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Yeah, I with you there Spud.
Walking into their webs is the only thing I don't like.
But something buzz near my ears, I freeze.
Walking into their webs is the only thing I don't like.
But something buzz near my ears, I freeze.
I only know a Russian song about giant boss spider, there is one in every game.
Spiders are friends.
Wasps, on the other hand, take too much interest in my lunch and are slow about taking the hint when I shoo them away. I wish they would just buzz off.
Wasps, on the other hand, take too much interest in my lunch and are slow about taking the hint when I shoo them away. I wish they would just buzz off.
Wasps are just jerks, so I destroy them with thorough application of force.
I don't have any bug fears... Disgust is probably more like it. But I live in a very bug-infused state and have broken a few brooms chasing off changeling infiltrators. :/
I don't have any bug fears... Disgust is probably more like it. But I live in a very bug-infused state and have broken a few brooms chasing off changeling infiltrators. :/
I used to be cool with spiders until one bit the missus between the toes and she was hospitalized for 3 days (not seriously, but they were digging toxin sacs out for the first couple)
After that I was no longer cool with them or anything else and started going after every little vermin within my 4 walls with a vengeance.
After that I was no longer cool with them or anything else and started going after every little vermin within my 4 walls with a vengeance.
That sounds painful! Was it a spider venomous to humans or did she just have a bad reaction? I feel pretty lucky to live in an area with no dangerous spiders and no venomous snakes. The worst thing we've got are yellow jackets.
Brown recluse is fairly common in my area. Luckily they live up to their name and stay out of sight as long as you don't go looking for them.
Happy belated FiDiversary!
And yeah, spiders are fun. As long as they aren't biting me. Which they tend to. I am apparently delicious to most arthropods.
And yeah, spiders are fun. As long as they aren't biting me. Which they tend to. I am apparently delicious to most arthropods.
'Venomous spiders?'
'Umm...probably not?'
If they're spiders, they're venomous (thank you for using the appropriate term, everyone always puts poisonous and I know it's a minor pet peeve but they have venom not poison) that's just how spiders work.
Whether their venom is *dangerous* or not is another matter all together.
'Umm...probably not?'
If they're spiders, they're venomous (thank you for using the appropriate term, everyone always puts poisonous and I know it's a minor pet peeve but they have venom not poison) that's just how spiders work.
Whether their venom is *dangerous* or not is another matter all together.
Not true. The family Uloboridae isn't venomous. But it's generally a safe bet that a given spider is venomous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uloboridae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uloboridae
Now I'm wondering if it'spossiblefor animals to be poisonous instead of venomous.
If it bites you and you die, it's venomus. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonus.
So any of those brightly colored frogs or similar are poisonus, not venomus.
So any of those brightly colored frogs or similar are poisonus, not venomus.
“You are being attacked by poisonous spiders”
“Well I wasn’t planning on eating them anyway”
“Well I wasn’t planning on eating them anyway”
It could be a contact poison, the kind that gets absorbed through the skin or release a poison gas.
Then you're actually a venomous snake. Or a spider. Or even a platypus, though those only have venom glands in their hindclaws
Unless it dies, but comes back from the dead as your thrall. Then you got a different situation.
I think the traditional answer is "What big teeth you have."
The komodo dragon, possibly. From what little I've read, it may be venomous - it has venom-style glands, but they compounds they produce seem to serve more as an anticoagulant than anything else.
However, from other things I've read about them, specifically about their hunting style, I would say they do have an actual -poisonous- bite - from that same source, the cause of death in the deer that are their prey seems to largely be gangrene caused by the rotting remains of the dragon's previous meal. They bite, the prey gets away, and the dragon eventually tracks down the corpse and chows down.
However, from other things I've read about them, specifically about their hunting style, I would say they do have an actual -poisonous- bite - from that same source, the cause of death in the deer that are their prey seems to largely be gangrene caused by the rotting remains of the dragon's previous meal. They bite, the prey gets away, and the dragon eventually tracks down the corpse and chows down.
This reminds me of one of the scariest monsters in Pathfinder- the Deathweb. It's the undead husk of a large sized spider animate by hundreds of hundreds of smaller, malicious, hive minded spiders.
have fun with THAT arachnophobes!
have fun with THAT arachnophobes!
How about this? Parasitic spiders! Their poison paralyses the victim, they eat it alive inside and control the hollowed victim to get close to others of its kind.
8 years? Pretty soon you'll be as old as the show's retirement, and you can stop.
I wonder what the next entry will be?
"You know, now that we've played the next generation of students, do we really want to go back to the old characters? "
/ "What if we jump ahead to the final battle, when you all save Equestria from the united attack of multiple enemies?"
Next thing you know, you're jumping to season 9.
I wonder what the next entry will be?
"You know, now that we've played the next generation of students, do we really want to go back to the old characters? "
/ "What if we jump ahead to the final battle, when you all save Equestria from the united attack of multiple enemies?"
Next thing you know, you're jumping to season 9.
Now, just about anything that buzzes near my ear can get obliterated, thank you.
It's a bit late, but we finished another mini-campaign, another Spudventure! Hark to the finale of our murder mystery!
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Also, whoops! We passed by the anniversary of the comic about four pages ago! Friendship is Dragons is now... eight years old! Wow!