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New TLDR is live 🦂Learn about the fascinating psuedoscorpion called a vinegaroon. TLDR Core lessons:• Living Fossils: Un...
20/03/2026

New TLDR is live 🦂

Learn about the fascinating psuedoscorpion called a vinegaroon.

TLDR Core lessons:
• Living Fossils: Unchanged for 350 million years, older than dinosaurs and sharks.
• The "Super Vinegar": They don’t have venom or stingers! They spray a defensive acid 15x stronger than household vinegar.
• Blind Navigators: They use their long front sensory legs as "seeing-eye canes" to feel their surroundings.
• Harmless Giants: Despite their alien look, they are non-toxic and their pincers are too weak to hurt humans.
• Night Owls: Exclusively nocturnal ambush predators that live up to 11 years.
• Intense Romance: Their "dancing" courtship ritual can last a staggering 13 hours.
• Dedicated Moms: Mothers carry babies on their backs and share food with them in the burrow.

Full TLDR blog post linked on my website, inclusiveinverts.ca

Holy S***matheca Batman!This question is for the experts, but anyone can try their hand. What species of tarantula do th...
19/03/2026

Holy S***matheca Batman!

This question is for the experts, but anyone can try their hand.

What species of tarantula do these S***matheca belong to?

***matheca

13/03/2026

Slingshot spiders are tiny web-powered catapults. 🕷🕸

• They store elastic energy in their web before launching
• Accelerate up to ~1300 m/s² that's 100× faster than a cheetah!
• Launch up to 15 body lengths to catch prey
• Their web acts like a spring + shock absorber + parachute
• The entire system resets in under 1 second

This spider is cool because it builds a reusable slingshot.

Full TLDR blog post linked on my website, inclusiveinverts.ca

New TLDR is live!Slingshot spiders are tiny web-powered catapults. 🕷🕸• They store elastic energy in their web before lau...
13/03/2026

New TLDR is live!

Slingshot spiders are tiny web-powered catapults. 🕷🕸

• They store elastic energy in their web before launching
• Accelerate up to ~1300 m/s² that's 100× faster than a cheetah!
• Launch up to 15 body lengths to catch prey
• Their web acts like a spring + shock absorber + parachute
• The entire system resets in under 1 second

This spider is cool because it builds a reusable slingshot. 

Full TLDR blog post linked on my website, inclusiveinverts.ca

05/03/2026

New TLDR is live🕷🕸

This one breaks down the Evolution of S***m Priority Patterns (Steven N. Austad) and explores the high-stakes world of spider reproduction and paternity.

TLDR Core Lessons:
• Dominance of first-male priority: the first mate fertilizes the most eggs.
• S***matheca shape affects the process. There are cul-de-sac and conduit shapes: Cul-de-sac s***m pouches have one entrance and one exit and follow the “last in, first out” rule. Conduit is more tube like, using the “first in, first out” rule.
• The cost of female resistance is high energy consumption; thus, females entertain multiple male partners.
• Many proposed benefits to females, such as s***m supply, depletion, storage costs, nutritional gains, genetic diversity, have been debunked. All show we still have a lot to learn about mating benefits and costs.
• Males do not guard females due to: lifespan, energy costs, risk of death, and the gap of time between s***m being deposited and used. Though they do leave pheromones and sometimes s***m plugs to deter other males.
• Each species mates a little differently.
• Females aren’t as cannibalistic as commonly thought.

Full TLDR blog post linked on my website, inclusiveinverts.ca

New TLDR is live🕷🕸This one breaks down the Evolution of S***m Priority Patterns (Steven N. Austad) and explores the high...
05/03/2026

New TLDR is live🕷🕸

This one breaks down the Evolution of S***m Priority Patterns (Steven N. Austad) and explores the high-stakes world of spider reproduction and paternity.

TLDR Core Lessons:
• Dominance of first-male priority: the first mate fertilizes the most eggs.
• S***matheca shape affects the process. There are cul-de-sac and conduit shapes: Cul-de-sac s***m pouches have one entrance and one exit and follow the “last in, first out” rule. Conduit is more tube like, using the “first in, first out” rule.
• The cost of female resistance is high energy consumption; thus, females entertain multiple male partners.
• Many proposed benefits to females, such as s***m supply, depletion, storage costs, nutritional gains, genetic diversity, have been debunked. All show we still have a lot to learn about mating benefits and costs.
• Males do not guard females due to: lifespan, energy costs, risk of death, and the gap of time between s***m being deposited and used. Though they do leave pheromones and sometimes s***m plugs to deter other males.
• Each species mates a little differently.
• Females aren’t as cannibalistic as commonly thought.

Full TLDR blog post linked on my website, inclusiveinverts.ca

I went to check on this girl yestersay and shes just headed into shed. You can see the skin on her nose lifting. IMG Azt...
05/03/2026

I went to check on this girl yestersay and shes just headed into shed. You can see the skin on her nose lifting.

IMG Aztec

Elvira Hisstress of the Dark

We would like to interrupt the horror that is likely your feed right now to share this plump mourning gecko.
05/03/2026

We would like to interrupt the horror that is likely your feed right now to share this plump mourning gecko.

We would like to interrupt the horror that is likely your feed right now to share this plump mourning gecko.
05/03/2026

We would like to interrupt the horror that is likely your feed right now to share this plump mourning gecko.

Credit to: Mariya Islam  for this banger.
01/03/2026

Credit to: Mariya Islam for this banger.

27/02/2026

New TLDR is live 🦂🕷️

This one breaks down Arthropod Toxins and Venoms (Justin O. Schmidt) and clears up some common misconceptions about bites, stings, venom, and toxins.

Core Lessons:
• What is an arthropod? (Hint: 84% of animal species on Earth are!)
• Venom and toxins are essential survival tools for many species
• Venom and toxins are not the same thing
• Though bites and stings can feel scary, venom is an important tool in medical research
• Arthropod venom is rarely deadly, aside from allergic reactions (1 to 4% of people)

Full TLDR blog post linked on my website, inclusiveinverts.ca

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