Happy b/day darling, get shitfaced for me
Whats wrong with a spider for a b/day gift? I'd prefer an amblypygid myself (tailless whip scorpions)
https://www.google.com/search?site=....img..0.0.0.YhUmEZG0j9c#imgrc=Je_fpYd8Id1d6M:
Neat looking critters. Quite harmless, although they can give a pinch with those spiked, mantis-like limbs. They use their very long, super-fine antennae to stealthily feel out their prey, tapping, tapping, ever so gently and sneakily with them, so precisely they are able to feel the likes of a cricket all over its body without the cricket ever noticing its there. Then closer, up close and whack!, its lunch. They are arachnids, like the spiders, scorpions, the tiny pseudoscorpions, the camel spiders, and the acid-spraying tailled whipscorpions, as well, and VERY unusually for arachnidae, they are known to be social in certain species, and the mothers in some kinds apparently comfort distressed young.
Would love a pet mesothelid too, they are a mygalomorph-like (the true spiders are divided into two main orders, the araneomorphs and mygalomorphs. The former with sideways-oriented, pincer type jaws such as orb weavers and widow spiders [the widows actually, incidentally make good pets, I've kept black and brown widows, and they aren't at all vicious, prefer to flee if disturbed, and only bite in self defense or if a mother is defending eggs. That said, brown widow got me once and fuck ME did it ever hurt like a bastard the next day. Felt like I'd had the fucking shit knocked out of me by an angry bull elephant with some elephant-sized brass knuckles, then run over by a moderately large tank. Plenty of sweating, tearing, puking and eyes tearing up like crazy. Pretty damn painful at the bite site too. But she only bit, because she was defending her newly laid egg sacks. And I accidentally intruded whilst cleaning the enclosure. Whilst the mygalomorph spiders are those with generally quite large, downward stabbing fangs, like tarantulas, funnel web and mouse spiders. The mesothelae are oddballs, a sister group to the spiders and scorpions, presumably from around the evolutionary point where the two orders diverged, because whilst lacking a tail and lacking venom, they have mygalomorph-type oriented spider type fangs, yet unlike all other spiders, they have a segmented, although more rounded and spider-shaped abdomen, like the scorpions.
Ain't this little lady pretty
http://s256.photobucket.com/user/Lucifus69/media/Trap-door-004.jpg.html
(and so is the Liphistius mesothelid...sadie...yes..I meant the spider


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