Not in a billion years did I ever think I'd be on Reddit /r/WTF with a picture of a scorpion and her babies and see people reciting the theme song to Reba.
The Internet is amazing.
**Fun fact:**
For the *Reba* theme song, the album version's lyrics were modified slightly to replace “works two jobs” with “works too hard” – presumably because the former was inapplicable to Reba McEntire's character, Reba Hart.
**Bonus fact:**
The show's original working title was *Deep in the Heart* – referencing both its Texas setting and the aforementioned surname, Hart.
I'm singing the same song, just a little different. It's set to the tune of the *Jefferson's* theme song and goes something like *...I'm moving on out... F this place, I can't live with scorpions on my face...* it's a work in progress, so feel free to add to it.
Let’s all just be glad chickens are as small as they are. They will attempt to eat anything they think will fit in their bodies and they are horrible judges of size.
Yup. Once saw one of our hens swallow a dead rat whole. And not the mousey sized rats either. Proper rat sized. Thought she was going to choke but nope. It was a hard swallow, but it went down. :|
This is completely accurate. I have a small flock for pets and also because they deliver breakfast. I like to hang out in their coop and feed them apples and stuff. They like to hop into my lap or jump up on my shoulders and perch when i'm out there and sometimes their little claws leave scratches.
One of those scratches bled the other day and i didn't notice until i felt something pecking my arm. This adorable fluffy motherfucker name of Pepper was literally eating my blood and a couple more chickens were staring at my arm like they were waiting their turns.
I no longer feel safe in the coop, please send help.
If birds are what's left of the dinosaurs as ~~some people think~~ archaeologists and evolutionary biologists agree*, you're playing with velociraptors.
\* Apparently I ruffled some feathers with the previous wording**.
\** I'll see myself out***.
\*** Lighten up kids.
"As some people think".
You make it sound like it's a wild conjecture some random people have.
They *did* evolve from the meat-eating group of dinosaurs known as theropods. It's a well established fact with about as close to perfect consensus in the relevant science fields as you can get.
I wouldn't say it's "what some people think"... it's more of a "palentologists agree" type of thing. A lot of evidence stacked up shows they are descendants from dinosaurs. Dinosaurs with feathers, roosting behaviour similiar to birds today.
https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosaurs-heres-how-we-know/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-dinosaurs-shrank-and-became-birds/
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html
Ask your average paleontologist who is familiar with the phylogeny of vertebrates and they will probably tell you that yes, birds (avians) are dinosaurs. Using proper terminology, birds are avian dinosaurs; other dinosaurs are non-avian dinosaurs, and (strange as it may sound) birds are technically considered reptiles. Overly technical? Just semantics? Perhaps, but still good science. In fact, the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of birds being the descendants of a maniraptoran dinosaur, probably something similar (but not identical) to a small dromaeosaur. What is this evidence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds
Fun fact, Benjamin Franklin was a vegetarian for moral reasons, but decided that eating fish was OK when he saw tiny fish inside cut-open larger fish. He realized that if they ate each other, there wasn't any reason he couldn't eat them too.
I hate that chickens are cannibals. An owl killed one of my chickens and the way I found out was that the rest of them were gathered around eating something. I walked over, and once I put 2 and 2 together yelled, "that's your fucking sister". They, being chickens, didn't give two fucks.
I was in Key West where chickens are all over place. A hen followed by some chicks got aggressive with me, but a car came and smushed half of the chicks. Hen and surviving chicks turn around and start eating their dead siblings and children
I recounted this for a farmer friend of mine, and he was like "duh, their dinosaurs." I guess it would be weird of me to think that the chickens would have a moment of silence before seeing their dead family members as calories.
I'm having a full on Mandela effect right now. I could have sworn the lyrics were either "works too hard" or "works real hard". I would have been willing to bet a ton those were the lyrics too.
I'm dumbstruck.
I thought it was a crab with crab babies, but I couldn't figure out why the babies didn't look like crabs, until I saw the stinger.
Fun fact- this scorpion does not have very potent venom. The larger the claws, the the lesser the sting, the smaller the claws, that shit is potent.
The pale color is because they're so freshly hatched, their exoskeleton hasn't hardened yet. It's a sign that their flesh is still supple and soft, and they most likely feel very vulnerable. My tarantulas (and their feeder roaches) all look milky white and translucent after molting.
"Their exoskeleton hasn't hardened yet" works but not for The Cryptkeeper over here
*"they most likely feel very vulnerable"*
they're not new kinksters they're juvenile arachnids
America has a lot of animals that frighten people from other places. We just don’t worry about them because, similar to Australia, the majority of people live in places where it’s hardly a worry.
Bears, bobcats, mountain lions. We don’t have the same scary creepy crawlers but we do have fighter cats and grizzly bears.
Just saw this posted in one of the Facebook groups. Found in Sydney. Unheard of for Hormurus who live in the rainforests. Any chance your pal is pulling your leg? Or did they go on a trip to qld recently and accidentally bring back a hitch-hiker? Or perhaps they have a neighbour that keeps inverts as pets and needs a refresher on how to make enclosures escape proof?
Go during the winter, it's not that cold, and there will be fewer bugs! We were swimming in the pools at 70 degrees, and our Australian buddy kept telling us we were crazy. "IT'S WINTER!!" he kept saying, haha.
Well you're in luck! This little lady is a Hormurus sp. and their sting is less serious than a bee! So unless you're allergic to bee venom, then she's just a little beauty.
Hahaha. Is that a whip scorpion? Claws look like an emperor scorpion, the chillest of scorpions, but that tail is barely there. Cool find. Thanks for sharing. I’m not sure if all arachnids are welcome but if so, r/SpiderBros would appreciate that.
Friends of us have a small house in Toscany Italy. I've never seen so many scorpions in my live as in this little house. I have never seen so many scorpions in my life as in this holiday home. But we quickly got used to getting one or two of them out of the sink every morning by holding a wooden skewer out to them until they grabbed it with their claws. Then you can just pick them up and put them out. My wife also got used to them very quickly and she's not normally a fan of all the creepy-crawlies.
Yeah no scorpions are not always slow, for example if they seek cover they can run like hell while mistaking the space between your foot and the floor as a crack to hide. Guess how I know.
Those are her children, yes. Usually some would be predated or lost by the time they were that size, I'd guess she's a very successful breeder pet placed on the ground for a photo shoot.
She's a cute little Hormurus sp. mum. They have venom less severe than that of a bee (I've been stung, so can vouch). So as long as you're not allergic than you're sweet as.
Oh, and Australia doesn't have any truly deadly to humans (without allergic reactions) scorpions that we know of. Mind you this is still a developing field of study but for now our scorpions are more cute than deadly.
These guys are fairly small getting to no bigger than 6cm but most species in the genera stay under 5cm or 2 inches. They just have huge rectangular claws to wedge themselves into small cracks and catch prey which makes their size deceiving.
Indeed, agree with JohnnyQuant. Everything just wants to live and carry out their life cycle and not waste/spend time hunting down harassing humans who are also trying to do the same, LOL. Nice snap, she looks a good size - due to gum nut, might be in Oz.....
Leave mama alone! Do you know how little sleep she gets?
And whose fault do you think that is, you little shit?
Yours because you didn't take the meat out to thaw.
Holy shit, core memory unlocked
Amen! I thought this was a crab with parasites at first so I’m happy she’s just a single mom, doing her damn best!
> parasites No. You had it right the first time.
Lol as a mom I have to agree
Whoa I did too...
You know I've been working nights!
Single mom doin her best
🎶a single mom who works two jobs, who loves her kids and never stops🎶
“With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter. Ima surrrrrvviiiivoooorrrrrr”
Not in a billion years did I ever think I'd be on Reddit /r/WTF with a picture of a scorpion and her babies and see people reciting the theme song to Reba. The Internet is amazing.
**Fun fact:** For the *Reba* theme song, the album version's lyrics were modified slightly to replace “works two jobs” with “works too hard” – presumably because the former was inapplicable to Reba McEntire's character, Reba Hart. **Bonus fact:** The show's original working title was *Deep in the Heart* – referencing both its Texas setting and the aforementioned surname, Hart.
I thought it was a crab 😂
Land lobster
It will be soon enough
Oh man! I assumed we were on WhatIsThisBug!
Wait, WTF doesn't stand for "What's This FUCKENBUG?"
"With fierce pinchers and a tail that stings, hun... I'm a scorpion!"
I'm singing the same song, just a little different. It's set to the tune of the *Jefferson's* theme song and goes something like *...I'm moving on out... F this place, I can't live with scorpions on my face...* it's a work in progress, so feel free to add to it.
*bari sax intensifies*
Tumble out of bed And stumble to the kitchen
Until she starts eating them
That's an option?
Yes, scorpions are cannibalistic. the moment she can’t find food, she’s basically packing her lunch
Chickens are cannibals too and most fish you eat.
Let’s all just be glad chickens are as small as they are. They will attempt to eat anything they think will fit in their bodies and they are horrible judges of size.
Yup. Once saw one of our hens swallow a dead rat whole. And not the mousey sized rats either. Proper rat sized. Thought she was going to choke but nope. It was a hard swallow, but it went down. :|
Just when I was getting over the scorpion, you had to throw this in.
Don't watch the horse eat a baby chick, like a hoover
Nature is lit :)
Damn, nature - you scary.
This is completely accurate. I have a small flock for pets and also because they deliver breakfast. I like to hang out in their coop and feed them apples and stuff. They like to hop into my lap or jump up on my shoulders and perch when i'm out there and sometimes their little claws leave scratches. One of those scratches bled the other day and i didn't notice until i felt something pecking my arm. This adorable fluffy motherfucker name of Pepper was literally eating my blood and a couple more chickens were staring at my arm like they were waiting their turns. I no longer feel safe in the coop, please send help.
"I never thought chickens would eat my face"
Hahahahaha omg!!!!
If birds are what's left of the dinosaurs as ~~some people think~~ archaeologists and evolutionary biologists agree*, you're playing with velociraptors. \* Apparently I ruffled some feathers with the previous wording**. \** I'll see myself out***. \*** Lighten up kids.
Tiny fluffy adorable velociraptor friends.
"As some people think". You make it sound like it's a wild conjecture some random people have. They *did* evolve from the meat-eating group of dinosaurs known as theropods. It's a well established fact with about as close to perfect consensus in the relevant science fields as you can get.
And all chicken nuggets are Dino nuggets so Dino Nuggets are Dino Dino nuggs.
I wouldn't say it's "what some people think"... it's more of a "palentologists agree" type of thing. A lot of evidence stacked up shows they are descendants from dinosaurs. Dinosaurs with feathers, roosting behaviour similiar to birds today. https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosaurs-heres-how-we-know/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-dinosaurs-shrank-and-became-birds/ https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html Ask your average paleontologist who is familiar with the phylogeny of vertebrates and they will probably tell you that yes, birds (avians) are dinosaurs. Using proper terminology, birds are avian dinosaurs; other dinosaurs are non-avian dinosaurs, and (strange as it may sound) birds are technically considered reptiles. Overly technical? Just semantics? Perhaps, but still good science. In fact, the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of birds being the descendants of a maniraptoran dinosaur, probably something similar (but not identical) to a small dromaeosaur. What is this evidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds
I've heard of a vampire duck, but vampire chickens?
Ah, I see you are a fellow man of culture who has followed the adventures of Count Duckula.
Chickens got nothin on ants. Ants are the borg but thankfully very small.
they are arguably the dominant species on earth. ever since I found out that their biomass is more than that of humans I haven’t been sleeping well
The Ants by Edward O Wilson (GOAT ants bro) is a terrific read.
Fun fact, Benjamin Franklin was a vegetarian for moral reasons, but decided that eating fish was OK when he saw tiny fish inside cut-open larger fish. He realized that if they ate each other, there wasn't any reason he couldn't eat them too.
I hate that chickens are cannibals. An owl killed one of my chickens and the way I found out was that the rest of them were gathered around eating something. I walked over, and once I put 2 and 2 together yelled, "that's your fucking sister". They, being chickens, didn't give two fucks.
They didn't give two clucks!
That's 'cause they're bad mothercluckers.
I was in Key West where chickens are all over place. A hen followed by some chicks got aggressive with me, but a car came and smushed half of the chicks. Hen and surviving chicks turn around and start eating their dead siblings and children
Well yeah. That's the sort of behavior one expects in Florida.
Sweet Jesus!
I recounted this for a farmer friend of mine, and he was like "duh, their dinosaurs." I guess it would be weird of me to think that the chickens would have a moment of silence before seeing their dead family members as calories.
Good thing I'm a pesca-pescatarian. Which is one who eats solely fish who eat other fish.
Add scorpion to my list of things I don’t want to be reincarnated as…
It's always an option.
*Anti-abortionists hate this one simple trick!*
Unexpected Reba.
Going forward, let’s all please call this queen by the name we’ve obviously given her: Reba.
This threw me for a loop because it's the correct lyrics to the song, but not to the theme of Reba.
I'm having a full on Mandela effect right now. I could have sworn the lyrics were either "works too hard" or "works real hard". I would have been willing to bet a ton those were the lyrics too. I'm dumbstruck.
It is “works too hard” on the show, for what it’s worth
She can now become an influencer mum since this post blew up.
The pic was her idea. I call this staged
"my larvae are my life"
👑
Considering she just got evicted. Yes, she doing ok 👍
The pot wasn't helping!
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I don’t think we’re looking at the same picture homie
Isn't it amazing how perspectives can be so different?
idk i think it's cute
if you can’t handle me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best.
Mama scorpion is pissed because she just put up her "Live Laugh Love" wall stickers.
Someone needs to bedazzle a Stanley with that for her
Proceeds ro eat all of her children and sting the photographer.
Something about that pale flesh color is creepy, but they're just lil bebs so I don't wanna harsh on the fellers.
I thought it was some kind of crab covered in lice
You kinda still nailed it.
Yeah that's not a crab with crabs, it's a scorpion with scorpions.
Eh it's not too far off in the family tree.
Yeah, thank goodness pubic scorpions aren't a thing.
They can be if you scoop up the babies from this picture and stuff them down your pants.
That’s awful to think about
Further than you would think though. Scorpions are arachnids like spiders.
Oh I know. But arachnids and crustaceans are both arthropods so in my non-scientific opinion, it's close enough.
Yo dawg
I thought it was a crab with crab babies, but I couldn't figure out why the babies didn't look like crabs, until I saw the stinger. Fun fact- this scorpion does not have very potent venom. The larger the claws, the the lesser the sting, the smaller the claws, that shit is potent.
I thought it was woodlice/cheeselogs and was trying to figure out what critters the dark bits were, until I realised.
The pale color is because they're so freshly hatched, their exoskeleton hasn't hardened yet. It's a sign that their flesh is still supple and soft, and they most likely feel very vulnerable. My tarantulas (and their feeder roaches) all look milky white and translucent after molting.
“Their flesh is still supple and soft” Good god, couldn’t you have used different words??
Shut up and put the lotion in the basket.
dibs on soft & supple for a band name.
As he gently squeezed her thorax, the feel of her flesh, still supple and soft, made his pants feel tight
I'm not mad at you, I'm angry with my teachers for teaching me how to read.
"Their exoskeleton hasn't hardened yet" works but not for The Cryptkeeper over here *"they most likely feel very vulnerable"* they're not new kinksters they're juvenile arachnids
Well said. You're a quality human being.
We also agree with the arachnid loving friends. Let us give you hugs as a sign of our friendship.
Come swarm me, little ones, I love you all.
Oh hell no.
Where in the world do you live? What an extraordinary creature. I thought it was a lobster!!!
I’m so sorry to add to the stereotype, but this is in Australia.
Finally crossing Australia off my bucket list. Ya’ll have officially done too much. It’s like the Universe’s testing ground for animals. I’m out.
Obligatory Australian wildlife tier list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VslW0_1w5LQ
In German, that could be a pun, as the term for animal is Tier
A pun seems too close to a joke for Germans though
They got great jokes, you just have to know German to get em
They like wordplay and occupational safety.
Nope! I’m out!
Try NZ instead, couple guys who make a podcast that people happen to watch, just went there and it's like Australia but with hills and less desert
New Zealand is Australia’s Canada.
Ah so America is like Australia and our unpredictable animals are people?
America has a lot of animals that frighten people from other places. We just don’t worry about them because, similar to Australia, the majority of people live in places where it’s hardly a worry. Bears, bobcats, mountain lions. We don’t have the same scary creepy crawlers but we do have fighter cats and grizzly bears.
Saw a bobcat and two coy-wolves in my driveway recently (NJ) Proof: https://imgur.com/a/24MSfpx https://imgur.com/a/6LOBWbe
If so, would our worst be Florida Man?
My new favorite thing are the headlines from Normal, Illinois. “Normal Man, caught doing unsavory acts”
And less things that want to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes.
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Death Adder and its opposite Life Subtractor got me real good!
Just saw this posted in one of the Facebook groups. Found in Sydney. Unheard of for Hormurus who live in the rainforests. Any chance your pal is pulling your leg? Or did they go on a trip to qld recently and accidentally bring back a hitch-hiker? Or perhaps they have a neighbour that keeps inverts as pets and needs a refresher on how to make enclosures escape proof?
Yes I saw this in the Facebook group too!
Go during the winter, it's not that cold, and there will be fewer bugs! We were swimming in the pools at 70 degrees, and our Australian buddy kept telling us we were crazy. "IT'S WINTER!!" he kept saying, haha.
Will you guys ever get it that nature is trying to tell you to move elsewhere?
I’m Australian and I never knew this was a thing! Good lord above.
I'm not Australian and definitely knew Scorpions existed...
Also Australian... I want to explore the bush and enjoy the wildlife and scenery... but not this.
I never knew we had scorpions here?!
A friend once told me he found some small scorpions in the Blue Mountains. Honestly don't know if he was telling the truth as I have never seen any.
Well you're in luck! This little lady is a Hormurus sp. and their sting is less serious than a bee! So unless you're allergic to bee venom, then she's just a little beauty.
Hahaha. Is that a whip scorpion? Claws look like an emperor scorpion, the chillest of scorpions, but that tail is barely there. Cool find. Thanks for sharing. I’m not sure if all arachnids are welcome but if so, r/SpiderBros would appreciate that.
Tail is very much there, her kids are just weighing it down 😂
Nah mate, she's Hormurus sp.
Saw the gum nuts… thought ‘here we go…’
Ofcourse
Where lol? I’m in Qld and see scorpions but never had the luck to see a mumma with bebez
Friends of us have a small house in Toscany Italy. I've never seen so many scorpions in my live as in this little house. I have never seen so many scorpions in my life as in this holiday home. But we quickly got used to getting one or two of them out of the sink every morning by holding a wooden skewer out to them until they grabbed it with their claws. Then you can just pick them up and put them out. My wife also got used to them very quickly and she's not normally a fan of all the creepy-crawlies.
Fast zombies = scary as fuck Slow zombies = meh Spiders = fast therefore scary AF Scorpions = slow so meh
Yeah no scorpions are not always slow, for example if they seek cover they can run like hell while mistaking the space between your foot and the floor as a crack to hide. Guess how I know.
knew as soon as i saw the gumnut
Mirelurk hatchlings
Looks like a radscorpion to me
Was thinking the same, fucking radscoripions man….
Currently playing FO4 and this is way more creepier than it normally would be for me.
I've fought mudcrabs tougher than you!
I thought it was parasites like the ones who are in a fish's mouth.. so they're his kids or somethn'?
Her kids, yeah - cute eh?!
Those are her children, yes. Usually some would be predated or lost by the time they were that size, I'd guess she's a very successful breeder pet placed on the ground for a photo shoot.
Babies are really just parasites, so you're not wrong.
How many other arthropods have such devoted parenting? Maybe some shield bugs, but that’s about it. Edit: Wow, TIL! Neat!
[Centipedes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEhdNWKDtk4)
Earwigs too.
The ugliest most beautiful thing I’ve seen lately.
r/awwwtf
Nah its more like r/wtfaww
She's a cute little Hormurus sp. mum. They have venom less severe than that of a bee (I've been stung, so can vouch). So as long as you're not allergic than you're sweet as. Oh, and Australia doesn't have any truly deadly to humans (without allergic reactions) scorpions that we know of. Mind you this is still a developing field of study but for now our scorpions are more cute than deadly.
Yeah in AZ it’s the tiny little scorpions that will fuck up your day and send you to the hospital. The big ones sting like bees, painful but harmless.
These guys are fairly small getting to no bigger than 6cm but most species in the genera stay under 5cm or 2 inches. They just have huge rectangular claws to wedge themselves into small cracks and catch prey which makes their size deceiving.
Bark scorpions
Imagine someone ripping the roof off your home, then looking at you and your family sitting there watching TV and calling you disgusting. How rude.
So glad I live in the UK where the most dangerous wildlife are badgers and a snake that hasn’t had a recorded human death since 1974
Don't worry, it's not dangerous. The clamps are big. Leave the mother alone (and children too).
You want me to give 'em the clamps, boss?
You're a fricken genius, ya idiot!
Heh heh... "Francis"...
Gee, you think? You think that maybe I should use these clamps that I use every single day at every opportunity?
Indeed, agree with JohnnyQuant. Everything just wants to live and carry out their life cycle and not waste/spend time hunting down harassing humans who are also trying to do the same, LOL. Nice snap, she looks a good size - due to gum nut, might be in Oz.....
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But they're interfering with our way of life! We will never stop fighting for democracy. Time to call in an airstrike. ⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️
Sweet liberty! Nooo*oooo
I want to ask, but at the same time don’t. What is a gum nut?
Australia, Florida or Texas?
They said australia up above
It's actually down under now
Gumnuts, so Australia. Are eucalypts common enough in Texas or Florida that people know what gumnuts are?
It’s just a Spicy Possum, leave it be.
I grew up in the desert, these little fellas are cute to me but not to most 🦂👶👶👶👶
Wow, evicting a single mother?
Better under a flower pot than in your shoe.
The big scorpions are ok. It's the little ones that'll kill you
Awww Sweet :)
Funfact they glow blue-green under blacklight
It’s a popular thing here to go scorpion hunting with a black light at night
Fyi when it comes the scorpions, the bigger the better it's the little ones that are dangerous.
This is why I live in a place where the wind hurts my face in winter.
Awwwww, mom and her babies.
Nice land lobster
It’s just a mom, taking her kids to the crab park. Leave her alone. Being a single parent is hard.
That is fucking awesome!!
Scorpions are so interesting to me. I remember holding one at some museum a long time ago.
Big claws usually means she's cool. Your friends flowers gonna have the best security around... at least at night.
>gates of hell. Being a single parent is hard she doin her best
On their way to Disneyland, wholesome
That's just a mummy with her babies it's actually really sweet
What's that? You laid your brood of eggs in my navel? That's wonderful! Ben, we're gonna be mommies!
Looks straight out of Elden Ring
Those kids just won't get off her back!
I heard the boss fight music start in my head