Damn Nature, You Are Amazing!!!

Bruh yall trippin on eating that Kingler.

Hard pass on an urban crab. Those things are huge and probably taste like dirt, garbage, and pollution.

Not to mention I'd curb stomp one if I saw it in the streets, word to my dude Marcus Fenix.
 

Schmidt Pain Index (Which Sting Hurts the Worst?)

Posted by Shelley Batts  on May 16, 2007

Getting stung by insects hurts, and some hurt (a LOT) more than others. Of course, this necessitates a ‘sting pain’ index by which to compare the aftereffects of meeting the business end of a stinger. Why, just last weekend when i was on an ill-fated canoe trip (I dumped out twice, in freezing water) and was stung by a particularly unruly bee, I was remarking on how useful it would be to place my excruciation in the context of other nasty bugly-bites. 

Lucky for all of us, an entomologist named Justin O. Schmidt decided to take one for the team and let a lot of bees, ants, and wasps sting him. Then, he would rate the level of ouchiness in an admirably systematic method. He published his “Schmidt Pain Index” in 1984 (refined in later papers, eg 1990), which ranked the sting-pain on a scale from 0 (completely benign) to 4 (mostly dead). The descriptions of the stings he presents are borderline precious, hearkening back to wine-tastings or sampling a pungent perfume:

1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
1.2 Fire ant:  Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch.
1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
2.x Honey bee and European hornet. 
3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
3.0 Paper wasp:  Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of Hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
4.0 Pepsis wasp:  Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath (if you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream).
4.0+ Bullet ant:  Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch nail in your heel.

One of the worst stings was from Pogonomyrmex badius (an ant, above) which he “likened to pain that might be caused by someone turning a screw into the flesh’ or “ripping muscles and tendons.” Wow. That is serious dedication to your work. Anything that has ‘badius’ in its name, well i’m steering clear of. 

But perhaps the worst sting of all goes to the Pepsis wasp (or Tarantula Hawk, yeah  it kills tarantulas. Pictured below.). Rather than light or fruity or shag-carpety, he described the pain as “…immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one’s ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations.”
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Arachnophobes look away now - this image of a giant huntsman will haunt your dreams.

The chilling snapshot shows a mammoth huntsman crawling over a broom on an animal rescue farm in Queensland’s Brisbane Valley.

Dubbed Charlotte by the animal rescuer who moved it from harm’s way, the colossal creepy crawly will look like a waking nightmare to anyone with a fear of spiders.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...land-biggest-huntsman-ever.html#ixzz4PEMZ6In1  
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fLorida 
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 will NEVER.

How do y'all live knowing this is just creeping about your hood.

 
 
KingKoopa said:
 
fLorida 
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 will NEVER.

How do y'all live knowing this is just creeping about your hood.

 
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south florida and the rest of the state are two different countries. im from miami dade county, i spent 4 months in lake county and OMG. south florida still beats cali and ny though and when i say south florida i mean the tri county....dade/broward/palm beach. georgia can have the rest of the state 
 
iLLiCiT305 said:
south florida and the rest of the state are two different countries. im from miami dade county, i spent 4 months in lake county and OMG. south florida still beats cali and ny though and when i say south florida i mean the tri county....dade/broward/palm beach. georgia can have the rest of the state 
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Lake county ? That's like comparing lessen county to San Francisco ... Orlando,tampa hell even Jacksonville > south florida
 
RFX45 said:
vids not working anymore but is it the giant dinosaur gator?








and it's not even the first time, this happened about a year ago
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I am still amazed by this. Curious to know how old this gator is. Living dinosaur!
 
Bruh, that gator must've been a vegan. White dude grossly underestimated that beasts' catch-up speed.
 
They dont know if its a giant squid or decomposing whale carcas
 
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