K | Science Nature & Art (and weirdness): Yes I, incorrectly, call spiders bugs. Yes I, incorrectly, call all invertebrates bugs. I know they are not bugs. . . . . . But they also is bugs. 😜

Yes I, incorrectly, call spiders bugs. Yes I, incorrectly, call all invertebrates bugs. I know they are not bugs. . . . . . But they also is bugs. 😜

So. Note: I do have the ability to sound sophisticated and speak clearly. I also like to purposefully speak incorrectly. I think it’s funny and it requires less thought. I also shorten words and say them stupidly. We call it my gremlin language. Melatonin has been whittled down to Mubtubs.

I’m not an entomologist, but I have met quite a few, and I can’t think of any who doesn’t sometimes use “bugs” colloquially.

I'm a big proponent of using bugs to mean all arthropods. It's the closest to how I see most people use the term, and forms a nice phylogenetic group.

Much easier to speak with the public about it too

Same here! Every insect, spiders, whatever - as long as we're admiring them, "bug" is just fine. scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/n...

Never mind the pedantry, they’re all “bugs”scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com I’m teaching Entomology this semester, and having a blast as usual. Our 80 minute lecture slots are way too long, though, so one thing I do is interrupt the flow about half-way through for “Bug Of Th...

And do you know about the Alabama court case that turned on spiders being, as a matter of law, insects? It's not nearly as dumb as it sounds: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2020/06/23/c...

Court: “Spiders are insects.” Biologists: “Say what?”scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com Last month, the United States Court of Appeal for the 11th district rejected an appeal on the grounds that spiders are insects. Now, I’m not a lawyer or a judge, but I am a biologist, and I have thou...

Reminds me of how under California law bees are fish 😂 This is justifies my everything is bug philosophy www.americanbar.org/groups/envir....

A California court decision—bees are fish—shines new light on the biodiversity crisiswww.americanbar.org State legal protections for imperiled insects are an increasingly essential tool for saving imperiled insects.

I have to blame entomology for something, here. In standard English, just about every creepy crawly is a “bug.” But then entomologists went all in on their exclusivity and defined bug even more narrowly than insects. They’re just getting what they deserve here.

Here here!!

This is an amusing read

Thanks. I did write about the bees-are-fish case too: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2022/06/14/s...

Sure, spiders might be insects, but surely bees aren’t fish?scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com Two years ago I treated you to the story of how in Alabama, spiders are legally insects. “Hold my beer”, said California, and two weeks ago a California court declared that bees are fish. I know; tha...

I should have knooowwnnnn You’re so cool

I agree

Bugs iz bugs!

Spiders is bugs, shrimps is bugs too. For some ppl manatees is bugs and that's ok too. My cat is bug when she sits in my lap and i pet her.

Yes.

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