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Spider mouths

God help me, I don't know why I googled this, but I did...

Did you know that spiders don't slurp their food up through their fangs?
Like many people (I assume) I always thought that a spider injected venom/digestive juices into their prey with their fangs, and then I just assumed they slurped the resulting soup up through said same fangs and swallowed it that way. I don't know why I thought this, I just always have...

Well. It turns out that this is not the case. Spiders actually have some almost Alien style crap going on, because they actually have a separate, almost tube-like mouth under their fangs that slurps the soup up like a straw. I had no idea! So since I googled this and was exposed to this Ungodly (used ironically - I am not religious) imagery myself, now you must be too. Welcome to the reality of the spider's mouth:
The mouth is that fleshy nodule, directly under the fangs right there. Everything I learn about spiders simultaneously fascinates me, and leaves me more and more convinced that they evolved from alien DNA left behind on some asteroid or something. Because that shit is crazy! (I'm only half serious here....)
Until next time!
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  1. Hayze Ablaze14 February 2024 at 02:53

    That is exactly how I feel about them. Fascinated and often deeply uncomfortable. They are strange little creatures. You could post that other image you just sent to me on Whatsapp. It adds to the horror and curiosity.

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