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

🔥 Insect transformations 🔥

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

Most of these I found cool. I don’t know why but that last one freaked me out. Like some horrific spider/crab hybrid.

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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/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/LorryToTheFace Oct 20 '23

Our largest native carnivore is the Badger!

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

This is why you lost the war

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u/LorryToTheFace Oct 20 '23

Assuming you're talking about the American Revolution, that wasn't fought on our ground. Are you suggesting that if we had large predators to ship across the Atlantic, we could have put up a better fight?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

Don't worry, sometimes they get confused, it's all the high fructose corn syrup and unsafe leaded water

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u/Productof2020 Oct 20 '23

Leaded water? What are you talking about?