30 - aroace - queer - #ken corner for my personal posts. Bowser and King K Rool are my favorite fictional characters. I play numerous monster collectors. I reblog a lot of insects, but I am always sure to tag them.
the top ones, are terrestrial crustaceans, ie have gills, require sufficiently watery air to breathe, etc while on the bottom, those are insects like you’d expect, and the two are NOT RELATED!
i love rollie pollies and evolution does too
millipedes are myriapods, and insects are probably closer related to crustaceans like isopods than millipedes + centipedes!
being able to roll into a ball is just a recurring phenomenon among earth life—there’s cockroaches (Perisphaerus), various beetles, armadillos, and trilobites might’ve been the first to try it. even among the isopods, being able to conglobate probably evolved at least five times, and probably far more than that.
here’s Perisphaerus—a female.
male perisphaerine cockroaches just look normal. Pseudoglomeris is a less pilly related genus, with a perfectly spherical body exchanged for metallic shine
