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[MartyMcFly42oh]

Seeing as we're all "wearing our big-boy pants & have senses of humor these days",
Ima toss this one out there bc the more I watched it the more I laughed until I pissed myself...
Cue the Benny Hill before starting the following short, trust me... Yes I'm high af....


It's pretty damn good ai (you can see the watermark). If it was real, it'd be even funnier...

 

[orggrwr]

Found this drama going down this morning in the raised bed around one of my cherry trees. AI identified it as a ground beetle larvae. Apparently their favorite food is earthworms until they're adults. Had a good buzz and sit and watched them for about 10 minutes before I thought to go get my phone. Felt sorry for the worm as they are a gardeners best friend but that's nature, the beetle larvae has to eat too.

 

[trygrowup]

Found this drama going down this morning in the raised bed around one of my cherry trees. AI identified it as a ground beetle larvae. Apparently their favorite food is earthworms until they're adults. Had a good buzz and sit and watched them for about 10 minutes before I thought to go get my phone. Felt sorry for the worm as they are a gardeners best friend but that's nature, the beetle larvae has to eat too.
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It's biting the worm right in the "joint". Probably got some poison too?
Crazy man
Good catch

 

[JIMKSI64]

4x4 filled.
Dual light settings
79 degrees
1.1 vdp
Good airflow and shake
Now let's see where the heat winds up.

 

[orggrwr]

It's biting the worm right in the "joint". Probably got some poison too?
Crazy man
Good catch

I've done a little more research on it and it's probably injecting digestive fluids to turn the worms inside into liquid that it sucks back up, like some spiders. Rough way to die. Forget what that part of the worm is called but it's their reproductive organ so ouch!

 

[trygrowup]

I cant beat the worm killer but i got these two in my bath room

I think it's two pregnant females and the top one looking to eat the bottom one.
They have been sitting like this in maybe 4 days top one just watching the bottom one.
They don't get much bigger than that in my country. 5 cm or so.

Mejer spider

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

I cant beat the worm killer but i got these two in my bath room
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I think it's two pregnant females and the top one looking to eat the bottom one.
They have been sitting like this in maybe 4 days top one just watching the bottom one.
They don't get much bigger than that in my country. 5 cm or so.

Mejer spider

We get the same type here. Daddy Longleggs we call them. Why? No idea as the larger ones are the females

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

Found this drama going down this morning in the raised bed around one of my cherry trees. AI identified it as a ground beetle larvae. Apparently their favorite food is earthworms until they're adults. Had a good buzz and sit and watched them for about 10 minutes before I thought to go get my phone. Felt sorry for the worm as they are a gardeners best friend but that's nature, the beetle larvae has to eat too.
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Isn't nature Beautiful

 

[JIMKSI64]

Isn't nature Beautiful

Stumbled on a website that had close ups of insects and then tiny insects and then microscopic insects.
The smaller they got the more not if this fuggin earth they looked.
I'm like if this thing was 200 lbs it would rule this rock.

 

[trygrowup]

Stumbled on a website that had close ups of insects and then tiny insects and then microscopic insects.
The smaller they got the more not if this fuggin earth they looked.
I'm like if this thing was 200 lbs it would rule this rock.
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Look at 3rd last pic.
How can that small thing have those teeth?
It's crazy man.

Edit: Could be where they got the idea for the alien film.

 

[Grownsince95]

We get the same type here. Daddy Longleggs we call them. Why? No idea as the larger ones are the females

 

[MartyMcFly42oh]

Couldn’t not share this one. I don’t remember seeing this episode as a kid, but as an adult I’m glad I didn’t. Might’ve turned me away from trying acid.

 

[orggrwr]

Couldn’t not share this one. I don’t remember seeing this episode as a kid, but as an adult I’m glad I didn’t. Might’ve turned me away from trying acid.

That's wild, I don't remember seeing that episode either, and i thought i had seen all of them.

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

 

[Galgrows]

Hee hee

 

[Ninjadogma]

Found this drama going down this morning in the raised bed around one of my cherry trees. AI identified it as a ground beetle larvae. Apparently their favorite food is earthworms until they're adults. Had a good buzz and sit and watched them for about 10 minutes before I thought to go get my phone. Felt sorry for the worm as they are a gardeners best friend but that's nature, the beetle larvae has to eat too.
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I have a volume of boxelders crawling the yard right now that would make you want to run and get the flamethrower. Fuckers crawling all over my cannabis too. But the only thing they're interest in is those little round ball seeds that come off my golden rain tree. They leave everything else alone and theyre not vector pathogen carriers so I just leave them alone.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Look at 3rd last pic.
How can that small thing have those teeth?
It's crazy man.

Edit: Could be where they got the idea for the alien film.

Then there's the Tardygrade in the first image and those things have mouths that look like buttholes with teeth.

 

[Florida_Mike]

We get the same type here. Daddy Longleggs we call them. Why? No idea as the larger ones are the females

“Daddy long legs” is a common name used for three different things:

1. Cellar spiders — these are true spiders. Females are larger and sometimes eat males.
2. Harvestmen — these are arachnids, but not true spiders. Not typically cannibalistic.
3. Crane flies — these are insects, not spiders at all. Known as "mosquito hawks".

The video shows "cellar spiders". Harvestman don't have webs or venom and only have one body part, spiders have two.
Harvestmen have one tiny round body with very long legs; true spiders have two main body sections.
mejer is Danish for a harvestman / daddy longlegs of the order Opiliones.
Harvestmen do have mouthparts, but they do not have venom glands and are not naturally cannibalistic unless severely stressed.

They use small mouthparts called chelicerae to grab and break up food, and unlike spiders, many harvestmen can actually eat tiny solid bits of food instead of only liquefied meals.

They also do not have fangs in the spider sense, and they are not venomous to people. The old story that daddy long legs are “the most venomous spider but can’t bite you” is just a myth. Harvestmen are not true spiders and do not have venom glands at all.

Cellar spiders (Pholcidae) are true spiders with two-segmented bodies, silk, and venom, while harvestmen (Opiliones) are arachnids with one-segmented bodies, no venom, and no silk. Both are often called "daddy longlegs." Cellar spiders build messy webs in corners; harvestmen scavenge, are often found outdoors, and vibrate when threatened

I consider the Harvestman to be the true daddy longlegs

 

[Ninjadogma]

I have a volume of boxelders crawling the yard right now that would make you want to run and get the flamethrower. Fuckers crawling all over my cannabis too. But the only thing they're interest in is those little round ball seeds that come off my golden rain tree. They leave everything else alone and theyre not vector pathogen carriers so I just leave them alone.

Wait... That wasn't creepy looking enough. Here's a better shot.

 

[cpurola]

“Daddy long legs” is a common name used for three different things:

1. Cellar spiders — these are true spiders. Females are larger and sometimes eat males.
2. Harvestmen — these are arachnids, but not true spiders. Not typically cannibalistic.
3. Crane flies — these are insects, not spiders at all. Known as "mosquito hawks".

The video shows "cellar spiders". Harvestman don't have webs or venom and only have one body part, spiders have two.
Harvestmen have one tiny round body with very long legs; true spiders have two main body sections.
mejer is Danish for a harvestman / daddy longlegs of the order Opiliones.
Harvestmen do have mouthparts, but they do not have venom glands and are not naturally cannibalistic unless severely stressed.

They use small mouthparts called chelicerae to grab and break up food, and unlike spiders, many harvestmen can actually eat tiny solid bits of food instead of only liquefied meals.

They also do not have fangs in the spider sense, and they are not venomous to people. The old story that daddy long legs are “the most venomous spider but can’t bite you” is just a myth. Harvestmen are not true spiders and do not have venom glands at all.

Cellar spiders (Pholcidae) are true spiders with two-segmented bodies, silk, and venom, while harvestmen (Opiliones) are arachnids with one-segmented bodies, no venom, and no silk. Both are often called "daddy longlegs." Cellar spiders build messy webs in corners; harvestmen scavenge, are often found outdoors, and vibrate when threatened

I consider the Harvestman to be the true daddy longlegs

Thank you! I just learned something today.