The opening of a Huntsman Spider egg sack will make your skin crawl

[boingboing]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/24/the-opening-of-a-huntsman-spider-egg-sack-will-make-your-skin-crawl.html

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[Mindysan33]

But yay, spider-babies!

[bluehenbear]

[bobrichmondhill]

“egg sac” correct spelling

[Hanglyman]

I can’t not find baby spiders cute. Even scorpions, which freak me right the fuck out and I have a natural phobia of, are slightly cute as little scorplings with beady black eyes riding on mom’s back. Though they absolutely do not get to crawl all over my hand like spiders might.

[nick_warr]

I feel kinda weird, I don’t want to touch baby spiders because they’re so tiny I might crush one without realizing it. Otherwise, they’re super cute

[lastchance]

Beware the mama spider

Huntsman spider | Size, venom, and aggression

it is known that female members of this family will aggressively defend their egg-sacs and young against perceived threats

[SmilingDemon]

[Akimbo_NOT]

[manraytrace]

I believe this memory belongs to Tyrell’s niece.

[Immutable_Mike]

Eek. We know what happens next then.

[timd]

@boingboing

There’s nothing in the world that could convince me to let these little beasts crawl around on my hand

How about knowing that they are known as spiderlings?

[euansmith]

Reading the headline made my skin crawl.

[Entity447B]

I don’t mind spiders but I’m not sure I’d want that many of them in my hand.

[MadLibrarian]

I’d just want to make sure that playing with the spiderlings happened outside. I prefer not to have any more bugs than necessary in the house; actually inside bugs <1.

[generic_name]