Q: Hey, where did the post about bugs inflating themselves go? I need to cite it in a paper I'm doing on insect inflation.
A: Yeah... we have no idea what happened to that post. Apparently some clumsy person accidentally deleted it, and we have no backup copy. Here's the gist of it:
Q: Why do bugs look bigger to women than to men?
A: Until recently this was thought to be merely a case of exaggeration, but in 2007, when women were finally permitted to practice entomology, several surprising discoveries were made:
1. Bugs inflate near women, and deflate around men. This serves to scare away women, and helps to avoid detection by men.
2. Men do not include shadows when judging the size of an object, while women do include shadows.
3. Women have generally smaller body sizes, so insects are proportionally larger compared to women.
We have lost the rest of the information found in our report, but hope to see it again someday.
-Cowman
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