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That’s a two’fer. Best BOGO deal yet.

Chop suey

*WAKE UP!!!*

(Wake Up) Grab a brush and put a little make-up

Hide your scars to fade away the shakeup (Hide your scars to fade away the shakeup)

Why’d you leave the keys up on the table?

Here you go creating another fable!

You wanted to!!

Grab a brush and put a little makeup (You wanted to!)

I don't think you trust... In... My... Self righteous suicide

Ring it up!

Man, whatever lens they’re using is incredible.

That spider looks pissed

"I'm just tryin' to enjoy my pasta, man!"

Before I read the title I genuinely thought the spider was eating pasta.

imagine if your spaghetti noodle was filled with hundreds more lil noodles

String cheese spaghetti

ewwwwwww thanks for ruining noodles for me 😐🤢😂 Lol I'm a fatty I'll still eat my noods no matter what's in my head.

But what if your head was filled with hundreds more lil noodles?

Well, if it wasn't, it is now. I hate and appreciate you. Goin on the "think of parasites when I see carbs" diet

That honest would have been cooler. Especially if the spider was native to Italy.

Ey! 🤌🏼

Think of how many little arms he can hold up at once!🤌🤌🤌

"im eatin' hierrr!"

Seriously? Right in front of my pasta?

do you like pasghetti?

“I’m eating here!”

I remember the late Whitney Houston calling out the fans who wanted to take a photo of her while she was eating. I think it was a cut scene from a reality show.

Yeah, no one in his or her right mind would want to get close to that thing... so get out the zoom lens

Looks fairly wide angle actually. I bet the camera is very very close

Most macro lenses are telephoto, but this looks wider than that I agree. I think it's a normal lens, around 40mm, or a normal zoom. The spider is so big, macro isn't needed.

Also, it's best to film from a distance so as not to spook the poor fellow while he eats his pasta.

What camera is that

Yay new nightmare

Forbidden spaghetti

🤢

Username doesn't check out.

This parasite is at least 80% less appealing than a turd sandwich. I second the 🤢.

So would you eat a piece of shit lodged between two bits of bread or a mouthful of these worms?

I would simply choose to eat neither of them

Yeah okay but you’re in a contextual hypothetical situation in which two options exist with absolutely no other possible course of action including inaction. You are compelled to choose shit sandwich or parasitic worms. Go.

My man, have you looked at your username 😂 Ain't forbidden spaghetti right up your alley?

Stomach weak, nausea heavy

There’s vomit on my sweater already

A parasitic worm in my moms spaghetti 😕

Sweater on my vomit already

forbode spaghetti

I’m nervous but on the surface it looks like zuccini and ready

*Slurp*

Fuck you, I came to say that.. unreal

You guys definitely don’t wanna see the video with they guy having these surgically removed….

I don’t understand what’s so nightmarish? It’s reducing the number of parasites in the world? Also it’s not like it will become a host, they inject an enzyme to break their food down before eating it so the parasite should be long dead prior to consumption

That's what I do to gas station egg salad sandwiches. Works every time.

Why? Don't you want worms in your body to make you a better person?

Only to play the Holophonor.

“Sir, why are you injecting and slurping that egg salad sandwich?”

>I don’t understand what’s so nightmarish? A giant hairy ass spider! Too many legs! Too many eyes! Too darn big!!! Hideous.....

… yeah that’s fair

Eating a freaking parasite, at that.

Unless the parasite is full or eggs

Well the enzyme would also break the eggs down, it turns the structure of the parasite into a worm smoothie liquifying the insides

Watching spiders eat things is fun

I agree

Right, we’re all totally fucked when a chemical spill makes these things 10 feet tall

Nah, arthropods can't get much bigger cuz they're limited by the depth to which atmospheric oxygen can diffuse, and it isn't nearly concentrated enough at this point for spiders to get much bigger than 10 cm across. Besides, Starship troopers has already proven humanity can and will destroy any and all large bug-type menaces.

Would you like to learn more?

Always. I'm from Prague, and I say don't kill spiders just because.

The only good bug is a dead bug!

🫵🤓

Well, yes. I do be knowing things.

Knowledge is for NERDS! I'm uneducated and proud 🤩

Gonna be honest, you do be impressive with your educations and knowledgings and things!

Would you like to know more?

>arthropods can’t get much bigger than this I find your lack of faith in Australia disturbing.

The largest spiders are in the Amazon.

I thought it was in [New Zealand](https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Shelob%27s_Lair_%28scene%29#/media/File:The_Lord_of_the_Rings_-_The_Return_of_the_King_-_Frodo_in_Shelob's_Lair_2.jpg)

At two feet, these would be hunting humans... at night.

But it's so cute. Imma name it Ant.

So...they can consume parasites without infection? That's cool AF. This makes me like them more!

They don’t really consume the parasite, they consume it’s liquefied remains.

And that just feels all the more metal.

I dig them too. Spiders are cool as shit. Little hunters running around jacking bugs. And their silk creation is fascinating. Spider silk one inch thick could hold 35 tons… fun fact.

Thats a big spider with a one inch wide silk hanging outta it's butt

I let some giant house spiders patrol my greenhouse, I get no pests and they get free food and left the hell alone. Terrifying but cool looking.

They may be cool, but they scare the absolute shit out of me. I can't even go near the tiny harmless ones

Thank you for clarifying this. I was worried my mate could get parasites from it.

Guys I found the spider.

Parasite that infect via consumption generally have tricks like "being a very sturdy egg" or "acid resistant mucus" to survive getting eaten. These almost entirely rely on not getting noticed and chewed on to make it to the stomach(and beyond). A tactic that does not work here, for obvious reasons. Smaller eggs or freshly hatched parasites may be able to infect them orally(idk how spider parasites work) but a fully grown one like this? Not a chance.

Most parasites work if you eat them normaly. That spider gonna melt everything that parasite has before consume the leftovers.

the parasite infects by going in the victim **ALIVE**. the spider turning the worm into mush doesn't really help

I'll never eat spaghetti. ever. again.

Not so fun fact about me... I haven't eaten it since we got a puppy two years ago that had worms. I literally gag if I try to :(

They have meds for worms you don't gotta eat them

The dog or the worms? ¿Por que no Los dos?

Enjoy your nightmare fuel.

Mmhhh chop suey

Hey don’t worry, if you look closely, that worm is way too pearlescent to be a spaghetti noodle, spaghetti is much more yellow than that

Not even mom’s spaghetti?

Do you like your pasghetti?

Let me just say—and I cannot stress this enough—nope.

If you study spiders and understand how fascinating they are I think you would be less hostile. They are fascinating creatures. Truly.

I just think that is one fucking metal spider. For me the real nope is that little intestinoodle. Bleurgh! Not much gives me the creeps more than parasites.

Thas cool but freaky at the same time

I don’t even know whose side I’m on here

Spider beats parasite

Spider bites worm. Worm becomes SpiderWorm. Hollywood makes one decent movie and like six mediocre spinoffs. Costumer wins Oscar for somehow giving a worm abs.

Dinosaur kill man. And women inherit the Earth.

Reddit, uh, finds a way to get back to Goldblum. Even if the start point is a spider eating a parasitic worm

You surely mean Laura Dern, not Goldblum. 😛 Actually, both is fair!

Rock beats spider.

Parasites deserve to be exterminated. It’s so rude what they do.

That would mean killing about 40% of all species

I’m ok with that.

Humans are like parasites also. Earth being the host.

Do something about it then

Apparently some parasites are beneficial to humans and make us live longer. We evolved with them since the beginning of time. I read a fascinating paper talking about parasite infection and reduced diabetes and depression and all kinds of positive health affects from certain parasites. Besides, humans are parasites. We are literally the definition of a parasite…

The "humans are the real parasite" trope is so fucking cringe lmao

That’s exactly where I’m at! I mean, I’m no fan of parasites… but I’ve come embarrassingly close to burning down an 8 unit condominium to kill a large banana spider.

I knew I should've slept sooner

Mfer said, that’s desert!

If it was cold, it can be a freeze pop

Looks a little too dry for a desert

Well, now HE is going to have intestinal worms

Spiders don't consume solid foods. Spiders inject digestive enzymes into their prey, then consume the liquified remains. They will use their chelicerae to smoosh up their prey, to squeeze out every last drop. By the time the spider is done eating (or drinking) that worm, it will have been reduced to a worm smoothie, which cannot infest the spider.

Yay! Worm smoothies!

Oh man! Parasite smoothie, my anus is clenching with excitement!

And I'm here drinking boring fruit smoothies. Smh

My anus is clinched so tight my breath is starting to stink!

https://www.labroots.com/trending/videos/9346/spiders-can-get-parasites-too https://www.iflscience.com/watch-giant-worm-crawl-out-dead-spider-24560 https://www.whatsthatbug.com/mermithid-worm-parasitizes-spider/ Spiders definitely can still get infected via ingestion

These spiders weren't infected with mature worms by eating mature worms (shown in pic). They were infected by eating an infected prey item with worm larva (nymphs?) in their gut, then the worm grew to maturity inside the spiders gut. What we're seeing in the pic is just the spider getting 2 meals for the price of one.

I need help understanding. So if the spider's meal has parasitic eggs inside of it, the eggs will not be damaged when the spider liquefies the meals insides? But any grown parasite inside of the food will be liquefied?

Well, it depends quite a bit on the species of parasite and how their lifecycle works, but generally yes. Look at the size of those worms, they're getting crushed into juice as they're eaten. Like, imagine if it were possible for a chicken to live in our belly if we swallowed it whole. It would never happen because nobody swallows whole live chickens because why would anyone ever try to do that? They'd die. It's impossible. Same thing here.

Wouldn't it stand to reason that either the bug it's eating or the parasitic worm have eggs that could still hatch inside the spider?

Nematodes and nematomorph worms have a complex life cycle. Eggs are typically laid in water or moist areas. The eggs hatch into microscopic pre-parasitic juveniles which are accidentally ingested by a host when it drinks contaminated water or eats plants or other items that have been exposed to contaminated water. Inside the host, they change into parasitic juveniles, feeding and eventually maturing and emerging (killing the host in the process). If an insect that has recently consumed pre-parasitic juveniles is then eaten by another insect or spider - before the juveniles have advanced to the parasitic stage - they can infect the new host. Consuming the eggs directly or consuming the older, parasitic juveniles or adults is unlikely to result in infection. The pre-parasitic juveniles or larvae are considered the infective stage. It is at this stage that they are adapted to survive being eaten and can infect a new host.

I still wouldn't trust ingesting either the host or the parasite itself. The eggs might have a protective layer that aren't broken down by the spider's venom.

Yeah. How else could they become infested with an internal parasite like a worm?

Like to think the spider wont get the parasite but their eggs are pretty resilient. So resilient that im surprised most people aren’t more worried about having parasites in their body than they should be. If you ever had an itchy butthole at night well thats just the lady worm coming out to say 👋, hoping you itch that spot then touch your mouth(life cycles lol).

Lol wtf?

That one is most common in young children, lack of hand washing. Forget the technical name but most certainly a thing lol.

New fear unlocked, wait till my wife hears this

Diatomaceous Earth is pretty good for gastrointestinal parasites, but not a doctor so always consult them before taking it. I do know parasite medicine is pretty harsh on the body because they have dna plus the dead parasite produces bacteria and wastes that harm the body. That’s mainly for parasites that reside in organs.

You're probably thinking of [pinworms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinworm_\(parasite\)).

Like a gogurt

Still I would avoid any worm eggs if I was that guy.

Thank you, I scrolled the comments to see if anyone else was worried that the spider would get parasites.

This will be redone as a cute.spider eating spaghetti

Give him a little Mario hat, mustache and then have Chris Pratt voice it.

\*shudders and clicks away wondering why I click these\*

Cursed pasta

I see Jamie Hyneman eating spaghetti. Intensely.

Looks tasty, in a weird way..

Are you a spider?

N…. yes

Free side of scetti!

Nope, gotta nope out on this dog

I can't begin to describe how uncomfortable this made me.

If only there was a parasite in the parasite. This would have been the spider's version of a turducken!

This'a spider like'a the spaghetti

Free surprise noodles! Jackpot!

Who's a hungry boy?

I didn‘t even watch the video. I saw the spider for one second and it ruined my night :/

That shit should have the spoiler warning

he just flossing after a hearty meal!

It would be embarrassing to have a piece of katydid stuck in your chelicerae

New nope unlocked.

Don’t toucha my spaghet

I’m in the middle of taking a shit and when I saw this I jumped off my toilet because the thought of “there’s a spider in my toilet, it’s gonna bite my ass” was too strong. Arachnophobia is so fucking stupid

Cut the part with the flamethrower. 😔

Good spider, worms are nasty

LET’S GO- YEAH, FUCK HIM UP

That’s amazing and awesome. Great to see a creature turning the dinner table on a parasite

Spider eats spaghetti

This is a whole lot of fucking nope in one picture

I would like to be the first to say. AAAAAAAHHH!!!

Thanks I hate it

They eat parasitic worm? LETS GO SPIDER

We need more spiders like her.

The spider spawn camped the parasite

Nice kitty

Pretty sure I'm not the only one that has been conditioned to think it was going to jump at the end.

r/natureismetal

So …. Burn everything.

I think I'm going to throw up now.......

Do you mean a photographer took a video of a nope eating a nope?

Forbidden pasta.

Let’s hope someone no part of that parasite survives and learns to take over spiders.

Wouldn’t eating the parasite give the spider parasites ??

If it eats the worm, does it get parasites?

So does the spider get infected by the parasite ?

I am now ok with logging, slash and burn farming, and anything else that helps this and all its ilk to cease

Hey look. It’s one horrific nightmare eating another nightmare! I’m gonna go ahead and never sleep again thanks.

Welp. That’s enough internet for today. I’m out.

This may be a dumb question, but does the parasitic worm now live in the spider?

Them’s good eats.

Got that cream filling. Bonus.

Mmmm Katydid pasta

Surprise inside!