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[MetalSlimeHunt]

The brown recluse is not particuarly deadly, but it will, you know, kind of melt a permanant hole into your living flesh.

[Sirus]

The brown recluse is not particuarly deadly, but it will, you know, kind of melt a permanant hole into your living flesh.

Just imagine if it bit you in the face. Oh wait, it's happened.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The brown recluse is not particuarly deadly, but it will, you know, kind of melt a permanant hole into your living flesh.

Just imagine if it bit you in the face. Oh wait, it's happened.

Imagine if it bit your eye. Oh wait, that also already happened.

[Nadaka]

The brown recluse is not particuarly deadly, but it will, you know, kind of melt a permanant hole into your living flesh.

Yea. It doesn't help much that its venom is a prion capable of self replication.

[Graknorke]

The brown recluse is not particuarly deadly, but it will, you know, kind of melt a permanant hole into your living flesh.

Just imagine if it bit you in the face. Oh wait, it's happened.

Imagine if it bit your eye. Oh wait, that also already happened.

1: How does someone let a spider get in their eye?
2: Eyes grow back. From quite a bit of abuse. Obviously not being disconnected/pasted, but I don't think a bite is going to mess up your eye that bad. Then again, flesh melting.

[Lord Inquisitor]

The brown recluse is not particuarly deadly, but it will, you know, kind of melt a permanant hole into your living flesh.

Yea. It doesn't help much that its venom is a prion capable of self replication.

was gonna say japanese hornet has melted people, but what the! on above.

[Loud Whispers]

The brown recluse is not particuarly deadly, but it will, you know, kind of melt a permanant hole into your living flesh.

Just imagine if it bit you in the face. Oh wait, it's happened.

Imagine if it bit your eye. Oh wait, that also already happened.

Eh, parasites are worse. At least you can see recluse spiders when they're obliterating your dermis.

[Sirus]

So basically, even if the venom isn't "deadly", it's still not shit that you wanna mess with.

[RedKing]

Friend of mine got stung by a bee in the eye the other day. That was fairly WTF in itself. He just saw a flash of black and yellow and then nothing but searing, blinding pain.

[Loud Whispers]

So basically, even if the venom isn't "deadly", it's still not shit that you wanna mess with.

Unless it adds to the culinary experience. Or you know, for science.

[Sirus]

Oh, by the way? There's been at least one case of people recovering from a brown recluse's bite...only to spontaneously have the symptoms reoccur years later.

[RedKing]

Okay, did a quick wikiwalk of venomous spiders and found the most WTF:

P. fera and P.nigriventer are widely considered the most venomous species of spider. Its venom contains a potent neurotoxin, known as PhTx3, which acts as a broad-spectrum calcium channel blocker that inhibits glutamate release, calcium uptake and also glutamate uptake in neural synapses. At deadly concentrations, this neurotoxin causes loss of muscle control and breathing problems, resulting in paralysis and eventual asphyxiation. In addition, the venom causes intense pain and inflammation following a bite due to an excitatory effect the venom has on the serotonin 5-HT4 receptors of sensory nerves. This sensory nerve stimulation causes a release of neuropeptides such as substance P which triggers inflammation and pain.

Aside from causing intense pain, the venom of the spider can also cause priapism in humans. Erections resulting from the bite are uncomfortable, can last for many hours and can lead to impotence. A component of the venom (Tx2-6) is being studied for use in erectile dysfunction treatments.

DO NOT WANT D: D:

[Loud Whispers]

viagraspider?

now we know how they make it!

"May cause impotence."

[Levi]

viagraspider?

now we know how they make it!

Speaking of spiders AND sexytimes, I was entertained by this video on boing boing today.  Its a peacock spider doing its mating dance.  It somehow reminds me of interpretive dance though.

[RedKing]

Speaking of more spider-and-sex-related-WTF:

Some redback males have been observed utilising an alternative tactic that also ensures that more of their genetic material is passed on. Juvenile female redbacks who are nearing their final moulting and adulthood have fully formed reproductive organs but lack openings in the exoskeleton that allow access to the organs. Males will bite through the exoskeleton and deliver sperm to the organs without performing the somersault seen in males mating with adult females. The females then moult within a few days and deliver a normal clutch of eggs

Pedo spider rough sex.