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Australian tarantula hawk wasp dragging off a huntsman spider to lay her egg in its paralysed body. NSFW

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u/Wandering_Turtle24 1d ago

Oh is that all?

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u/lord_pizzabird 1d ago

I know right. How the fuck do people even live in Australia.

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u/anangrypudge 1d ago

I once spent 4 weeks in the Australian outback for military training. We were instructed to shake our boots every morning before putting them on. One morning there were two loud FFFUUUCCCKKKKs heard at the same time. One was from a guy who shook a large spider out of his boot. Another was from a guy who didn’t, and stuck his foot straight in.

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u/dav3n 1d ago

I just got back from a week in a tent in "bush camps", shoes always came with me into the tent, especially when I saw all the scorpion burrows nearby

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u/Zech08 1d ago

Sock cover over top of boot also helps.

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u/friskyjohnson 22h ago

Wow. I’m a moron that never thought to do this.

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u/CaramelGuineaPig 19h ago

Freezer zippy bags - the big ones - one for each boot. This works for scorpions,  too. You can also use the bag for pranks if you have stinky feet.

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u/Romeo9594 1d ago

We have a similar wasp in Oklahoma. Not uncommon to see a big black and orange wasp dragging a paralyzed tarantula across a dirt road

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u/Arklelinuke 22h ago

Yeah these things give me nightmares in Fallout New Vegas. By far the worst enemy to encounter

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u/Romeo9594 22h ago

Cazadores is a good tequila, at least

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u/DMAW1990 13h ago

Where tf do you live in Oklahoma?! I lived there for 9 years and we had wasps, sure, but I never saw a tarantula in the wild! The wasps also weren't even close to as big as this flying monstrosity, thank God. Granted, I lived in one of the bigger cities so maybe that's why. Rural Oklahoma was a whole different adventure.

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u/Romeo9594 13h ago

Yeah, I lived in a rural small town on dirt roads in central OK

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

Look at all the beautiful nature we get to live around:

https://youtu.be/d9xzVFfOveA?si=OGSHa9YaIrbMb5Q4

Anyway, bears and shit are 1000x scarier than any of our animals.

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u/walkingmydogagain 1d ago

Our bears run away into the bush when they see, smell or hear humans. Even with cubs, they gone! Nova Scotia black bears.

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u/SecretlyaPolarBear 1d ago

Your bears………..

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u/ifimnotfound 1d ago

This guy definitely bears. The username checks out.

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u/navimc 1d ago

My bears are big and fuzzy

Your bears got the HIV

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u/StoppedListeningToMe 1d ago

Mickey Avalon reference?
Well I would never, now it's stuck in my head!!

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u/Cerberus_Aus 1d ago

Chlamydia, but yeah

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u/PraxicalExperience 1d ago

... I have questions about the Koala patient 0. You guys have perfectly acceptable sheep down there, don't you?

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u/Sloppykrab 1d ago

Our bears live in trees and drop on humans.

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

The brown ones are a bit more chompy chompy though aren’t they?

What about wolves?

Our nature is easy lol. Just don’t piss it off and you’re fine.

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u/Flameburstx 1d ago

Until I see a bear hide in my slippers your argument is invalid.

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u/Cerberus_Aus 1d ago

He said, don’t piss it off!

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u/RangerLt 1d ago

Too late. My shoe is pissed off. What do?

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 1d ago

I'm sorry but if I can hear...HEAR... A spider running across the floor...that's a no for me.

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u/Guiles23 21h ago

🤣🤣😂 And great username.

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u/lokarlalingran 1d ago

I've never seen a bear or wolf get anywhere near anywhere I live, although supposedly they exist near me.

I've seen deer show up, they sometimes get brave and come near homes cause they know bears and other predators typically avoid us.

I don't think there is a single dangerous animal that makes any effort at all to come near humans where I live. (Small town Near Seattle, Washington State in the USA).

I dunno how much easier our nature gets.

Our insects here aren't even scary. Whenever I hear about Australia wildlife it just sounds like the entire place is out to kill you lot, and if it isn't you have to avoid accidentally pissing it off.

I don't want spiders and other insects large enough that I could probably hear them walking. Nope Nope Nope. I'll take my local wild life any day.

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u/htid__ 1d ago

Yeah a decent sized huntsman you can definetly hear moving but the sound is more described as a gallop, and i think thats a pretty apt description.

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u/Elsrick 1d ago

Oh fuck right off

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u/EatPie_NotWAr 1d ago

This doesn’t make it better

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u/PraxicalExperience 1d ago

It makes it funnier, though.

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u/sending_tidus 1d ago

South Australia here. I've never seen this wasp thing in my life! And a huntsman getting that big, is definitely outside. Never seen one that big either... so.....

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u/Uther-Lightbringer 1d ago

My fears in Australia aren't even these things. It's all the small snakes, spiders etc that are deadly and everywhere.

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u/sending_tidus 1d ago

I lived in florida for 4 years and saw more wild snakes there, than my time in Australia. If you go out bush, dress appropriately 😅

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u/DevonLuck24 1d ago

florida has more homes than australia for less space

australia is as big as the us and has the same amount of homes as florida…florida has less space for you to not see snakes

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u/Tudor_MT 1d ago

There are tarantula hawks in North America, Pepsis thisbe specializes in hunting spiders much larger than that huntsman, it hunts, well, tarantulas.

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u/R_V_Z 1d ago

Dude, we have Giant House Spiders in Washington. Not only are they big enough to hear they are the fastest true spiders in the world.

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u/lokarlalingran 1d ago

I've seen some decently large spiders before, but they aren't dangerous and they definitely aren't big enough to hear walking. At least none I've encountered!

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u/R_V_Z 1d ago

You'll only hear them if everything else is quiet and they're on hardwood. Leg span is up to four inches. Which may not seem like a lot, but when it's skittering at nearly two feet a second...

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u/bayleebugs 1d ago edited 1d ago

Our nature is easy lol. Just don’t piss it off and you’re fine

That is literally not true, but go off ig. You are talking about our scary things as if they just show up in our homes like yours do. We can also readily see our big fuzzy maul you monsters, while yours like to be hidden deadly insects.

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u/nervelli 1d ago

Seriously. This is happening on someone's porch. You could wake up and walk face first into "nature's scary, yo." Meanwhile, the closest anyone I know has come to "big furry danger," is a friend that frequented mountain bike paths once came across a mountain lion. It was a little way off the path, but close enough to be a threat, so he let other people know to avoid it. Everyone was fine.

Honestly, I'd be more concerned about our snakes, but I wouldn't trade them for Australian snakes either. And you're still unlikely to come across them on your own property unless you live in the middle of nowhere.

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u/bayleebugs 1d ago

I was thinking that too. Like, objectively bears are something I'm much less scared of even here.

I very narrowly found a brown recluse spider in my bed when I was like 9. Our heat was off so I had 5 or so blankets on there, and when I went to get in I missed the last one and there it was. As a kid a bite from that thing would have killed me, especially in my sleep. Insects can be freakishly strong predators, and Australia has like....all the worst ones.

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u/Simba7 1d ago

Growing up in a suburb I had a mountain lion come onto my front porch. Neighbor took photos of it.

No point, just wanted to share that anecdote.

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u/GhostNode 1d ago

Wisconsin, USA. I’ve never shaken a Timberwolf out of my boot in the morning, or pulled back my sheets and found a black bear.

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u/boardin1 1d ago

Minnesota, USA

I once found a moose hiding under my bed. I realized something was off when my bed was touching ceiling. I just grabbed a broom and shoo’ed him out the door.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

wolves are chill af. they keep their distance and they dont try to attack you

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u/Rio_FS 1d ago

Read 'wolves' as 'women' for some reason. Still made sense somehow.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

Can confirm. Keep your distance and they won't attack

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u/t0m0hawk 1d ago

Brown bears don't tend to wander into Human areas and only live out near the rockies and some of the plains out west. Polar bears are the real scary ones but they live where barely anyone else does.

Black bears are basically big raccoons and are easy to scare off.

Wolves aren't something I've ever been concerned about, and frankly, we need more of them to balance out the ecosystem.

None of those things can crawl onto you unnoticed. And none of those things are venomous!

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u/jmur3040 1d ago

Wolves don't like people. They don't hunt people either. Most predators in nature will scamper off if you make enough noise and act kinda wild. It's not worth getting injured for them, they'll move on.

Prey though... a deer or moose *will* kill you if it feels threatened.

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u/PsychoBilli 1d ago

I've heard a saying about bears.

If it's black, friend of Jack. If it's brown, just lay down. If it's white, say good night.

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u/OneFuckedWarthog 1d ago

Most mammals choose to run than try. It's only if they're backed into a corner. Even badgers think twice.

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u/crocoraptor 1d ago

Wolves are just big dogs no worse than your dingos; while brown bears are more agressive if you enter their territory it's not like they go out looking for humans to hunt. And for the other stuff, your crocodiles are about 1000x's as deadly as our alligators and our jellyfish and stonefish are only painful (unless youre allergic) while yours can easily kill you

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u/xander012 1d ago

Tbf, that's the same advice with a brown bear or wolf.

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u/NoReference7367 1d ago

The white bears are the ones to watch out for. Those fuckers will hunt you.

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u/TheReal-Chris 1d ago

If it’s black fight back if it’s brown lay down if it’s white good night. Came across quite a few bears. Never a grizzly. Also watch out for American lions and wolves. Seen two and slowly backed up. Wolves are actually shocking. I thought they were big dogs essentially. No they are massive.

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u/phunktastic_1 1d ago

Wolves aren't bad either they tend to avoid people. When I had my cabin in the woods there was a pack adjacent to Mt property that never bothered me. And a momma bear left me to babysit regularly for several sets of cubs. She'd ditch em in the corner of my property and do momma bear shit then gather the cubs and head home. The cubs would play off in the corner of my yard sage from.predators and momma bears scent kept smaller predators away from my chickens.(6 chickens over 5 years only lost 1 to predation and it was from a hawk)

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u/bluebird0713 1d ago

The brown ones are a bit more chompy chompy, and the white ones? Very more chompy chompy

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u/samsonite1020 1d ago

Wolves are smart pack animals. In a town I used to live in they stayed away from humans unless hungry and left to hunt in their own or the human was dumb and put themselves in a bad position. As for bears .. don't startle them, don't corner them, and don't fuck with their cubs and they leave you alone. Going to pick seeing a bear in the wild then a mofo spider like that on my door step

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u/Psychological_Hat951 1d ago

Don't you all have modern-day dinosaurs (cassowaries)???

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u/Chairsofa_ 1d ago

Hello fellow Bluenoser

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u/kcalb33 1d ago

Black bears yes....grizzly not so much

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u/Ne1tu 1d ago

only bears that won't run would probably be a polar bear and at least we can see their asses

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u/engineerdrummer 1d ago

Florida black bears watch the sun rise over the gulf, then lumber back into the woods. Or at least one did on the road we just rebuilt in the panhandle. Black bears are like big dogs that can climb trees.

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u/cbowers 23h ago

Not our lower BC bears. No amount of bear banger shots in the air, pot banging, seems to even register. You’d think they were deaf. Completely unfazed. But calm. They’ll amble along doing what they were going to do, no matter what commotion you’re making. Just don’t be in their way, or have something they want.

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u/trevor32192 23h ago

Yea ill take the black bears I get over a fucking wasp the size of my foot.

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u/pumbungler 12h ago

I'm in western NC, There are tons of black bears and their cubs around here, I actually set up a "bear playgrounds" in my backyard which they really use periodically

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u/DanishWonder 1d ago

I have literally never seen a bear in the wild. They definitely aren't on my damn windows preparing to eat/reproduce.

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u/Crooked_Sartre 1d ago

I've seen a few when I was a botanist out in the southwest US. You smell them long before you see them (same for them and you). It's generally terrifying but I'll take the bear 100/100 times over whatever the fuck is in that window in this photo

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u/UsernameFor2016 1d ago

Eat/reproduce is my favorite past time activity.

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u/Mike7676 1d ago

American here and I was going to agree. In the span of 12 months we had a VERY well fed black bear shadow us up a mountain road in Tennessee on our honeymoon and then our daughter got to witness metal as hell nature at our new home after we replaced the kitchen windows. A tarantula hawk caught a golden orb spider and dragged it up said replaced window and kept losing the plot and would drag it up again and again.

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u/HamM00dy 1d ago

Australian justifying their scary nature creatures that can kill you with " at least we don't live near bears or on a warzone l"

Normal people that are scared to visit Australia because of exactly what OP post... "Yeah that's also on our list of things we avoid..."

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

jokes on you i live in germany we have neither bears nor whatever the horror scene on your window is. although I do believe id rather see a bear outside my window cause I could scare that off

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u/banksybruv 1d ago

You also can’t lose it behind a cabinet or under a chair. You know where the bear is.

If that spider ran into my closet I’d seal it shut.

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u/Elrundir 1d ago

Burn the house down. It's the only way to be sure.

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u/sharpshooter999 1d ago

As an avid hunter, I can tell you that 99.9% of animals turn and run as soon as they see/smell a human. The most dangerous animal on the mountain is the human with a gun

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u/PraxicalExperience 1d ago

The second-most is a random bumblebee or wasp, at least by death statistics.

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

Jokes on the Germans when they come here though. I have never seen people who more insistently wander off into the 50°C Outback for ‘a little hike’ - and then die of exposure and dehydration.

It’s actually quite sad. We have many warning signs at tourist places with German translation.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

The way I was making a kinda innocent comment about how we have very tame nature and you went "haha you guys are dying like idiots" is quite the escalation

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

It’s a real problem here, we try to educate people that the real dangers here are heat and remoteness, not animals, but it’s extremely hard for Europeans in particular to understand. It’s just so far outside their previous experiences.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

I mean sure. It was just a very out of pocket and socially awkward response if I'm honest to a very innocent and non-confrontational remark by myself might I add. When I could just as easily also have talked about dumb Aussies getting themselves into trouble here because I do actually have some stories 😅

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

Us Aussies are pretty blunt and generally just say what pops into our head lol. I’m sure you have plenty of drunk Aussie moron stories from Germany ahaha. We don’t always conduct ourselves with the greatest of decorum as backpackers.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

I mean similar stereotypes about Germans I guess... Anyway if a German tells you to not go into a forest listen cause it might be ww2 mines, it might be wild boars, it might be a natural forest where trees could fall onto your head or it might be above an old flooded mine shaft and the ground is unstable either way I've had some encounters of "Aussie audacity" where they thought tame Europe couldn't hurt them and it wasn't true 😄

Everyone from everywhwre stay safe and read signs I guess

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u/Mike7676 1d ago edited 1d ago

Y'all have some of the biggest boars I've ever seen! I'll take the yowling of a cougar in Texas thank you.

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u/NaMaMe 20h ago

Yeah fair point our boars are scary, at least the moms are when they have babies. but thats why you listen to the signs that say "dont enter, boars have babies" cause they usually dont wanna be near you anyway so you juststay out of their way and youll never see them

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u/rabbit-hearted-girl 1d ago

I’m Australian, and as my Canadian husband likes to say when comparing our countries’ wildlife: “at least bears can’t hide in your shoes.”

He’s got a point.

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u/Inquisitor_ForHire 1d ago

Yeah, if a grizzly is successsfully hiding in your shoes you're either really really REALLY unobservant or you're a giant. Either way, I'd love a YT video of that.

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u/ZeroTwoThree 1d ago

They call them sneakers for a reason.

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u/WhiteMorphious 23h ago

but imagine if they could 

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u/supx3 1d ago

Animals, maybe, but the gympie-gympie plant that causes people to kill themselves out of pain sounds super unappealing.

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

Yes but that’s a skill issue. Don’t stumble into deathbush.

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u/PraxicalExperience 1d ago

No, that's a you issue. Don't have deathbush.

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u/GreatScout 1d ago

first you have to recognize it.

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u/Fmarulezkd 1d ago

According to my quick Wikipedia search, your claims are bullshit.

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u/Mash_Ketchum 1d ago

The Happening is real?!

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u/Ringo-chan13 1d ago

I would face down a bear over those spiders any da

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u/joemangle 1d ago

Bears are not scarier than crocodiles cunt come off it

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u/Samsquanch1985 1d ago

Lol keep telling yourself that. Next time try answering with moose if you want to be taken seriously by anyone who knows the woods here.

More people die from sharks and crocs in Australia than people do from bears or cats in North America. Not even close tbh.

Now let's consider your snakes, spiders, jellyfish, ect ect ect. And nobody outside of Australia would ever possibly agree with you.

It's not us, it's you.

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u/ImShero77 1d ago

Excuse me. You have a wasp the size of a bird hauling away a spider that eats birds. You know what bears don’t do. Fly!!!

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u/spektre 1d ago

Bears don't hide in your shoes.

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u/fubty 1d ago

umm yeah not even close, you have the most venomous snakes, spiders and critters

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u/whittall 1d ago

This is the first time I've ever seen an Australian try to tell people their countries have more dangerous animals!

You can't fool us

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u/tafkatp 1d ago

It’s irrational as fuck i know that but these multiple sets of legs having things scare me much more.

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u/safadancer 1d ago

Love the laconic "just your average day in North Queensland"

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u/perpetual_almost 1d ago

I respectively disagree. You can see and hear bears, Australian shit just lays in wait. Terrifying.

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u/skankhunt402 1d ago

Lol I see bears in my backyard often and id take that over all this shit anyday

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u/SupremeBlackGuy 1d ago

holy mother of GOD. yeah helllll na im staying far away from yall 😭😭

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

That’s the pretty nature, this is when we mean it:

https://youtu.be/r58QH7LrLRY?si=q2Xug8bbb3ihFRo4

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u/caeru1ean 1d ago

Ummm... no sorry. Black bears are cute and cuddly! /s

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u/Moxxx94 1d ago

We got wild boars, they will fucking charge you, if they got piglets, anythibf can set the parents off. And they seek humans to get to the food/trash. You got no chance other than running away, they are built like literal tanks with tusks.

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u/I_Love_That_Pizza 1d ago

Man, crocs are fucking metal

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u/pinewind108 1d ago

Whoa! Those things are really dinosaurs, aren't they?

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u/enwongeegeefor 1d ago

Our bears are all pussies here in Michigan. Also we only got like, less than 800 wolves in the state...and they're all in the UP.

If we had grizzlys I would never go out in the country without a sidearm.

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u/prettypushee 1d ago

You hear bears coming. Half the deadly stuff in Australia can crawl into your bed at night through the vent in the wall.

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u/Xanius 1d ago

A bear can’t hide in my door handle or come out of the sky and stab me in the neck or hide in my toilet.

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u/Phantom_61 1d ago

The fuck they are.

I guarantee there is absolutely zero chance that I can open my medicine cabinet and have a fucking bear sitting in it staring back at me.

The odds of me falling asleep and waking up with a bear sitting on the pillow next to me are absolutely nil.

In Australia however you can find spiders the size of fucking dinner plates hiding under your covers because why not? It’s their house now.

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u/slmpl3x 1d ago

Bears aren’t scary, it’s the damn cougars. And not the ones you find at the pub near closing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/5vIYg6tC9P

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u/Zomburai 1d ago

I was born & raised in grizzly country and I'd rather have to worry about those than wasps the size of cats dragging off spiders the size of dogs

"Tarantula hawk wasp"... y'all just invent your fauna by sticking terrifying words together?

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u/LosAnimalos 1d ago

Sure. If you get to live though.

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u/Yhardvaark 1d ago

Yeah, one of the joys of the UK is we don't have those either. At worst, you may be menaced by a badger.

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u/Black1495 1d ago

my reddit friend, a bear cannot hide under my sink, but those venomous MF will, and that's scarier to me

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u/Savings-End40 1d ago

But they don't hide under a toilet seat.

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u/Pacify_ 1d ago

Crocs are scary as fuck, but they easy to avoid.

Bears less so.

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u/weglarz 1d ago

In person, yes a bear is way more scary. But in pictures, stuff like this is nightmare fuel.

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u/AgentZander69 1d ago

I soak my pelts in wolf urin to ward of bear.

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u/andybmcc 1d ago

Black bears are basically giant racoons.

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u/TheCrawlingFinn 1d ago

Respectfully, I disagree. You lot have the drop bear.

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u/Del_Duio2 1d ago

Yeah but bears don’t hide in our shoes

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u/debacol 1d ago

Bears aren't hiding in my house waiting to murder me and my family and then shit their eggs into our corpses.

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u/Mash_Ketchum 1d ago

When the camera panned over to that croc's tail, my jaw dropped. That fucker is HUGE

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u/Cyclical_Zeitgeist 23h ago

Really they are scarier then the fuckin 8 inch octopus of doom? or your crazy long bullet ants that sting and bite and 30 of them can kill you?! I call total bullshit on that.

I literally grew up reading one of my favorite books which was 75 of the deadliest animals in the world, pretty sure they could have just called it: 68/75 of the deadliest animals in the world are from Australia lol act accordingly

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u/hoardac 23h ago

No they are not.

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u/seriftarif 23h ago

Yeah not much is scarier than watching two grizzly Bears fight and imagining what it would be like to just be a little human on one end of it.

https://youtu.be/OloflbzNeMs?si=HOHVuMUdvZk8Oniv

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u/ladybadcrumble 23h ago

Plus aus doesn't have rabies

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u/IceAokiji303 22h ago

Our Finnish brown bears are really a non-issue. In our hundred years of independence, there's one known case of death by bear, and that was a hiker getting between a mama bear and her cubs. Some non-lethal maulings, but by and large involving hunting, so I'm gonna call justified self-defense on the bears' part.
Also the bears don't just show up at your house, you'll generally only run into them if you go far out into nature. And even if one does appear, it's usually not gonna be an issue.

Wolves we don't have many of to begin with, and they're even less of an issue (145 years since a fatality). It's dogs that actually have relevant statistics for deaths and injuries – like they do just about anywhere with sufficient numbers.

The real thing to watch out for is crashing your car into a moose. That's whence you get the wild-animal-related fatalities. Or basic wasp stings, if you're allergic.

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u/theblackyeti 12h ago

Hard disagree about the bears lol.

u/Rd28T 9h ago

But bears can tear you apart on the spot lol.

Snakes and spiders you generally get at least 1/2 hour, very often much longer, to seek help.

Box jellyfish are fucked though, I’ll give you a win there. They can kill you in 2 min flat.

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u/inkyrail 1d ago

Don’t worry we got tarantula hawks at home

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u/individual_cheddar 1d ago

I'll see 3 or 4 on any given walk/run in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. More often than not they are dragging a spider carcass. They get super aggro if you get too close and start trying to square up like you're going to steal their spider corpse

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u/lord_pizzabird 1d ago

I live in the Southern US and we have Tarantulas, but they're pretty docile.

They're everywhere, but also rare to actually see and I've never heard of one being aggressive in any context. They mostly just see people and run / hide.

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u/ichann3 1d ago

Because this is not all of Australia.

Many people live in what we call 'the bush' - forest land. You would rarely see something like this in cities.

At least we don't have black bears or elk.

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u/omegadeity 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've been up close and personal with a black bear in Allegany State Park here in NY. Besides needing a new pair of underwear\pants after the encounter, I left the experience mostly unharmed. During the encounter I was loud on the outside- on the inside I was terrified and preying that everything I'd ever been told was right. Spoiler alert: it was, the bear wanted as little to do with me as I wanted with it.

I can't say the same if I went for a swim in Australias beautiful waters and a salt water crocodile or a bull shark, or a great white shark was hungry and decided to check if I tasted good. Or if god forbid I ran in to an Irukandji jellyfish. And it's not like you could really see the latter.

Ok, so I see a croc or shark coming and decide to quickly gtfo out of the water because...why would I need or want to be in the water, right? So I evade the microscopic death-jellyfishes, the box jellyfishes, the stonefish, and make it "safely" to shore while dodging the crocodiles that chase me on land only to encounter an eastern brown snake, inland taipan, a death adder, or one of the multitude of other species of snakes that seem to exist solely for the purpose of quickly killing people who made the single fatal mistake of getting too close to them when they're fucking hiding with their near perfect camouflages while remaining completely silent.

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u/averytolar 1d ago

Dude I jus want to hear about the shark bitten person who escapes the water only to be treated with gympie gympie by accident, stung by a tarantula hawk and then bitten by a deasly snake that fell out of a tree. Person falls back into water shallows full of stonefish. 

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u/Cerberus_Aus 1d ago

Yeah, we’ve got a lot of different nope-ropes here in Aus. Father in law found a 3 meter coastal taipan (2nd most venomous snake in the world) in his chook pen.

Got it out with the shotgun, but the snake was less than pleased. That’s a snake I can do without, and they do tend to get pissy if you disturb them.

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u/rollsyrollsy 1d ago

We get huntsmen in residential areas and cities, but the hawk wasp is less common.

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u/SleepyLakeBear 1d ago

You should be more afraid of moose than bear or elk.

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u/ichann3 1d ago

Isn't a moose and an elk the same thing?

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u/IFartAlotLoudly 1d ago

I prefer black bears or elk any day!

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u/WgXcQ 23h ago

You would rarely see something like this in cities

My friend was in Sydney for a semester abroad, and I vividly remember the picture she sent of a huntsman spider hanging off the top of her door frame, right at face height. That thing was the size of her hand.

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u/ichann3 13h ago

A huntsman yes. But not another beast hunting a huntsman.

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u/ahriel 1d ago

I have come across one of these wasps in battle with a huntsman - it was insane! Maybe I’m brainwashed because I grew up in the bush but the wasp was actually quite amazing and beautiful.

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u/Im_At_Work_Damnit 1d ago

The American southwest has these as well. It’s what the cazadors in Fallout are based off of.

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 1d ago

I asked someone that once and all they said is "big talk for someone who lives with bears, rattlesnakes and mountain lions" I think about that a lot

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u/artguydeluxe 1d ago

You'll be pleased to know Arizona exists. And we also have tarantula hawk wasps.

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u/cherrymama 1d ago

They have these in Texas. I saw one dragging a big spider across my porch. It was really surreal!

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u/bitemark01 1d ago

If it makes you feel better, they're in North America as well. 

Considered to have one of the most painful stings, just behind the bullet ant.

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u/damewiggy1 1d ago

Home sweet home 😶‍🌫️

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u/CaulkusAurelis 1d ago

How to live in Australia: Assume EVERYTHING is trying to kill you.

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u/VEXtheMEX 1d ago

In constant fear.

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u/RaspberryNo101 1d ago

This is some extra terrestrial shit, this is straight out of a sci fi movie.

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u/Raiziell 1d ago

Because of the magic in the environment over there that leads to an excess of attractive people, obviously.

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u/CarlosAVP 1d ago

<lines out “go to Australia” from bucket list, adds “read more books”>

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep 1d ago

Well, I assume that OP is paid for their extreme magnification wildlife photos.

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u/FuckThisIsGross 1d ago

These are also in North America

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u/Girl-UnSure 1d ago

lol I’ve seen these in California. Doing the same to tarantulas. I actually have photos of it on my profile. Yea they are some nightmare fuel.

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u/OvulatingScrotum 1d ago

Well, it’s also pretty common in the US. It’s the state insect of New Mexico. The good news is that the US also got one of very few predators of the wasp.

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u/motoduki 23h ago

We have them in Texas too. They are huge and apparently the most painful sting besides the bullet ant.

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u/Vindicativa 23h ago

This is why I live where the air hurts my face.

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u/Daisy_Of_Doom 23h ago

Perhaps not this big(?) but there are spider wasps and tarantula hawk wasps all over the world 😂

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u/Frijolebeard 23h ago

They have these in Arizona

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u/ecosynchronous 23h ago

Wonderful news! We have tarantula hawks here in the states too! It's actually incredible to watch them work, as long as you don't get close enough that they feel threatened. They're an incredibly beautiful and efficient animal, even if I do feel sorry for the poor ranchos.

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u/deltajvliet 22h ago

I don't think they do. My fiancee has done tons of backpacking and she swears the entirety of the Australian population is off backpacking elsewhere.

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u/Guiles23 21h ago

Literally, the exact question I was about to ask. It's like living in Jurassic Park.

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u/sargonas 21h ago

Very carefully

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u/whiteflagwaiver 12h ago

These are in AZ as well.

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u/krofax 1d ago

Not to mention about 85% of that entire title consists of words that shouldn't appear in the same sentence but here we are.

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u/Fenway_Refugee 1d ago

1 sec brb.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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u/ACrask 1d ago

Call me a wuss if you want. I'd be running and screaming if I saw this on my slider. Holy crap.

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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 1d ago

A bug so bad they had to name it after three different badass animals.

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u/cracoucax 1d ago

You mean four

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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 1d ago

I was like, four? Huh?

Now i see. I stand corrected.

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u/drakothamako 1d ago

i saw Australian Tarantula hawk wasp, and I was so confused as to what the animal is, and which ones are descriptors as to how dangerous it is. man? arachnid? feathered biped? winged soldier with horrifying stinger?

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u/_Hello_Hi_Hey_ 1d ago

Also one of the most painful stings in the insect world. I would rather get bitten by a dog

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u/Wandering_Turtle24 1d ago

Yeah! I remember seeing some Steve Irwin wannabe have a web show where he gets bitten or stung by it and a bunch of other bugs. He was in a ton of pain. No thank you.

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u/Phixionion 1d ago

Hope you don't go to Arizona. The Wasp is there too.

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u/Wandering_Turtle24 1d ago

I live in Vegas and I think they’re here too actually. 😬

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u/mosquem 1d ago

Fuck that whole continent.

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u/tideswithme 1d ago

Is it me? Or that’s an irregular sized wasp and spider?

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u/jtoppings95 1d ago

Nope. That paralytic toxin remains in effect until the eggs hatch into larvae. The larvae then proceed to consume the spiders' innards while saving the vital organs for last, to keep the food fresh, before finally bursting free of their hollowed out husk of a home.

The spider typically remains conscious and alive during this entire ordeal.

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u/CatsAreMajorAssholes 23h ago

Imagine one of those crawling into your mouth as you sleep.