What would humanoid bugs use as mounts?

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fruityloops wrote: 19 Sep 2018 12:36 i just noticed something, a lot of people have been suggesting i use fungus as mounts for some apparent reason. like a i understand most birds eat but...a fungus? sorry your suggestion's great but it's little...strange? i might keep it.
Well, there's precedence for real-world bugs cultivating fungus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants
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Scytheria wrote: 22 Sep 2018 02:26
fruityloops wrote: 19 Sep 2018 12:36 i just noticed something, a lot of people have been suggesting i use fungus as mounts for some apparent reason. like a i understand most birds eat but...a fungus? sorry your suggestion's great but it's little...strange? i might keep it.
Well, there's precedence for real-world bugs cultivating fungus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants

dang it. i recall something like that way back when i was a kid. thanks for more world building inspiration.
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Creyeditor wrote: 19 Sep 2018 18:47 I just had an idea. What about very small bats? It seems that some species of bat are only a few centimeters large, if you check Wiki.
Also there's Homopus, the smallest tortoise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homopus_signatus

On the other end of the scale, ants could get as big as Carpenter Ants, or bigger. I just had a bout with some Carpenter Ants in my house. They're quite larger than the smaller black and brown and red ants. They're easier to kill, too [}:D]

The largest ants are the Dinoponerans of South America, which see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoponera




IMHO sentient insects might stick closer to breeding other insects for food or draft, or companionship.
Carboniferous… the time of mists
Interesting. Quite possibly b/c there was more oxygen (ozone?) in the atmosphere. Back then, paleo-ecologists have suggested that the level of oxygen in the atmosphere was higher, and thus much larger species of insect and arthropod (e.g. Meganeura, Arthropleura, etc) could have existed on land, and grown to much larger than modern sizes.

But then there's this, which I just found out about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate#Etymology
:!: [O.O] :?:
Wow. Always something new under the Sun!


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On another note, I do not think that a planet could support 30-some sentient species for long.
It's not impossible to contemplate that, throughout Earth's history, 30 very different species might have, at certain moments in the billions of years of prehistory, arisen, swelled into civilizations, and then perished as fossil Ozymandians, lost in the dusts of Time. They would never have seen, and possibly have found no evidence of one another at all.

On another other note, while it seems from fossil record that multiple rather intelligent hominins co-existed alongside Homo sapiens, it seems that we either hunted, slaughtered, or mated those other species (e.g. Neanderthals ) to extinction. SO it might seem that sentience breeds contempt, to some degree.
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Lambuzhao wrote: 26 Sep 2018 05:45 But then there's this, which I just found out about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate#Etymology
:!: [O.O] :?:
Wow. Always something new under the Sun!
So it’s the gam from monogamy, with the erg from energy, then the ate from potentate etc.

When I first saw it, I thought it was some Watergate-like scandal having to do with RPG-players or video GamersGate.

But no. It’s about Erasmus B. Dragon’s working mothers’ support group.
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Recently, I have become fascinated with eusociality in modern gall-forming thrips, and evidence of gymnosperm pollen-collection in Mesozoic Thysanopterans (?!)

WHo knew?!? [o.O]
Some amazing stuff out there on the Interretial Event Horizon. [;)]
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Lambuzhao wrote: 29 Sep 2018 17:28 Recently, I have become fascinated with eusociality in modern gall-forming thrips, and evidence of gymnosperm pollen-collection in Mesozoic Thysanopterans (?!)

WHo knew?!? [o.O]
Some amazing stuff out there on the Interretial Event Horizon. [;)]
[O.O]

Wow. Can we have an interlinear of that first sentence!? Do I even want to know what a gall forming thrip is?? [O.o] Sounds like some kind of eternally grouchy Fairy.
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elemtilas wrote: 30 Sep 2018 03:48
Lambuzhao wrote: 29 Sep 2018 17:28 Recently, I have become fascinated with eusociality in modern gall-forming thrips, and evidence of gymnosperm pollen-collection in Mesozoic Thysanopterans (?!)

WHo knew?!? [o.O]
Some amazing stuff out there on the Interretial Event Horizon. [;)]
[O.O]

Wow. Can we have an interlinear of that first sentence!? [O.o] Sounds like some kind of eternally grouchy Fairy.
Sure
In these past days, I have been taken by the kingdomlike behavior shown in modern Thunderflies though I like Grouchfairies at least as much, if not more that make their homes in tree-cankers, as well as the evidence of thunderflies from dinosaur times that harvested pollen from cone-bearing trees.
Do I even want to know what a gall forming thrip is??
From a number of their more common names:

Thunderblights, corn fleas, corn flies, corn lice, freckle bugs, harvest bugs

you'd want to know especially if you were a farmer, gardener or orchardist.

But if I recall rightly, thrips tend to induce galls mainly in leguminous trees, e.g. Acacia, Mesquite.


There is evidence in Cretaceous amber that exinct species of Thunderflies had rudimentary pollen basket-like structures:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4509684/

while pollen-baskets are not a surefire evidence that those thunderflies were social, it's interesting to note that, apart from bees, thysanopterans (collectively,at least) also hit upon social behavior, and rather specialized pollen collection. :wat:

Still yet more wonderful things to be trawled out of the farthest knots and meshes of the Internet.
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Lambuzhao wrote: 30 Sep 2018 20:37
elemtilas wrote: 30 Sep 2018 03:48
Lambuzhao wrote: 29 Sep 2018 17:28 Recently, I have become fascinated with eusociality in modern gall-forming thrips, and evidence of gymnosperm pollen-collection in Mesozoic Thysanopterans (?!)

WHo knew?!? [o.O]
Some amazing stuff out there on the Interretial Event Horizon. [;)]
[O.O]

Wow. Can we have an interlinear of that first sentence!? [O.o] Sounds like some kind of eternally grouchy Fairy.
Sure
In these past days, I have been taken by the kingdomlike behavior shown in modern Thunderflies though I like Grouchfairies at least as much, if not more that make their homes in tree-cankers, as well as the evidence of thunderflies from dinosaur times that harvested pollen from cone-bearing trees.
Coo, neat wing design! Like an single downy feather.

Hmm...grouchfairies...
Do I even want to know what a gall forming thrip is??
From a number of their more common names:

Thunderblights, corn fleas, corn flies, corn lice, freckle bugs, harvest bugs

you'd want to know especially if you were a farmer, gardener or orchardist.

But if I recall rightly, thrips tend to induce galls mainly in leguminous trees, e.g. Acacia, Mesquite.
Hunh. Well, no orchids, acacias or mequites hereabouts. Though there is a kind of thrip that appears locally, I've never seen them, based on pictures I looked up. But a fascinating little bug all the same. And a completely different mechanism of flight as compared to others. The one that looks like a little winged scorpion is interesting. I like their elongated form: will have to consider what Thunderflies look like in The World.

In any event, their clap & fling method of flight led to this article which demonstrated I think how the flying towers of the Daine work. Though they grow theirs from plants, not bugs.

Still yet more wonderful things to be trawled out of the farthest knots and meshes of the Internet.
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Fwiw, centipedes have excellent speed compared to most other arthropods. If the smartbugs could figure out a way to muzzle or tame them, it could lead to faster ground transportation.
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Kehgrehdid wrote: 15 Oct 2018 02:30 Fwiw, centipedes have excellent speed compared to most other arthropods. If the smartbugs could figure out a way to muzzle or tame them, it could lead to faster ground transportation.
House Centipedes are clocked at 1.3 ft/sec

That's pretty darn fast! :wat:

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Scytheria wrote: 22 Sep 2018 02:26
fruityloops wrote: 19 Sep 2018 12:36 i just noticed something, a lot of people have been suggesting i use fungus as mounts for some apparent reason. like a i understand most birds eat but...a fungus? sorry your suggestion's great but it's little...strange? i might keep it.
Well, there's precedence for real-world bugs cultivating fungus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants
Maybe they use the fungus as a navigation system to hack into another insect as a ride, like they domesticated a strain of the zombie-ant fungus?
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I think worms would be a good choice because they would be hardest to anthropomorphize and look quite unlike bugs
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