Betrayal! Horseshoe Crabs are Really Arachnid Infiltrators!

[Orin J.]

As my wife and two daughters dislike spiders, therefore I have to enforece a persecute with extreme prejudice policy in out house.

in the outhouse i can understand, no spider has any business setting up shop over the shitter!  ;D

[worktroll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDAiq2-xeU

[jimdigris]

Nope, we have benign, cute spiders, for example the peacock jumping spiders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratus_volans)

They also help land planes and direct traffic when the lights are not working properly.

[Nightlord01]

I have a lot of difficulty with this sentence.

This is the Internet, you expect proper English at all times? :)

[dgorsman]

They also help land planes and direct traffic when the lights are not working properly.

If that's big enough to help planes land, the lights not working are the least of the problems.  Or maybe it's a good thing it's dark.

[Kidd]

This is the Internet, you expect proper English at all times? :)

No, I meant the concept that having an abundance of the 2nd most venomous land snake in the world is preferable :D because of course the alternative is THE most venomous land snake in the world!

[Nightlord01]

No, I meant the concept that having an abundance of the 2nd most venomous land snake in the world is preferable :D because of course the alternative is THE most venomous land snake in the world!

Ahh, fair enough then. :)

And yeah, I traded one for the other, as well as crocodiles, tiger sharks, and an abundance of other nasties.

What can I say? It would feel wrong somehow I was safe wander out and about in the local bushland, or my back yard, for that matter.

[Sartris]

One of the few benefits to living in a place where it gets below zero (f) regularly in the winter - it keeps the riff raff out

[rebs]

No doubt.  And living in a land-locked state keeps the horse shoe crabs someone else's problem.  I promise to wear a black armband for any of you killed by the menace, though.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

No, I meant the concept that having an abundance of the 2nd most venomous land snake in the world is preferable :D because of course the alternative is THE most venomous land snake in the world!

Give how long it took for scientists to realize that the inland Taipan was venomous because of how non-aggressive it was, I think it'd be preferable to many of the less venomous but much meaner alternatives.

[truetanker]

You mean like the two-legged man eater that distracts it's prey with perfume and high heels?

 8)
TT

[Sharpnel]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Luciora]

Yes.  People have asked.

https://www.quora.com/Are-Horseshoe-crabs-edible

[gyedid]

No doubt.  And living in a land-locked state keeps the horse shoe crabs someone else's problem.  I promise to wear a black armband for any of you killed by the menace, though.

Um...it's not the horseshoe crabs (they're not really "crabs", so call them "xiphosurans") that are the health hazard here.
(Indeed, it's hard to imagine them being any kind of threat to anyone...)

cheers,

Gabe

[rebs]

Um...it's not the horseshoe crabs (they're not really "crabs", so call them "xiphosurans") that are the health hazard here.
(Indeed, it's hard to imagine them being any kind of threat to anyone...)

cheers,

Gabe

That was a joke continued from the OP, about Horse Shoe Crabs being arachnid invaders.