#i have an ant phobia.

[asknicolascageswifengf]

did you knwo? nickolas cage isnt actually real! some might say hes an alien eith horns but he's actually secretly several billion ants in a dude costume.

even if he was an ugly, slimey, gross worm..i’d still probably love him.

[trickstertox]

I have a question! About bugs and arachnids and all them. Sorry to lump them all into one category, but I'd rather not make the same post multiple times.

My question is: Can they learn "tricks?"

By this I mean are they capable of learning, in general, I suppose. Like mice in a maze, magpies with a rock.

Also, what sorts of things have they learned? How do they learn (like watching others or from experience)?

I ask because it's something that really interests me. I know the ability to learn doesn't add or subtract value from a being, it's a curious thought as I know very, very little about beetles, and spiders, and bees, and so on!

Do they just know how to do things because it's all their kind have done since the beginning of them? Do they have to learn or are capable of it?

[blugnettabutterflies]

Gonta Week Day 2: Wolves/Insects

Oh the tranquility of life. When you can do your favorite hobbies, with he simplest of acts. When you have the life at your feet, quite literally. And just observe. There's no shame. No fear.

Just looking at other's work.

And being respectful about it. Because they are life too.

@gontagokuhara-week

[bitegore]

So seriously: if you have a serious recoil/disgust factor at uncommonly eaten parts of an animal being in any kind of food context (eg: whole fish being served at a table) and you want to work on minimizing that reaction, I really really recommend eating "normal" versions of those unusual foods, like for example deli-sliced tongue. I know I'm talking out of my ass here, but things like liver and haggis (organ meat), tongue (tongue), and probably a whole lot of others I've never had can be pretty easily made into forms that taste real good and don't look much like a weird lump of flesh you can recognize, and being able to get from "that's weird and gross but I want to get it" to "that's weird but it tastes really good and I want to get it" will probably make building up momentum easier when you move on to less "common" pastures.

Good luck, by the way. I believe in you.

[toytulini]

god the ants make it so fucking hard to be tolerant. im really, really trying to be better about it and chill out

but they really love to fucking test that

[prism2674]

[tobitenkit]

having a bug phobia is sooo embarrassing sometimes like wow we saw something moving the size of a grain of sand and what. is my brain going to do about it? hallucinate? are we gonna have crawlies under our scalp for an hour and a half? gonna make me think the floor is moving? evacuate the building? grow uppp. squash it and move on dude!!! we have shit to do!!

[cconfusedkat]

"Time to play cotl after a year of wanting to get it i sure hope my phobias arent present"

*loves sozo* [fear of ants] aw dang it

*loves shamura* [arachnophobia] aw dang it

*loves helob* [arachnophobia] aw dang it

*loves monch* [fear of moths] aw dang it

[quietwingsinthesky]

pretty sure the plague shut down the insectarium so i can’t pester anyone into see bugs with me.

BUT I WOULD.

[sage-nebula]

I can understand having a preference for one type of pet over another, for a wide variety of reasons (e.g. allergies, what goes in to taking care of them, your lifestyle, etc) but I'll never understand people who hate a certain type of pet. Like self-professed cat people who say they hate dogs, or vice versa. I've had dogs my entire life, and I consider myself a dog person, but I do like cats, too. Why wouldn't I? They're soft and cute and do funny things sometimes. Even when it comes to pets that I don't find as interesting, like fish, I don't hate them. And even ones I'm legitimately scared of, like tarantulas . . . again, I don't hate them, I'm just afraid of them, just like I'm afraid of all arachnids. It's an irrational fear, but it's one deeply ingrained in me nonetheless.

Anyway.

I just don't understand when people are like "I hate cats" or "I hate dogs" . . . how can you hate an entire species of animal? Being allergic or afraid, okay, I can understand that. Even if I don't understand being afraid because you've been attacked before (I have been severely bitten by dogs and severely scratched up by cats), I'm afraid of arachnids even though I can't remember the last time I had a spider bite, so you know, fears are fears, you can't control them. But hate? I just don't understand it, man. Hate an individual animal, sure. Just like humans, individual dogs or cats can have bad temperaments and behaviors. But a whole species? When most of the individual animals in those species are so easily befriended? It just makes no sense to me. Again, I get having a preference for one pet over another, especially if the needs of one animal suit your lifestyle while the needs of another don't. But to hate a whole species . . . I will never understand.

[transingthoseformers]

ant king! Optimus learns about breakfast burritos. June's portable stovetop is stolen and ant king! Oppy is next seen making said breakfast burrito. for his worker ants :)

sdjJfjf yesss, burritos for all

[super-psycho-lov3]

🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 ant attack

ANT ATTACK!!!! AAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

[zuzsenpai]

My mom telling me Only Murders in the Building isn’t about true crime is like when she told me there were no ants in Ant Man

[toytulini]

my plants look like shit cos i need to water them and my tanks desperately need algae scrubbed and water changed, but god i missed my bedroom

[baileyboo2016]

fun fact about me: i literally HATE ants SO much

[antvnger]

((Oh shit i wasn't aware. I'm really sorry, i didn't mean to, i'm so sorry. They are my favorite animal so that's why i chose one but please tell me if you'd want me to change it or just definetly leave))

((It’s alright you didn’t know it’s okay. No worries.

I mean, you can leave it if you want. You’ll probably get more like an Indiana Jones’ reaction to snakes, maybe. Like a humorous freak out lol. Depends on what you do. I’ll leave it up to you.

Just don’t be a copperhead or anything venomous and we’re good. Or anything big enough to eat us. I almost got bit once by a copperhead when I was younger, and I’m not a fan at all.))