tobogganablaze @ tobogganablaze @lemmus.org

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The farmers want nothing to do with it!

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

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.

That just raises further questions.

Nice.

I remember watching the odd episode of that show when I was a kid. I just recently downloaded 161 episodes of the original show, but it wasn't really on my watchlist. Now I hear about a remake. Funny. That's like the frequency illusion or something.

lol, I've been there.

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

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.

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).

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

brown recluse

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

Yes, in cinemans. I'm talking about the digitial release.

Same. But it only releases next month (unless you want tot settle for cam/telesync rips).

All my cocaine dealers are white.

The smallest mammal (Etruscan shrew) is about the same size as the largest ant (Driver ant Queen). You probably need to speed up the tiny-lion metabolism, but in general the mammal body plan can work around that size.

On the other hand, to scale up insects to the size of a lion, you would need to completly redesign the respiratory at least and the entire exoskeleton construct will also be pushed to it's structural limits.

Downscaling mammals is much more realistic then upscaling arthropods.

Could you maybe not fucking mention us in the same sentence with England when it comes to food?

A lion sized ant would asphyxiate rather quickly. Breathing through spiracles/tracheae doesn't scale well.

Depends on where the battle is taking place. Lions would win on land, blobfish in the ocean.

I know who Sean Lock would bring back.