This is the most educational.
He is so confident that he might just be a troll. If he isn’t he is probably the greatest example of being confidently incorrect who I’ve seen posted here in a while.
I really wondered that too! Not sure how anyone could actually be this obstinate in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Might very well be a troll lol
Nah. I know people like that. They just shut down and reject everything that doesn’t align with their world view. No point even arguing with them at that point, just let them live in their clown world.
Never underestimate the limitlessness of human belligerence.
Determined ignorance is a force.
But did OP ever get their question answered?
Yes!
Here’s the original: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2508826689377424/posts/3531073097152773/
Buddy Lee Yates is still wrong and refuses to back down, lol
If I remember correctly yes, for the most part? I’ll have to check again and see
Some spiders are poisonous, some are venomous…
I mean probably, I aint eating a bunch of venomous spiders to find out which ones are poisonous.
I ate roasted spiders.
Even if Brown Recluse spiders are poisonous, they are definitely ALSO venomous, and of the two traits it’s only the venom that’s ever going to be relevant right? I mean, who’s eating Brown Recluse spiders?
I mean, who’s eating Brown Recluse spiders?
Hungry, extravagant, rich, insane, children…
I assume you are being satirical… but it does bring up the question as to which ones would actually be poisonous (to a human?) Are there any, really?
I’m not making jokes.
The question was whether spiders are venomous or poisonous and the answer is that they might be both.
Why somebody would try to eat a spider is entirely different question and I provided some answers to that too…
But are they? Which spiders are poisonous to humans? I’m not saying they aren’t, but I have a gut feeling that most spider venom or anything else inside a spider potentially poisonous to a human wouldn’t survive the digestive tract. I could be totally wrong though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnids_as_food
Edit: here are more gory pictures yum yum: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophagy
Poisonous spiders release their toxins when they are inhaled, ingested or absorbed through the tissue or skin
People absorb spiders through their skin?!
Is this a ‘who eats who’ lemma?
But who would be reddited enough to touch a spider?
Steve Irwin.
TIL about this difference, in my language poison and venom translates to the same word (poison)
I’d like to observe, that although funny and drawing a lot of attention, this thread is wrong.
Spiders ARE poisonous. Plenty, if nost the most of them, really. By default we simply do not consider them food, but they are eaten in some parts of our world, nevertheless.
And yes, spiders, ar least some of them are venomous.
Omg that’s really interesting, I never would have guessed! Are the effects of the venom and the poison similar at all? I kinda had the intuition that venoms were generally at least kind of edible, probably just because snake venom is lol. Is it even the same chemicals between the two effects? Sorry, my mind is just blown, haha
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Noprob, nature is weirder than we can assume.
There are many toxins and some might produce similar effects when ingested, to those that were injected into the bloodstream. Some among these are similar to alcohol poisoning, some might probably give you a drug-like bad trip, others might be fatal. What I’m trying to say is, that there are many variables involved and the result “might vary”.
Rule of thumb: do not eat spiders. 😉
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I already did, within this thread. Please browse it, it’s not long.
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Ok, let’s try this out:
I can’t provide you a source that you’d probably accept on the spot, since plenty of these, including scientific ones use terms “venomous” and “poisonous” interchangeably. I can direct you to the entry in Wikipedia, that lists mere 15 edible species of spiders, instead of saying “pretty much each and everyone is edible”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnids_as_food#Spiders
Now, I assume you’re thinking “I can swallow a spider and it won’t kill me, therefore they can’t be considered poisonous”. This isn’t true. You CAN eat plenty of spiders and you will absolutely survive it. You may even not suffer much problems because of that, like stomach irritation, or diarrhea, but that’s because the poison they contain isn’t powerful enough to seriously harm you.
But do not take it as a green light to eat spiders. They are poisonous. They aren’t meant to be eaten. Especially since nobody in his sane mind entertains an idea of eating large quantities of them, much like a certain comic-book villain did.
Side note: an “interesting” thing may happen if you eat a venomous spider, while suffering from an open wound in your digestive system. I think there was an episode of “100 ways to die” dedicate to this idea. Or was it snake’s venom?
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I can’t help you, sorry.
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Venom is a type of poison. Poison doesn’t have to be eaten. (Eg. Contact poisons exist).
Venom is just a poison that is delivered through a bite or a sting.
