I mean have you seen a tick or a mosquito well fed? Those fuckers can grow a belly.
I should have clarifiedMight have been unconsciously thinking about exoskeleton-haversDo those not have exoskeletons??
I don’t think their exoskeletons allow for that, I think they just grow in size as opposed to getting disproportionate weight gain like a big belly
Winifred Doane found an obese fly back in the '80s
They don’t get fat, they just get longer or larger overall.
Once most cocoon species hatch into their respective moth, the moth is unable to eat by its own design, slowly dying of starvation over a few weeks, which is why the moths in your bedrooms just get smaller and smaller until they seem to vanish. Poor little guys :(
Now apply that in reverse. An insect that eats is just going to look like a bigger insect. Same goes for when they’re pregnant. If insects got fat, leaving a mound of sugar outside for them to eat would lead to fat ones, but instead they just eat themselves to death.
They don’t get fat…they get EATEN!!! Tasty delicious air snacks. Butterflies are called butterflies because they taste like butter and make ME fat.
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