- Xantar ( @Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English12•7 months ago
Fun fact, stinkbugs produce a similar smell to cilantro. So to some people stinkbugs ironically smell nice.
- BastingChemina ( @BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ) English3•7 months ago
Its the other way around, to some people cilantro have a similar taste than the smell of stinkbug.
For these people cilantro taste awful.
- rickyrigatoni ( @rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ) English2•7 months ago
They smell vaguely like watermelons to me.
- NeatNit ( @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ) English3•7 months ago
It looks to my like an antenna going towards the camera, not a bitey tube
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English2•7 months ago
If you zoom in, you can see that the “beak” is behind the leg in the foreground actually.
This got me interested and I looked up heteropteran mouthparts. The best description I could find was here. Apparently the segmented larger part of the beak here is the labium giving support to the stylus. The stylus is the blackish tube that runs from the head through the labium.
- Stalinwolf ( @Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ) English2•7 months ago
I woke up once with what felt like a large scab between my lips, stuck primarily to the bottom one. In my sleep and stupor, I thought it maybe dried blood, or food, or perhaps I ate a large booger in the night. The aroma was something else, though. As seconds passed and my brain began to make sense of what was actually happening, I realized that I had an entire stinkbug pressed flat between my lips.
This one time I woke up in the middle of night to scratch an itch under my big tee shirt on my back, I reached back to do a lazy pinch, then felt a crunch and instinctively crushed the damn thing. It was a yellow jacket quite close to my spine.