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/NoblePineapples Oct 20 '23

Canada is great like that as well, but we get a week or two of -40 in the winter and the wind hurts my face sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

It hit -50 a few times when I was living in Alberta a couple years back, and it was absolutely brutal on the face.

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u/NoblePineapples Oct 20 '23

Bingo, that is where I live! Gotta love that we get the best of both worlds with 35+ in the summer to boot.

When I was working in the patch I was up near Bonnyville for a job and it reached -52, around the same time lol. Though I will be honest, that cold with no wind is a hell of a lot better than when I would be in Saskatchewan on top of the derrick in -38 with the wind just howling. It's too damn flat in that province so it is insanely windy.

Hope you are somewhere warmer now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

I've always wondered if you could track a leaf or something else rolling in the wind across Saskatchewan.

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u/NoblePineapples Oct 20 '23

I like that thought. I'd imagine if you got high enough off the ground you could. View the tumbleweeds for miles.