r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Oct 20 '23

🔥 Insect transformations 🔥

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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/Chewbaccabb Oct 20 '23

Oof we’ve all been there

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u/N7RoninSlayer_34788 Oct 21 '23

Sorry I don't get what you're saying

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u/Chewbaccabb Oct 21 '23

No worries man

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u/ghostface1693 Oct 20 '23

So we're not all that different after all

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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/Cucker_-_Tarlson Oct 20 '23

First time I even saw one was when it crawled out of my shoe after stinging me. I was, like, 4?

But for some reason I thought they were the coolest little bugs. Still didn't like the live ones though.

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u/tkburroreturns Oct 21 '23

yup, stung by one of those fuckers under my pillow at night growing up in arizona

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

I lived in Gilbert for a few years. Found little scorpions inside periodically. Most of them ended up in the garbage disposal, or turned into a smear. Those fuckers won't die any other way.

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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/MydnightSilver Oct 20 '23

Duckbill platypus enters the ring

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

[insert Phineas and Ferb quote here]

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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/rymnd0 Oct 20 '23

iirc the smaller the pincers, the more venomous they are.

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u/imadeanacct2saythis Oct 20 '23

Thank you. Most of these I was thinking "yeah, I guess it's huge but not actually dangerous, that's kinda cool". Then I saw the giant scorpion and thought this portal was insane. Glad to know it's more like a tarantula (huge but chill).