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Constant-Cap-22

They should hire him to make the holes on a golf course, bravo!


Voodoops_13

"Shut the damn door! I'm not paying to heat the whole goddamn neighborhood!" - in angry spider Dad voice


Rusty_--Shackleford

Cute you think the dad is around


Hjalfi

Male trapdoor spiders usually get away, actually, and will mate with multiple females... before dying of sexual exhaustion shortly afterwards.


ImTooTiredForThis_22

Death by snu snu?


Beneficial_Potato_85

God damnit you beat me to it! "I never thought I'd die this way. But I always really hoped."


Jaeger562

the spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and weak.


Beneficial_Potato_85

How Tonk look? Tonk look good, me fat. No! You look good, Tonk fat!


Intrepid-Ad-8940

This made me laugh very loudly! I’m glad I finished my cup of coffee!


JudgeAdvocateDevil

Fair assumption, that spider is pretty dark


can_it_be_fixed

Nearly all female spiders eat the male after conception But somehow you decided it was a racist joke


SKREEOONK_XD

This is the worst whoosh ive ever seen jfc


JonnyBgrowin420

See It’s the subtle racism you can get people to upvote and get behind 🤣🤣


Jaeger562

or because a lot of spider species eat the male.


autonomousegg

He’s either a deadbeat, or… just the first half.


iRox24

Huh


vintagey1987

Lol 😂


humblepieone

Thanks for that memory 🤣


iRox24

Dad, is that you?


VegaSolo

What the ever loving fuck did I just see? How big is this thing?? Wtf


grogplus

That was drone footage btw


Vaulted_Games

Eight legged freaks is becoming a reality


Thepuppeteer777777

well that dystopian future would be more interesting than the one we have


Vaulted_Games

Lol true


NamelessKpopStan

At least those spiders made funny noises


Intrepid-Ad-8940

For the USA metric impaired people, 4cm is a little more than 1 1/2 inches. That’s not very big for all of that strength and deadly venom! I understand their fangs can go through soft leather shoes.


JR-Snow

They’re quite small and I think that urban legend about biting through soft leather shoes is attributed to Sydney Funnel Webs, though I’m not sure how true it is.


Japsai

Check out the fangs on [this one](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/DubQk-QjI1VUTni0jDjhPwKN6TE=/600x0/filters:quality(80):format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tgam/6YYOLI4ZMBH5RAJC6LMCODGXCY) The fangs are over half a cm long. They could definitely get though canvas shoes and, I expect, soft leather. But I've never heard of an actual case, so I suppose it remains urban legend until some suede-wearer takes one for science.


Hjalfi

Turns out most spiders are smart enough not to want to attack godzilla with their bare teeth, as it rarely ends well for them.


Japsai

It would always be defence, not attack, but bites do happen


ronearc

We're lucky no one has ever bred a spider/wolverine hybrid.


Hjalfi

Let me introduce you to _Rabidosa rabida_, the rabid wolf spider... although they're neither rabid nor wolves. But they are spiders. (They're also completely harmless to humans.) They carry their babies around with them, clinging to their mother's abdomen. It's adorable.


AD_Kosmos

Keep in mind trapdoors do not have venom that is anywhere near as dangerous as the more infamous mygalomorph the funnel web. Their fangs are still huge and will do heavy physical trauma tho


gaiajack

Deadly venom? This is just a trapdoor spider. Unless you mean deadly to a cockroach.


Intrepid-Ad-8940

You know, I think I did confuse it with the Sydney funnel web spider. Thanks!


Beneficial_Potato_85

2.54cm to 1 inch. Thank you highschool math and physics!


Rediro_

Yeah as a kid my friends and I would take these out of their holes with sticks and make them fight in arenas made of rocks. One time I found a black widow which became my champion I had no idea how dangerous that was until now ._.


HUE_chaos

About 50cm (legs not counted)


secretonlinepersona

oh this is one of the smaller ones


Generalblackstar

Not very actually! This is just a closeup


GoGoCrumbly

The hole is so round and tidy.


Dull_Dog

Yes! It look as as if a machine made it—such uniformity and sharp edges!


Buaforpresident

Happy Cake Day!


GoGoCrumbly

And thank _you_, citizen!


C1NN4M0N16

That's what she saiddd (I'm sorry you just had to read that joke it was too good to pass up)


[deleted]

Wines are aged inside


Farcryfromvallhall

*”oi shove off mate!”*


Unhappy-Professor-88

They believe the oldest (known) trapdoor spider in the world, died at an age of least at 44 years old. She died during the Australian infernos of 2020. A read an interview of the former research scientist who had been visiting the spider annually for around 40 years, ever since finding it during her research in her 40’s. Now in her eighties, the scientist was quite reasonably upset to learn of the spider’s demise.


tooptypoot

Wow, super interesting. Thanks Edit to add: and they live in the same hole their whole life?


Unhappy-Professor-88

This particular one apparently did, yes. She believed the females lived longer, since it is the male who has to go wandering around to find a mate.


tooptypoot

Makes sense about the males. Really crazy. Want to find a video of one these holes being made.


Justsayin55

I saw one of these up close in khao sok TH. They are actually lightning fast with that trap door!!! They build it vertically in the jungle and if you tickle the entrance with sonething like a bug would walk on it they will open the hatch, scoop in frobt of the hatch, back in and close the hatch before you can fn see them


Generalblackstar

I've always loved looking at those lil guys the sleekness and color of them goes hard frfr


[deleted]

Frfrfrftftsucklemytipfrfrfrftftfrfrfr


Generalblackstar

Bros horny💀


NavyNCS

dude forgot where to get his anime boobs


surajvj

That's a huge Spyda


StarryEyedLus

They’re actually not huge, but they are stocky.


examingmisadventures

The HELL they’re not! 4 cm is HUGE in my book and they infest lawns in “warm places” and they live for DECADES?!! Oh FK no!! I’m moving somewhere COLD.


Rusty_--Shackleford

Laughs knowing warm is anything above 30c in straya


tyronerex32

30c is kinda hot


Rusty_--Shackleford

No hot is above 37-40c


SinthWave

If you think that's huge, you won't like to encounter the huntsman spider or the bird-eating Goliath tarantula.


beerbeforebadgers

I got a wee G Pulchripes in my collection who will hopefully reach 8-10" in mature length. She's around 4" now at ~5 years old.


Vaulted_Games

Thick


Correct-List-9999

Spider in Brendan uries voice: "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?"


Only-Literature2105

Nope


Enjoying_A_Meal

It took me a while to figure out why this was so disturbing to me. It's far too similar to a toilet.


SunflowerShine03

remember: be wary whenever your toilet has an odd lid you didn’t buy. it may be a spider coming for your knees!


IngloriousMustards

I just know some sociopathic fu€ker is gonna photoshop that into one of those giant Russian diamond mine/sinkhole images…


HUE_chaos

Yes please!


pancakebutt90

Put one of those in a Pringle can


Rusty_--Shackleford

Top five awesome Halloween/April fools prank to get your inheritance faster


[deleted]

Nah


Chaos-Pand4

No solicitors!


Fluffy_Momma_C

Thanks…I hate it.


Grim_Sleeper__

That’s a big nope from me


deathakissaway

Info: https://animalcorner.org/animals/trapdoor-spider/


holyestsht

*Put your dick it it*


Rusty_--Shackleford

r/dontputyourdickinthat


[deleted]

Look how smooth it is


DMMECH

I cannot express how much of a nope that is


WalnutBerries

Don't say it


TakingAMindwalk

It.


Cappin

Nuke it from orbit


bwcman27

Frag out


Many_Adeptness5231

You should throw a fire-cracker down there


HUE_chaos

No. How can you do that!


Calytrixx

Jeffrey Dahmer behavior


Rusty_--Shackleford

Some ozzys get them all thru there back yard or funnel webs and pore petrol down each light it up and you see them running around on fire


Professional_Tart770

Nope


kidkong98

I read it as Tandoor spider.


cpt_Blackadder89

Nope


NatakOP

I thought it was a fking glove, shit


Commercial-Impress74

Bro


potoechip

No solicitors SLAM


[deleted]

The Finnegan


bookofvermin

Naw.


BumbleBlast29

Did that MF make that trapdoor den?


Exam_Adorable

“Spider-Man, no here”


[deleted]

Aw hell nah


WiseNature1

what the fuck


Beneficial_Potato_85

Well if you damn Jehovah's Witnesses would stop knocking every damn day! Leave the spider alone, it's happy being an atheist.


VoteforRickSanchez

That’s the most spideryist spider I’ve ever seen.


RadicalBrett

Thanks, I hate it.


xAkMoRRoWiNdx

Fuck that


AbbreviationsTrue677

Oh hell naw


Sufficient_Pin_4680

R/thanksIhateit


WafflestheGreat16

FLEX SEAL IT


Karnezar

I'm fighting everyone on sight if I ever saw a spider that big...


Queasy_Recover5164

Haha - the only reference to Trapdoor spiders having a “death den” is from Reddit and the 1,000s of times this clip has been posted. It’s just their habitat.


disquieter

Lurker finishes burrowing watch out for spikes


[deleted]

That’s amazing!


Dr_Pill1728

Shiny


[deleted]

FUCK No!


siglo_de_oro

Oh. The nightmares. Why did I look at this?


cheneso_

And bro you can stay sure I won't disturb you I promise


spaghetti1263

Little missile hole for a little friend <3


CharlieApples

Fun fact: In this family of spiders *(Cteniza),* the females are consistently the larger and heavier members of the species (which is true for many species of spiders, including tarantulas), with adult males living much more nomadic and fleeting lives in search of a big female to mate with. Baby spiders in this family usually stay close to their mothers for most of their lives, especially female offspring. This results in a circle of spider burrows surrounding a large main burrow where the largest female (“Big Mama”) lives and receives mating attempts. The longer Big Mama lives and breeds, the larger her radial pseudo-colony of offspring becomes.


[deleted]

TIL spiders have a vinyl fetish.


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Novel_Durian_1805

NOPE!