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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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...😩

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you think that's scary, don't look up how many species of spiders there are 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 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..