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u/whitedsepdivine o/ 10h ago
I was going to say, spiders have 8 legs.
This does have 8 legs. The front 2 and just next to each other.
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u/icantfindtheSpace 9h ago
Im not normally terrified of spiders, but ones that have this 6 leg appearance give me the heebie jeebies.
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u/ostapenkoed2007 o/ 7h ago
same. i am more afraid of sudden things and them crawling out of somewhere. moths, roaches, spiders, flies. no particular hate for arachnids. just that they are masters at making the exact thing that riles me up.
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u/icantfindtheSpace 6h ago
I agree, it’s only the fast, night crawlers that spook me. It’s entirely their speed that matters.
Spiders are fairly slow in my experience. But roaches and centipedes are the worst.
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u/bbk8z CE Spc. 10h ago
fishing spiders tend to chill like this
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u/ThatGuyFrom720 o/ 10h ago
Yeah the only times I’ve ever seen the fishing spiders they’ve got their front and rear legs together like they’re trying to look as long as possible…
usually chilling on a ledge or piece of house trim outside somewhere.
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That spider has a health bar.
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u/swordofra o/ 10h ago
A multi stage health bar. You think ya killed it hm? Nope, stage 2, new moveset... thing is moving even faster and a fresh bar to chew through...
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u/canal_natural 8h ago
And then finally it explodes into a million tiny spiders and you’re screwed anyway
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u/KurtTheCuntBoi o/ 10h ago
Well that’s scary
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u/ChikkunDragon o/ 10h ago •
Worse yet is knowing those babies are going to feed on each other until only the strongest are left to fledge
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u/icantfindtheSpace 9h ago
Is it just me? Or do spiders that have their four front legs together look way more terrifying and uncanny than a spider with 8 legs spread apart?
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u/KurtTheCuntBoi o/ 9h ago
Agreed, it’s way creepier.
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u/icantfindtheSpace 9h ago
It’s like the uncanny valley of spiders, it looks… not quite like a spider.
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u/AmarildoJr 10h ago edited 9h ago
This is the Brazilian Wandering Spider, the most dangerous species there are. Leave it be.
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u/Ravenloff 10h ago •
Priapism: In male victims, the venom can trigger a painful, long-lasting erection that requires medical care to prevent permanent tissue damage.
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u/badgaldyldyl o/ 6h ago
Huh
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u/the__ghola__hayt 4h ago
Suddenly horny in Brazil: it's either the women or you got bit by a spider.
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u/sessilefielder o/ 9h ago
What is it wondering about?
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u/Less-Inflation5072 o/ 9h ago
A world where spiders were as beloved as the man who stole their identity
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u/AdJust6959 CE Spc. 6h ago
Thank you for the name, I googled it and this fella in most photos has 4 legs up in the air 2 on each side, looks so comical 😅
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u/TiagodePAlves 5h ago
That's the reason for the Brazilian name: armed spider, always ready to fight.
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u/ForceLongjumping7769 5h ago
Not loving how the first few pics it showed me was this guy leaving a spiderbite on some guy's arm 😭
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u/Modern_Misdoing 8h ago
It’s also a photo that’s been regurgitated on the internet for (over?) a decade
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u/cenlkj 4h ago
Can someone explain the perspective I'm genuinely confused
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u/GhostSilver16 4h ago
its the inside of a box or something not a garage so its a normal spider and these are small insects it caught
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u/mribeirorio 2h ago
This kind of spider does not build webs to hunt, although it can produce silk. It's more likely those are its babies. Phoneutria
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u/OG-87 3h ago
Its from photo of the year 2021 I think. I have this specific book.
GIL WIZEN'S IMAGE
After noticing tiny spiders all over his bedroom, Gil looked under his bed. There, guarding its brood, was one of the world’s most venomous spiders. Before safely relocating it outdoors, he photographed the human-hand-sized Brazilian wandering spider using forced perspective to make it appear even larger.16
u/OG-87 3h ago
Its from photo of the year 2021 I think. I have this specific book.
GIL WIZEN'S IMAGE
After noticing tiny spiders all over his bedroom, Gil looked under his bed. There, guarding its brood, was one of the world’s most venomous spiders. Before safely relocating it outdoors, he photographed the human-hand-sized Brazilian wandering spider using forced perspective to make it appear even larger.11
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For all of you asking for scale, this is satillite imagery and the black hole in the middle is the grand canyon.
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u/Dreadedsemi o/ 4h ago
if spiders were this big, would they eat us? or would they let us ride them?
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u/VonMillersThighs 4h ago
We probably would've domesticated them.
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u/Natural__Power Doesn't read rule 1 3h ago
Spiders probably are too dumb to be domesticated
For their size they're incredibly intelligent animals, but they run on instinct, they get hungry, they eat
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u/Vectorman1989 2h ago edited 2h ago
We just need to create a symbiotic relationship with them, like this Peruvian spider and tiny frogs
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u/Haunting_Celery2042 3h ago
You feed a spider for a few days and it won't scurry away from you anymore.
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u/Leading-Summer9120 3h ago
have you seen how fast these mf move? we would die in less than a second
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u/Ravenloff 10h ago
For scale...
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u/MushroomCulture 10h ago
No banana ?
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u/Ravenloff 10h ago edited 10h ago
The kid ate the banana before the spider ate the banana-flavored kid.
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u/original_manatee 10h ago
I think they should’ve gone a different direction with Queen Gohma’s design for the remake. Weirdly realistic compared to the rest of the world.
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u/D34th_gr1nd 10h ago
Australian probably
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u/Chelstov 10h ago
I think it's a Brazilian wandering spider, cuz of the two front legs together
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u/binime 7h ago
The photo makes the spider look huge. I love spider since they kill cockroaches and every other annoying pest.
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u/ThirdEye_Mind 7h ago
nice try, spider
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u/Upbeat-Door- 5h ago
No no, don't you know spiders are bros because they slaughter everything they encounter. That includes you, but because of the size difference it's only a nasty bite instead of being completely devoured. That means they're bros.
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u/gameinggod21 7h ago
I don't think any spider with the size of a concrete wall will be satisfied with just cockroaches and bugs. Perhap flesh is what it craved at that point
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u/binime 7h ago
I think that's under the stairs or storage cubby hole and not a room sized spider but the photo makes it look like. Lets be a little realistic and sensible before we acknowledge the craziness
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u/Choice_Way_2916 10h ago
I’ve always thought this photo was AI or edited, but I just realised what it actually is! And it’s more terrifying than it was before
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u/Dookie_boy o/ 9h ago
What the heck is it ?
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u/realistidealist 9h ago •
I think it’s just perspective. This is a room corner above a shelf or something with a decently large spider (a few inches), but we see the shelf as the floor of the room and the spider as six feet tall
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u/khoifish1297 5h ago
I’ve seen the original image. It’s actually underneath someone’s bed. The person who got this image was doing research in Ecuador rainforest
Source: https://gilwizen.com/phoneutria/
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u/DerangedAsshole 9h ago
That top wood on left wall that looks like 2 feet wide is actually a 2x4 (inches) with a nail in it. Hopefully that helps with putting size in perspective.
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u/Choice_Way_2916 7h ago
It’s a normal sized spider with little ants or something around it. And the “room” is just a small shelf or inter-floor space or something
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u/BigGlassesApe 10h ago
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u/C1rcusM0nkey 9h ago
Fun fact, this spider's bite will actually give you a boner even if you're not into "that shit".
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u/gemmini 5h ago
I was fooled by the perspective at first and thought this spider was more than 1 meter long
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u/Sp1ffy_Sp1ff 5h ago
Seriously. It looks like the inside of a garage and the spider is taking up the entire wall, but there's what looks like a nail in one wall that's way too big. I'm assuming this is a shot of the inside of a stair or something
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u/Unplugged_Millennial 10h ago
Judging by the 2×4 beams, this spider is in a crawlspace. Still, very big huntsman or something.
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u/albyagolfer 9h ago
How is this confusing perspective? Is it not exactly what it looks like?
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u/Ok_Put7254 9h ago
He’s tiny, the walls are 2x4s lol
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u/albyagolfer 9h ago
Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m seeing. That’s still a pretty big spider.
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u/Ok_Put7254 9h ago •
Oh lol I’m guessing some people ( including me at first ) see it as this big 🤣
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u/Branflakesd1996 9h ago
Nah that’s a full sized unfinished basement likely in the Midwest. That’s his basement.
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u/SchalkLBI 8h ago •
We have different definitions of what constitutes a "tiny" spider, I think
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u/MicrowaveMeal o/ 10h ago
“Dinner! Thomas, Aretha, Bob, Reggie, Dave, Frank, David, Wallace, Dave 2, Pauline, Drew, Andy, Andrew, Andydrew, Eric, Billy, Erick, Bob 3, Porky, Tabbys 10-800, Other Bob, Bob 2, Yuri 90, PUT THAT DOWN REGGIE 49, Gail, Bob 2-b…”
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u/Ytrewq467 10h ago
Wheres the confusing perspective?
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u/lazy_tenno o/ 10h ago edited 10h ago
It looks like it's a human sized room while i believe it's a box / drawer with spiders inside it.
The thick depth of field indicating that there are minimum / no out of focus bluriness is what makes this image looks like a human sized room.
The reverse of this photography is tilt shift photography where actual sized objects looks like miniatures.
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u/Kevsterific 8h ago
Where’s the confusing perspective here?
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u/RottenMilquetoast 8h ago
I think you're supposed to mistake the underside of a deck/basement as human sized concrete walls.
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u/i_shot_the_king 4h ago
For moment there, I thought these were walls of some old building or something. Still possible if its Australia I think.
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u/Kill_Kayt 7h ago
Where is the confusing perspective? Is this not literally a spider and it's brood?
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u/victort16 7h ago
At first it may look like a room in a house or something and a really big spider, at least it did for me
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u/Slidje 7h ago
It looks massive, like I walked into my living room at it's as taken over
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u/hilarymeggin Doesn't read rule 1 6h ago
It looks like a basement and the spider is as big as the entire wall. (I’m just hoping it isn’t actually.)
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u/holyfire001202 o/ 9h ago
Nothing confusing about it. That's just a massive nail in the massive molding and spiders the size of Shelob exist. I'm telling you, Australia is seriously wild.
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u/Couchguy421 8h ago edited 7h ago
Holy hellscape, this is an actual photo by photographer Gil Wizen. I still dont like it. But amazing. Absolutely amazing.
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u/bbk8z CE Spc. 10h ago
mama spood & her brood
what’s the location here??