• Artyom@lemm.ee
      17·
      10 months ago

      Its prey options include:

      • Insects around its size in League
      • Small rodents in League
      • Large rodents in League
      • Good odds against small mammals in League
      • A fighting chance against humans in League
  • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    28·
    10 months ago

    Interesting how the hourglass mark is drawn on the top of the abdomen instead of underneath. I guess it makes the spider more recognizable as a black widow even if it’s not as anatomically accurate.

    • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      As someone who lives in a place where I have to check any black spiders I see to make sure they’re not black widows, that’s the first thing I noticed, too. It’s not like drawing the hourglass on the bottom makes it harder to see/recognize, especially when the text explicitly identifies it as a black widow.

      I guess the artist has never seen an actual black widow and this is done out of ignorance rather than as a conscious design choice. It’s possible that there are multiple subspecies of black widow, some of which have the markings on the top, but I’ve never heard of that. Then again, I’m no biologist…

      • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
        13·
        10 months ago

        I’m from Australia and I always thought it was on the top. Turns out our black widow, affectionately known as a redback, has the marking on top. Not sure if the two are actually related, though.

        • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
          9·
          10 months ago

          Yes, they are all in the Latrodectus family, all have venom containing the neurotoxin latrotoxin, which causes latrodectism (pain, vomiting, muscle rigidity, sweating).

          Australian Redbacks are Latrodectus hasseltii:

          New Zealand Katipo are Latrodectus katipo:

          Western Black Widows are Latrodectus hesperus:

          Southern Black Widows are Latrodectus mactans:

          Female:

          Male:

          Northern Black Widows are Latrodectus variolus:

          European Black Widows are Latrodectus tredecimguttatus:

          South American Black Widows are Latrodectus corallinus:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus

          • brsrklf@jlai.lu
            3·
            10 months ago

            I used to be in a black widow-free area but it seems that European “13 spots” one is now starting to show up here.

            Probably not good news.

      • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        10 months ago

        Yeah when I looked them up via image search in case I might be wrong, and there were occasional depictions with the hourglass on top but they seemed to be photoshopped images or illustrations that would be used for a “5 ways to kill these pests!!” clickbait websites.

        In most cases it probably is from a lack of real world exposure to the spiders in question. They were pretty common where I grew up and I was taught to be on the lookout for the black shiny abdomen because you can’t always see the hourglass.

  • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
    122·
    10 months ago

    I got bitten by a brown recluse like ten years ago (different spider I know, but also very poisonous), I still have a scar that fills up with nasty ass puss every few years. Yes, I have seen a doctor about this and they said deal with it, some people have to get limbs amputated over shit like that.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      143·
      10 months ago

      If I had a doctor tell me “Deal with it” or “There’s nothing we can do” I think I’d go Karen mode.

      Sir it’s your fucking job to assist me with this.

      • Senshi@lemmy.world
        20·
        10 months ago

        I mean, he did. Such poison damage is a bit similar to bad chemical or fire damage, except it often affects deeper tissue stronger and can “hide” behind a relatively healthy surface skin.

        The damaged deep tissue has died and turned to slush from the poison, which the body needs to dispose of and then rebuild from scratch. However, with large damage in the deep tissue, which is where skin repair should originate from, this is often impossible to achieve perfectly. So you often get enclosed pockets of “weird/wrong” tissue that has no proper drainage to the outside or inside to the lymphatic system. So occasionally, bacteria or viruses crawl in and fester. The bad circulation due to the previous damage means the immune system has a hard time fighting it, which usually leads to it cordoning off the area, forming a so called abscess. If this abscess can then be properly drained to the surface and sterilized(!), this can keep it calm for very long times and is comparably easy to manage and monitor.

        And there is no good alternative. You can try and remove all the damaged tissue, which has the unpleasant side effect of having the surgeons carve a huge hole in you. Which the body again will have to try and repair, including massive scarification, possible los if function is nerves and/or muscle tissue is lost and a very high risk of formation of more abscess-prone internal scar tissue. If there’s no way to deal with the occasional infections in a hygienic manner, there’s a high risk of abscesses draining internally sooner or later. This almost always leads to intense sepsis, which is very often lethal after mere days.

        Which is why the usual alternative to large-scale deep tissue damage is called amputation, even today and with all the crazy medical advances we have.

        • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          I suppose I would have been the one to take the ‘carve’ method, removing the damaged tissue and having new skin grafted on. If the doctor presented that as an option and it was refused, then that’s fair, but as someone who has damaged lymph nodes from an infection I’m keenly aware of the misery a chronic condition can cause with no real long-lasting solution. Yet I still was given treatment options and medication which I’d expect as standard practice.

          • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
            3·
            10 months ago

            If it was a scar on my face I might have gone the plastic surgery route and got it fixed, but it was somewhere where the sun don’t shine so I took the “just live with it” option. Cosmetic surgery is still an option, just not really worth it to me, the only people that will ever see it would be sexual partners and it’s not so bad that someone would see me naked and be like “that’s a deal breaker”. Most people don’t even notice it unless I tell them. It’s on my upper thigh so like for the first week or so when it was swollen and my balls rubbed up against it, it hurt like a bitch, but after that it was just whatever.

            • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
              11·
              10 months ago

              But have you got revenge, or did you forgive her or is this an ongoing rivalry, you should at least confront her about what she did

  • kaitco@lemmy.world
    51·
    10 months ago

    That toxicity is legit!

    If I’m playing Tank and I create a pathway and none of my DPS take it!? I’ll rage too! Also, why are none of my healers doing any healing? I shouldn’t have more healing as a tank than the healers!!!

    • Blue@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Oh yeah I remember, the 20 pings and message on the chat so they can understand I’m going to engage. So they can watch me as I start the fight a almost kill the ADC, before they retreat.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    Spidey got knocked around in the school of mf-ing toughest knocks, that’s what’s up.

    Well, ackshuallly: I think the degree to which someone experiences hardship is relative to their endurance for it, everyone is differently sensitive.