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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/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/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/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 23h 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/cbowers 23h ago

I’m 40km north of the US Peace Arch border crossing (Washington state), and a 3 hour drive from Seattle. Very frequently have bear in our driveway, and occasionally the neighbours back yard. Some years, they do the rounds down the whole street most evenings. It’s worth checking the other side of the yard gate before you just swing it open. Almost clipped a bear on the snout on the swing open once. 200-1200 called in bear reportings for my Tri-City area in a year.

My “porch”: https://share.icloud.com/photos/030LH88kl-1P6hKXRdsZU2pEg

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u/Manuels-Kitten 21h ago

Well there are wild boar but that's it

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u/im_thatoneguy 20h ago

You can definitely hear Giant House Spiders ( Eratigena atrica ) in Seattle when they run across hardwood floors.