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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

brown recluse

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Memes aside, since I've been on the internet long enough to know that this could legitimately be the first time someone's seen this information:

A brown recluse is a real spider endemic to the central United States. They are small, slender, and brown. Their bites are venomous and can require medical attention. In rare cases they can potentially be lethal, especially in young children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago

Thanks for that!

To expand more on the meme side: It's a notorious problem in spider communities that every brown spider will at some point be called a brown recluse by ... less educated people. Which can lead to innocent spiders being killed just for their skin colour! Which is why there are usually rules that prohibit layman from identifying medically significant spiders.

The spider in the picture is a tarantula, so very obvious not a brown recluse. That's the joke. It's funny here, but seriously don't make that joke on an actual spider community, none of the residents will think it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

My grandmother lost her pinky finger to one of those! Do not ingore the bite! It will require medical attention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I hate brown recluses so much. I've known several people that needed surgery because of them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would like to know the inside joke, but I also don't want to look at a bunch of pictures of spiders...

I'm not arachnophobic, but I'm also not a spider voyeur, and am perfectly okay with them staying in their corners of the house while I stay in mine.

So uhhhh.... Can someone explain the joke I'm too scared to try and understand? I assume it's in the same vein as "the MELTdown " on the reddit grilled cheese page

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I did in another reply to the comment you just repied to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao that's what I get for leaving the page up for twenty minutes without hitting "submit reply"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

lol, I've been there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I somehow cannot see your explanation :( I can see the clarification regarding the "sentient dot" but not the "brown recluse".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To expand more on the meme side: It’s a notorious problem in spider communities that every brown spider will at some point be called a brown recluse by … less educated people. Which can lead to innocent spiders being killed just for their skin colour! Which is why there are usually rules that prohibit layman from identifying medically significant spiders.

The spider in the picture is a tarantula, so very obvious not a brown recluse. That’s the joke. It’s funny here, but seriously don’t make that joke on an actual spider community, none of the residents will think it’s funny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah thanks <3

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So what are these sentient dots? I keep seeing them everywhere, but no one else around me does. This is the first time I've seen anyone else acknowledge their existence.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Red spider mites. They're plant pests.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Red spider mite is the common name for Tetranychus urticae. That's quite the specific ID for such a terrible picture. I don't think it's correct, Trombidiidae seems more likely (and those are predators).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

You know what, I think you are right. I was hasty and the shape fits your suggestion better.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Seems to be a mite (possibly red velvet mite).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If you ever wonder what lives around you (and you have not the worst phone/camera), you could take pictures of it and upload it to iNaturalist. It is such a great site/app to learn about all the organisms around you :)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Sentient dot sucks. Used to have them outside the library at uni. Careless freshmen would sit on the steps to enjoy the day only to come home looking like they'd had a roll in ants.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ok, what is the salad dressing one and why is it labeled that way?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

It's called a vinegaroon it's not actually dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's a vinegaroon, which a lot of people may recognize as the poor creature that mad-eye moody demonstrates the cruciatus curse on in Harry Potter.

Edit: was wrong, it's actually a tailless whip scorpion that got tortured by crazy eyes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're thinking of the Tailless Whip Scorpion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oops, wrong arachnid. You are indeed correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Sentient is pushing it.