Help me remember - weird bug with a weird name?

[panache45]

And you call that a “bug”?

[Riemann]

@Poysyn

Yes. Yes it does! And why does everyone have it on their face in the results?

If you google “amblypygi on face” they all seem to have fixed grins. I think that’s because they have been injected with neurotoxin and paralyzed before the face-eating begins.

[Kimstu]

Hat doff to purplehorseshoe who guessed “scorpion” just from the initial description, though.

[Gatopescado]

Harmless or not, I’m killing that thing on sight! :eek:

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

“Get away from her, you bitch!”

[Beckdawrek]

I may not kill it. But, by god, I’ll be running. Fast.

[Napier]

Question for the OP: does it have any poysyn?

[Lemur866]

@Beckdawrek

I may not kill it. But, by god, I’ll be running. Fast.

I don’t have to run faster than the Amblypygi. I just have to run faster than YOU.

[Kimstu]

Poysyn’s linked article has food for thought as well:

The sensory legs are very thin, have numerous sensory receptors, and can extend several times the length of body. Typically, the animal holds one of these legs out in front of it as it moves, and uses the other to probe the terrain to the side.

yikes

They rarely bite if threatened, but can grab fingers with their pedipalps, resulting in thorn-like puncture injury.

yikes

Research conducted by entomologists at Cornell University suggests that mother amblypygids communicate with their young by caressing the offspring with her anteniform front legs, and that the offspring reciprocate both with their mother and their siblings.

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Mother amblypygids are notoriously testy and should be treated with extreme caution, because they will not hesitate to attack if they feel their young are threatened.

yikes

[Beckdawrek]

Gah! Did not want to hear that.

[Tibby]

Lethocerus americanus – Giant Water Bug. He’s got the cutesy nickname, “Toe-Biter” (well, it’s kind of cute, unless he’s biting *your *toe).

He’s big, flat and has pincer-type arms. He’s your perp. Bug him, Danno!

[eastcheap]

@Kimstu

Hat doff to purplehorseshoe who guessed “scorpion” just from the initial description, though.

Let’s not forget beowulff, who got it spot-on with “vinegaroon.”

Wait, I was reading that wrong. They’re not to be confused with vinegaroons. Nevermind.

[snfaulkner]

@Riemann

“It looks like an alien monster from the depths of hell that will eat your face” as part of the description would have helped.

Im going to click that link, aren’t I? Then be creeped out all day I’d bet, right?

[snfaulkner]

Yep. I hate myself.

[Lucas_Jackson]

World's largest bee, missing for 38 years, found alive in Indonesia

[I_Love_Me_Vol.I]

What’s the cutesy name you thought it was? Ambly Piggy?

[Kolak_of_Twilo]

I clicked the link, but only long enough to realize it was a mistake and quickly close it.

So. Please tell me where that thing lives so I can be sure I never ever go there for any reason.

[Riemann]

@Kolak_of_Twilo

So. Please tell me where that thing lives so I can be sure I never ever go there for any reason.

They eat domestic dogs and cats, so they tend to hide under beds and behind curtains. Found throughout the U.S., especially abundant in the Midwest.

[TroutMan]

This was one of the first “what’s that bug” posts I can remember where the answer wasn’t house centipede.

And now I’m all set for the next time I play “would you rather…”

[Half_Man_Half_Wit]

@Kimstu

Poysyn’s linked article has food for thought as well:

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awwww

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I like the characterisation of a giant alien spideroid that, as this thread has established, will eat your goddamn face off if it doesn’t like your face, as ‘testy’.