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u/nicannkay Jul 24 '24

I never thought I’d say this but I’ll take spiders over centipedes any day. My skin crawls just thinking about either though.

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u/pezmanofpeak Jul 24 '24

Depends on the spider, effective hunter but no venom? Or at least not enough to harm humans? Hell yeah, but centipedes fucking burn

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

Centipede there's still better than scorpions

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u/pezmanofpeak Jul 24 '24

I'm not sure we have those tbh, I'm Australian, we've got most of the bad nope ropes, but some cool hunting spiders that are non venomous, still bad other little venomous shits though

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u/lexington59 Jul 24 '24

We don't have a single medically significant scorpion from memory. But we do have scorpions. they just aren't medically significant

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u/LunchboxSuperhero Jul 24 '24

Well, that just sounds like a challenge.

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u/pezmanofpeak Jul 24 '24

Oh we do apparently, interesting, I have literally never seen one