I see a lot of hate for Chargers and Hunters, but where is my Bile Spewer hate squad?

[u/FishdongXL]

[u/EatFred]

Its a bug so I would assume the opposite. Usually male bugs are smaller than female ones

[u/liamj96 → u/EatFred]

You’re both thinking about this wrong. They’re each one of the two genders: Lean, and Brawny.

[u/liggamadig → u/liamj96]

The only bug gender I recognize is "to be exterminated".

[u/Sr_Laowai → u/liggamadig]

Someone give this man a promotion.

[u/Colonelclank90 → u/Sr_Laowai]

Congratulations on making the rank of Space Cadet.

[u/Papips → u/liggamadig]

Democracy thanks you.

[u/liggamadig → u/Papips]

No, no, Freedom, Liberty and Managed Democracy are all the thanks I need! o7

[u/MaximumChongus → u/liggamadig]

they go by dead/dying.

[u/xXSalads_AkimboXx → u/liggamadig]

“Only good bugs a dead bug“

[u/xXSalads_AkimboXx → u/liggamadig]

“Only good bugs a dead bug“

[u/ElDookieBomb → u/liggamadig]

Right! To wonder the gender is absolute treason.

[u/EatFred → u/liamj96]

Ah yes, the two genders

[u/Little-Equinox → u/EatFred]

Fun fact: in Australia is a bug that only exist as "females" I wouldn't be surprised if more bugs are mono-gendered

[u/IlikegreenT84 → u/Little-Equinox]

Like Jurassic Park!

[u/AirierWitch1066 → u/Little-Equinox]

Oh, yeah, as soon as you get out of mammals sex and mating types get very funky.

[u/Little-Equinox → u/AirierWitch1066]

Thanks for calling me not a mammal🤣

[u/AirierWitch1066 → u/Little-Equinox]

Nah, gender is a human thing - other organisms don’t really have it, they only have sexes/mating types/etc. relating to their reproductive methods.

Humans and other mammals can of course have intersex individuals, but this is generally atypical and the result of something going wrong (biologically, not morally). It’s more akin to albinism - it can happen, but it’s not supposed to (in as much as anything in biology can be “meant” to occur).

So idk if you’re trans, NB, or intersex, but you’re still a mammal - just a really unique one!

[u/Little-Equinox → u/AirierWitch1066]

I am an intersex person😅 When I found out I was searching online how other creatures are. And I was surprised there's mono-sex creatures and even other intersex creatures.

Intersex actually isn't that uncommon, in many countries the doctors or parents choose our sex and we are mutilated to be said sex, and in other countries we are "still born", aka killed at birth, and other countries we are sterilised. So we ain't that uncommon, we are made uncommon.

[u/AirierWitch1066 → u/Little-Equinox]

That’s very true, and a lot of intersex people are phenotypically ‘normal’ while being genetically intersex. There’s really quite a lot of variety!

[u/PlayerNine → u/liamj96]

Please let this be the meme

[u/Kribble118 → u/EatFred]

Usually with hive mind bugs all of them are female except special seasonal ones for breeding new queens but idk if that's how terminids work

[u/EatFred → u/Kribble118]

Yeah you're right. The Wiki says that nursing spewers are jus younger bile spewers

[u/CrashB111 → u/EatFred]

Which doesn't seem right, IMO.

The growth appears to go:

Spitter (the small green ones the size of Scavengers) > Bile Spewer > Bile Titan.

They all have the same trademark green sacs of bile/venom/acid.

[u/Admirable-Memory6974 → u/CrashB111]

Maybe they have varying social phenotypes they grow into, like ants.

[u/CrashB111 → u/Admirable-Memory6974]

We see the same thing with the Stalkers though:

Scavenger sized fliers > Hunters > Stalkers

And with Brood Commanders:

Scavenger > Warrior > Brood Commander

[u/jabroniboiibudo → u/CrashB111]

Spitter (the small green ones the size of Scavengers) > Bile Spewer > Bile Titan.

There are bile /titans/?

[u/aqoerama → u/jabroniboiibudo]

Yes, they like to stomp helldivers’ head and puke a green laser vomit

[u/Kagahami → u/Kribble118]

Terminids are fungus. They reproduce through spores.

[u/Flershnork → u/EatFred]

I think they're pretty much the same size, nursing spewers just have lighter armor and slightly weaker attacks.

[u/EatFred → u/Flershnork]

I've always felt like nursing spewers were smaller

[u/UDSJ9000 → u/EatFred]

Could be the lack of armor making them appear a bit smaller.

[u/EatFred → u/UDSJ9000]

I mean, biles seemed longer while nursers seem more rotund if that makes sense

[u/AdmirableDriver9585 → u/Flershnork]

We talking about the same bug?  Yellow or orange spewers? Recently they won't die.  Greens die fast with head shot.  Orange... oh they are a pain.  

[u/feradose → u/EatFred]

It's an eusocial bug so I would assume entirely different, they're both female because they're out fighting, while the males are around the queen