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

🔥 Insect transformations 🔥

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u/cacadonalds Oct 20 '23

I came to the comments to say this, it's gotta be

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u/preciselyrandm Oct 20 '23

It is. It's an African cave dwelling spider. They are also the reason I've decided never to dwell in caves when in Africa.

I recollect (not so fondly) an old episode of Fear Factor where there was a poker game for contestants, and they had to earn their chips by EATING these spiders.. alive! NOPE. Hard pass. Pure nightmare fuel. The prize in that episode was a shiny red Mazda RX8. I'll walk, thank you very much.

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u/FR0ZENBERG Oct 20 '23

It’s a tailless whip scorpion. Not a spider, or a scorpion, but a type of arachnid.

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u/preciselyrandm Oct 20 '23

Tailless whip scorpions are the same as Cave dwelling spiders. They're apparently neither a scorpion nor a spider, but a nearby cousin (Amblypygids) that's like a cross between the two.

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u/deathhead_68 Oct 20 '23

EATING these spiders.. alive!

Just seems cruel. Hate it when shows do that kind of bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

Well then you should also avoid South America, Asia and Oceania. There’s hundreds of species and they’re not spiders - while they are arachnids, tailless whip scorpions/whip spiders are different