And to answer their questions beforehand: no lobsters, crabs, crawfish, and shrimp are not bugs. You don’t get around my bug rule like l got around the Friday Lent rules by having the lobster buffet.
Hahahahahaha it always comes up!
“no lobsters, crabs, crawfish, and shrimp are not bugs.”
Insects are Hexapoda (6 legs in 3 pairs) , crabs et al. Are Decapods (10 legs in five pairs) both are Arthropods a vast phylum of invertebrates characterized by jointed appendages, segmented bodies, and a hard exoskeleton.
They differ from each other by less than 1% in DNA. So close that it is pretty clear insects descended from Crustaceans being the more evolved form and having larger genomes by chromosome size. Both tell a paleobiologist insects came second. That and aquatic life evolved first. Land scorpions were the first recorded, they very closely resemble Ordovician period eurypterids aka sea scorpions which already had the advanced three segment bodies vs two for Crustaceans.
Hey tell yourself what you need too,but from a DNA standpoint Hexapod vs Decapod is a moot argument. Crab is delicious and so are scorpions or spiders they taste virtually identical when grilled or fried why? Because the protein in the shell is a fraction of a percentage DNA different and the actual protein structures themselves are identical the only way to tell if you shelled the cooked proteins and put them side by side is DNA visual inspection would not show a difference.