Grub, not as in food, somewhat gross.

[specious_reasons]

My 4th grader needed a worm for his class - it's part of the science curriculum. So this past weekend we went searching for one. We had better luck finding grubs.

The bad kind of grubs, too. I'm pretty sure these are Japanese beetle grubs.

[Demimonde]

I have a phobia of june bugs and hate grubs. So I debated whether or not to look at this thread. (Your cicada thread I ignored instantly, because even the word gives me the heebie jeebies.)

But these images aren't gross in the least. Actually, I am amazed because in an abstract way, when you forget what you are looking at, they are quite beautiful.

Just goes to show, with the right closeup, all life is beautiful.

[Ensign Steve]

Very cool! The bottom one looks like eyes with nipples!

[BrotherMan]

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

The bottom one looks like eyes with nipples!

First of all, . Secondly, OMG that's like Shelley's laudanum vision in reverse!

L[ord] B[yron] repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking and putting his hands to his head, ran out of the room with a candle. Threw water in his face, and after gave him ether. He was looking at Mrs. S[helley], and suddenly thought of a woman he had heard of who had eyes instead of nipples, which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him.

Then Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and Byron impregnated her step-sister. That was the party of the fucking millennium, man.

[Ensign Steve]

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Very cool! The bottom one looks like eyes with nipples!

That's kinda what I thought, too. This grub didn't die properly in alcohol either, so it was moving too much to get a good focus-stacked closeup image. I tried.

[Ensign Steve]

[Ymir's blood]

Rasputin grub!

[Angakuk]

How is this grub different from any other grub? I mean, why isn't it food? Are you some kind of anti-grub foodist?

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Angakuk

How is this grub different from any other grub? I mean, why isn't it food? Are you some kind of anti-grub foodist?

When I sit down at my meal and say Grace,

Rub a dub-dub
Thanks for the grub
Amen

I do not have squiggly, white, bloated, and hairy baby insects sitting on my plate. Thus the distinction between these grubs and those grubs.

Grub, as in food, has a tendency to not be very interesting under the microscope, or at least not as disgusting.

[specious_reasons]

I'm getting emails from one of the online contests - a call for entries. I think I'm going to clean up and trim the second picture and send it in.

[Megatron]

Holy shit. I usually love your pictures but those are goddamn NASTY.

[Angakuk]

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

When I sit down at my meal and say Grace,

Rub a dub-dub
Thanks for the grub
Amen

I do not have squiggly, white, bloated, and hairy baby insects sitting on my plate. Thus the distinction between these grubs and those grubs.

Grub, as in food, has a tendency to not be very interesting under the microscope, or at least not as disgusting.

Bigot!

[thedoc]

Originally Posted by Angakuk

Bigot!

Agreed, in many parts of the world Grubs are part of the normal diet, though I've never tried them, I would think deep fried or cooked in a stew or soup might be interesting.

[Angakuk]

Battered and fried and served impaled on a stick. I can just see it being sold as a Grubstake at next year's State Fair.