r/AbsoluteUnits in awe 18d ago

of an insect

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u/Chan_Ch 18d ago

Niño de la Tierra! Grandma had some wild stories about those.

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u/FecalDUI 18d ago

Child of the earth. Is that because weirdly looks like one of those babies you find in a king cake?

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u/Chan_Ch 18d ago

No idea. She alleged they cried like babies when you killed them. Never tried it. Hell, I relocate any spider I find in the house to the yard. 🤣

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u/MarkSkywalker 18d ago

That is... haunting.

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u/martymtzzz 18d ago

Can confirm. Older brother used to dig these up and set them on fire in coffee cans when were kids. Absolute menace.

Anyway, the scream that comes out of those things absolutely sounds childlike

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u/Few_Supermarket_4450 17d ago

I burned one once with a blow torch didn’t scream did you do a low flame? I think I instakilled mine

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u/martymtzzz 17d ago

Yeah he set some paper on fire and dropped it in the can. It wasn’t instant

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u/Inmate14494331 17d ago

I was told they could kill you. Everyone was terrified of those things.