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[ToxicShock]

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Ah, how hatred for something makes you blind to the fact that its removal can be quite harmful.

Goldstein is right, bees do help with plant reproduction. Also, Ants break into your house and get into your food. Spiders eat other annoying bugs, but so do bats, anteaters, ant lions etc, but spiders still be neat. Plus I like their webs.

And Camel Spiders are freaky shit.

I'm gonna do this out of order.

2nd bit, Exactly why I like spiders too. And I don't mind ants in my house, they don't get in my fridge and I hardly ever see them. It's not like they bother me. House ants are probably the least threatening thing ever.

1st bit, I had mentioned that other insects were MUCH more adept at plant reproduction. It's just one of those childhood things they want you to believe for a while, like cockroaches surviving nuclear holocausts. Not only are there much more bugs that are better at fighting off radiation, it's actually speculated that cockroaches would hardly survive.. period. Of course bees, unlike my cockroach metaphor, ACTUALLY DO help, they are not exactly the best species for it. Why I mentioned ubering up butterflies and ladybugs. There's also the point that it's kinda somewhat of a joke, since I recognize my "option" is not at all possible

3rd bit, fuck yeah!

 

[Nunu]

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your all forgetting about bull ants, those things are just angry. there the only type of ants that think the hive mind can go fuck itself. instead they take on bees and wasps one on one and drag the carcase back home. there also pretty dangerous what with their venom being really easy to be allergic to so they cause more than their fare share of deaths.

 

[ToxicShock]

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Speaking of venom that's another point. Certain ants like that, as well as spiders, have naturally strong venoms. There are different chains that make up different venoms for different effects. Spider and ants have venom for a purpose. I forget what it's called, but there's a certain component in venoms that are specifically designed to cause pain. Nothing systemic, just extreme stimulation of the immediate nerves causing nothing but pain. Though most venomous creatures have this mixed in with their venoms, you'll hardly see it anywhere more widely used than in bee venom. Sure, the other things in their venom are strong enough to kill creatures their size, same as ants and spiders, but for the creatures they're not big enough to kill, it's specifically to hurt like a fucking bitch.

 

[Nunu]

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Another things about bull ants is that they will actively attack anything, regardless of size. very australian.

 

[ToxicShock]

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... Those would be neo-nazis under my "insects of evil" theory

 

[Alias]

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Lol at all the posts.

I'm not sure why spiders freak me out. Something about their legs. Millipedes do the same thing to me. I can't abide being in the same room as one. I get the shivers and quakes and run for somebody else to take care of it. If I had met up face to face with that spider of your story, toxic, I probably would have had a heart attack or ran screaming and sobbing from the room.

As for camel spiders... I've never heard of a camel spider. But I do know of something called a camel cricket. Same creature? Little oblong bodies with cricket-back-legs? Drab yellowish? Long long antennae? Because those freak the fuck out of me. There was one in my shower the other day. I almost ran out naked, and the only reason I didn't was because I hadn't gotten naked yet.

@dmronny: ant lions?? wtf?? I'm talking about the mammal! =P (the lion bit was a Monty Python reference)

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I think you're thinking of an anteater.
A wot?
An anteater.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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Camel Spiders have come up a lot recently due to the military action in Iraw and Afghanistan where they are fairly frequently seen. They are apparently closer to a scorpion than a spider though. Look it up on youtube.

 

[ToxicShock]

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Camel Cricket

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Camel Spider

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Don't let that illusion fool you. That's actually two of them connected, and pay attention to the hand in the top right corner, not the legs in the background

 

[Copper]

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Another things about bull ants is that they will actively attack anything, regardless of size. very australian.

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And, on a side note, Toxic, I had a similiar spider experience when I was younger. Mom sent me to the basement to get something and I'm just heading for the steps and there's a spide(okay, irony, i just got dive bombed by a moth) spider as big as my freaking hand (I'm 5ish). I don't want to pass the thing, so I hop on a box of beer, run up the stairs "Mom! Mom! There's a giant spider downstairs." She's laughing at me until she needed a freaking dust pan to kill the thing...

 

[Nunu]

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pffft, thats just a wee little huntsman. besides all our worst spiders are tiny, but one bit and your dead.

 

[Alias]

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I knew I shouldn't have scrolled further down when I saw spoiler tags. I definitely knew I shouldn't have opened said spoiler tags. Now I'm paying for my stupidity by almost puking over my keyboard. Seriously. That's sickening. bleeragggrhhhgh.

 

[dmronny]

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Yeah just imagine one running around you at 10 mph and jumping at you like some kind of weird puppy. Oddly enough though they are found in the US and Mexico it's just they didn't get their fame till Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sorry about the anteater thing, wasn't sure which you meant. Here's an antlion in action for you. Makes me glad I'm not an ant, and no I'm not trying to trick you into watching a video of a camel spider or something. I'm not that cruel.

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Does anybody else find it funny that the smaller the poisonous animal the deadlier they get. Spiders, scorpions, snakes all usually more deadly when they're the tiny ones.

 

[ToxicShock]

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I'll admit, if I lived in Australia, I'd probably be a lot more scared of spiders. Though my college is in an area of black widows.

I guess I don't care just because black widows really aren't that dangerous.

Cept for your damn australian funnel webs. Fucking atrax spiders got chelicerae strong enough to crush chicken skulls. When their fangs are bent, looks like a body builder flexing. Shits messed up.

 

[Goldstein]

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Does anybody else find it funny that the smaller the poisonous animal the deadlier they get. Spiders, scorpions, snakes all usually more deadly when they're the tiny ones.

Yay for natural selection.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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Well if you think about it, if your larger you have more strength to rely on when hunting and defending yourself, meanwhile, the smaller creatures have to depend on poison more than strength, so stronger poison.

 

[ToxicShock]

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I wish I knew more about scorpions, but we only spent like a single class on them during my venomous animals class. I guess cuz none of them are "truly deadly"

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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I saw a toad eat one... bunch of guys lost money on that little gladiator fight.

 

[Goldstein]

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Well if you think about it, if your larger you have more strength to rely on when hunting and defending yourself, meanwhile, the smaller creatures have to depend on poison more than strength, so stronger poison.

Also, smaller creatures are more likely to be preyed upon by the larger creatures, so they have venom etc for defense.

 

[dmronny]

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I saw a toad eat one... bunch of guys lost money on that little gladiator fight.

Nice to know we as in me and my men weren't the only one to do that when we got bored.

Anyways yeah scorpions, I feel sorry for them. Yeah they look cool if they're standing still; but if you ever see one move it's like watching a drunken, hydrocephalic trying to bowl.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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Yeah Ronny, I'm sure there are lots of guys who had insect fights over there. I saw a small spider kill and eat a big spider. Within an hour, the little one was the size of the big one.

Lot of guys lost money on that one too.