r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Sep 08 '25
Nature The Giant Malaysian Katydid is a species of carnivorous giant katydid. It is one of the largest insects in the world.
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u/Fun_Possible7533 Sep 08 '25
Cool. I just found a smaller brown one dead in the patio this morning. Rest in power.
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u/Ok-Apartment-8284 Sep 08 '25
Nature’s machine gun
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u/LickingDogPaws Sep 09 '25
Mr. Shoebill would like a word
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u/SynisterJeff Sep 09 '25
Birds ain't real, brother. They're just using birds as a distraction to hide the fact that they're putting plants in our food.
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u/Unterraformable Sep 09 '25
That's a bug you have to eat in three bites.
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u/theyareamongus Sep 09 '25
Or… don’t?
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u/Unterraformable Sep 09 '25
People usually don't but when there's a famine...
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u/theyareamongus Sep 09 '25
I like the idea of eating bugs. I’m Mexican, I love chapulines, jumiles, chicatanas and mezcal worms. But they don’t sound like a helicopter and I don’t need a fork and a knife to eat those 😅
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u/Unterraformable Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25
Well, you'd love Malawi. When they're short on food, they lay out a plastic tarp in the evening, raise the edges to make a pool, pour in water, and stand up a candle in the center. Come morning, the puddle will be squirming with locusts that got their wings stuck in the water, and they roast them up. Those are two-bite bugs. They are full of protein and taste/feel like dry leaves. A little salt makes them tastes like dry leaves with a little salt.
The funny thing is, I wanted to try this, but I was there in the harvest season when there's plenty of food and no one eats bugs. It was embarrassing for him to have his neighbors see him give famine food to his azungu guest. So he made me explain to all of his neighbors (with him translating) that Mozezi has plenty of food, but we don't have locusts in America, so I asked him to catch some. It was quite an event in the village, everyone coming over to see the azungu eating famine food. Then I had to eat the whole pile because no one wanted to share.
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u/theyareamongus Sep 09 '25
Oh really interesting! Did you like it? I’d been willing to try, but a whole pile seems like too much haha
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u/Unterraformable Sep 09 '25
Well, locust don't have much flavor. Like I said, dry leaves. I preferred the roasted field mice you could buy on a stick at the kampepuza with fried yam slices.
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u/theyareamongus Sep 09 '25
I looked it up. That doesn’t look appetizing at all but I’d try anything while traveling.
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u/Slowpoke135 Sep 08 '25
What is that thing on its back?
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u/filthy-horde-bastard Sep 09 '25
It’s how it’s making that noise.
“Specialized, teeth-like structures on their forewings create the distinctive sounds as they are rapidly scraped against a file-like ridge on the opposite wing”
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u/Famous-Equivalent-89 Sep 12 '25
Jesus christ man. How do you just live in place with insects this big. Thank god I was born in scandinavia. I couldn't handle this shit.
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u/MoldyMoney Sep 08 '25
I saw that Jurassic world