arthronaut
n.— «The prototypes currently in orbit are roughly a third the projected size of a final Bigelow space module and do not yet contain any form of life support. The arthropod crew of Genesis II—which the company refers to as their “arthronauts”—lives in a specially designed, pressurized “biobox” containing a variety of food, a water-retaining gel and a special system for cleaning out animal waste.» —“Second space ‘hotel’ model launched” by Heidi Ledford Nature July 2, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
If you alternate alcoholic beverages with glasses of water over the course of an evening, you’re said to be zebra striping. This bit of slang was inspired by how the animal’s alternating black-and-white markings are like the contrast between the...
Colin from Los Angeles, California, is pondering the expression make no bones about it, which suggests the speaker is talking or acting with no hesitation whatsoever. The saying is inspired by the idea of literally finding bones in one’s food, since...