@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
2026-09-24 02:11 UTC
The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-09-24 02:28
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social biologists are no fun there is the term "cloacal respiration" when they could have called it "butt breathing" (yes, this is a real thing, like in turtles)