Scorpion fly. Fucking NOPE.

Anathema47 · 5 months

Wasn't aware the rapture had happened.

rape_potato · 5 months

I immediately thought of this when I saw your title.

Enginerdiest · 5 months

You just solved a childhood mystery:

When I was a kid, I was laying in a hammock at my granddad's house. A bug landed on me and when I looked down, it was this infernal abomination. Being scared out of my wits, I promptly smashed it into a demonic pulp and freaked out. I tried to tell my parents that some kind of weird "flying spider scorpion thing" landed on me, but I had rendered the body unidentifiable, and the dog tags were too small for us to read. They just figured it was a dragonfly no matter how much I protested and I couldn't find any other examples, presumably because they were busy nesting in the bowels of hell. It seemed destined to remain a mystery, like Amelia Earheart – if she had a giant scorpion tail for a dick.

Today though, you solved that mystery. Thank you.

Considerable · 5 months

My sentiments exactly.

Pschrandt · 5 months

The stinger is actually their genetalia. As far as I'm concerned, that's worse.

elcollin · 5 months

Just when I'd accepted that these only existed in The Mist.

alextheatheist · 5 months

The scorpion stinger-looking thing is actually the genetalia of the male scorpionfly. They're completely harmless.

Dracovitch · 5 months

Well, that's all for me thanks.

snowCR45H · 5 months

It looks like burning.

frostymoose · 5 months

That is the fakest looking real thing I have ever seen.

whotheeffisyou · 5 months

I don't get it... is it scary because it has a large penis?

thinbuddha · 5 months

Why the long face?

1zero2two8eight · 5 months

Checkmate, Atheists.

contr01 · 5 months

i enjoy macrophotography in my past time, more specifically with insects. here is what one looks like in nature. they're actually very appealing and welcoming, and they don't give you that frightening feeling some insects can give people.

pzich · 5 months

Thank god that's not actually a stinger, never been so happy to find out that's a penis…

dnorris35 · 5 months

Reminds me of these guys

Butthole_Don · 5 months

You gotta respect whatever fly had the balls to hit on a scorpion though...

JungleReaver · 5 months

totally deserved it.

anbeasley · 5 months

I honestly thought this was a joke. But the thing is real. BURN THEM ALL WITH THE FIRE OF THE SUN!

cero54 · 5 months

I think I killed this in Diablo 2.

Knotted · 5 months

Saw this and thought "oh, that's the mycoptera."

Took one fucking entomology class, and this is what I get.

skizlmanizl · 5 months

Cazadors.

Captain_Kuhl · 5 months

No shit, I seriously wanna find one and put a saddle on it, make it my bitch, then fly off into the sunset to fight evil.

rootsci · 5 months

It's in certain specie's best interest to look as pleasing and cute to humans as possible. This thing however has smash, burn, and poison written all over it.

FEMINIST_WITH_GUNS · 5 months

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs42/f/2009/149/3/f/Flying_scorpions_by_Wideshanks.jpg

RapeFalcon · 5 months

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Blaybluh · 5 months

Reminds me of this

Redfuzzy86 · 5 months

Anyone know where the hell the thing is from so I can avoid that part of the world for the rest of my life....it better not be from Australia :S

Sarah_Tonin · 5 months

I see your Scorpion Fly and raise you: behold Raphidioptera - the Snake Fly

OmEgah15 · 5 months

As if these kind of bugs weren't horrible enough, imagine it flying toward you and just dick-slapping you in the face. So now you are not only humiliated for freaking out over a bug, its also slapped you with its creepy scorpion dick.

PceOut5o · 5 months

Next on: Should not exist .

chonny · 5 months

These guys have as their calling card Revelation 9:1-11:

In appearance the locusts were like horses arrayed for battle; on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth; they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their power of hurting men for five months lies in their tails. They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.

MDizzill · 5 months

Fuck this shit i'm moving to the north pole

Ronjon613 · 5 months

NONONONONO

McSprinklez · 5 months

I think I saw these on animal planet. If I remember correctly, the tail actually can't sting you. Still horrifying, nonetheless.

recyclinghomos · 5 months

Looking at that just gave me anxiety :(

RyanBC · 5 months

There's something about this that makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry... I can't put my finger in it, though....

Alec105 · 5 months

Impossible creatures?

Good_Guy_Graig · 5 months

My father just asked me if this thing was real.

All I could say: "Let's pray to every god anywhere that it's not."

Nolanoscopy · 5 months

Sooo.... is this real??

YNot1989 · 5 months

Can we engineer some kind of parasite that only attacks these things? Like now.

Red_Woody · 5 months

Reminded me of the Seeker Swarms from ME2

charleszeunicorn · 5 months

where can i get one?

antt · 5 months

what the f****

NorCalNerd · 5 months

Ahh, I think it's cute. Plus it's not an arachnid, just a look alike.

big_mountain · 5 months

neato

whitediesel · 5 months

reminds me of this

DrunkenAwesomeIdea · 5 months

I believe one of these will go into my next D&D campaign.

quaoarpower · 5 months

More info here. r/whatsthisbug for all your insect questions.

feminas_id_amant · 5 months

relevant check out # 7!

base9 · 5 months

My centipede likes to eat them. They fly into my house and just sit there.

doubledubs · 5 months

Studied Entomology for four years; i am not phased.

Areat · 5 months

Don't watch The Mist, then.

AKBiking · 5 months

The tail/stinger needs to be rotated. Sort of silly to try to sting between the wings.

SubtleMockery · 5 months

Unsurprisingly, it is neither of those things. Nomenclature is hilarious.

RS_Amerika · 5 months

Scorpions are my biggest fear when it comes to insects. It's a good thing I don't live in an area that sustains them. I blame Clash of the Titans, the original, for this fear.

Bryon_the_Red · 5 months

right fucking up there with the flying spiders.

Trystlol · 5 months

This is it boys. This is where we make our final stand.

OnmyojiOmn · 5 months

This looks like something I'd make for a bug race in GalCiv2. "Yeah, scorpion tail! Good thing nothing like this exists in real life."

riff-wraith · 5 months

ive had one of these on my back. 2 kids near me freaked out but i convinced them to flick it off my back. i saw the thing as it was flying away. it was not small. apparently it had its stinger ready to inject. T_T

dbbo · 5 months

The thing that looks like a stinger is actually its dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skorpionsfliege_Panorpa_communis_male_genital.jpg

Lord_of_the_Dance · 5 months

HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL, I thought it was some sort of photoshop monstrosity D:

mallorypoppet · 5 months

If this is real, I'm tapping out on life.

pawnzz · 5 months

Lemme guess, these are from Australia. Right?

PlayDiaPlay · 5 months

NOPE NOPENOPENOPE NOPE

jumpjumpdie · 5 months

I wonder how many times this has been reposted....

richardeid · 5 months

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mVI5fjPpVpc/TuLmubA0XwI/AAAAAAAADSM/n-HnxgLeO48/s355/519%255B1%255D.gif

mrchunks · 5 months

Relax people! It's ok!

"Mecoptera are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae, in which the males have enlarged genitals that look similar to the stinger of a scorpion"

It's just their cock and balls.

k11689 · 5 months

I am terrified of scorpions. I don't like the thought of one flying. I saw it was posted in wtf. But I clicked it anyway.

You've won reddit. I'm going to bed.

Asassinsneed · 5 months

Even though they fly I still pulled my feet out from underneath the table.

chazum0 · 5 months

I swear that I have encountered one of these things before. I remember when I was in the first grade I was playing on the playground when this dragon fly with a scorpion tale stung me on the arm. I've always wondered if I was just imagining that as a kid or if this type of thing really does exist... Today I learned it does.

orsr · 5 months

From wikipedia:

DNA evidence indicates that fleas, which are traditionally considered a separate order (Order Siphonaptera), are instead highly specialized Mecoptera (scorpion fly).

The fuck?

sayrith · 5 months

Relax. It's in Australia. Pretty much as quarantined as you can get.

slimyplatypus · 5 months

Nothing to do here..

Arcwulf · 5 months

I remember seeing these in Ohio. I dubbed them "scorpionflies" and when i went to the internet to see if I could find out anything.. surprisingly enough (or perhaps not so surprisingly) that was their actual name. In real life, they resemble most, a mayfly in size and how delicate they are.

djiivu · 5 months

I'm shocked to discover I'm the only one who isn't bothered by this because it wouldn't work.

Mr_Winsterhammerman · 5 months

please be shopped, please be shopped, please be shopped.....

jackryan4x · 5 months

Please where are these things from? Do I need a flamethrower is basically what I'm asking here...

uhLOL · 5 months

I've literally had nightmares about this. This is my nightmare. Please let me know what place this is from so I can know to never go there without a Storm Trooper suit.

HyphyLeenk · 5 months

I looked at this, and my boner went up into my body.

penguin78 · 5 months

isn't that called a wasp?

MetalCricketMode · 5 months

i cant believe this hasn't been posted... SATAN BURGER! if you havent read it read it.

ryeryebread · 5 months

Wait, so the stinger is actually it's penis? This changes everything.

thatoneguy865 · 5 months

Suprised no one's posted this

Blazing_Sky · 5 months

Man the flame thrower!

[deleted] · 5 months

Uh uh No Sir!!!

SuneelBasi · 5 months

Am I the only one who wants to know if this thing is real or not. cuz it looks a little bit photoshoped but im not sure if it is.

lostsoldier · 5 months

what the fuck

zackks · 5 months

Here comes the "Oh god bugs" circle jerk.

meancommentredditor · 5 months

Fly sees a scorpion sting something and says, "that was awesome,wish I could do that with my dick"

kimbrooke · 5 months

Kill it before it lays eggs!

Elijah_728 · 5 months

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qaek0/

Phagabeefy · 5 months

I fear the tarantula-wasp more

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