>Harmless to humans, venom isn't potent enough to have any strong effect on humans
>only bite humans when cornered
>eats pests like cockroaches and silverfish
>humans still want to kill house centipede for no good reason
>>36283236
They're itchy and can carry disease.
>>36283236
>looks like a Lovecraftian nightmare
>why do you want to kill it
>>36283288
Spiders are scary too, but they help get rid of small annoying flying insects like mosquitoes, flies, may flies,
>>36283236
because when this fucker skates across your foot at 3am when youre taking a piss and youre half asleep brain sees it, its time to die
i wouldn't mind creepy crawlies if there was a 100% guarantee that they will not crawl on me
>>36283236
hello anon.... t. camelspider checking in
i want to say thank you on behalf of my insect brethren for defending our species right to live and coexist.
truly inspiring
would you like a kiss, senpai?
>>36283312
Spiders aren't allowed in my house. I have very clear rules about this.
>>36283236
FUCK THESE LITTLE SHITS
i always had to kill them before i went to sleep at my dad's house because they were just disgusting. always came in pairs too.
Thank god my apartment doesn't get any bugs.
>>36283343
Exactly. Just hide from me so I never know you're there and you can eat all the other insects without me making it my life's mission to kill you.
>>36283236
>>eats pests
How about it starts with itself
NIGGA FUH U MEAN THAT SHIT HARMLESS?!
OH-OLY-ELL LAWDY ALWDS ALL MIGHTY NIGGA
THA PIC ALONE NEARLY SENT ME TO CARDIO ARREST
FUUUUHHH U THINK GONNA HAPPEN WHEN I SEE DAT SHIT PEEPIN @ ME WHEN I AINT SLEPT ?!!
>>36283236
>tfw no centipede gf
I won't kill centipede if centipede becomes gf desu
>>36283312
Who the fuck has problems with those thing?
BIDF pls go and stay go
>>36283236
I saw one hanging out on my wall last year and looked him up
He chilled there for an entire day, he's probably still in my room eating bugs n' shit
>>36283591
I have a problem with spiders.
>>36283236
I would rather burn my house down than share it with that thing
>>36283236
they look scary
>>36283576
Only if I'm guaranteed not to die.
>>36283576
desu fampai fear boners are pretty top teir
>>36283669
Can I live in your house, too. I promise I won't kill you.
>>36283575
They are harmless and avoid humans the best they can. They're not going to crawl on your bed . They're just going to move long the sides of walls and enjoy hiding under furniture and look for a crack to escape the house.
>"no good reason", he says while posting the deformed spawn of satan
>>36283373
>INSECT
>CAMELSPIDER
Camel Spiders are neither spiders nor insects you fuck.
Centipedes aren't insects either.
Fuck you all.
>>36283934
They aren't camels either.
This is now a thread dedicated to my teeny tiny friends.
Who here /entomology/
>>36283966
holy fuck
>>36283968
These mini monsters are straight from the heart!
>>36283984
i wont be muted fuck you r9k
>>36283601
No.
>>36283684
I find pic related cute but it's not fear, what is the term for this? It's creepy and disgusting but cute and endearing at the same time. And kinda hot.
>>36283984
>scientists still can't figure out what the intricate web designs are for
>>36283984
this is an ogre faced spider.
the other two spiders I posted are jumping spiders. this is a woolly bear - they turn into moths and are pretty cute.
i dont know maybe because look at the thing its fucking nightmare fuel
>>36284046
Shouldn't be touching those because their fur is toxic.
>>36284033
I never heard this. Like, are the designs variable amongst individuals? I just assumed that they casted species-specific web designed to lasso prey and the case was closed.
>>36284054
>>36284054
Can't stop me.
>>36284051
That's literally the entire appeal. Insects (and other creepy crawlies) live in a pure Nightmare Dimension of absolute ruthlessness and brutality. It's fucking awesome.
It's like sharks. They're awful nightmare creatures of death whose eyes roll back orgasmically (okay, to protect themselves) when they rip shit to death. It's great.
Can't see the thumbnail well but I'm guessing a tarantula.
>>36284112
These monarchs are sucking up some delicious (i'm guessing alligator because monarchs are north american and this thing has a broad head) mucous
>>36284046
>>36284085
I'm pretty sure I've killed these in the past. Their insides have a sweetish smell?
>>36284137
wait, fuck, that's a banded tiger. still guessing an alligator even though the mouth is open.
again, from the thumbnail i'm guessing a spider and an assassin bug?
>>36284159
They're an endangered species now so please don't kill anymore.
>>36284163
fuck, wrong again, that's a mantis.
>>36284159
>>36284159
why would you do that
>>36284177
shiny boys is best boys
harvestmen aka "its not a fucking spider"
>>36284163
Spider will win. She already has a trap set for the mantis. One step and he'll trip on the web. Even if Mantis gets first strike the spider can just bite the Mantis to inject venom in him.
>>36284190
pree sure this is a luna moth
>>36284194
wtf???? i never noticed that.
i love spiders so much, my horrible sweet deathchildren.
>>36284228
let me post bugs you fucking robot
Insects are basically robots acting on pure instinct and unable to improvise.
>>36284241
jumping spiders are the spookiest and cutest spiders
C-can we be friends anon?
Why would you want a pet that doesn't feel affection towards humans? Most pets besides dogs only stick around for the free food anyway.
>>36284245
>implying you're not
the only difference is you're a biological machine with more complex programming. deal with it, meatborg.
also jumping spiders exhibit three dimensional thinking and can strategise and beat their prey to a location using shortcuts. some spider species exhibit complex social behaviour that entails sort sort of personality type which results in the allocation of labour roles (as opposed to ants who are allocated a role based on morphology)
>>36284266
>insects having different personalities
>>36284251
that's a whip spider and while he's not a real spider he just wants to be alone in his cave
r9k, is he /ourarachnid/?
>>36284251
>whip scorpion
>doesn't actually whip
>isn't a scorpion , doesn't even have a tail
>>36284251
>oh Amygdala
>>36284280
the one that was 5 inches away from my face when I was in sri lanka wasn't in a cave, it was on the wall when I turned over in bed. I've hated these things ever since
>>36284279
uh, yeah senpai. personality is not that complex.
the social spiders i mentioned had different levels of willingness to take risks. ie. if you poked them, they instinctively curled up. "bold" spiders would unroll pretty quickly, and "cowardly" spiders would stay bundled for up to a minute.
this behaviour was marked on several test subjects who displayed different attributes in labour. the bold spiders often left the nest for food, or were the primary aggressors against animals caught in the web. the shy spiders were involved in childcare.
so yes, by a very primitive definition, they displayed personality.
but yeah okay >implying because you don't know anything about the animal capacity for intelligence is cool too friendo.
>>36283236
I used to live in some shithole apartments. When we first moved in there was a really bad roach problem. Took about 2 months of cleanliness, bug bombing, fumigation, and extermination to take care of it.
During the first few months I woke up one night to a good 3 inch long cockroach in my face. Not kidding. Bugs freak me out now.
>>36284258
lol i don't own any spiders because i lack the facilities to care for them.
secondly read lovecraft's "cats and dogs" - dogs are for plebs and cats are the superior pet.
thirdly, people have pets for numerous reasons. plebs like dogs because it's an instanteous form of pseudo-affections they can grasp onto. other people like me enjoy the notion of a less intelligent pet like a tarantula because we find them beautiful and fascinating.
>even if they are basically pet rocks.
Only humans are capable of empathy, emotions, improvising, mental illness and strategy.
i want to ride spiders into battle
>>36284316
that's fucked.
when i was visiting my sister in south korea we went hiking. we looked up and saw ....like 13 banana spiders just hanging out. i like spiders and even i was feeling deeply nauseous because it was windy outside.
>>36283236
These threads make me want to get some sort of lizard.
>>36284364
ding dong, retard alert.
>empathy
this is pretty hard to scientifically qualify, but altruistic and cooperative behaviour is well documented in animals.
>emotions
elephants have funerals for their dead.
>improvising
animals use tools, most notably apes.
>mental illness
look up the pit of despair experiment to see an example of serious mental illness and malfunctioning in monkeys. alternatively, watch blackfish and learn about mental illness in confined animals.
>strategy
i already described the spider capacity for strategy before.
you're actually a moron if you think that first time any of those things occured was in homo sapiens. like you magically cross that boundary into the genus species and poof - all that shit occured.
the only solid autapomorphy for the human race is the ability to conceptualise one's self out of space and time - and this is under serious questioning.
so yeah, literally all of evolutionary biology says you're wrong.
>>36284378
they even have a sort of cute little made-in saddle!
>tfw no spiderbro to wriggle wave your enemy's corpses in their adorable little pedipalps
>tfw no spiderbro to dangle you mission impossible style over the enemy enbankment
>tfw no spiderbro to vietcong style trapdoor and tiger trap your opponents
what is the fucking POINT
>>36284481
pretty sure this little dude is a bee
>>36284481
>satans_boner_innalake.png
>>36283373
Why did you eat my uncles nose in Afghanistan you fuck
>>36283934
That's a modern interpretation, the word insect literally means in sections and can refer to any arthropod.
>>36284542
it's the great and powerful bug post. you must never sage the bugpost. you must reply to the bugpost.
>>36284551
prolly not. i don't think they're hostile that way.
BUT they are super spooky in that they love shade. so one could have hid in your uncle's shadow all day (giving them impression of chasing him) and your uncle could have attributes some sand nigger activity to this Kind and Gentle Boy.
>>36284493
>>36284571
This rationale is really fucking gay.
>>36284581
>Travel outside of America
>not being aware of your surroundings before going in any dark place could cost you your life
Never go anyway without toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and a lightsource
>>36284438
I agree with your assessments anon except I think there's a few more things unique to humans.
Ability to create and understand art and music, to think abstractly and philosophise about life, experience existential crises and fear death not because of instinct but because of the value we attach to life.
For most other things it's just a matter of us being at the higher end of the range.
>>36284605
i love this one because he looks like something out of a tim burton story before his works became excuses to give his wife and johnny depp work.
>>36284619
oh, i totally agree with you that humans are very unique - i just resist stupid conventions that view animals as unfeeling blobs.
art and music are excellent points, but elephants are known to paint and birds/frogs/insects all produce sound.
>and let's face it, most guys start playing music to get laid
at what point you draw the line between the chirping of a bird to communicate, get laid, or to play and human music invention is pretty hard to say with any rigour.
and, of course, animals are limited by other biological attributes. human music making is a combination of musical ability and the ability to use tools (instruments). you could hypothetically have a species with similar intelligence to humans but an inability to develop tools to our ability because they lack limbs or opposable thumbs. not saying birds wanna write stravinsky, but that there's a lot to say about their capacity for music making that we have to consider before making harsh judgements.
while i largely agree with the abstract and philosophical thought, i think that's hard to say definitively because it's something that's pretty internal. i definitely contemplated some serious shit today (depressive episode) but if you just watched my behaviour as an alien scientist, that would be hard to say because i never communicated it.
again, not saying that there's a dolphin contemplating the geneaology of morals, but that there are so many variables impeding our understanding of animal intelligence that to say something that sweeping may prove to our scientific detriment.
>>36284720
when i was a kid out at summer camp we all went swimming. some girls were trying to crush a poor buzzing cicada. they laughed at me because i tried to save it. i felt bad that i didn't. they're really cute.
>>36284747
fun fact: banana slugs (and lots of other gastropod friends) throw their cocks at each other. the one that gets the most fucked up by the "love dart" has to be the chick.
>inb4 r9k is sexist and reees
it's because being female entails a higher allocation of resources to child care in this particular species.
>>36284769
it's bee time
if you ask me if i like jazz i will sting u
>>36284783
hymenoperta is a good band name
>>36284799
funfact: bees do little dances to communicate honey locations
>>36284810
funfact: bees making little bridges by joining hands
>>36284821
what's everyone listening to? i'm listening to some gryphon albums.
autism rant: the naturalistic fallacy that animals have always been treated bad is wrong. based on the folk music i listen to (ploughboy's dream, thorneymoor woods) it's clear that abusing animals was reviled.
>>36284842
wow look at this mimicry! i'm so impressed. excellent work.
>>36283236
I'm the only macroorganism allowed in my home. Everything else gets smashed with no mercy.
>>36284848
you may be the only macroorganism, but that centipede is the only charismatic megafauna.
>>36284862
this ones for you >>36284378
he did it, bro
>>36284821
>>36284842
woah anon those are my pictures. im suprised someone saved them.
If I don't see it it won't hurt me. I don't even kill spiders if it takes too much effort. But as soon as it gets close it's dead.
>>36284872
>rare pepe riding into battle
>>36284872
interspecies friends are best friends
>>36284878
you frequent /an/?
yeah, those are some cute bug boys. good work~
>>36284887
the only wholesome pepe
>>36284903
Oh god I can hear the ree. Nice one anon.
>>36284903
underwater inverts are like regular inverts but underwater
>>36284914
i know. this picture is wonderful and must spread.
>>36284919
little known fact: starfish are horribly death monsters and must be Feared.
>>36284942
we've come full circle, now, OP.
rate my dog lads
>>36284942
No. No no no no no no no. Stop it.
>>36284953
welcome to the Nightmare Dimension of Ants
These two are of the same species.
>>36284962
10/10 better than most dogs bc hard shell makes it impervious to Defeat
would pet, both in the patting sense and in the "you are my buddy" sense
>>36284966
it's Too Late.
>>36284971
>>36284842
>what's everyone listening to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOX-uOUaEP8
im not russian btw
>>36284085
We got these lil niggas where I live, don't touch em with your fingers but if you poke one with a stick it'll curl up and play dead as if to say "go ahead bitch, just try to eat me"
>>36284903
I miss my bees.
I'm really thinking about getting a beehive and doing that whole backyard beekeeping thing this year. It's just starting to warm up.
>>36284280
I-is that it's egg sack?
>>36284996
>not russian
Haha, nice try Yuri, try not to trip all over your track suits on your way out to babcia's house for morning perogi
>can't say I really dig it
>i mostly like folk and prog
>i'm a delicate flower this is Too Rough 4 Me
>>36284995
this image makes me sad
>>36283312
I'd rather have flies than fucking spiders. Flies are just annoying, spiders are scary.
>>36284998
Yeahyeah! I grew up in Southern Ontario (that's why the qt pink katydid made me smile) and they were everywhere....
>>36285008
my university has a beekeeping society, but i've always been too depressed to sign up. maybe this will change this year. I say do it, become the master bee poster of /an/.
>fellow iphone fag
>>36285014
i don't think so? i always assumed it was a strawberry. which confused me because spiders are carnivorous and that thing looks sucked dry? maybe it's desiccated? can spiders mess up and suck up the wrong juices?
>>36285017
i believe this boy can pull it off
>>36285069
>i'd rather have a bunch of rapidly reproducing assholes fucking with my food and touchy everything with their grubby shit stained, vector-y hands instead of some tiny little transparent spider bro chillin in yo sink
You deserve Ants.
>>36283236
I kill them because they like to hide in my towel and in my bed.
Last summer, without fail, every morning when I went to shower I shake my towel and one of those guys would fall out.
>>36284046
Holy shit, one time I had one of these things and it wasn't moving on top of something I had on my table, so I picked it up because I thought it was just fuzz and then it started moving. It scared the shit out of me and I flung it and I couldn't find it again.
>>36285099
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH spider posting is best posting and god and captcha will not fucking stop ME
>>36285099
>a bunch
Why is your house so fucking dirty?
>>36284046
When I was a kid I touched one of these, and their furs got into my eyes. My eyes were swollen shut for like a full day.
>>36285118
Brown recluse are fucking satanic and loves cool clothes on the ground.
Black widows love shoes
>>36285071
I definitely want to, if I can get my hands on a beehive box. I'll have to check how much they run.
Still, pretty neat stumbling across this thread. What are the odds.
>>36285118
anyway that's all friends. i am getting coffee with me mum.
i might return to shitpost more excellent little dudes.
stay creepy
>>36285118
(also this image is inaccurate and it more similar to a harvestman because it lasts a second body segment but whatever)
>>36284842
>what's everyone listening to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stIbYwYnpHs
I've known plenty of people who got bitten by centipedes in their sleep. They don't just bite when cornered.
Insect girls are the best girls
>>36283236
I had seen a few of these before I painted all the walls in my apartment black. I haven't seen any since.
>>36284962
sleep tight snailer
>>36283236
The only bad thing is that they always die on open ground where you'll see them easily
FUCKIN KILL IT WITH FIRE
>>36285431
Can you prove I am wrong?
>>36285558
Of course you cannot.
>>36283236
I give spiders a pass, as long as they don't crawl above my bed. But these spindly cunts are horrible.
>>36284962
I am deeply intrigued by this giant Gastropod.
Real talk, can I own a massive snail, like legally? Are they difficult to care for? Expensive?
>>36285431
sauce on that doujin anon?
what did she give him I want to know
>>36284551
not all camelspiders dude, thats so narrowminded of you
>>36285873
Pretty sure it's fake. Do an image search
Reminder that humans cannot be robots
>>36283236
I'm sorry you all did nothing wrong.
>>36286313
I looked up largest snails on earth and there are African ones that can grow up to 15 inches long and have massive shells.
>>36283273
Certifiably false anon
I like insects, just not running, crawling, jumping and flying around indoors at inconvenient times. If I could guarantee they wouldn't hide under the toilet seat or anything I'm going to use, that they would stay outside my room especially when I'm asleep, that they won't shit all over my food, that they won't jump out and scare the shit out of me and that they would actually eat the other rude bugs instead of hosting a party with them, I would let them indoors instead of spraying everything with bug repellent and leaving them to do their thing outside.
>>36283934
KILL ALL SPIDERS
>>36283373
SLAUGHTER ALL SPIDERS
>>36283968
moths are cute
>>36283984
SPIDERS SUCK
I used to be neurotic as well, but then I had some enlightening LSD trips and now I'm not afraid of or disgusted by animals anymore.
I kill pests, but let predators live. The reasoning is, that the predators are only there, because they feed on pests I do not see. If I remove the predators, the pests will multiply. If there were no pests, there would be no predators. Since there are predators, there are pests.
>>36283236
There is a reason why these things are instinctively scary.
>>36285988
>>36285988
[Nakamura Regura] Love s"T"ickness girl (COMIC Unreal 2016-06 Vol. 61)
>>36285988
Fuck, I forget to add that it's the guy speaking, he gave her a hairpin
the bugposts in this thread must be some secret experiment into the weaponization of autism. next level shit even for r9gay.
>>36283236
Here's a vidya game where you kill centipedes.
>>36285008
NO NOT THE BEES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCrmXW6-Pk
>>36284872
This is a really comfy pic somehow
>>36284720
>not saying birds wanna write stravinsky
Well of course they don't. They wanna write Messiaen.
>>36283236
Is this centipede a nimble navigator?
>>36284971
he swole
Seeing bugs around the house makes me paranoid. For the longest time I've always did my best to squash them, but lately I've been trying to tolerate spiders and centipedes. As long as they don't get too close I let them be, or I try picking them up and throw them out of the window instead of killing them.
Hey bug postin bro, I just wanted to let you know that I loved all the pics you posted. I saved a bunch too.
This shit is fucking spooky!!
who here /camel cricket/? These ugly fuckers would always show up in my house at night in the warmer seasons in packs and start hopping around frantically if you get near them, it always freaked my brother out
>>36285069
You have no idea how annoying flies can be until you live in the country or live in a warmer climate.
>>36283312
But my cat already kills bugs
>>36289942
Are those also called cave crickets? We had one in the house a couple years back, freaked me the fuck out. Tried to put a glass jar over him but he didn't like that and jumped around so much he killed himself from the blunt force trauma of hitting the glass repeatedly.
Good times
>>36283373
>not respecting spider's privacy
>shoving camera in spider's face
kys
Stay out of the house and we have no problems
>>36284378
Spiders are too zen to fight
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>>36283236
How do you like this prediction bug-lovers?
Willl you be enable to cope with the madness that will unravel around the world?
>>36290404
Spiders aren't bugs anon.
The only critters permitted in the house are jumping spiders. Since I introduced them I have only seen a single other bug in the past year (a silverfish that was already too big for them to handle). The only worrisome thing is that I'm into /tg/ stuff and sometimes they sleep on my tiny tanks. One guy got inside the turret.
>>36290458
I-I know that!!!!
It's just that uhh you guys post other bugs like ants and stuff!!!
>>36283236
Arthropods must die.