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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago

So you’re a termite?
“…uhhh totally.”
What do we like to eat?
“Stuff and wood and junk.”
Okay good enough.

[–] MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is some Pokemon shit.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pokemon is really just some real animal kingdom shit.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And not even like…“but cuter!”. Japan has some insanely cute critters.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Oh... we were supposed to drop our evidence? Very well...

Shima Enaga (long tailed bushtit / snowfairy)

Rosefinch

Tanuki


Fire bellied newt

Their honey bee

and for the weirdos.. the murder hornet... ( i wouldn't call these fuckers cute, but I'm sure somebody does. Their moms, maybe.)

Far from exhaustive, but eh, these are my favorite Pokémon. (Okay so murder hornets are ugly, but they’re murderous!)

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

where are there honey bees that don't look like that?

also might want to scale the hornet image down, that could share the shit out of someone

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sorry, this might freak you outBut those fuckers are freaking huge.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

long tailed bushtit

So this is what perfection sounds like

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

the various common names of birds have convinced me that ornithologists are mostly horny perverts that have spent too much time alone in the woods.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tanuki is Zigzagoon! Right? It's gotta be.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you! never saw something of these and now my life is changed for the better.

[–] Sasnak@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

I immediately thought of mimikyu!

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just a fellow creature. Nothing suspicious here. snacks please.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... And it was at that moment that I realized he was a three story tall monster from the Paleolithic era!

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

FUCK OFF NESSIE

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago

I think we have one of those in the Office of President of the United States of America

It's wild that the benefits of this outweigh the cost of making it enough to stick around.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 32 points 1 week ago

"You get free food for life but you gotta wear this giant yellow foam cowboy hat and never take it off. Even to shower"

[–] NessD@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The wild thing is: These are hundreds of mutations of several generations that happened randomly until it looked like this.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I want to know how it even started. Like, what was its equivalent of a half eye so that the termites would start feeding it?

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 week ago

Disguise skill level: Agent 47

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Getting Vincent Adultman vibes.

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

How do you do fellow termites?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wonder if I could seduce your mom that way

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have to grow either a vodka bottle or a crack pipe puppet to seduce mine.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

how about a vodkipe cottlerack puppet?

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

says a lot of how insects identify each other

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

Yes, that's what I wondered, too. In ant nest parasites they usually are visually very different from the ants, but get the pheromones right. In this example here, visual clues have to be important for the beetle to have evolved such a sophisticated mimicry.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's what happens if you only have access to a handful of brain cells.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago

my mom has some of those

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

As evidenced by homo sapiens

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Must be desperate. Imagine the millions of dead bugs trying to get fed by termites. One after the other failing to be a convincing termite. Until finally the perfect one was born.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

That's so freaking cool

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Evolution: I'm winning it.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Hey bro, I am not a beggar bro. I am just carrying this termite to the hospital. Can you give some food for the road bro, promise I am not a beggar.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Who is this Mimi which is crying?

[–] catty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Imagine if incels grew kittens on their back to lure lonely women...