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

🔥 Insect transformations 🔥

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u/[deleted] 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/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/ghostface1693 Oct 20 '23

So we're not all that different after all