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Motherfucker posted:hey OP! look you have to educate yourself on the difference between jumping spiders and literally every other kind of spider. jumping spiders are allies. don't be on the wrong side of history!!!
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:What about bats. Do we accept bats I MAY LOVE BATS MOST OF ALL. I got my mom a bat house for her birthday and my folks get little brown bats!  She called my once to tell me she accidentally picked one up while it was sleeping in some leaves and it was incredibly soft. 
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Motherfucker posted:hey OP! ENJOY YOUR ANTS, FOOL!
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Giant pincers and tiny little horns! This is a velvet spider! I would like to pet his butt. Which I might be able to do, because the internet says their venom is harmless to people and they are reluctant to bite! 
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Jun 18, 2020 18:52
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Das Boo posted:Giant pincers and tiny little horns! Day 3: I've been really trying to piss of this velvet spider, but it's just too chill.
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Jun 18, 2020 18:55
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Spiders are just inferior crabs. Scorpions are land-crabs and thus superior to spiders
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Who What Now posted:Spiders are just inferior crabs. Scorpions are land-crabs and thus superior to spiders spiders are just vanmpire crabs (cranmpire)
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Jun 18, 2020 19:15
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naem posted:spiders are just vanmpire crabs (cranmpire) I loving love cranmpire juice. don't get the from concentrate stuff tho
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These are all very good spiders, bats, snails, and centipedes. What was going on in that scorpion gif on the first page? Is it feeding itself or just grooming? Are scorpion mandibles just little claws or were those like baby scorps living on it's face?
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rear end-penny posted:These are all very good spiders, bats, snails, and centipedes. What was going on in that scorpion gif on the first page? Is it feeding itself or just grooming? Are scorpion mandibles just little claws or were those like baby scorps living on it's face? Grooming. Those are the chelicerae, which in spiders are the fangs. But scorpions have sharp claw / pincer bits to eat with. Their big claws (the pedipalp limb) can't cut up food, only hold onto it.  As naem was talking about, how do you eat when you don't have a jaw to chew up food? Spiders solve the problem with venom that starts digesting stuff right away, and then they suck out the soup. Scorpions didn't come up with digesting-venom, they evolved neurotoxic stuff. (This is why scorpions have generally nastier stings than spiders.) Scorpions tear up food with the chelicerae and pull it into the space below that head shield, where they have a sort of mouth-pouch. They barf digestion juice into the pouch, let it work, then suck up the good stuff and spit out anything they can't digest. They're messy eaters. Arachnid fact of the day: these mouthparts are what the sub-phylum Chelicerata -- the spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, eurypterids, etc -- are named for.
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^^^^ Hell yeah, scorpions rule! naem posted:spiders are just vanmpire crabs (cranmpire) We already have vampire crabs. They're called vampire crabs
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^^I have some photos of whip-scorpions handy (which are not actual scorpions) who feed by mashing bugs against their mouth area and munching in a process known to scientists as “yucky”    
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The ravine trapdoor spider has a weird armored abdomen that it uses to plug up its burrow. 
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^^^ that is so cool When I was a kid I had light colored carpeting in my room and one day I happened to spot an eensy weensy bug crawling along. When I looked closer I saw it had teeny little claws like a scorpion. Turns out it was a pseudoscorpion I mean look at this adorable little guy. The best part is apparently they protect your old books by eating book lice. 
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Mizuti posted:The ravine trapdoor spider has a weird armored abdomen that it uses to plug up its burrow. These are the cursed souls of conquistadors for sure
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!
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Jun 18, 2020 23:50
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I'm enjoying all our cool and misunderstood critters! This is an Orchard Orbweaver! We apparently have them along the east coast in the US, but I've never seen one.  
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Ralph Hurley posted:^^^ that is so cool Precious! Thanks for the info, Klyith. This page has the coolest critters yet.
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since we're branching out into other misunderstood crawlies i want to give a shoutout to one of my favorite groups of insects, Robber Flies! these guys are true badasses of the insect world, hunting potentially deadly (to them) insects like bees and other agile aerial predators like dragonflies on the wing, among other more mundane flying insects like houseflies. They have really powerful legs for wrangling prey and the dainty bristly mustache on their face hides their mouth parts which are basically a giant retractable stiletto for stabbing other bugs  some species are mimics, including several which mimic bees (all the better to eat you with!)  hello yes, um, dont mind me! i am a bee too!  classic asilidae feeding pose, just hanging out!
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free hubcaps posted:since we're branching out into other misunderstood crawlies i want to give a shoutout to one of my favorite groups of insects, Robber Flies! The latest research on the evolutionary history of Hexapods (insects) is that they originated completely within the Crustacea. So in much the same way that birds are a sub-group of dinosaurs, insects are a sub-group of the crustaceans. therefore, robber flies belong in the Crab Thread 
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This thread is like the second family your cat has. Even if it don't belong here I will pet it, give it Friskies, and it can go home at night.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERuJiSt8pF4 A portia jumping spider on the hunt. It successfully rappels down to its unlucky prey. They're famous for being demonstrably intelligent, learning and improvising hunting strategies (such as making novel strategies for prey it's never encountered before).
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This spider of all the spiders shown is truly nightmare fuel. Why is it so much worse? Is it the symmetry? The flatness? The weird eye placement? Gah. Horror.
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free hubcaps posted:since we're branching out into other misunderstood crawlies i want to give a shoutout to one of my favorite groups of insects, Robber Flies! saw a lot of these buzzing around today. one even had the nerve to land on my water bottle. this is a good and informative post, thank you. loving that bee mimic.
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Sort of clickbait-ish but here is a series of macro photos showing that many tarantulas have cute fuzzy kitty toes. https://www.boredpanda.com/cute-spider-paws-photo/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
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It's actually a subclass of the NZ Fluting Spider. This arachnid's named after the high-pitched sounds it makes while attracting a mate by rhythmically rubbing its frontal mandibles together. The indigenous peoples have long ago claimed that the spider's tunes resemble melodious whistles of the carefree sprites dwelling under the low savanna undergrowth and on which they've based many of their traditional dances. Here's the original video with audio included: https://i.imgur.com/O1JsN9e.mp4
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Das Boo posted:I MAY LOVE BATS MOST OF ALL. i caught a bat while fishing once (long story) and i can confirm that they are incredibly soft. not only is their fur insanely soft but their wings also are like the softest finest leather you could possibly imagine
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free hubcaps posted:i caught a bat while fishing once (long story) and i can confirm that they are incredibly soft. not only is their fur insanely soft but their wings also are like the softest finest leather you could possibly imagine That sounds like an interesting long story! This is apparently an Antilles pinktoe tarantula? He looks like carnival glass! 
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Das Boo posted:That sounds like an interesting long story! That one is practically not scary it's so pretty. I'm sure of course in movement I would be horrified but it doesn't even look biological there.
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Cool spiders. I lived in the tropics as a kid and one of the places my dad rented for a few months had a detached shower, and in a crevasse in the ceiling dwelled a bigass tarantula who'd always pop out when the water came on. Very cute.
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Das Boo posted:I MAY LOVE BATS MOST OF ALL. AWW YISSSSSSSSSS MOTHAFOOOCKIN BATS Bats, also eat the mosquito. I am friends with all things that eat mosquitos
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crosspostin from my effort post in the critterquest thread 
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I like looking at spiders in pictures, but I can't handle them irl. I've had my grandmother come over to my apartment to kill spiders for me, and I am unashamed. edit: Look at that little face 
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Das Boo posted:This is apparently an Antilles pinktoe tarantula? He looks like carnival glass! It looks like that because it's a baby. This is what it looks like as an adult: 
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Spiders are awesome, & tiny spiders are adorable. I was terrified of them growing up, but slowly got used to them. Then one summer, several years ago, I discovered a black widow living in my bedroom window, between the glass and the screen (there was a tear in the screen that I guess it would go in & out of). I didn't feel like messing with it, so I made it a deal: I don't kill you, you don't kill me or my cat. So I let it live there, just doing its spider thing. Eventually it died, I think maybe it got stuck behind the screen and starved. But since then I have respect for spiders. I never kill them and persuade others not to as well. One exception is when my brother-in-law found a spider (about the size of a quarter) in his kitchen on Thanksgiving, missing half it's legs, probably due to one of their cats. But when we prodded it with a spoon handle, instead of running, it waved two of its remaining legs up in the air at us in defense. It was a bad-rear end spider, but it was so beat up we decided to put it out of its misery. Scorpions are terrifying. Cool, but terrifying. The best bugs, though, are mantises.
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When in was a kid in would catch wood bore Beatles (those ones with the big antennas that fly at you like missles) and cat spiders and I would put them in the thunderdome. Cat spiders are hard core and they could punch right through the beetle shells
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:Spider eat the mosquitoes near me! SPiders are A OK My apartment building is infested with roaches (I’m poor, I don’t have a choice). I was trying to fix my disposal and discovered that there is a population of tiny spiders helping me decimate the roach population in my apartment. Thanks for the assist, guys and gals! Makes me optimistic that the pesticide I use is not toxic to the spiders when they eat the roaches who have eaten the bait. I was kinda worried about it. https://youtu.be/gEMPLrWh35g https://youtu.be/rLw-9dpHtcU https://youtu.be/CNrF0JbDVc8 https://youtu.be/9qw3lkpa5lY https://youtu.be/KxM_cag99nU I can’t find a decent mini documentary of the ant mimicking spiders that someone mentioned in, I think, the cute thread, but here is a male ant mimic spider. https://youtu.be/qsIqyhJDu1A The males’s chelicarae are held out in front of their face and kept together so that they resemble an ant’s butt, so that it looks to predators as if it is a venomous ant carrying a fallen comrade. The females just look like ants, with them holding up and waving around their front legs so that they look like an ant’s antennae. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmaplata_plataleoides quote:By mimicking the ants, they are able to stay close to them, thus gaining protection from predators since weaver ants taste bad and have a painful bite. Mimicry is also achieved by stealing from the ant brood and absorbing the smell of the colony I thought they hung out with the ants and picked them off when they were hungry, but apparently that is not the case. Edit: I think I might be confusing the weaver ant mimic with another ant mimicking spider, since this male’s [strike]mandibles[/strike] [strike]front legs [/strike] chelicarae look like an ant’s face. https://youtu.be/KAJzNNxT8Q8 Here’s a video of one eating. But I’m actually just posting it because of the first line in the video description. https://youtu.be/htQObRCRRyQ  Just huge Jews, like real ants. And here is a male bathing, I think. https://youtu.be/qguwfezeUQY And yes, I absolutely remember this spider because I thought it had an antbutt face. Ralph Hurley posted:Sort of clickbait-ish but here is a series of macro photos showing that many tarantulas have cute fuzzy kitty toes. Damnit. I just dashed these pictures to post here.     
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Want to go down a freaky YouTube spider hole? check out some time lapse molting videos!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZLLtZrj0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIroY8nUvJk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYEPcnqs9zw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsk0nYunjmk Tarantulas flip on to their backs first and once they get out of the old skin they do the twist for awhile.
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Pretty spider Cute spiders    
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