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[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Which is why you don't see cat sized insects roaming around, I live next to a tarantula trail and some of them fuckers get BIG.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spiders aren't insects. Though like them, they don't have lungs! Not ones like ours, anyway.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

In my defense I am a smartass not smart.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Eh, you were close enough.

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

tarantulas do indeed have lungs though

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Arachnids are not insects though.

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