Comments | wtf_nature: Assassin spider

svashtar in wtf_nature

Assassin spider

Nov 08, 2007 18:47

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shannonknits November 9 2007, 05:26:32 UTC

God, I am so scared spiders it borders on insanity. If this weird-ass looking spider crawled up on me, I would lose it. Thank goodness they don't appear to live around me.

svashtar November 9 2007, 06:24:14 UTC

Just think of it as a tiny little spider-eating pelican.

xidiomaticlogic November 9 2007, 05:35:01 UTC

Is.... is that its head on a really long neck?

I'd hesitate to believe it, but I've been seeing these long-necked flying things around my house, so I know it's possible, but... DAMN.

I totally lay dibs on making it my Epic Mount.

youcancallmerad November 9 2007, 05:38:30 UTC

it looks like a pelican!

mushroom_maiden November 9 2007, 05:58:22 UTC

I'm fucking weirded out. What part is what in that photo? is it the little spider on the top right, or is that some other spider the spider is killing, or what?

svashtar November 9 2007, 06:13:40 UTC

See the spider? It's attached to the jaws. The little black things at the end of the jaws are the eyes.

And the head sits atop that long stalk of a neck. The rest is body.

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svashtar November 9 2007, 06:23:21 UTC

I *heart* our exoskeletal friends. They come in such amusing nightmarish shapes.

stranded November 9 2007, 10:00:47 UTC

I had the same "Is that it's... neck?" question that others did... so I tried to find other pictures of it to no avail. Though one site offered this:

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