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InsectPOD - They All Look Like Aliens To Me

Posted October 2nd, 2007 by Howard Tayler

My long-time friend David Brady likes bugs. He also has a camera that will let him take really, really cool pictures of bugs. Like this one:

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I swear, she looks like a battle-weathered mecha.

Anyway, Dave has been putting up bug pictures every day for the last two months at www.insectpod.com. If you like learning about bugs and creepy-crawlies, you could do worse. If you’re an expert, you will probably enjoy correcting him from time to time.

Do be careful, though. Dave has been known to gloss over some ugly truths here and there.

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8 Comments on “InsectPOD - They All Look Like Aliens To Me”

  1. shawes Says:
    October 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    That’s not a bug, bugs are in the Order Hemiptera, grasshoppers are in Orthoptera. I had to look up the order names on wikipedia but bugs being a specific Order of insects is the single fact that I remember from HS biology 18 years ago.

  2. WEKM Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 12:36 am

    I am never going to be able to look at ninjas the same way again.

  3. tceisele Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 4:04 am

    Nice picture. This makes me wonder how many other regular Schlock readers have photoblogs that feature insects, because I have been doing this too. It will be interesting to see how the types of insects at Dave’s location are different from the ones at mine.

  4. Blacknova Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    That’s cool! Insects have never seemed so awesome. I’ve now decided to draw a type of Mech armor. I’ll send you it I guess =P
    I’m sure you could find a million and one things to do with a mecha-grashopper!

  5. batlrar Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 8:16 pm

    It’s very interesting that you post this at about the same time Partially Clips did a grasshopper comic. I completely agree with you on the battle-weathered mecha look, by the way. Maybe you can use that in the comic sometime.

  6. Dev Dot Nul Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    Very cool pictures but I’ll bet that Thomas Bowdler has the broadest smile ever on whatever’s left of his face, just now.

  7. Sam Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 12:12 am

    Well, yeah, he’s grinning, but skeletons always do.

    Due to the square-cube law, most insects are too spindly to make good mechs, but grasshoppers are built to withstand huge accelerations. So a grasshopper mech could walk, even if it couldn’t jump.

    But who needs to jump when you’ve got gravitics?

  8. Dev Dot Nul Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    Sam sez: “but skeletons always do.”

    Well, everyone needs a hobby and that’s about the limit of the Good Doctor’s ability these days.

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