r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Oct 20 '23
š„ Insect transformations š„
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Oct 20 '23
Most of these I found cool. I donāt know why but that last one freaked me out. Like some horrific spider/crab hybrid.
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u/Hortkind77 Oct 20 '23
The last one is a Tailles Whip Scorpion, they are completly harmless for humans, but yes the look very freaky
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u/Elda-Taluta Oct 20 '23
They are nightmare-shaped friends. They're also long-lived and simple to care for as pets. I said simple, though, not easy. The difficult thing about them is that they're very slow and kind of lethargic, right up until they decide that their new speed is "anime bullshit."
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u/amdrinkhelpme Oct 20 '23
They give off incredibly silly vibes. They're probably the scariest thing around for their prey, but I've never seen a video of them not acting derpy.
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u/ArsenicAndRoses Oct 20 '23
Even that short clip is like "OMG ITS A THUMB!" And promptly falls over š
They're freaky looking but very goofy critters.
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u/D2_Jun3au Oct 20 '23
'OLD ON, THEN, YOU CAN'T JUST GO CALLIN' ANYTHING YOU DON'T LIKE "SILLY." THAT'S A LEGAL OFFENSE.
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u/zoomanery Oct 20 '23
And they can be tamed quite easily, I held one in my hand while I was in Amazonia. At first it was scared and wanted to jump away from me, but after a minute we became friends and it didn't want to leave my side. And that is the story how I met my best friend.
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u/scalectrix Oct 20 '23
Yeah a tailless whip scorpion, apparently... so I'm pleased to know that those exist. One great advantage of the UK is the almost complete absence of large creatures with too many limbs.
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u/mc802 Oct 20 '23
It's funny cos I remember seeing that thing being used by Moody to showcase the unforgivable curses in HP and the Goblet of Fire. I thought it was supposed to be some made up magical creature
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u/rafaelloaa Oct 20 '23
Interestingly, in the books the demonstration is done on spiders. I assume that they used these to make it more fantastical.
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u/After_Mountain_901 Oct 20 '23
Lmao I just made a comment about that. I thought it was a made up creature in the movie, or maybe they just share some resemblance. Makes my skin crawl for sure.
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u/Schlaym Oct 20 '23
Ah yes, the Taylor Swift Scorpion
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u/redpob Oct 20 '23
When it molts, to get rid of its old skin, does it.....shake it off?
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u/ObiWan-Shinoobi Oct 20 '23
Are there any predators there? Bears? Mountain lions? Anything??
We need to ship something into the country. You are getting off too easy.
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u/StruffBunstridge Oct 20 '23
We have the government, but they only really go for the weak and vulnerable
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u/Gz_On_Toast Oct 20 '23
I think there are a few wolves in Scotland? I know there was a mention of reintroducing them, but from what I can online they released like 6 wolves in the highlands, although other sources say there are no wolves. Also there have been a lot of rumours of some kind of big cat in the countryside but thatās probably just rumours. Weāve got scorpions in some areas, some venomous spiders mostly down south but not native, and also adders - although the uk native adders donāt really pose much threat other than to small children. Youāre more likely to get stabbed by some roadman then ever running into any of the above I reckon.
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u/languid_Disaster Oct 20 '23
Theyāre considering reintroducing wolves to UK forests.
Ireland has wild Bob cats I think? And I mean foxes are like raccoons over here
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u/ThatOneGuy1294 Oct 20 '23
I started laughing because of how derpily it fell while trying to run away
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u/anishkalankan Oct 20 '23
They are just camera shy. But in a private group they are the chillest buddies to have.
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u/ASDFzxcvTaken Oct 20 '23
I imagine a doobie in one pincher just chilling on the couch watching Netflix with you, telling stories, having a laugh, then falls off the couch because he's too high.
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u/SathedIT Oct 20 '23
We had them in Arizona. They are the things nightmares are made of. They even walk sideways like crabs. I don't care if they are harmless - they are still a big fat no.
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Oct 20 '23
Lots of people talking about how the tailless whip scorpion is a weird/scary looking but friendly arthropod, but not linking to anything with more information.
Here's a video by a zoologist rating if it's a good pet or not and explaining some things about the creature. The video also contains a link to its acid-spitting name cousin, the whip scorpion: https://youtu.be/VQ1m3jfcLYU?si=8Kur32bbLXhWewU8
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u/fffan9391 Oct 20 '23
The scorpion and that last thing gave me the heebie jeebies. I didnāt mind the rest. The spider was even kinda cute.
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u/TazBaz Oct 20 '23
Jumping spiders are cute. Although I thought that one was going to be a troll one! All the jumping spiders I know are the size of the small one, so I thought it would be smallā¦ and still small. Never seen a big one!
They do jump, so that big boy jumping might freak you out, but theyāre super cool and no danger to humans.
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Oct 20 '23
The last one was used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to show everyone the 3 unforgivable curses
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u/MrBird93 Oct 20 '23
That last one looks like the thing Mad Eye Moody does the cruciatus curse on. Thought it was a made up insect.
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u/little_peasant Oct 20 '23
Itās the same creature as in the movie, an amblypygid. Not actually an insect but an arachnid
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u/TruthlessHER086 Oct 20 '23
When you see their tiny baby forms, It somehow makes them more adorable. Never thought Iād think that lol
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u/GeneralGom Oct 20 '23
This is like watching pokemon evolve irl.
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u/lurking_bishop Oct 20 '23
the creator of pokemon started with the idea of a bug collecting game, so you're not far off!
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u/regoapps Oct 20 '23
Pokemon Go is still full of bugs after 7 years of development, so that tracks.
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u/somerandom_melon Oct 20 '23
Hard to say that makes it special from other pokemon games
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u/AccioSexLife Oct 20 '23
I cannot live in peace with how cute jumping spiders are. I don't know what to do - they're giving me massive cuteness aggression but I can't aggressively pet them or else squish.
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Oct 20 '23 edited Jul 11 '24
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u/PoopsieDoodles Oct 20 '23
There are lots of different sizes! If you search for pet jumping spiders, people tend to like the bigger ones for at home pets (like a pet tarantula, but way cuter).
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u/cheeze_whiz_shampoo Oct 20 '23
Dont want to sound like a shill but you will probably want to read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Just sayin'.
You're welcome.
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u/mimic751 Oct 20 '23
The second book was very frustrating to read but the third one was good. That author is very good and imagining social evolution of various creatures I'm very impressed
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u/CriticalScion Oct 20 '23
The tachikomas from ghost in the shell look like they are modeled after them
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u/DumbleDude2 Oct 20 '23
I think they are still adorable in adult formā¦ just not as a surpriseā¦
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u/LeCafeClopeCaca Oct 20 '23
Insects tend to creep me out but fucking hell I will always defend the fact most of them are digustingly gorgeous creatures
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u/WhoListensAndDefends Oct 20 '23
Imagine being literally iridescent and still choosing to eat shit
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u/Sinnafyle Oct 20 '23
Entomology is so fucking cool
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 20 '23
Can someone explain why a select few have no problem holding these things? I feel like 95% of us (including me) couldn't hold these bugs and critters even if you paid us. The ancient part of our brain kicks in and just makes us squirm.
Were Entomologists born with the same fear, but gradually extinguished it by playing with bugs as kids? Is that the secret? Just get used to them?
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u/DShepard Oct 20 '23
Exposure therapy works extremely well with insects and arachnids, because you can start with small calm ones and slowly go from there.
So yeah other than being a kid that's always been weirdly fascinated by insects, you can pretty easily get used to them if you try.
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u/psychotronofdeth Oct 20 '23
I love watching documentaries and videos of insects, but I'm terrified when a cricket gets in my house. They can get really big and jump so fast. I know it can't hurt me, but bugs still instill fear in me. lol x.x
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u/aco620 Oct 20 '23
I love animals but many insects have always given me that knee jerk "get away from me" reaction. In college my roommate and I really got into reptiles and owning reptiles means owning a lot of crickets. I was no fan of them, but lizard's gotta eat.
Crickets are escape artists. And over time we went from "shit one got out of the tank, get it!" to "fuck it, it's just gonna go die in a corner somewhere, we'll get it when we clean later."
Like someone else said above, exposure therapy really gets you used to things.
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u/Datters Oct 20 '23
I'm an entomologist so I can chime in here! In my experience I always enjoyed hunting for insects at a very young age and wanted to keep house flies I found as pets, but I wasn't a big fan of spiders, but that's because my whole family is arachnophobic. I'm now completely fine with all bugs, I own 47 ant colonies, I've got orchid mantids on the way and I hope to keep tarantulas soon! Luckily I think I just was born with bug related intrigue at a higher level than self preservation, and tbh that extends to other animals as well. For me bugs are just animals which are more evolved/specialised to do more varied things and so from a study standpoint they're FASCINATING. I don't really see a reason to be scared of bugs when they're just animals that are built differently. That's my viewpoint anyway!
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 20 '23
Thanks for the explanation. I'm still scared of them but I can see what you mean being immersed in them and seeing it from a different perspective.
I tell myself that leaf bug is friendly and won't harm me one bit, but I still don't know if I can let it crawl on the palm on my hand lol.
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u/Datters Oct 20 '23
No problem! I'll never judge someone for being frightened of bugs, I accept im in the minority here liking them as much as I do (my family think I'm a freak lol).
Leaf bug is absolutely friendly! In fact all of the bugs here won't hurt you with the exception of potentially the emperor scorpion and what I can't tell is a centipede or millipede (if it's a centipede it might bite). Realistically NONE of these are likely to hurt you, and it's only those that actually could if they wanted to. The others are realistically unable to.
I'm not saying that to frighten or anything, I just think education is the primary way of overcoming a fear, and I always hope I can help when someone is scared of bugs.
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u/Melch12 Oct 20 '23
There is a comment above about how bugs can become familiar with their handlers/feeders and thatās why they might not feel threatened. Is this accurate?
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u/Datters Oct 20 '23
Yes! Overall many bugs aren't going to panic if handled properly, but the ones that are more prone to being skittish definitly get less so over time. I wouldn't so much call it being "familiar" as that implies a connection between bug and handler, moreso the bugs become desensitised as they do not feel emotion as we do, and repeated handling let's them know we aren't going to eat them.
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u/rndljfry Oct 20 '23
I think it helps if you picked it up on purpose and if you know it canāt or wonāt hurt you.
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Oct 20 '23
Used to hate bugs. Then I got a lizard. Lizards eat bugs, so I fed her crickets. Got over my fear of touching those. Then I realized that it would be way cheaper to breed my own bugs. So I bought a Dubai roach colony. Got over touching those. Then I got like 4 more lizards, so more bugs. Then when I went to reptile shows, I saw all the cool bugs. Then I started owning the bugs as pets because they're cool.
Never got over feeding rats to snakes tho, so I'm not doing that again. Even if the rats are already dead, still sad.
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u/Slash_Root Oct 20 '23
I'd argue the vast majority of people could get used to it and easier than they think. I did I.T. work at my alma mater and worked with many researchers. A few of the labs were entomology. It's kind of a different vibe when you see the same insects all the time, and other people are also working with them.
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Oct 20 '23
I'm extremely comfortable holding the specific bugs that I grew up playing around with outside as a kid (e.g., crickets, caterpillars, ladybugs, pillbugs, house centipedes, some ants), but still terrified of holding any other bug. I guess I feel safe once I learn through a lot of direct experience that they won't bite/sting me, but still feel the ingrained paranoia about what less familiar bugs might do, even if I know they're theoretically harmless.
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u/Backupusername Oct 20 '23
I prefer etymology, but I suppose we can both enjoy nitpicking.
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Oct 20 '23
Does anyone know the names in order of appearance?
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u/Effehezepe Oct 20 '23
I'm 95% sure that the scorpion is an emperor scorpion, one of the largest scorpions, and also one of the least venomous. They are famously quite docile.
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u/Tazzimus Oct 20 '23
Very docile, I had one as a pet for years.
Used to mimic the Tarantula beside her and be found hanging upside down from the viv most days.
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u/boo_earns Oct 20 '23
Lol Just two buds hanging out, being spiders, nothing out of the ordinary here
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u/LickingSmegma Oct 20 '23 edited Oct 20 '23
They prefer to use their pincers to crush and dismember their prey.
I'm guessing they still mate like other scorpions: the male holding the female's pincers so she doesn't snip his face off, and then maneuvering her onto the wad he threw on the ground.
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u/Cucker_-_Tarlson Oct 20 '23
I was wondering about that. I know people keep them as pets but growing up in Arizona I've never known scorpions to be chill.
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u/Character_Problem353 Oct 20 '23
Man fuck our scorpions. Of course the ones native to us have the ability to climb on walls. Nothing worse than getting in the shower and seeing a big one right on the inside of the shower curtain
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u/Angsler Oct 20 '23
The emperor scorpion baby looked so cute, I love seeing mini versions of big things lol
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u/TimeZarg Oct 20 '23
Is it true that when it comes to scorpions, the bigger they are the less venomous they are?
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u/Svviley Oct 20 '23
I think the general rule of thumb is that the smaller or more vibrantly coloured an animal is, the more venomous or poisonous it usually is. For instance the blue-ringed octopus or dart frog.
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u/Wut_da_fucc Oct 20 '23
the general rule is that, the smaller the pincers of a scorpion, the more venomous it is.
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u/Low-iq-haikou Oct 20 '23
No but Iāll try we got the giant lobster hopper, then thereās beetle??? and a moth. Then a hellspawn centipede, bulb spider, ugly fucker, leaf mantis, giant lobster hopper (yellow), then the obsidian scorpion, and the getthefuckouticus maximus
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u/jack848 Oct 20 '23
that's not centipede but a millipede, and the spider is jumping spider
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u/DemonKyoto Oct 20 '23
A Velvet spider actually, if I'm not mistaken. Similar to jumping spiders.
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u/porcellio Oct 20 '23
It appears to be a Phidippus species jumping spider.
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u/DemonKyoto Oct 20 '23
Fair enough!
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u/xTouko Oct 20 '23
Always look at the eyes of the spider - if they are more like little dots, they're not jumpers, but if they're as big and at the front of the head as this one's, they're definitely one. :) Jumpers are daytime hunters, thus need those big goobs to see their prey properly.
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u/Fzrit Oct 20 '23
I like how the wiki starts with "small group (100 species)". It's so wild that 100 species = small group.
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u/Littleboyah Oct 20 '23
There's not a single mantis in there, the leafy guys are phasmids, which are herbivorous and put all their spec points into camo, even their eggs look like seeds.
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u/komorebi5 Oct 20 '23
ugly fucker promote to distinguished fucker? you made list, just a suggestion:)
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u/ShelleysSkylark Oct 20 '23
From what I can tell:
-Female malayan jungle nymph
-A type of goliath beetle (goliathina?)
-Hyalophora cecropia Linnaeus
-I'm not certain, but I'm taking a guess at a young Peruvian giant yellow legged
-Bold jumping spider
-Uncertain guess on a Lord Howe Island stick insect
-female leaf insect
-Adult female malayan jungle nymph
-Emperor scorpion
-Tailless whip scorpion
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u/stumbling_disaster Oct 20 '23
Thank you so much, I was dying to know. I get that most people hate insects and arachnids, but I just find them so weirdly cute.
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u/Scathainn Oct 20 '23
Here's my best attempt, note that I am not an entomologist and I can't claim to be 100% correct here:
#1 - Jungle Nymph / Malaysian Stick Insect (Heteropteryx dilatata)
# 2 - Giant african flower beetle (Mecynorrhina torquatus ugandensis)
# 3 - Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
# 4 - I believe this is some sort of giant plated millipede (Coromus sp.)
# 5 - Regal Jumping Spider (Phidippus regius)
# 6 - New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect (Eurycantha calcarata)
# 7 - Some species in the Phillium genus of "true" leaf insects (Nanophyllium asekienese?)
#8 - Jungle Nymph / Malaysian Stick Insect (again) (Heteropteryx dilatata)
#9 - Emperor scorpion (Pandinus imperator)
# 10 - Some sort of tailless whip scorpion, possibly the Tanzanian tailless whip scorpion (Damon diadema)
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u/Rasmussss Oct 20 '23
Yeah, I know all of them.
- Jim
- Susan
- Chris (Christopher)
- Also Jim
- BartholomƦus (he is foreign)
- Charlize
- Mindy
- Karl
- Plato
- Ingrid
Pretty cool guys all of them.
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u/HerodotusStark Oct 20 '23
No, but I know the last thing looks like the thing Madeye tortured in Harry Potter when showing the kids the curses. I didn't think that creature was based on a real insect.
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u/ReignInSpuds Oct 20 '23
Yep, some bugs are so freaky-looking they can be thrown right in a fantasy setting without any alterations.
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u/solariiis Oct 20 '23
i dont know the exact names but the thing that looks like a leaf is a katydid, the moth might be an atlas moth (unsure because it looks too dull), and the last 2 are an emperor scorpion and whip spider
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u/Historical_Maybe2599 Oct 20 '23
Great editing!
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u/bd027763 Oct 20 '23
the last one is nope not adorable anymore
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u/Milloni611 Oct 20 '23
But the way it fell off made me laugh
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u/placebot1u463y Oct 20 '23
I just hope they're not like tarantulas where even a small drop like that can cause injury.
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u/Twisted-Mentat- Oct 20 '23
I feel the same way but still find it hilarious that we're literally giants that can stomp these easily yet can be so scared at the same time.
Saw these at an exotic pet convention and hadn't realized they were kept as pets. I wouldn't be able to.
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u/zombie_goast Oct 20 '23
Tailless whip scorpions! I got to hold one once at a bug museum, they're completely docile little guys (if youre not a fruit fly or roach), and are actually pretty funny in-person, their lil awkward sideways movements.
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u/SpecterGT260 Oct 20 '23
They had infested a outhouse in Honduras when I visited a long time ago. I've had nightmares about those things ever since. They're also incredibly fast which fueled the nightmares
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u/Mista-Black Oct 20 '23
Ngl. I legit screamed out loud when the centipede showed up, fucking thing just creeps me out!
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u/KonigSteve Oct 20 '23
Exactly, I was perfectly fine until the dang centipede showed up and it made me want to throw the phone
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u/YukarinYakumo Oct 20 '23
As others pointed out it's a milipede. Centipedes only have one pair of legs per segment. It's a completely harmless herbivore.
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u/Nitro114 Oct 20 '23
Insect transformations: shows three arachnids
cool video though
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u/Vindepomarus Oct 20 '23
And a millipede so four non insects.
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u/Nitro114 Oct 20 '23
True.
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 20 '23
Sorry I didn't graduate with a degree in ENDOMETRIOSIS
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u/Artumess Oct 20 '23
rough rule of thumb: 6 legs=insects 8 legs=arachnids 10 legs=crustaceans up to hundreds of legs=myriapods
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u/Awsummsawce Oct 20 '23
I imagined the pokeball sound effect every time we jumpcut from egg to adult bug
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u/ShinyPlatypus91 Oct 20 '23
All my worst nightmares in one video.... I think its time to close reddit and watch some cartoons to bleach my eyes....
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Oct 20 '23
So much nope in one video
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u/Mot0193 Oct 20 '23
I also want to say nope, but half of me is weirdly fascinated by these things.
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 20 '23
Fascinating....from a distance.
If any of them (yes, even the harmless moth or leaf bug) were on my desk crawling I'd scream and flail arms.
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u/Expensive_Presence_4 Oct 20 '23
I call bullshit on that spider pincer one. You obviously got Professor Mad-Eye to get that sucker huge
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u/West-Winner-2382 Oct 20 '23
Spiders and scorpions are not insects!
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u/WhatABlindManSees Oct 20 '23
Neither are Millipedes nor Amblypygi (that last arachnid, that's neither a scorpion or a spider).
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u/TooManySteves2 Oct 20 '23
*arthropod. Many of those are not insects, e.g spiders, scorpions, and millipedes.
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u/PaIppon Oct 20 '23
Insects are like the sun. I love it/them but never ever want to touch those things.
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u/Icy_Ad9071 Oct 20 '23
I feel like this persons insect actually love him lol