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7 months ago

When I was a little girl, I found a large family of sawfly larva (some species of which are very cute!) Mine looked more or less like this guy:

A macro-lens photo of a sawfly larva on a branch. His soft green body loops around the branch out of sight, highlighting his round head and tiny black dot eyes. His head is chitinous and mostly yellow, with an orangey-brown patch on top that distantly resembles bangs.

Their little heads had hard chitin, and reminded me of Chex Mix mini breadsticks. Delighted, I put them into a little cardboard box with some leaves and brought them home, hoping they could grow into butterflies (didn't know what they were at the time.) When I took them home, my mom was unimpressed, and my father told me they were Spongy Moth caterpillars. He promptly took them outside and killed them.

For reference, Spongy Moth caterpillars look like THIS:

A Spongy Moth caterpillar on a leaf. Its body is dark gray, with rows of red and blue nodules. Long irritating hairs grow from the nodules. Its head is yellow with dark brown spots.

The hard-looking head fits I GUESS, but everything else is completely different, especially from afar.

And so there's my villain origin story. My genetically-engineered Super Sawflies will be battle ready by the end of the month, and I will be sending them to Brett Kavanaugh's house.

Ultimately this has nothing to do whatsoever with this bracket, but I have a fun cool extra series of polls I want to exploit my tournament blog clout to get votes on while we wait for the final results of the qualifying polls to be determined

So, that being said...


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