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White Spider Crab: In Australia, even the flowers want to kill you. Poisonous flower dweller In principle, Australia is not such a dangerous country for life. Just inspect your clothes before you put them on, check your bed for uninvited critters, and scan the area around you while you're walking. Oh, and I almost forgot - don’t smell the white and yellow flowers, poisonous chameleon spiders live on them! By the standards of other Australian creepy crawlies, white spider crabs look surprisingly normal. Well, yes, they know how and love to walk sideways, just like real crabs, but it’s even cute. Otherwise, they are spiders like spiders. Moderately small, no more than 3 centimeters in length, white and yellow animals sit on flowers and wait for pollinating insects - this is unprecedented, here and in Russia there are plenty of them. But the first impression is deceptive, we don’t have such spiders, and that makes me happy. Each white spider crab has glands with a powerful paralyzing venom that can almost instantly paralyze a butterfly or bee of comparable size to a spider. And although a person is somewhat larger than a butterfly, a spider bite can give him nausea, dizziness and swelling at the site of the bite for the next couple of hours. This is not fatal at all, but, you see, it’s not very pleasant. At the same time, it is quite difficult to detect the spider, because it is a bit of a chameleon. Yes, the white spider crab is indeed born white, but in the future the color of its integument directly depends on which flower the arachnid is registered on. After all, the cells of its body are able to produce yellow pigments and will continue to produce them until the color of the spider’s exoskeleton is equal to the color of the flower. And if the spider, by the will of fate, moves to a white flower, the skin cells will quickly break down the excess pigment, and it will again become almost invisible. Thanks to its adaptive camouflage, the paralysis spider has spread throughout eastern Australia. And he especially fell in love with the cities and suburbs, where generous and kind people massively planted yellow and white flowers in huge quantities. Which, however, does not prevent him from biting the hand that feeds him from time to time, much to the displeasure of these very people. Author: Yaroslav Ilyin 🏀 Hit the hoop and get an NFT gift — https://t.me/BasketbolX_bot