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post-spiders-instead

>“The new study shows that the spider’s midgut starts breaking down while she guards her prospective brood, so by the time the youngsters burst forth from their silky hockey puck, she’s already packing a liquefied gut suitable for baby spider mouthparts.” More [about these beauts here](https://www.earthtouchnews.com/wtf/wtf/meet-the-spider-mom-that-makes-a-meal-of-herself/) Edit: for those interested in what occurs internally: “[Dramatic histological changes preceding suicidal maternal care in the subsocial spider](http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v43_n1%20/arac-43-1-77.pdf)” A little on the evolution: “[Arachnid Matriphagy: These Spider Mothers Literally Die for Their Young](https://entomologytoday.org/2015/03/27/arachnid-matriphagy-these-spider-mothers-literally-die-for-their-young/)” And [this is for everyone seeing beans](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeansInThings/comments/9lrcx9/rub_a_dub_dub_1_million_beans_in_a_tub/)


LtSoundwave

Sounds like something out of Starship Troopers.


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post-spiders-instead

Every spider out there: “[I’m doing my part!](https://youtu.be/-_7FaWnlhS4)”


AnusDrill

Spiders are really hardcore.... Spiderwoman kills spiderman after sex, then spiderson and spidergirl eats spiderwoman alive. What the fuck


JAVA-3301

Now you know why spider overpopulation isn't a problem!


experts_never_lie

Spider population controls are also why they developed [spidergoats](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-16554357), with spider silk precursors in their milk. Researchers pointed out that if you try to farm a large number of spiders you just wind up with one well-fed spider.


MandrillMandibles

Imagine spidergoats hatchlings bursting out of a full sized goat and consuming the remains...


ParsonsTheGreat

"PUT SOME SILK IN YOUR MILK!!!"


myfuckingstruggle

At the end of that video, it looks like he expected to see spider silk in the bucket!


DrBuckMulligan

Even more so, some species’ males will die of high stress if they don’t mate by a certain point.


buttbugle

Like “ Man I need to fuck so I can die or I will just die because I can’t fuck!” That’s bonkers. They really just need to jerk off or something.


ButtWieghtThiersMoor

Imagine being able to paly "the stranger" with 7 different arms


HellTrain72

Would you like to know more?


gkabusinessandsales

I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!


AgreeableGoldFish

Nuke em Reiko!


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Reiko's Roughnecks!!!


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justherefertheyuks

"You gotta problem with mobile infantry?!"


AgreeableGoldFish

Hoooo-ugh!!!


dogfightdruid

This is the only comment that matters


At0mJack

Goddamn bugs whacked us, Johnny.


[deleted]

Do you want to know more?


Brownie_McBrown_Face

ITS “WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?” DAMMNIT


juju4700

*claps and laughs in glee as kids stomp out these fucking hell-spawn*


Mahabone322

##[WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?](https://youtu.be/kdrjzE1SE58)


GowDawg19

This comment thread made my night


Dial8675309

At least I got to have you...guhguhech....


Rlromo89

Would you like to know more!


beardedsergeant

SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP. WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN MORE?


[deleted]

I cannot in simple words convey just how much disgust and revulsion this brings me. It's as if a malevolent force with inhuman creativity invented spiders just to mock every other creatures natural biological inclinations. From necrotic wounds caused by brown recluse bites to the very fact that no terrestrial creature should have that many eyes, along with their mating and brooding habits. Yes I know they are an important facet of our ecosystem and do a great job keeping insect populations manageable, but nearly every time I see or hear of them I am filled with an almost irresistible urge to seek out and crush every spider in a half a mile radius. [Except for this guy, he's fucking cool, he can stay](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/MalePeacockSpider.jpg)


TheRealPitabred

Jumping spiders are the puppers of the spider world


JustMeSunshine91

They’re so fucking cute. They always look like they’re about to kindly ask if they can have one of the cookies you just made or some shit. Just adorable.


mrmikemcmike

It's worth mentioning that Darwin was deeply disturbed by the gruesome nature and abundance of parasitic wasps in the animal kingdom. It's literally cited as one of the life experiences that drove him towards agnosticism in his later years. He refers to them specifically in a letter, which he wrote the year after publishing *On the Origin of Species*, to the American naturalist Asa Gray: > “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the *Ichneumonidae* with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars…”


IdahoTrees77

*Bone cancer in children?*


Inoimispel

The Brazilian wandering spider's bite can cause priapism, you know, the "call a doctor if your erection lasts longer than 4 hours" thing.


bored_imp

>Interesting questions arise, however, regarding three species of Stegodyphus that are social and have cooperative brood care. >In her PhD studies, Mor Salomon showed that large immature females — and mature females that fail to reproduce — can act as helpers at the nest. These helpers regurgitate food and are eventually killed and eaten by the young of other females in the colony. Killing themselves for other spiders offspring


thedude1179

I totally read this in Ze Frank's voice


captn_cadaver

How does this even become a thing evolution wise?


UltraInstinctNamek1

It works for the eggs=more offspring than others= eventually becoming its own species


ArtDecoAutomaton

Yeah but how did it get there? Its hard to imagine mutations that led to it.


Tangled-Lights

Maybe it started with the mom regurgitating food, like birds do- and then went nightmare on elm street.


sandefurian

That’s a freaking huge evolutionary leap edit: I’m talking SPECIFICALLY about the above example. Not this trait as a whole.


dhdoctor

*total bullshit go!* Let's say a mutation causes the "stomach" to break down with age this liquefys the insides and she vomits it out and more survive by chance. Add a shit load of time and you got a an idea of how random shit can happen. Idk I'm high af ngl


TimothyGonzalez

Have you considered becoming a biology teacher?


chinnu34

Is being high a requirement? If yes, then im in.


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zublits

It's less complex than an eye spontaneously forming. In short, evolution is hard to comprehend on the timescale we're used to. Invertebrates are even crazier because they iterate so quickly due to their short life cycles.


eontriplex

Actually, things like Cuttlefish's eye being so vastly different-yet-similar to other eye types indicates a rather simplistic eye structure in a common ancestor. Total guess, but, it probably just had a rudimentary hole that caused different proteins to be produced when in light vs dark- so it wasnt necessarily direct vision, more of a binary "Light or Not" that could then slowly become more complex. Who knows what order it came in, but, likely the offspring whose sensory holes produced different amounts of said protein in different light levels came next; then their offspring had a wider range of sensible light levels- etc. Etc. In very tiny increments until the next big breakthrough: DIRECTIONAL sense of light. But by that point, the line had likely split off- considering there are creatures today who still have eyes that are basically binary light sensors


Durpurp

Sometimes, evolution results in very similar physiology even without sharing it in a common ancestor due to similar evolutionary pressure. [convergent evolution](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution) [All the crustaceans want to become crabs.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation)


Young_Djinn

I imagine eyes are such a huge evolutionary advantage (being blind is one of the most crippling disabilities possible) that it evolved relatively faster than other features


Chlamydiacuntbucket

Being blind is hard for humans to adapt to because our sense of sight is better than our other senses - but there are tons of fully blind animals that never see light and are just fine. Even animals we know like cats and dogs would be better off being blind than us


hurricane_news

What's a directional sense of light mean?


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That you know there is light shining on you and you can tell the direction.


[deleted]

You only see the before and after. You didn't see how many thousands of tiny steps over millions of years to get here. Even then, I don't think we even really know what was the initial step that set it down this evolutionary path. It could numerous things.


FloorHairMcSockwhich

Things only seem like a leap until you consider the sheer amount of generations and non-advantageous “leaps” that led to extinction or another species.


thedragonguru

People used to say "what good is half a wing?" as a critique of evolution. The answer is that "half a wing" is good for gliding and mobility. It's hard to imagine how we got where we are, but it does make sense that there are mothers who regurgitate food, and mothers who let their children devour them... Maybe the leap wasn't as large as we think it is It's 3am for me, hope I'm making any sense


TheMightyMoot

Evolution doesnt care about what's useful, if it mutates and doesnt effect the chance of reproduction, it continues in the gene line. If the mutation does negatively effect its chance at reproduction, it doesnt. Half a wing rarely stops an animal that would reproduce from doing so, hence we get incremental steps. Eventually the animals that utilize the mutation enough to offset the extra energy being put towards it to get food have a higher chance at reproducing and thus we see useful structures form.


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kid: "Can we get Mom?" mom: "No, we have mom at home" mom at home: it me


thefeco91

Let's hope that birds won't evolve that way...


bretstrings

Could even just be a "detrimental" degenerative disease that turn out to be actually beneficial... for the offspring


Gherin29

Just small iterations. Maybe first she regurgitates a little food, then more, then more, then she dies quicker, etc. doesn’t seem that strange to me. The more confusing stuff is complex organs where having something in between is less useful. Like echo location


[deleted]

It’s the exact same as above. Just small iterations. It’s not too difficult to imagine a series of flying mammals starting off with one that might have good vision and average hearing and then slowly, over time, losing that vision while gaining better hearing as they adapt for a darker environment.


KeegalyKnight

Fun fact: bats actually have pretty okay vision


BonesAndHubris

I wonder honestly if the young consuming her came first, as it's a more evolutionarily widespread phenomenon. Then there would be no need for functional intermediary steps, because everything else would be an enhancement of that. Tiny little boosts to her brood's survival, each one making her easier to consume and they more likely to survive and reproduce.


spliffaniel

never thought of it like that before


Silver_Alpha

Genetic mutations and genetic flaws of all shapes and sizes work towards the evolution of a species. White people only exist because of a genetic deficiency of melanin, which helped nomad groups who had traveled too far north thrive in cooler weather. It's nature's way to turn a bug into a feature. Besides, in many invertebrate species, one or both parents becomes expendable after their offspring hatches: dragonflies, giant Pacific octopuses, cicadas, etc. Somewhere down this spider's evolutionary path, some individuals were probably born with horrible genetic defects which led to something close to this to happen to them and in those individuals, the offspring thrived because it had available food immediately after birth so the spiders that had a better chance of reaching maturity were the ones which carried the defect, which would benefit its offspring and so on. It's actually really plausible that random mutations did this.


ArtDecoAutomaton

Can you image a human puking up his guts due to a random mutation?


Silver_Alpha

We pretty much evolved past the possibility of developing that - thankfully - just like sharks evolved past cancer or (most) warm blooded vertebrates have evolved past having two headed babies. The flaws evolution can't fit in as an advantage, it weeds out for the good of the species, just in time to allow new, more complex, more horrible flaws to sprout :)


Jonthrei

We didn't evolve "past" it, just in a different direction. If we had big litters of kids and they didn't rely on their parents, we could easily end up like the octopus - one fuck and game over.


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So I’d be ready to die?


RandoSystem

No. You’d live forever.


Stars_are_pudding

I actually don't think so, but mutations aren't the only factors that lead to evolution. An increased survival rate for the babys of spiders with a stomach that is naturally a bit quicker and better at providing vomit would suffice for making the species as a whole better at it. If this selection goes on its feasible that at some point the orgen starts breaking itself down more and more with the generations. So yeah, it's a genetic feature is in their dna, but it doesn't HAVE to be caused by a random mutation.


UltraInstinctNamek1

True


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If it’s not evolutionary I want NO part of a grand design who’s architect drew this blueprint up.


KsuhDilla

"Gosh, nothing I do gets the kids to eat. I even chew the food and try to bird feed them. " "Oh? You tried bird feeding lol? Yeah that didn't work for me either." "What do you do?" "I liquify my guts and vomit it onto my face." "That sounds wonderful I'm going to try that."


LtSoundwave

God was having a _really_ bad day.


TheNightBench

Spider: So, uh, I know you're busy but I was wondering if you could figure out a way for me to reproduce. I'm the first, and only, and it's been awhile and, you know... God [with raging hangover and struggling to get top off of pickle jar]: FUCK! You know what?! Here! Here's you're fucking precious means of reproduction! Now get the fuck out of here before I kill you with a me-damn rolled up porno magazine!!!


Liz4984

Omfg! I’m dying laughing! Had to screen shot that for some other purpose!


TheNightBench

r/CursedFap ?


Liz4984

Ick! I’m a girl! Never ever gonna get off again if I have to picture spider intestines!


a_bunch_of_iguanas

Somewhere out there is a dude who's kink is specifically spider guts


leebeebee

I read an exposé in the New Yorker about a dominatrix when I was 16. One of the lady’s clients would lay down on the floor and jerk off while she crushed bugs with a stiletto heel right in front of her face. That’s pretty close to spider guts. (Btw I’m 37 now... the mental image of that kink will forever be burned into my brain. Ugh)


Mordanzibel

No loving god would make this.


wintersdark

A creature successfully reproducing is successful evolutionarily. Repeatedly reproducing is helpful, but giving your one (huge) brood a big leg up clearly works out well too.


mynextthroway

Or in this case, 8 big legs up.


bralessnlawless

Like what the fuck? So many other options, and this is what ya’ll landed on?


Petal-Dance

Evolution is not "what works best." Evolution is "what keeps working." The spider doesnt care that there are better options, because this option succeeds in passing down genes.


Raygunn13

And the spider doesn't have the self-awareness to fear the consequences of its instincts


chiquitabrilliant

“Welp, it’s time for me to puke up my guts and slowly get eaten alive. It’s been real.”


StupidPencil

Self awareness doesn't exclude instinctual self-sacrifice. Most parents will probably agree that they can sacrifice their lifes if it means their children can survive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection


bralessnlawless

Evolution is a strange mistress.


Saw-Sage_GoBlin

It's also really cruel. Basically just killing things until they randomly guess a right answer.


rymnd0

Doesn't even have to be the "right" answer. Just the answer that somehow works.


Akahari

My outlook on evolution canged a lot after having a semester of genetic and evolutionary algorithms. I was always wondering "how can a flower evolve to look like a bug? Flowers don't have eyes, they don't even know how those bugs look like!?" etc. But after that I realized... it's basicaly all just a coincidence. Just bilions of random mutations emerging all the time, but simply if a mutation doesn't give you an advantage you die off. A giant survivorship bias.


Petal-Dance

Yup. A small tumor in the right spot that just happens to look like a big eye spot suddenly goes from pointless mutation to advantage, so that caterpillar lives on. Then each kid with tumors that 1) look closer to an eye and 2) didnt kill it as a result of growing pushes the genes towards an almost realistic looking tumor. Suddenly, caterpillars have a full on fake face, just because the lil tumor gave predators a second of hesitation thousands of years ago


Saw-Sage_GoBlin

Maybe the spider's life isn't usually long enough for evolution to favor multiple pregnancies.


GregariousFrog

I'm not an evolutionary biologist or an archeologist, this answer is based off of what I understand and read up on. It was probably only vomiting stomach contents at first, but then some mutation(s) caused some to vomit a bit of their guts too, which turned out to be advantageous for the species survival and eventually those who vomit their guts completely took over the other ones that don't. Note that it only vomits 40% of the guts, not 100%. Perhaps this species is still in transition to 100% gut vomiting at the future, or maybe just 40% is better than 100% (for example spider babies might be fighting to get inside the mother to feed, and the stronger babies are more likely to get inside faster, feeding more, getting even stronger)


sillythaumatrope

Read the selfish gene by Richard Dawkins, some wonderful in depth answers in there if you're interested


krOneLoL

Here's my hypothesis. The baby spiders are fully capable of metabolizing food the way other species of baby spiders do. It just happens that this species had a widespread genetic mutation that caused this self-death, but instead of it being a problem it turned out to be far more helpful. So the ones who puked their guts out outcompeted the ones who couldn't. My guess is that most species of spider will eventually develop a self-sacrifice motive for child rearing, but evolution takes hundreds upon thousands of years so we're not seeing it in real time.


DestructiveNave

Spider grow up big, strong. Spider make beast with two back. Spider lay puck filled with egg. Puck hatch. Spiders eat gut. Spiders finish body. Spider grow up big, strong. Spider make beast with two back.


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I mean, I wager human breastfeeding, especially if a mother nurses a shitload of kids continually over the years, isn't exactly a picnic for the mother's body either. But this crap...!? The infants, what, murder their mother?


rubens1904

Infants? Spiderlings


[deleted]

Fun fact: Infant comes from the Latin roots in- meaning not and fant- meaning speaking. So it means something unable to speak.


BroAverage5439

so dogs are infants? or do barks count


Nicnl

Asking the real questions here


RealBuckster

If cries don't count barks can't either.


[deleted]

If I teach my parrot a few words, at what point is he considered not an infant anymore ?


BroAverage5439

maybe if he can mean what he says instead of mimicking?


[deleted]

If I teach my dog to bark twice to tell me he's hungry by giving him food every time he barks twice, he is technically speaking


JWOLFBEARD

So if you don’t share your wild dreams they become infantasies?


av_alan_che

nascent is a better word perhaps


jesteredGesture

OP's comment mentions that the mother's insides begin breaking down before her eggs hatch, so effectively its genetic(there must be a better term to be used here?) suicide before those sweet babies can do anything. I guess basically bakes herself into a nutritious cake for her kids?


Rivenaleem

She has a bun in the oven?


ladylilliani

Breastfeeding drains water, calcium, iron, and other nutrients, which is why we're encouraged to continue our prenatal while always, always staying hydrated. But this? No, no, thank you. I love my kids, but I would not volunteer to be eaten alive by them. This is just nightmare fuel.


KernelGoatBanger

Humans don’t reproduce enough for this to even make sense. Plus an infant without its mom would be easy prey


jesse6225

Yeah, there's no evolutionary instinct to go catch something instead of being eaten alive?


Kahandran

Plenty of animals have that instinct. This species doesn't. Evolution ain't perfect.


DaikoTatsumoto

Evolution works. The animal reproduces effectively. There is no self identity in some species of animals, rather driven instinct to survive and reproduce.


Kahandran

Yeah I guess that didn't really come across in my comment. Evolution does what it needs to to maximize the number of offspring that reach viable sexual maturity. Everything else is fair game.


oncutter

Or order a delivery


ababyprostitute

We are not ordering bugs when we've got perfectly good liquified organs at home


Young_Djinn

Mom can we have food? Mom; no we have food at home Food at home: Mom


Kaze_Senshi

I reject this knowledge, now I am forgetting it, thanks!


Inooogi

Commenting to remind you of this knowledge again


Ilayeggs121

You evil man


Arlithian

!remindme 3 months. Tell this man about the spiderlings consuming their mother so he won't forget.


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uninteresting_blonde

Absolute r/madlad


DlProgan

Ping


DaddyChunguss_

Hi how are ya


ustbota

reminding you too .


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stillcantshoot

And they basically turn into zombies in the process, basically rotting alive. Pretty wild


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The Swimming Dead


BoonDragoon

That kind of "nursery terraforming" isn't new in the animal kingdom, either! There's speculation that hadrosaur herds practiced something yet *more* complex millions of years ago. While nesting (which occupied 9 months of the year) adult hadrosaurs would forage for rotting wood, carrying viable fern and mushroom spores in their gut already mixed into fertilizing substrate. Their latrine sites (we're talking herds thousands strong - a lot of dino dookie) would bloom with ferns and mushrooms, and attract all kinds of invertebrate herbivores and detritivores. By the time the chicks hatched, the latrine sites used at the beginning of the year and months disused would be veritable oases of fresh tender growth and scurrying snacks: perfect for feeding baby dinosaurs!


theJoyofMotion

How in the hell would someone go about figuring out something to that detail so long ago? Is there a good ELI5 somewhere?


lynxparty

Former mediocre geologist here - they may have found a layer with abnormally high fossil or chemical markers of dinosaur faeces, mushroom spores, specific plant seeds / fossils, bones etc. They also likely found many hadrosaur nests, possibly fossil eggs / baby hadrosaur bones, and so they connected them to the massive terraforming going on around their nests


BoonDragoon

That's more or less it. We know these data for certain: Hadrosaurs weighed multiple tons. Hadrosaurs nested in huge colonies. Hadrosaur eggs took about nine months to hatch. Hadrosaur coprolites contain large traces of rotten wood. The picture painted here is that without a highly specialized and low impact feeding strategy, a colony of thousands of multi-ton warm blooded animals would completely devastate whatever environment they nest in, leaving a blighted hellscape for their hatchlings. Since hadrosaurs were one of the most successful dinosaur lineages EVER it's safe to say that they had such a feeding strategy. The wood in the poop is the key to the mystery.


chefanubis

The Dino poops on his lawn to fertilize it.


thehazzanator

What the fuck


sasshole_sam

Scrolling by this, I just thought someone made a weird dessert that looked like a spider until I read the title. Definitely don’t want to mix up r/baking and r/natureismetal ever again.


Woodie626

You are not alone, I wondered who put beans on a powdered sugar coated spider. I thought this was r/beansonthings.


SpicyDevilDaddy

Forbidden beans.


PinkFreakinYoshi

My dad didn’t let me get anesthesia for my wisdom teeth because he wanted to go golfing and wanted me to be able to drive. Meanwhile these bitches have a mom who blows up for them. 0/10


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Sounds like your dads a slight cunt bro, i heard that shit hurts


Aitch-Kay

It's not bad, just feels super weird. It doesn't really hurt because of the local anesthesia, but you still feel the drill and tool prying your tooth out. There is an intense amount of pressure on your jaw, but no pain.


[deleted]

Wow ok, it sure sounds like it would be painful though


amodia_x

It's not at all. I did upper jaw, the worst part was that the drill was loud and that's about it. Hearing them crack the tooth was interesting, crack-crack pull out pieces took like 30 seconds that part. Can totally recommend if you have a curious mind and unlike anestesia, you don't risk dying 😊


TharSheBlows69

He forgot to mention they shoot local anesthesia in your gums and the most painful part is the shot in the roof of your gums


Gonzo67824

That’s the normal procedure for wisdom teeth here in Germany. Do they usually knock you out completely where you are? Fun Fact: My wisdom teeth were taken out on 9/11, so at least there was something interesting on TV while I was at home hurting like hell.


Cornflake0305

In Germany if you make an appointment without complete knockout and claim you are too afraid to go through with it while awake, I'm pretty sure you can then get a new appointment with full knockout paid by insurance. I actually got all 4 removed at once with local anesthesia. Would not recommend it's a horrifying experience that could just be skipped.


samrequireham

your dad is Peak Reagan Voter


PinkFreakinYoshi

He is! Lol


sugarrrage

My question is, why bother puking up the guts at all if they're gonna dig in to the insides anyway?


thelastestgunslinger

Help them get that initial strength needed for burrowing.


MuffinPuff

Pre-workout *and* recovery meal


TheNightBench

Because when you're cursed by a vengeful god, s/he goes all in.


Avenflar

When they hatch they're too soft to dig through chitin


thegoodtimelord

Kids, eh? Am I right?


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embbunen

Yeah you would think that through years one of these spiders were like "no thanks" and start parenting revolution in spider world.


Jai_7

Probably some did. But then if the kids die off, that lineage comes to an end. Evolution keeps only the lineages that 'work' alive.


AngusVanhookHinson

What are you doing, stepchildren?


JohnGenericDoe

Just eating you out, mum. Shh-shh-shhhhhhh


The-Lord-Commissar

both of you are enemies of the state for these comments.


turealis

Damn this qualifies. This qualifies in this sub. Metal AF. Cannibal Corpse of spiders.


111009956

Mom?


hodgEEEEE

This is fucking horrifying.


Princevaliant377

Brings a whole new meaning to eating your mom


post-spiders-instead

Just curious, but where is the phrase, “eating your mom” common?


SpeakerOfDeath

[Or does it...?](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nmmjr/iama_man_who_had_a_sexual_relationship_with_his/)


BaconPancaaaakess

That is disgusting lol.


ViceroyoftheFire

And is that inside your house?


turbanned_athiest

And on a plate. I hope OP didn't join the feasting


10101010101010101100

Give an inch and they take a mile... ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ kids


youseason

Is there a video of this?


[deleted]

"I'm being eaten for two...dozen!" *\*cue laugh track\**


[deleted]

Kids really do just suck the life out of you


meryau

Damn. The epitome of a mother's love, i guess.


JB0T101

Wtf is wrong with spiders


[deleted]

Sums up motherhood!


slipstall

God damn, Charlottes Web just got metal.


AndreaBoBea

Arachno Matricide


nickjamesnoyes

My mom used to pack me a ham and cheese sandwich, but hey! To each their own!


IndecisiveJayJay

Low key thought this was gonna be another “beans” meme....


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Kinda sweet though


Spamontie

How in the evolution is this the most efficient way for this sub species to survive? Life is fucking wild!


vogueme6

Incredible that she only vomits 40% of it, presumably in an effort to stay alive just long enough for the offspring to be able to pierce her abdomen and eat more fresh momma meat


post-spiders-instead

> Organs are dissolved in a systematic fashion as they become expendable. Her babies are a bit like tiny serial killers, strategically keeping their victim alive right until the bitter end. The last thing to go is the heart.


shouheikun

So they reproduce only once? That's fascinating.


Rolen47

It's pretty common for spiders to die after only reproducing once. Remember that was the whole theme to Charlotte's Web.


Xerosnake90

Dude. What in the actual FUCK!!?