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Constipated for life now.

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Black Widow, for the record.

Ick Factor Times 1000

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Whaaaaaaaaaathefuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck is this?

pretty gross.

this one is fucking gross. if you're squeamish, at all, read the title and move on. it is as nasty as you imagine.

Fracking is nightmare fuel

Not clicking wormy links.
Biders are okay. Parasites (and removal) are not.

I hate wasps, they really freak me out those bastards are the skinheads of the insect world they'll sting for fuck all just because they can...
Spawns of Satan they are :worried:

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Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 850056)

Not clicking wormy links.
Biders are okay. Parasites (and removal) are not.

Smart.

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Originally Posted by plthijinx (Post 822245)

i keep an airsoft pistol in the garage for when i'm smoking. every now and then one will show up and i'll shoot'em. except, i found out the hard way that they sometimes splatter. all over you.

Many years ago, I was working in the garden. Came across one of these nasty fuckers...

http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/7YHxIlKlWfc/0.jpg

and proceeded to smash it with my rake.

Wereupon its gut juices squirted out onto my HEAD. Whereupon I went instantly into full spaz mode trying to get the stuff off of me. It was gritty and slimy.

GAAAHHHH!!!

WTF is that gruesome looking thing, anyway?

{/shudder}

And does it grow up into anything worse?!

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 850361)

WTF is that gruesome looking thing, anyway?

{/shudder}

That, my friends, is the great North American Jerusalem Cricket.

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Jerusalem crickets are a group of large, flightless insects of the genus Stenopelmatus. They are native to the western United States and parts of Mexico. Its large, human-like head has inspired both Native American and Spanish names.

Despite their common name, Jerusalem crickets are not true crickets, as they belong to the family Stenopelmatidae, while crickets belong to the family Gryllidae; nor are they native to Jerusalem. These nocturnal insects use their strong mandibles to feed primarily on dead organic matter but can also eat other insects. Their highly adapted feet are used for burrowing beneath moist soil to feed on decaying root plants and tubers.

While Jerusalem crickets are not venomous they can emit a foul smell and are capable of inflicting a painful bite.

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Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 850493)

And does it grow up into anything worse?!

Good lord, I hope not! :eek:

Okay.
Well at least they're useful and not really into attacking the human bean.

Thanks for the info.

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 849895)

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Whaaaaaaaaaathefuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck is this?

Some info...I make no guarantees.

from here

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How would you explain the presence of a long writhing worm found in the cold remains of last night's cup of coffee? Something you narrowly missed drinking perhaps? But then you notice a large dead huntsman spider on the bench near the coffee cup... hmmm.

Poor old spiders! Their lives are full of tribulations, and some of the worst involve insidious attacks by a variety of lethal parasitic organisms. The worm in the coffee cup, probably a mermithid nematode, is one of these. Mermithid worms are internal parasites whose infective larvae enter spiders directly or via ingested food. Once inside the spider, the tiny worm obtains nourishment from it's hosts body fluids, digestive glands, gonads ('parasitic castration') and muscles. As a consequence the spider becomes progressively more debilitated, but doesn't actually die. This is because the spider's vital organs usually remain intact, even though all of the abdomen, and occasionally part of the cephalothorax, may be filled with worm coils. Eventually in a scene reminiscent of the movie "Alien", the gorged worm bursts out of the body of the debilitated spider, which finally dies after this macabre event.

Before it dies, however the spider often has to perform one more task for it's deadly parasite. In some mermithids, the final free-living stage of the worm is aquatic, so that it is advantageous for the worm if its emergence can take place near a water body - a pond, a creek or puddle. To increase this likelihood, such worms seem able to induce their hapless hosts to seek water, spiders sometimes actually walking into the water before the worm emerges. This behavior may result from thirst-induced activity as the worm consumes the spider's body fluids. Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that the spider's water seeking behavior helps to ensure the parasite's survival and propagation.

So what happened in the kitchen during the night? Perhaps the thirsty huntsman spider was carrying a water-dependant parasite and could find only one 'water body' in the kitchen - a cold cup of coffee left on a bench. The weakened spider climbed up the side of the cup and fell in. The tightly coiled worm then emerged from the spider's body into the liquid. The dying spider may then have managed to crawl out of the cup, only to succumb on the kitchen bench. - Mike Gray, Australian Museum

The article is from Nature Australia, Spring 1995
Copyright: The Australian Museum