r/whatisit • • 9h ago

New, what is it? What is this thing.

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u/overdramaticpan 8h ago edited 3h ago

longhorn beetle! while they look like they were born from hell's pyres, their bites aren't bad at all; it can break the skin, like a crab pinching you, but just put a bandaid on it and you'll be fine if bitten

IMPORTANT EDIT: while largely harmless to humans, many longhorn beetle species are invasive in much of the US; the asian longhorn beetle can kill trees and produce falling branch hazards in forested or rural areas (information courtesy of u/BantedHam, corroborated by the USDA)

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u/Redd1tRat 8h ago

This is a lie, if you get bitten, within a week you will become one.

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u/overdramaticpan 8h ago

secretly i'm a longhorn beetle in disguise, ssshhhhh

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u/yournamehere10bucks 7h ago

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u/Dr_MineStein_ 4h ago

How is there a perfect gif for literally everything these days

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 4h ago

America started focusing on entertainment and content creation more than literally everything else for the past few decades.

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u/WeenieHutJuniorTech 6m ago

You’re welcome

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u/pixel_inker 4h ago

For real right! LOL!

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u/yournamehere10bucks 2h ago

To quote BNL: "its all been done, before"

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u/-pilcrow- 52m ago

Well this looks less long horned and more short horned so idk if I’d call it perfect but yes I do agree

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u/MNgrown2299 7h ago

Craaaab people, craaaab people. Looks like people, really crabbbbb people.

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u/Inside-Judgment-725 7h ago

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u/NekoDarkLink1988 6h ago

All hail our new found leaders!

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u/lisa_is_chi 3h ago

Casey Rocket!! 🦀

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u/THENATIVE54 6h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/MajorSerenity 7h ago

Move like crab, talk like people.

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u/Odd-Consequence-2519 6h ago

I got the moves like Crabber.
I got the moves like Crabber.
I got the moo ooo ooo ooo oooves.

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 7h ago

Look like crab, talk like people 

Craaaab people, craaaab people 

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u/MNgrown2299 7h ago

lol thank you! I knew I was messing it up but couldn’t be bothered to check

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u/DinosaurusWhen 7h ago

Its been so long that I thought it was "looks like crab, tastes like people"

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 7h ago

According to Google we all have it wrong 

Taste like crab, talk like people

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u/DinosaurusWhen 6h ago

I guess it's time for a rewatch. aaaaafter another round of Archer 

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u/Llamaaa_scarf 6h ago

Wahhhh I could have sworn it was looks like crab all these years!! I heard the chant in my head immediately 🦀🦀🦀

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 6h ago

You and me both. It just makes sense. 🤷

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u/Acceptable_Guess_63 6h ago

The almighty google is right again.

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u/more-cilantro 5h ago

Craaaab people, craaaab people,

Look like crab, kiss like people 

(South Park: The Fractured But Whole)

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 5h ago

That title gets me Everytime 

They wanted to call it the butthole of truth or something similar, but weren't allowed to have butthole in the title. 

So they fractured it. 

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u/more-cilantro 4h ago

The end result turned out beautiful lol

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u/Objective_Damage_996 7h ago

My dad had me singing this at like 6 years old and it embarrassed other adults I knew

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u/DeepFinish2895 7h ago

Everything turns into crabs

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u/adnyp 5h ago

If you put on the special glasses you can see what they truly are.

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u/WanderlustStew 7h ago

So you are who they based the movie Mimic about. I knew it was real!

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u/Arrius 7h ago

Is it a good disguise or do your antennae hang out?

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u/Bluejay1981 6h ago

If he arranges them right, he might get more dates from. chicks and more respect from dudes, you know, like John Travolta did in Grease? (please please please don’t let him say that he wasn’t born yet!)

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u/animauux 6h ago

Sounds like something a longhorn beetle would say....

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u/prison-schism 6h ago

Yeah, just trying to recruit unsuspecting youngsters, right???

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u/Infinite-Pea199 6h ago

😂😂😂

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u/StrangeCrimes 8h ago

So that's what happened to Gregor Samsa.

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u/Psykosoma 7h ago

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u/Effective_Rock_2513 6h ago

3 years...I promise...

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u/Burggs_ 6h ago

Unrelated but this movie was so sick when it came out

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u/nyxistential 6h ago

Related: this movie is still so sick.

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u/Wish_Capital 5h ago

But poor vondamerva could use the weapons!!

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u/UberTanks 5h ago

fookin prawns

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u/Dead-Calligrapher 7h ago

This guy Kafkas

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u/Many-Narwhal754 5h ago

When I hear people say Kafkaesque…

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u/icansmellcolors 3h ago

Hey, is there an apple in my back? I feel like there's an apple literally in my back.

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u/Hay-River 7h ago

ball knowledge

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u/Extreme-Name-69 7h ago

I thought it was a GoT reference

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u/redgeck0 7h ago

How Kafkaesque

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u/Silver-Quilter-6901 7h ago

I came here for this lol… Thank you

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u/itsa_me_ 7h ago

I literally just read that book yesterday. Pretty cool book

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u/Unordered_bean 5h ago

"Suddenly, One Day."

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u/nyxistential 6h ago

How embarrassing. 

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u/Elegante_Sigmaballz 7h ago

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u/Atma-Stand 5h ago

Gills is about to drop kick an MF.

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u/swimdownstream 8h ago

I saw these in District 9, can confirm its true.

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u/RaiyenZ 7h ago

They do look very similar to those fookin prawns

https://giphy.com/gifs/a0VlbFiBtZSog

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u/Vellc 7h ago

I'm taking Beetleman

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u/Cybertronian_Fox 7h ago

Is this where Kamen Riders come from?

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u/Sunny16Rule 7h ago

You have to be bitten twice and then get wet

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u/Expert-Outside-2024 7h ago

Like Seth Brundle?

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u/DarknMean 7h ago

A District 9 fan I see.

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u/berlandiera 7h ago

Dammit.

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u/theartificialkid 7h ago

This is not true, it only takes six to twelve hours (usually will happen in the middle of the night so you can turn your family too while they sleep)

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u/kcinlive 7h ago

That’s just what Big Longhorn Beetle wants you to think!

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u/No_Walrus_3638 7h ago

Chimera Ants!

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u/Useful_Today_4273 7h ago

This is true. It happened to my sister. Now we make her sit at the far end of the dinner table.

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u/LetDuncanDie 7h ago

I'll become a shorthorn beetle?!

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u/MajorSerenity 7h ago

This one was my uncle Frank

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u/thatleftycurse 7h ago

Doesn’t matter what it is! Kill it!

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u/nerdyvintageco 7h ago

Would I still need to pay taxes?

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u/Giorgio_Keeffe 7h ago

Also not bad at all

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u/skiesoverblackvenice 6h ago

can vouch, i am a longhorn beetle

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u/suddle 6h ago

It’s true. I was in love, but he got bit by an animal and became that animal.

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u/Someguywhomakething 6h ago

"I'll come back for you... three years, I promise"

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u/Nir117vash 6h ago

District 9 ref? Lol

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u/IHateMelplac 6h ago

Yeah, this was Mike my neighbor. He's family is worried about him, glad to see my mam is doing well with his new friends.

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u/Past-Track-9976 6h ago

This is the type of tomfoolery my maternal uncles used to say. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 such a good time

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u/Maximum_Chard_2752 6h ago

He got bit by an animal and became that animal

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u/DiligentParsley420 6h ago

Yes I've seen the doc too

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u/Ok-Leg9721 6h ago

Well I'm already a redditor it can't get much worse

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u/Stock_Ad_3516 5h ago

Werebeetle would be a sick band name

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u/TrashAcnt1 5h ago

That was the old model, with this new variant you're transformed within the hour you're bitten

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u/Tom-Dibble 4h ago

It’s true! Kafka wrote about it.

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u/JibletHunter 4h ago

Classic were-longhorn beetle propaganda. Its so obvious.

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u/BenefitTechnical9307 4h ago

Actually you become a super hero first but if you survive long enough you see yourself become the villain...

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u/peachgravy 4h ago

I remember that X Files episode

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u/blubbahrubbah 3h ago

Like full-on? Or like a werebeetle?

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u/Kitterpea 3h ago

That’s just what Big Beetle wants you to think.

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u/1-800-ASS-DICK 3h ago

🎵 BIIIIG BAAAD BEETLEBORGS!! 🎵

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u/Lastoutcast123 2h ago

Ah so that’s what happened in the Metamorphosis

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u/Enginseer42 2h ago

New fear unlocked.

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u/LikeGeorgeRaft 2h ago

Good thing i was bitten by a crab first

https://giphy.com/gifs/d31vj8aqOffrQ7wQ

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u/spooFPipe 1h ago

Yeah, but you’re still totally healthy. Just a healthy beetle now. With a bandaid.

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u/Milk_Mindless 5m ago

Man the new series of Doctor Who sounds naff