TIL the Finnish Museum of Natural History is infested with the Chilean Recluse spider (Loxosceles laeta), widely considered to be the most venomous of its kind. No one is sure how the spider, native to South & Central America, came into the museum.
TIL the Finnish Museum of Natural History is infested with the Chilean Recluse spider (Loxosceles laeta), widely considered to be the most venomous of its kind. No one is sure how the spider, native to South & Central America, came into the museum.
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Hell no
lost my interest in natural history in a moment
It’s not *infested*. They just live there.
We just made a family decision to avoid going to Helsinki this year. Or rather: every year from now on… until everything is burned down. Twice!
Sounds like a Fallout 4 location
While that is interesting and curious, I don’t get the reactions. People face Finnish forests every day in the summer, risking to get bitten by ticks, who are widely known to carry horrible diseases. Yet, we take our odds, protect ourselves with long sleeves and hope for the best.
People who do get bitten and had to remove ticks buried into their skins still go into the forests.
It’s from all the war booty the Finns have taken when they were pillaging South and Central America.
what the fuck??? i’m NEVER going there again ON GOD