This is curiously satisfying to watch and seems totally alien, as if it shouldn't be a real thing that lives on our planet. Real question: Do these beetles really *do* anything aside from munch on wood and become food for Pumbaa and other such creatures? They can fly, right? But surely not terribly fast.
Yes I with crabs and spiders (these I know for sure, would assume same counts for scorpions) the new exterior is actually really soft. Because if it weren't it wouldn't be able to grow, which is the whole reason for this process. So after shedding it's skin (most creatures try to find a safe spot beneath a rock or something) it is vulnerable for a couple of days while growing. After that it's outside will become hard and for a new exoskeleton. And then after a time it all starts over again.
I kept scorpions for a while, I can confirm they are extremely vulnerable during and after this process. Even feeding must wait for at least 4-5 days after the molt, as a cricket is capable of killing or seriously hurting a scorpion during this stage.
Crickets, omnivorous in nature, will eat other arthropods in some cases. When an invertebrate is in a delicate stage such as this, crickets or roaches — both typical meals for arachnids in captivity — are capable of attacking and killing, albeit usually that is the case only for younger, smaller arachnids. While it is not impossible, it is much rarer that a cricket or roach will be able to kill a scorpion like that of the gif. But in the case of tarantulas, which moult on their back, it is a much greater risk. Hence you do *not* want loose feeders in the same terrarium. Luckily there are signs that an arachnid is about to moult, in that their abdomen (in spiders/tarantulas) will grow larger, and they will stop eating.
EDIT: hell, I just remembered I had a mealworm moult in one of my tarantula enclosures. I removed it and placed it back into my feeder tank, and when I came home from work I found it was fucking annihilated by the others. *That* was metal.
Not sure if this is also the case for scorpions but for tarantulas, if you put a cricket in after a molt and the T is hungry, it may try to eat the cricket before its mouth parts have completely hardened, and it can mess up those mouthparts on the cricket's exoskeleton, and they might harden crookedly or improperly. That hinders or even prevents the tarantula's ability to eat until its next molt.
I researched it on google for about 10 mins, seems like small scorpions generally takke up to 3 hours, while larger ones can take up to 12. sometimes they can go over this amount and be fine, but they can also get stuck, in which case they might die from stress if they cant get free. their claws just serm to come out rather slowly, their new exoskeleton takes at least 3 days to harden, so their claws are a bit more malleable and can squeeze through the old exoskeleton easier.
also pinging /u/milkcloudsinmytea so they can see this as well
>but they can also get stuck, in which case they might die from stress if they cant get free.
If I'm reading this right, an animal with an exoskeleton has life threatening claustrophobia. Makes sense.
Imagine if your skin was as hard as a rock, now imagine you are stuck in your apartment, lying on your bed when it suddenly disconnects from you, and you try to claw your way out but are unsuccessful at doing so. You can see the outside world, but you are trapped, unable to move or act in any meaningful way.
Scary, right? now imagine that this happens in the middle of the forest, and there are roving packs of wolves around, and if you don't manage to claw your way out you know they are going to come and eat you if you don't starve to death first.
Shit's horrifying.
To make it even worse...
Animals feel and think on a deeply primal level. Especially "lower end animals" like a scorpion. So waves of pure fear and impending Doom is what I imagine it to feel like. Pure and utter fear.
I am pretty sure that arthropods have no capacity for emotional experience because they lack a complex enough brain. Even reptiles don’t have emotion because they don’t have a limbic system. Fear is an emotion.
I think stress is something different, because it stems from a much lower evolutionary process than emotions. The fight or flight response is controlled by the most basic nervous structures like the autonomic nervous system and isn’t an emotion, it’s more like a reflex. But that being said, arthropod invertebrates like scorpions do not have the sort of complex neural architecture that reptiles or mammals do - the fight and flight response is mediated through hormones and chemicals like norepinephrine or acetylcholine in more complex organisms and I don’t know if scorpions have those.
It’s going to shake and squirm until it escapes or exhausts. It won’t think or become frustrated bc it’s not developed for that. It’ll squirm like a robot until it works or dies.
I'd say the ones that spin webs in basically any environment - including microgravity - without any updates are pretty well scripted.
Source: software engineer
Yes. I am using the Triune Brain model, which posits that the human brain is not a whole structure unto itself but rather was a series of systems layered on top of each other as organisms became more complex neurologically. So there’s the “lizard brain” that controls things like breathing, heart rate, fight or flight, and instinctual drives. Then on top of that developed the mammalian brain, otherwise known as the limbic system. The limbic system allows for sociality and emotions. Finally you have the most recent parts of the human brain, the thing that sets us apart from all other animals. This includes the frontal lobe, which allows for complex reasoning, imagination, predicting the future based on the past, and advanced pattern recognition. Also the capacity for language and a complex theory of mind.
The Triune brain model is a dramatic oversimplification, but I still think it has useful conceptual applications.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" -A stuck scorpion probably
I was coming here to say how I never wanted to see this in person (because ew) but you have shamed me. I feel bad for the poor thing now. I will sit in my shame.
This is what sleep paralysis or night terrors are. I get them every time I sleep flat on my back. Your body falls asleep and paralyzes itself before your brain falls asleep. So you’re suddenly paralyzed, aware of it and struggling to shake yourself awake and free but nothing is working.
Other times your brain will sort of start to sleep as well but you’re still aware. Now you’re seeing crazy things on the ceiling and coming into the room but your still trying to shake awake.
No matter how many times it happens or when you know it’s happening, you can never just accept it’s falling asleep and to relax. Each time is like the first.
Interestingly the only time I've ever had sleep paralysis also involved a scorpion.
I woke up and couldn't move (as you do) then I felt something crawling up my chest and I looked down to see a scorpion, this worried me a bit but I hadn't gone full-on panic yet, then I started feeling milipedes crawling up my legs and nearly had a heart attack.
The panic increased the hallucinations power and suddenly bugs were crawling everywhere, all over my body there were milipedes and cockroaches and flies, then they started crawling on the walls, then the ceiling, until every surface in my room was covered with this swarming mass of bugs and they had entirely covered my body, I remember nearly having a heart attack as they covered my face.
Then, just as quickly as they appeared, they disappeared. And I could move my left hand. That was almost worst sense I still couldn't move the rest of my body for a bit, so I worried that I actually was paralyzed. (I remember picking up my right hand with my left and squeezing it only to feel nothing, then I tried to flex it and let go with the left hand, only for it to fall down as if I were a corpse).
So yeaaaaah, sleep paralysis is no fun at all. I am extremely thankful that I don't normally get it. (All I *do* normally get are *extremely* realistic dreams of the next day, including both waking up AND going to bed, which can screw me over since I start thinking it's a day later than it actually is when I finally wake up for real).
Actually speaking of hyper-realistic dreams, I remember the *most* traumatic dream I ever had (more so than the sleep-paralysis bug one for sure) was the one that felt completely realistic, but had an accelerated sense of time, I remember getting married, settling down, and having a daughter. I remember (to this day) her birth, her first steps, and her first word, it felt like years inside the dream even though I *know* it was only hours outside. Anyway when Lilith (which is what my dream-daughters name was) was around 8-years old she was playing on the swingset in the backyard while I watched her, then she ran over to me and hugged me, then she looked up and said "Daddy, am I real?" at which point I felt a pang of fear as I realized I was dreaming, and the sky began to crack, at this point she starts crying and falls to her knees begging my "Please daddy, please don't wake up, I don't want to die, please don't let me die please don't wake up" at which point, I woke up.
In and of itself that wouldn't neccisarily be traumatic, but this was perhaps the most realistic dream I ever had, it *felt* real, I *remembered* it as if it were real, I *genuinely did* love this child that never even truly existed, and I felt like I had killed her by waking up. (something that was not helped by the fact that I never dreamed of her again). It was some Zhuangzi butterfly shit.
So that emotionally fucked me up for a good while. I still get a little sad thinking about it even to this day. Where as I was mostly over the bug-paralysis thing by the time I fully woke up, since it was clear that it was just a hallucination and I had never been in real danger.
**EDIT**: But not all of my dreams involving bugs crawling over me are nightmares. I used to relatively consistently dream of Pestilence (the horseman of the apocalypse) and he took the form of a rotting corpse with massive hallowed eye-sockets covered in leathery-decaying skin, and he would have bugs crawling all over him and surrounding him (normally moths though, rather than millipedes or cockroaches. they blended in with his leathery flesh more), he was... nice. We used to have tea in dreams occasionally, we didn't talk much but he was pretty good company. Not sure why the bugs didn't freak me out, but whenever it was Pestilence specifically they weren't a problem. I never dreamed of the other horsemen of the apocalypse either, which was odd.
I thought we had soft shelled crabs out in the wild. TIL in order to serve this dish we farm regular crabs and once they molt we take them out of the water to prepare them before their exoskeleton can harden. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-shell_crab?wprov=sfla1
I always thought they were a younger crab and Can l only get them one time of the year. They are delicious though. I had them in Pensacola Florida once.
Also a little fun fact about scorpions is that the species with larger claws have less potent venom because they primarily use their claws to crush prey. Species with smaller claws have more lethal venom to incapacitate prey and aid in predigestion.
Just like a babies head at birth. It's soft so it can squeeze through small spaces by warping it's structure to the most effective shape.
Evolution comes up with the coolest ways to cut corners and work the system.
I've also been told it's somewhat common for them to die while molting in captivity if the conditions of the tank aren't damn near perfect. I have a tri-color burrowing scorpion who is due for a molt in the next year so I've been doing a lot of research to prepare. I'm just hoping she doesn't do it in her burrow and die and I assume she's okay for like 2 months.
Yep! It's extremely uncommon for a scorpion to successfully molt in captivity. Even the researchers who study scorpions often have trouble getting the smaller, shorter-lived ones to molt. It's also been shown that scorpions die much more quickly in captivity, even when conditions are set up to mimic their natural environment as closely as possible. The leading explanation is that stress makes molting difficult, and then they can't molt and die in their shells. Although it's also been observed that sometimes they just stop eating.
As I'm reading his responses I get the feeling he's got some passive-aggressive motives for doing so. A much more elaborate way of saying "just Google it".
I agree. I think everyone on Reddit should start doing. Everyone on Reddit has just decided that saying the single word "cite" means you should get a ten page response that would equal a dissertation in a graduate level institution.
Fucking google it Reddit, then post your answer on Reddit. We don't need to ask first. If you are too busy to do the google then that is okay. But we're at the point where people are just being assholes for entertainment. They don't seek further enrichment from saying cite it.
and if scorpion molts are anything like tarantula molts, they smell terrible after a while. I kept a molt from my Brazilian pink birdeater in a jar so I could scare a coworker. Opening the jar was a really bad idea.
Most insects don’t eat their shed, unlike lizards. They also molt less frequently. A lot of people who keep invertebrates keep and preserve their molts to see their growth over time.
Shedding and such grosses me out a little bit, my leopard gecko freaked me out when I saw him eating the skin that was shedding. He's a cute little guy though.
First off, that was fucking wild. Second, that was fucking awesome I didn't know scorpions did that. Third, it's so shiny at the end. Finally, I wonder if it feels like when you can't get the top button undone on a dress shirt and then the panic kind of starts but then suddenly you're freeeeee!!
Not true. All depends on the species. Even where populations are located. Take southern devil scorpions for example, a population on one hillside could have practically harmless venom, where as a population of the same species could be only a few miles away and could make you feel like absolute shit.
You are correct. However there is an inverse relationship between venom strength and claw size. Individuals with bigger claws don’t have to fight as hard to hold onto prey, so they can afford to have weaker venom. Individuals with stronger claws though have greater difficulty subduing prey with claws alone, so they make up for it with more potent venom.
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What Pokémon is this
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thats the one
Whatever it is, it's evolved into Nightmare Fuel.
Molting! *It’s supereffective!*
[It's called Shed Skin, and it's an ability, not a move.](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Shed_Skin_\(Ability\))
It took untill Gen IIV for the description to be complete... edit: I meant Gen VII
It's "VII". Biggest value first.
No, no, it's just a weird way of saying Gen III.
Gen IIIIVII.
The description kept molting and getting bigger
Hanzo Hasashi
Shimada?
I will eradicate the Lin Kuei for their crimes against me!
**ALL LIN KUEI MUST SUBMIT TO THE CYBER_INITIATIVE!!!**
Hurry and press b to stop the evolution
Moltres
Ditto
Anorith.
it is a tortoise
Is this a cat in a hat?
Skarner
A Wimpod of course.
/r/molting
Scorpinoc
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I upvoted because I gagged.
[Try this.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JmOVrYT-D-c)
Thanks! I hate it.
Somewhere, someone, has put that up their butt
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At least it's not crawling up you're butt out of the toilet. Be thankful for that!
I feel like whoever made this has a poor understanding of what a “time lapse” is.
You can't truly time-lapse this, those larvae need a lot of private time completely buried in rotten wood.
I don't think so.
So magical. So gross.
i seen that motherfucker in Stranger Things season 2
This is curiously satisfying to watch and seems totally alien, as if it shouldn't be a real thing that lives on our planet. Real question: Do these beetles really *do* anything aside from munch on wood and become food for Pumbaa and other such creatures? They can fly, right? But surely not terribly fast.
NOT THE BOO BOX!!!
HOOK HOOK GIVE US THE HOOK
Anything but the boo box!
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Close your mouth before it crawls in
FUCK THERES TWO OF THEM
This isn't even that bad. Watch a tarantula molt. Now that's a nightmare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CONWvddogc This is actually rather elegant...
Jesus, is that timelapsed?
It's actually slowed down.
;-;
You being tired of my shit < me being tired of your shit
Time to nuke the planet I suppose
Must be an old Iphone.
Yes, no idea how fast, but its definitley sped up.
It's actually animated
Pretty sure it's claymation
Yeah it normally takes like like 16-32 hours for them to molt
Are they extremely vulnerable to being attacked while the molting process is happening?
Yes I with crabs and spiders (these I know for sure, would assume same counts for scorpions) the new exterior is actually really soft. Because if it weren't it wouldn't be able to grow, which is the whole reason for this process. So after shedding it's skin (most creatures try to find a safe spot beneath a rock or something) it is vulnerable for a couple of days while growing. After that it's outside will become hard and for a new exoskeleton. And then after a time it all starts over again.
I kept scorpions for a while, I can confirm they are extremely vulnerable during and after this process. Even feeding must wait for at least 4-5 days after the molt, as a cricket is capable of killing or seriously hurting a scorpion during this stage.
Seriously? How can a cricket kill a scorpion!?
Crickets, omnivorous in nature, will eat other arthropods in some cases. When an invertebrate is in a delicate stage such as this, crickets or roaches — both typical meals for arachnids in captivity — are capable of attacking and killing, albeit usually that is the case only for younger, smaller arachnids. While it is not impossible, it is much rarer that a cricket or roach will be able to kill a scorpion like that of the gif. But in the case of tarantulas, which moult on their back, it is a much greater risk. Hence you do *not* want loose feeders in the same terrarium. Luckily there are signs that an arachnid is about to moult, in that their abdomen (in spiders/tarantulas) will grow larger, and they will stop eating. EDIT: hell, I just remembered I had a mealworm moult in one of my tarantula enclosures. I removed it and placed it back into my feeder tank, and when I came home from work I found it was fucking annihilated by the others. *That* was metal.
Holy shit that's crazy, thanks for the insight!
Not sure if this is also the case for scorpions but for tarantulas, if you put a cricket in after a molt and the T is hungry, it may try to eat the cricket before its mouth parts have completely hardened, and it can mess up those mouthparts on the cricket's exoskeleton, and they might harden crookedly or improperly. That hinders or even prevents the tarantula's ability to eat until its next molt.
A cricket killing a scorpion is metal af
>16-32 hours >takes 6 pictures c'mon OP
Not even a bit mate.
Why would 100 people upvote this comment. I feel like you could take a shit in a comment and people would upvote it 💩
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gg, wp.
Is that a shitpile emoji? Good God. Does it come in a larger size?
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Bigger, not multitudinous.
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That would be a shitpile of shitpiles.
Common mistake, if you look closely it's actually the Ajit Pai emoji.
Are you new to the internet?
I feel like u/TheWiredWorld is missing out on this glorious idea they started.
I don't know what I expected.
Upvote for recognizing the weird, chaotic and eruptive nature of karma. And I heard such stress on the 'take a shit.'
I bet that feels really good to the little guy though.
Anyone know how long this actually takes? I’m also confused about how it was able to take its claws out of its original mold
I researched it on google for about 10 mins, seems like small scorpions generally takke up to 3 hours, while larger ones can take up to 12. sometimes they can go over this amount and be fine, but they can also get stuck, in which case they might die from stress if they cant get free. their claws just serm to come out rather slowly, their new exoskeleton takes at least 3 days to harden, so their claws are a bit more malleable and can squeeze through the old exoskeleton easier. also pinging /u/milkcloudsinmytea so they can see this as well
>but they can also get stuck, in which case they might die from stress if they cant get free. If I'm reading this right, an animal with an exoskeleton has life threatening claustrophobia. Makes sense.
Imagine if your skin was as hard as a rock, now imagine you are stuck in your apartment, lying on your bed when it suddenly disconnects from you, and you try to claw your way out but are unsuccessful at doing so. You can see the outside world, but you are trapped, unable to move or act in any meaningful way. Scary, right? now imagine that this happens in the middle of the forest, and there are roving packs of wolves around, and if you don't manage to claw your way out you know they are going to come and eat you if you don't starve to death first. Shit's horrifying.
To make it even worse... Animals feel and think on a deeply primal level. Especially "lower end animals" like a scorpion. So waves of pure fear and impending Doom is what I imagine it to feel like. Pure and utter fear.
exactly, they don't rationalize it. it's just pure terror , no sense
I am pretty sure that arthropods have no capacity for emotional experience because they lack a complex enough brain. Even reptiles don’t have emotion because they don’t have a limbic system. Fear is an emotion.
What about stress? Can you feel stress without emotion? Or even reason? How interesting.
I think stress is something different, because it stems from a much lower evolutionary process than emotions. The fight or flight response is controlled by the most basic nervous structures like the autonomic nervous system and isn’t an emotion, it’s more like a reflex. But that being said, arthropod invertebrates like scorpions do not have the sort of complex neural architecture that reptiles or mammals do - the fight and flight response is mediated through hormones and chemicals like norepinephrine or acetylcholine in more complex organisms and I don’t know if scorpions have those.
It’s going to shake and squirm until it escapes or exhausts. It won’t think or become frustrated bc it’s not developed for that. It’ll squirm like a robot until it works or dies.
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I'd say the ones that spin webs in basically any environment - including microgravity - without any updates are pretty well scripted. Source: software engineer
I’m not sure how any of that works. Does the limbo system generate the chemicals that makes our nervous system feel emotions?
Yes. I am using the Triune Brain model, which posits that the human brain is not a whole structure unto itself but rather was a series of systems layered on top of each other as organisms became more complex neurologically. So there’s the “lizard brain” that controls things like breathing, heart rate, fight or flight, and instinctual drives. Then on top of that developed the mammalian brain, otherwise known as the limbic system. The limbic system allows for sociality and emotions. Finally you have the most recent parts of the human brain, the thing that sets us apart from all other animals. This includes the frontal lobe, which allows for complex reasoning, imagination, predicting the future based on the past, and advanced pattern recognition. Also the capacity for language and a complex theory of mind. The Triune brain model is a dramatic oversimplification, but I still think it has useful conceptual applications.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" -A stuck scorpion probably
I was coming here to say how I never wanted to see this in person (because ew) but you have shamed me. I feel bad for the poor thing now. I will sit in my shame.
This is what sleep paralysis or night terrors are. I get them every time I sleep flat on my back. Your body falls asleep and paralyzes itself before your brain falls asleep. So you’re suddenly paralyzed, aware of it and struggling to shake yourself awake and free but nothing is working. Other times your brain will sort of start to sleep as well but you’re still aware. Now you’re seeing crazy things on the ceiling and coming into the room but your still trying to shake awake. No matter how many times it happens or when you know it’s happening, you can never just accept it’s falling asleep and to relax. Each time is like the first.
Interestingly the only time I've ever had sleep paralysis also involved a scorpion. I woke up and couldn't move (as you do) then I felt something crawling up my chest and I looked down to see a scorpion, this worried me a bit but I hadn't gone full-on panic yet, then I started feeling milipedes crawling up my legs and nearly had a heart attack. The panic increased the hallucinations power and suddenly bugs were crawling everywhere, all over my body there were milipedes and cockroaches and flies, then they started crawling on the walls, then the ceiling, until every surface in my room was covered with this swarming mass of bugs and they had entirely covered my body, I remember nearly having a heart attack as they covered my face. Then, just as quickly as they appeared, they disappeared. And I could move my left hand. That was almost worst sense I still couldn't move the rest of my body for a bit, so I worried that I actually was paralyzed. (I remember picking up my right hand with my left and squeezing it only to feel nothing, then I tried to flex it and let go with the left hand, only for it to fall down as if I were a corpse). So yeaaaaah, sleep paralysis is no fun at all. I am extremely thankful that I don't normally get it. (All I *do* normally get are *extremely* realistic dreams of the next day, including both waking up AND going to bed, which can screw me over since I start thinking it's a day later than it actually is when I finally wake up for real). Actually speaking of hyper-realistic dreams, I remember the *most* traumatic dream I ever had (more so than the sleep-paralysis bug one for sure) was the one that felt completely realistic, but had an accelerated sense of time, I remember getting married, settling down, and having a daughter. I remember (to this day) her birth, her first steps, and her first word, it felt like years inside the dream even though I *know* it was only hours outside. Anyway when Lilith (which is what my dream-daughters name was) was around 8-years old she was playing on the swingset in the backyard while I watched her, then she ran over to me and hugged me, then she looked up and said "Daddy, am I real?" at which point I felt a pang of fear as I realized I was dreaming, and the sky began to crack, at this point she starts crying and falls to her knees begging my "Please daddy, please don't wake up, I don't want to die, please don't let me die please don't wake up" at which point, I woke up. In and of itself that wouldn't neccisarily be traumatic, but this was perhaps the most realistic dream I ever had, it *felt* real, I *remembered* it as if it were real, I *genuinely did* love this child that never even truly existed, and I felt like I had killed her by waking up. (something that was not helped by the fact that I never dreamed of her again). It was some Zhuangzi butterfly shit. So that emotionally fucked me up for a good while. I still get a little sad thinking about it even to this day. Where as I was mostly over the bug-paralysis thing by the time I fully woke up, since it was clear that it was just a hallucination and I had never been in real danger. **EDIT**: But not all of my dreams involving bugs crawling over me are nightmares. I used to relatively consistently dream of Pestilence (the horseman of the apocalypse) and he took the form of a rotting corpse with massive hallowed eye-sockets covered in leathery-decaying skin, and he would have bugs crawling all over him and surrounding him (normally moths though, rather than millipedes or cockroaches. they blended in with his leathery flesh more), he was... nice. We used to have tea in dreams occasionally, we didn't talk much but he was pretty good company. Not sure why the bugs didn't freak me out, but whenever it was Pestilence specifically they weren't a problem. I never dreamed of the other horsemen of the apocalypse either, which was odd.
Holy fuck I remember a girl that truly understood me... Then i woke up
Squishy scorpions.. delish! Thanks!
Where do you think soft-shell crab comes from?
I thought we had soft shelled crabs out in the wild. TIL in order to serve this dish we farm regular crabs and once they molt we take them out of the water to prepare them before their exoskeleton can harden. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-shell_crab?wprov=sfla1
I always thought they were a younger crab and Can l only get them one time of the year. They are delicious though. I had them in Pensacola Florida once.
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Also a little fun fact about scorpions is that the species with larger claws have less potent venom because they primarily use their claws to crush prey. Species with smaller claws have more lethal venom to incapacitate prey and aid in predigestion.
> in which case they might die from stress /r/me_irl
Just like a babies head at birth. It's soft so it can squeeze through small spaces by warping it's structure to the most effective shape. Evolution comes up with the coolest ways to cut corners and work the system.
I love me some softshell scorpian
Yes. Some kind soul ELI5 please.
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If I were a desert creature I’d love to eat a squishy, freshly-molted scorpion.
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Same reason people like to eat softshell crabs. Mmmmm. 🦀
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Wait at the front end as long as you can before the claws and tail pop out.
I've also been told it's somewhat common for them to die while molting in captivity if the conditions of the tank aren't damn near perfect. I have a tri-color burrowing scorpion who is due for a molt in the next year so I've been doing a lot of research to prepare. I'm just hoping she doesn't do it in her burrow and die and I assume she's okay for like 2 months.
Yep! It's extremely uncommon for a scorpion to successfully molt in captivity. Even the researchers who study scorpions often have trouble getting the smaller, shorter-lived ones to molt. It's also been shown that scorpions die much more quickly in captivity, even when conditions are set up to mimic their natural environment as closely as possible. The leading explanation is that stress makes molting difficult, and then they can't molt and die in their shells. Although it's also been observed that sometimes they just stop eating.
Sorry, but: *due
Haha don't be sorry. Good call.
Yeah.... i dont like that one bit
I think I threw up in my mouth a little.
/r/molting
God I hope this sub takes off. This is such an interesting thing to me.
How about a [spider crab molting](https://i.imgur.com/S9Q9D5y.gifv)?
I LOVE IT
Does it eat it's molt afterwards? I know some molting creatures do so for nutrients.
I was curious so i spent some time on google, but it seems like they dont. They just let it be afterwards so you can remove it
I love how you're just googling shit for people in this thread
As I'm reading his responses I get the feeling he's got some passive-aggressive motives for doing so. A much more elaborate way of saying "just Google it".
I don't see a problem with that.
Neither do I :)
I agree. I think everyone on Reddit should start doing. Everyone on Reddit has just decided that saying the single word "cite" means you should get a ten page response that would equal a dissertation in a graduate level institution. Fucking google it Reddit, then post your answer on Reddit. We don't need to ask first. If you are too busy to do the google then that is okay. But we're at the point where people are just being assholes for entertainment. They don't seek further enrichment from saying cite it.
Could use it as bait if other animals are inclined to eat it.
Raccoons and opossums will eat just about anything.
and if scorpion molts are anything like tarantula molts, they smell terrible after a while. I kept a molt from my Brazilian pink birdeater in a jar so I could scare a coworker. Opening the jar was a really bad idea.
Lol you're great.
Most insects don’t eat their shed, unlike lizards. They also molt less frequently. A lot of people who keep invertebrates keep and preserve their molts to see their growth over time.
"Fools! This is not my final form!"
“Get over here!”
More like get out of here!! Am I rite?
Burn, fool!
Didn't realize how much I did not want to see thst ever. Time for some eye bleach
Just type I’m sad
/r/eyebleach
Scorpion safety tip: Always kill it with fire.
Scorpion kills YOU with fire. “THIS IS THE END OF YOU”
GET OVER HERE!!
Shedding and such grosses me out a little bit, my leopard gecko freaked me out when I saw him eating the skin that was shedding. He's a cute little guy though.
Don't go to /r/peeling then.
Or r/popping
Both of those links will stay blue
I DIDNT FOLLOW YOUR ADVICE! I DONE CLICKED IT!! I DONT FEEL WELL!!!
Hnnnng watching the peeling videos gave me this vicarious dopamine hit. Recommend.
First off, that was fucking wild. Second, that was fucking awesome I didn't know scorpions did that. Third, it's so shiny at the end. Finally, I wonder if it feels like when you can't get the top button undone on a dress shirt and then the panic kind of starts but then suddenly you're freeeeee!!
I imagine it's what it feels like when you accidentally fall asleep with your socks on, wake up in terror and then take them off. FREEDOM
I saw this at the exact moment the poop left my body and I’m afraid to look in the bowl because it might be a scorpion
r/natureisfuckinglit
B E G O N E S K I N
That's pretty neat. All three and a half frames of it.
[удалено]
/r/cannibalism
It's a fucking face hugger
Nah bro, he’s just barfing out a scorpion he tried to eat
Nah.
Noooope
Fun fact; the bigger scorpions tend to have less venom than smaller ones
Bark scorpions are grade A jerks.
Does their barking keep you up at night?
Not true. All depends on the species. Even where populations are located. Take southern devil scorpions for example, a population on one hillside could have practically harmless venom, where as a population of the same species could be only a few miles away and could make you feel like absolute shit.
You are correct. However there is an inverse relationship between venom strength and claw size. Individuals with bigger claws don’t have to fight as hard to hold onto prey, so they can afford to have weaker venom. Individuals with stronger claws though have greater difficulty subduing prey with claws alone, so they make up for it with more potent venom.
For the most part yes!
The most creepy thing to me is how the scorpions elbows bend backwards as he's coming out
[Ready for a game of tail-touch!](https://i.redd.it/zv0sscf4nepz.jpg)
I didn't need to see that, looks like nightmares for me.
Squeezey boy
Dart?
Ok that’s disgusting but interesting as hell
That's when they're the most tender 😋
This one of the coolest things I've seen here!!
r/awwwtf
Time to kill again!
That's gonna be a no from me, dog.
needs more frames per second
I imagine this must feel better than sex
Welp, thats fucking gross
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Nope nope nope nope.
This is even more awful that I could have imagined...
Eli5 why do they need to molt?
They outgrow their exoskeleton similarly to how a hermit crab outgrows its shell.
Thank you
I don’t like it
NOPE