Timeline for What giant insects would fill the role of our domesticated cattle?
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| Oct 23, 2019 at 18:32 | history | edited | overlord | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2017 at 5:58 | comment | added | IndigoFenix | Worth bringing up: Cockroach milk. It's a nutritious protein certain cockroaches produce for their children. Humans can drink it and it contains more energy than dairy. | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 20:49 | vote | accept | Pelle Lundkvist | ||
| Apr 15, 2017 at 8:04 | comment | added | Pelle Lundkvist | @jwenting Good point. As all insects have an exoskeleton made of chitin, we would have to find another alternative. Silkmoths are of course a thing already, maybe some other bug can produce a leather substitute | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 19:22 | comment | added | Kevin | Not technically an insect, but I've read a series where an underground race uses what's essentially giant spiders for food, individual transport (riding like horses), beast of burden (farming, pulling carriages), and even scaling the walls of a city in a war. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 12:48 | comment | added | jwenting | Cattle also serve as an important source of leather, used in anything from clothing to industrial applications, arts, furniture, etc. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 12:03 | answer | added | Flummox uses codidact.com | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 23:28 | comment | added | Tobias Hagge | Grasshoppers, mealworms, and mosquito larvae are already used as a protein source by humans. I suppose they could be giant if you needed them to be. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 20:37 | answer | added | user151841 | timeline score: 4 | |
| S Apr 13, 2017 at 18:40 | history | suggested | Engineer Toast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 17:08 | answer | added | JBiggs | timeline score: 18 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 13:51 | comment | added | Enigma Maitreya | I did not see you rule out genetic manipulation by selective breeding or by genetic engineering. This may have some good ideas "West of Eden" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden - Harry Harrison. In this case Dinosaurs evolve and genetically manipulate/engineer other creatures to sustain their civilization. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 10:41 | comment | added | Pelle Lundkvist | @AlexP, yeah I know. That is why I wrote "Don not consider feasibility of this increase in size" and did not include a "science-based" or "reality-check" tag! | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 10:13 | comment | added | AlexP | The respiratory system of insects doesn't work for larger animals. No way to make it work -- see note 3 in the Wikipedia article on Meganeura. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 10:04 | answer | added | Subbies | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 9:14 | answer | added | adaliabooks | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 9:09 | answer | added | Lu22 | timeline score: 36 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 9:09 | answer | added | David Griffin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 8:56 | answer | added | JDizzle | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 8:41 | comment | added | Pelle Lundkvist | @PieterB, yeah I know. But I don't want to consider that. That is why I wrote: "Do not consider feasibility of this increase in size". Should I rephrase it? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 8:32 | comment | added | Pieter B | You first have to get around the square/cube law, which requires a very different anatomy and surprisingly also about how insects breathe: they do it by diffusion which places limits on how large they can become. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 8:25 | comment | added | Secespitus | This question about Farming after the apocalypse - chickens or giant cockroaches? might give you some information about this topic. Interesting question. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 8:20 | history | asked | Pelle Lundkvist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |