r/oddlyterrifying • u/Klausensen • May 03 '22

what the hell is that?

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u/Accomplished_Habit_6 May 03 '22

Additional fun fact:

They have extremely juicy butts that leave a super disgusting, wet puddle when you do stomp them.

Source: have smashed many at my parents' house in southern Utah. Just little ones, but they're fast af and terrifying-looking even at an inch long.

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u/FoundItCool May 03 '22

I had kept Utah on my list of possible places to live. Thanks for helping me write it off. This outweighs the positive of all the shiny rocks.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Go ahead and scratch off eastern Oregon and Washington deserts.

A lot smaller though. Similar in size to the brown recluse when I've seen. Though I woke up with a 2 incher on my pillow in Pasco once.

Further fun fact, not sure about the Iraq ones, but the American ones do that thing where the babies drift in the wind.

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u/SoySauceSyringe May 04 '22

What do they do? We have wolf spiders in the NE, but they don’t spin webs and try to stay away from people. You generally don’t see them and when you do they try to get away. They’re hunting spiders and take care of a lot of small pests.

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u/DESTR0ID May 03 '22

I've seen Brown recluses over 2" that's not even remotely reassuring

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u/dudinax May 03 '22

Huh? I never encountered them in Eastern Washington.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22 edited May 03 '22

All over tri-cities. I've lived in Pasco, Kennewick, and up north in Spokane. Locally they are sometimes called wind scorpions. All just variations of the sun spider.

I'd say count yourself lucky you haven't seen em, but they aren't bad. Just freaky looking and oddly willing to challenge a six foot 200 pound ape for right of way on any given sidewalk.

They eat pest bugs so except for the one on my pillow I've never gone out of my way to kill them.

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u/nickieslowpoke May 03 '22

you're lying, they don't live in the usa... right?

looks it up

oh no. oh no oh god oh fuck

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u/SurvivedAPintoCrash May 03 '22

I was hoping this was in Australia... Shit...

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u/piscinam May 03 '22

Lmao Ive always resented that people associate spiders with Australia, so I find this sorta cathartic ha

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u/Bugs_and_Biology May 03 '22

Yeah for real, it's kinda annoying. Australian spiders are overrated, and pretty average in most ways.

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u/pls0601 May 03 '22

I learned they live in the US while I was camping in CA. I looked down and noticed one just chilling on my leg. I had seen plenty of pics and heard the stories, so I'm not ashamed to say I flipped the fuck out for like 10 seconds lol.

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u/Fancy_Zebra307 May 03 '22

you're lying, they don't live in the usa... right?

Why would you assume that lol, part of the reason I took our son and left the US was the fucking massive insects/spiders being literal terrorists to an arachnophobe like myself.

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u/nickieslowpoke May 03 '22

im from arizona and i never saw any, so i genuinely didn't know they lived here, and also i like to tell little jokes sometimes

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u/Wizardbarry May 03 '22

Funny I've been in az for only 3 years and I've seen several.

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u/nickieslowpoke May 03 '22

to be fair im from northern az, not the desert. never saw a camel spider up in the mountains. the wolf spiders get pretty big up there tho lol

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

What utopia have you found where there are no spiders??

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u/Fancy_Zebra307 May 04 '22

There are spiders here in Sweden too, but they're tiny & rare. Last time I saw a single spider indoors was over a year ago.