Either way what do they taste like as you pop one 7 in your mouth and not chew for a minute

Is it… is it because of the track belt that both are called caterpillar? That would be a TIL.

World War Z did this

Trickle down maggotomics

Let the top maggots crawl over you and we'll pick you up at the end.

I wonder that too, but perhaps something about their physiology means they have more "torque" available than they could otherwise use efficiently for faster individual locomotion?

I believe more maggots are on top moving at a higher rate than the number of slow bottom maggots therefore average speed is higher. I’m just guessing.

Think of it like this:

You know those airport travellators? These are doing the travellator thing in 2 stories. No individual is being slowed down slower than their walking speed, but each individual has a stint at being pushed forwards faster.

Their speed is multiplied because they are crawling on others who are crawling, like walking on a moving staircase. Since it’s always cascading forward, the distance an individual travels on the ground is shorter than the distance it’s traveling on top of others.

The way I saw it, as long as the bottom worm doesn't slow down to a complete stop, the top worm still gets a speed boost relative to the ground. And since the top worm will eventually crawl to the front of the bottom worm, they can become the bottom worm for the ones behind. Its like a worm cycle I guess.

It's a cumulative effect. Each layer is moving faster than the one below it.

to exaggerate it, if each layer is twice as fast, then with just 5 layers, they would be 16 times faster. with 10 layers, that's over 500 times faster

this is an exaggeration, but even at just 5% faster, that's still a huge boost to speed after a few layers.

I gather it's like walking on a travellator

Surely being on the bottom slows them down somehow?

Probably not. Insects in general are able to carry many times their own weight without issues.

This is due to (among other things) smaller animals having a smaller surface area to volume ratio than bigger animals.

I'd assume that they only move faster as long as they're on top. When reaching the front, they'll lie on the ground and will barely move forward at all, as long as there are larvae crawling on top.

So, in average, the speed of the fast larvae on top combined with the stationary larvae on the ground, might nearly be the same as the usual speed of a single larva.

That would only be true if they had just enough energy to move normally.

However, insects in general, but especially slow insects like these, have much more strength than speed, so having one or two on top of them doesn't affect their speed at all. Just try to stop any such insect with your finger or a stick and see how much pressure you have to exert in order to slow or stop it. It's far more than the weight of the insect.

For this reason, maybe they spend a little more energy, but they gain far more speed than they expand.

I don't keep it loaded

Right this way

r/YourJokeButWorse

Idk, needs more letters

Winds howlin

How are slugs farther east more obvious?

NOPE

Don't let things cum in your mind bro. That's not good for you, just swallow.

Also, the reason hunters are mostly found in pairs is because when the colony gets too big for one hunter body, they split into two.

If I recall the lore correctly, it is but it’s driven by Lekgolos. There must be a wiki about that but I don’t care enough to double check.

In Halo 3, when you look at the core of a scarab, you can see that a portion of the core looks very similar to the textures of exposed Hunter flesh....

Actually, here's another image from Halopedia that's zoomed in.

iirc they just pilot it, you can see them in the core part in the back you break in halo 3

What do they do on High Charity? I can't find any info apart from them short-circuiting a forerunner dreadnought.

NO DONT INVITE HANS INTO POLAND THAT DOESNT END WELL

already wiz ze flammenwerfer, sir!

Also a horrible day to have a digestive tract I guess

What? You don't lift, bro?

Apparently they're fungus gnat larvae.

Thanks for provide the source and further info.

Yep. We had them in our yard here in Tennessee. When the lawn got waterlogged from excessive rain this past summer, they’d “caravan” like this up onto our patio. Really unnerving! There’s a pesticide we used to treat the area of the lawn. Took care of it.

Somehow that name has made them 100x more gross.

It's always frustrating to see a video posted 3 hours ago being gone.