The so-called ghost slug first appeared in South Wales gardens in 2006, possibly after arriving as a stowaway in imported potted plants.The nocturnal predator is armed with blade-like teeth (see inset) for slicing through animal flesh and can measure up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) long when stalking its prey.They engulf worms piece by piece. One end of the worm will still be alive while the other is being gradually ratcheted into the slug by the teeth.
The nocturnal predator is armed with blade-like teeth (see inset) for slicing through animal flesh and can measure up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) long when stalking its prey.
They engulf worms piece by piece. One end of the worm will still be alive while the other is being gradually ratcheted into the slug by the teeth.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Monday, 17 May 2010 23:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
OMG at the naked mole rat fun facts. I had no idea!
Star nosed mole would have been the first thing to come to mind for me. They're even worse when you see them moving. *shudder*
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Have we forgotten the tongue eating isopod?
ps - Harbl, it IS NOT cute. ;)
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
11) that fish that swims up your penis and sticks out its barbed fins
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
omg i hadn't even scrolled down far enough to read that before thinking "so cute" xpost
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
LOL I swear I remember you thinking that it was cute when we posted about it last year or something. :-)
Jimmy Mod - was going to post penis parasite fish but apparently that may be a myth?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
awwwww, the widdle isopod looks like he's hugging the fish's tongue. except he's not hugging it, he's hanging onto what's left of the tongue after he ripped it to shreds with his razor-sharp claws. but it looks like he's hugging the fish's tongue, awwwww.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
i just like its little face, and the front legs
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
its face looks just like a guinea pig's face, only pickled.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
OK its face and legs are sorta cute but the whole ripping out the tongue thing negates that for me I guess.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
one man's meat is another man's parasitic, tongue-shredding crustacean, eh
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
That coconut crab thing is some next-level skin-crawling shit. Did someone post that on a spider thread before or did I imagine that?
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
OK so somehow while looking for more ideas for this thread I just wound up looking at tons of pics of Peruvian guinea pig meals. They serve the suckers up whole legs and tails and all! O_O
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
x-post - Yes, it was on a poll about which spider was the scariest even though it's not a spider but a crab. It was on that thread that I learned they hang out in trees and sometimes DROP FROM THE TREES AND LAND ON PPL'S HEADS. omg.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
xpost - how cruel! how disgusting! how barbaric!
are the guinea pigs pickled, perchance?
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
there is an img macro of that coconut crab going IS THIS THE OCEAN and i love it but i can't find it
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
Guinea pigs not pickled lol. Look sorta roasted. It's not really people eating them that was gross just seeing them charred and whole was kinda surprising.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
umm one of the "view image results" hits if you google the coconut crab involves one climbing up a guy's bare chest
for a second that felt gross, and then it started seeming like if you can just let them hang out on your bare chest, they must be pretty cool crabs
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
WAIT, i take it back, he is holding it suspended NEAR his bare chest, duh
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
urgh, those photos of guinea pigs laid out like roasted pigs, with little red peppers in their mouths, are waaaay over-the-top, even for jaded old me.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
11) (Since we have established that the penis fish is a myth): Giant Salamander
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
HI I WILL SEE YOU IN YOUR DREAMS!
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh lord
that is something else
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
haah when i look at that i hear *BURRRRRRRRRRP*
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's more of a *BRRRAPPPP* *BRRRAPPPP* *GLUG* *GLUG* in my mind, but I feel ya.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
that 'mander's mouth looks like as if someone has carved a wedge outta the world's most spoiled smoked turkey
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
i am sad emil.y got to the blobfish before me
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
12. The Surinam Toad
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Barry the giant sea worm is both disgusting and awesome:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry-giant-sea-worm-discovered-aquarium-staff-mysterious-attacks-coral-reef.html
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'll see your lotustoad and raise you a spiderbabyback
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh God that toad
What are those, eggs? I just got the shivers when I reached that image GAH!
Spider doesn't bother me as much as the toad for some reason.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
spiderbabybackbabybackbabyback
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Geoducks:
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
o u motherfuckers you are ruining my night but i can't stop looking.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
I am slightly trypophobic which is prob why the toad grosses me out so much. GAH. Ewww. I looked at it again and now I feel a little sick.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
the toad could be #1
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
the loa loa worm, which feeds on your eyeballs, among other parts of the human body. click at your own risk.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh christ you weren't kidding
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh christ
The geoduck was the macot of my alma mater! I'm an Evergreener, Class of 1978.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think parasites that prey on humans sorta belong in their own category. ordinary bedbugs and ticks scare me way more than any fancy egg-backed toads or tongue-eating crabs. at a distance, even the most monstrous animals can seem almost cute, but the moment a living thing burrows into my body, it shuts off the part of my brain that goes "awwwwwwwwww."
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
sometimes it's about quantity
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
That looks like pubes.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Which, frankly, is the best argument for Brazilian waxing I have ever seen.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
spidermerkin.jpg
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:38 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark
have had this, in peru! there's not a lot of meat. you can eat the toenails like unpopped corn kernels.
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
hi how are you
you can eat the toenails like unpopped corn kernels
Not really making them sound any more appetizing buddy.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
:) it was no worse than eating say, a roast chicken
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/44221d1239579277-tongue-eating-isopod-tongue-replacement-isopod-1.jpg
I think I am not so much freaked out by the isopod as: why the hell does this fish have human teeth???
― This is four-dimensional art; the 4th dimension is incredibly powerful. (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think tardigrades are kind of cute!!
― Col. Pinkney Lugenbeel (Abbbottt), Sunday, 15 May 2011 00:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
They are okay but then I think about drinking them and get a little weirded out.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Sunday, 15 May 2011 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tardigrades aka the Water Bear
AKA "moss piglets" according to Wikipedia.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Sunday, 15 May 2011 01:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
abbott otm the second one looks like a cute microscopic pig
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Sunday, 15 May 2011 01:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Sunday, 15 May 2011 01:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Sunday, 15 May 2011 01:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
You get the idea.
I don't get the idea because I don't see any pics. :(
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Sunday, 15 May 2011 04:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
MAGGOT: XTREME CLOSE-UP
― tubular balls (Pillbox), Sunday, 15 May 2011 04:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
No way! They've just been tiny inside-out Walruses this whole time!
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Sunday, 15 May 2011 04:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
New primes album?
― blank, Sunday, 15 May 2011 05:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Primus. Fucking iPhone.
Just as lovely as the Maggot, the water bear.Read all 'bout it!http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12855775
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 07:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
reminds me of
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 07:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
this tard's got pizazz
― zingstreet (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 08:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Weird. Well they were lolwaterbears.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 13:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh tarantula hawk
― the dn centipede (_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_, ◦ ⃝◦ (cozen), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have so many feelings about that!
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
That is a tarantula hawk.
The tarantula hawk is relatively docile and rarely stings without provocation. However the sting, particularly of Pepsis formosa, is among the most painful of any insect, though the intense pain only lasts for about 3 minutes.[3] Commenting on his own experience, one researcher described the pain as "…immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations."[2] In terms of scale, the wasp's sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, second only to that of the bullet ant and is described by Schmidt as "blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric".[4]
Schmidt Sting Pain Index!
― Jesse, Friday, 17 June 2011 11:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, duh, cozen identified it in the original post.
― Jesse, Friday, 17 June 2011 12:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
Is this index a joke?
1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic and burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
― Jesse, Friday, 17 June 2011 12:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
poll
― the dn centipede (_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_, ◦ ⃝◦ (cozen), Friday, 17 June 2011 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Flickr gallery of close up bug faces
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink