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[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

They breathe their own farts. Well.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Insects don't have lungs. It also means their potential size is directly limited by the oxygen content in the air.

Which is why we don't see cat sized insects roaming around.

[–] dariusj18@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Related is this awesome video discussing dinosaur breathing

https://youtu.be/WuMHfWSyoGI

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Which is why you don't see cat sized insects roaming around, I live next to a tarantula trail and some of them fuckers get BIG.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Spiders aren't insects. Though like them, they don't have lungs! Not ones like ours, anyway.

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[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

am i the only one who notices that this logic makes no sense? it doesnt matter that they have no lungs, they still are susceptible to both heat and airborn toxins, they perform gas exchange. They lived because the heat and smoke were below lethal toxic levels for them.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (17 children)

don't beekeepers use smoke or some such?

[–] tpyoman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yea tobacco smoke I think but want to say they were being stopped for that n9t sure.

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