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• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  brown recluse

  You’re now banned from !spiders@lemmy.world

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  • Litany@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

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    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, do people legit think these are not real, like birds deftly aren’t?

      I’m so confused as to why…? (Seriously, I’ve never seen anything meme-like about brown recluse…?)

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    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 meme I’m too scared to try and understand?

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    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • lemmyng@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Red spider mites. They’re plant pests.

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    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 likey (and those are predetors).

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  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 :)

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• propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re thinking of the Tailless Whip Scorpion.

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• YourPrivatHater@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The long legs boys are the best. The weaver ones and the Hunters.

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  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Something about those legs just makes me want to call them daddy.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sentient is pushing it.

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