FUCKFUCKFUCK NIGHTMARE SPIDER FUCKING SPIDER.
Millie, you have broken me.
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Itās okay. Just imagine itās two spiders. See, only half as scary on a per-spider basis.
Also, the scale of the clock isnāt obvious in that photo either. It could be the size of a dinner plate, or the size of a watch.
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MADE YA LOOK!
Sleep well. (hee hee)
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Ohā¦ This isnāt over. How do you feel about lampreys!?
A big pain in my ass and scary as hell though apparently without sting is the stump-fucker.
In the forest service these bastards would settle down and try to lay eggs in single jacket forestry hose.
When you have several hundred feet of head pressure on the line it can explode with a big mess.
Thatās a famous clock in the Sydney Town Hall. Itās about 50cm across.
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You mean this one?
Iām American, but not āUgly Americanā if I can help it.
Also, you may have seen me mention before that I work the night shift. I know a lot of people from Straya and NZ.
Ah, I see youāve played knifey-fake-scary-Australian-fauna before.
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Also, it turns out the Coriolis effect isnāt strong enough to make a difference in toilet whirlpool direction. Thatās entirely determined by the direction the water enters the bowl. I did research. With friends. And wasted some water.
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Yeah, thatās what they say about shoggoths, tooā¦
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There isnāt enough fire to kill all the nightmare fuel in this thread.
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Iām quite happy to live up in the cold where the worst we get are wasps, adders, and harmless (tho scary when youāre not expecting them) house spiders. Well, and the bears/wolves/wolverines, but Iāve never met one.
Of course, the big killer are the moose, but thatās only rarely from them attacking people.
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The trick is to concentrate the fire and achieve temperatures high enough to ignite the nightmare fuel, rather than trying to find enough fire to deal with the nightmare fuel directly. Itās like thermite that way.
It, um, may or may not also be like thermite in the sense that thereās a risk of having molten iron spattered across your subconscious, so stand back.
Are you sure that that isnāt a juvenile cenobite? They look pretty similar.
I hear ya. Iāll happily take too much snow and way too cold over deadly fauna every time.
Last living wild wolverine in the lower peninsula? On display at Yost Arena in Ann Arbor for the last 60-ish years.
Cicada killers are cool looking, Iāve seen 2" examples, and while I was a bit freaked out the first time I encountered them an instructor immediately advised me they were relatively harmless, the males donāt even have stingers. They grapple and bite one another to establish dominance over territory & females.
I agree about yellowjackets, except for a few aggressive hornets Iāve encountered just about all the stings Iāve ever gotten were those bad tempered jerks. Discounting disturbed paper wasps, which is understandable, since I remove nests when they are in the way.
Probably someone upthread has mentioned this, but the bigger wasps arenāt something to be scared of, when the males, who are mostly harmless, come buzzing straight at you theyāre just checking you out, cause you are up in their house. The females are busy doing all the work somewhere else probably. Tarantula Hawks included. Tehy stand out because theyāre pretty big and if a female does get disturbed to the point of stinging Iāve heard itās gawdawful, but I lived in Texas hanging around with biologists including entomologists for years, and we were constantly taking groups of kids out to gather specimens of anything & everything, never knew anyone to get stung by either a tarantula hawk or a cicada killer. The males would freak the kids out every single time we encountered them tho.
You mean like Saint Pachomius? I stole it off the Internets, so I canāt be sure. It might actually be a Ceti Eel larva. But it looks just like the hellgrammites in my stream.
Thatās an excellent description. I handle bumblebees, European giant hornets, cicada killers, and female carpenter bees without getting stung, basically because I am neither their enemy nor their food. They arenāt interested in hurting me because I am not screaming and flailing 
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New Mexico Native reporting in: The hawkwasps are wonderful beasties and Iām slowly getting my wife (Who is only familiar with WV Yellowjackets) to appreciate them for the service they do humanity. Take for example the gorgeous iridescent Blue Mud-Dauber, which predates on Black Widow spiders.
Scary? Sure, but give 'em space and theyāll do you, your family, and pets a solid āGotcher back pal!ā
