futurebird ,
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Termitophilous rove beetles live with termites in Australia. In order to solicit food from the termites the beetle has evolved a rear end that looks like a termite which it uses like a puppet to solicit food from it's hapless hosts.

Rove beetles also mess with ants in a similar way, although nothing this elaborate.

(If we had to name an insect after George Santos...)

https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5336.3.8

fivetonsflax ,
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@futurebird Ha. And leave poor Karl Rove high and dry?

futurebird OP ,
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@fivetonsflax

That implies that GWB was somehow Karl's tush and I don't know what to do with that image.

nonlinear ,
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@futurebird @fivetonsflax Just don't yuck someone else's yum, and all's good. 😉

futurebird OP ,
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@nonlinear @fivetonsflax

Someone's WHAT

jakemiller ,
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@futurebird @fivetonsflax Here I thought we were going to go with twerking jokes, but I can dig the picture of Karl as a butt ventriloquist, awkwardly improvising nicknames for people, stumbling over words sometimes…

spacegeck ,
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@futurebird does it poop on its own head? i am in need of anatomical labels 😩

joeldane ,
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@futurebird

Beetle got back.

michaelgemar ,
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@futurebird That’s a good burn…

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