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What's the name of the most independent or self-sufficient type of insect?

Portland, Oregon, USA

Mon, Nov 30, 2015 10:34am -08:00

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- Lee LaTour www.facebook.com/10101362550375036
  
  Google says bees
  
  Mon, Dec 7, 2015 2:39am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Antonio Bettencourt www.facebook.com/10153955032475562
  
  Well, if I was naming an independent insect I might call him/her Alfie.
  
  Tue, Dec 1, 2015 7:20pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- John Karabaic www.facebook.com/10204891517559486
  
  Gall wasps, beloved of Darwin.
  
  Mon, Nov 30, 2015 10:08pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Kyle Mahan kylewm.com
  
  Woollybear (caterpillars) are pretty great. They don’t hibernate so much as freeze solid and live up to 14 years!
  
  Mon, Nov 30, 2015 12:24pm -08:00
- Robin Jones Maloney www.facebook.com/10152373112484740
  
  Corethra (mosquito variant, with "phantom larvae") http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.920170503/abstract
  
  Mon, Nov 30, 2015 8:12pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Leif Warner www.facebook.com/785053007470
  
  Black Widows and mantises (manti?) and stuff? Don't need no man - they're better off as food.
  Or I don't know about "self-sufficient" among bugs in general, but a tardigrade seems pretty tough (as in survive apocalypse / whatever)
  
  Mon, Nov 30, 2015 8:01pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Cheryl Crowe www.facebook.com/10204073208805627
  
  And if it took 17 years to launch the product that would be perfect!
  
  Mon, Nov 30, 2015 7:52pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Cheryl Crowe www.facebook.com/10204073208805627
  
  What about a cicada? It doesn't eat, it just makes love and sings.
  
  Mon, Nov 30, 2015 7:51pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Amalia Parecki www.facebook.com/10152149262524635
  
  Good question... but why?
  
  Mon, Nov 30, 2015 7:48pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ryan Barrett snarfed.org
  What’s the name of the most independent or self-sufficient type of insect? – Aaron Parecki
  Mon, Nov 30, 2015 11:20am -08:00

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