murder.
BarneyPiccolo 2 points 3 days ago
You could make the human reproductive process sound pretty gross, too. But then we get all horned up, and it sounds like a great idea!
Tollana1234567 1 point 3 days ago
robber fly, its basically the fly version of dragonfly, they love to intercept mosquitos and other fly prey. there is a quite a few parasitoid flies, that attacks different insect hosts. the strangest ones are BAT FLies, which has no wings and are mostly blind.
CatAssTrophy 1 point 3 days ago
Why would bat flies have no wings? Bats famously have wings!
Tollana1234567 2 points 3 days ago
bat flies, have evolved to cling to bat fur, they look like freaky spiders. apparently they are considered parasites on bats.
CatAssTrophy 1 point 3 days ago
Oh, that's fair. I just vaguely assumed they were called bat flies because someone once upon a time thought they looked kinda like the fly version of some sorts of bats, but obviously didn't bother looking into that.
a_non_monotonic_function 1 point 3 days ago
Sounds like nature stuff idk. Is cute though.
VivianRixia 20 points 3 days ago
I too, immediately yelled Cutiefly when I saw the pic. So that's where it comes from. The real thing is just as adorable.
Grandwolf319 18 points 3 days ago
Humans: flies are so disgusting
God: lemme add a little bee in there
Humans: 0.0
JesusTheCarpenter 12 points 3 days ago
I still stand by my standard fluffy bumble bee! They love my lavender!
ExperimentalGuy 9 points 3 days ago
Who the fuck downvoted this
kaklerbitmap 2 points 2 days ago
Oviballus vidae AKA the Sheepy Jumper
LibertyLizard 1 point 3 days ago
Oh. My. God.
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