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http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/pseudoscorpions.php

Pictured here crawling along my shorts. Apparently they'll attach themselves to flys and other flying insects to grab a ride off to other places.

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[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

I made the mistake of looking up whether these live in the UK too, to find there are 27 species of them here. And now my skin won't stop crawling...๐Ÿ˜ฉ

(I know they are very small, harmless to humans, and mostly live outside, but arachnophobia doesn't discriminate lol)

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 8 months ago

If you think that's scary, don't look up how many species of spiders there are ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

But I already know that.. This is a new thing I was hoping I could avoid thinking about because they didn't exist locally, only they do, a lot..

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