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• Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Caterpillars with urticating hairs.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Slap an h in front of that word and it would be absolutely perfect. Hurticating.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hurticating the countryside.

      Hurticating the peasants.

      Hurticating all the peoples

      And their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!!

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        HURTGDOR!

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  • Aqivex@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Caterpillars fit, and there’s one species in particular that goes toe to tentacle with even the most lethal of jellyfish and is a seriously bad time to touch, because it’s urticating hairs connect to toxin secreting cells that pump out a nasty neurotoxin.

    But to me, that’s still cheating, in that the most passive and effective urticating hair defense mechanism was selected as a mere delivery method for venom.

    If one wants to see the real absurd intricacies with urticating hair in arthropods, the only game in town are the new world tarantulas.

    Entire fricking metas based on 7 different identified urticating hair types and they’re so understudied there’s almost certainly one out there that probably wildcarded old world venom with new world hair styles that we just have found yet.

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• ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technically the bombardier beetle does not bite nor sting. Instead it shoots hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone in two different streams, which when reacted together pretty much instantly reach 212°f and chemically burn whatever they are shooting at

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Holy fucking hell, where do these beetles roam so I know never to go there?

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technically, jellyfish are using stingers

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• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Poisonous: harms you if you touch or eat it

  Venomous: harms you by injecting a toxin (through biting, stinging, etc.)

  I know there’s a few poisonous butterflies (e.g. the Monarch butterfly), and I can find a few others listed on Wikipedia (and I’m sure there are others not on there too)

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  • Slashme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Note that “poisonous” has always also had the meaning of “harms by injecting a toxin” (the Wiktionary entry “poisonous” has examples from the 1600s to the 2000s).

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• JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now I’m stuck wondering the same thing

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Poison dart frog?

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Famously an insect

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You are what you eat, and they eat insects 🤷‍♂️

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