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Hello-There-GKenobi t1_jcxzfj8 wrote

Reply to comment by Gecko99 in TIL no one has found a larva of the titan beetle, one of the largest beetles in the world. by Gecko99

You know those horseshoe crabs that scientists find really precious and would pay a lot to milk them?

Yeah, I walked past a village several years ago where there were a ton of them there were being sold to be cooked/eaten…. But nobody actually buys them to eat, too difficult to eat I hear, so they’re just left to die and rot. A by-product of fishing.

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Skips3000 t1_jcy163q wrote

Horseshoe crabs aren’t usually killed in the process I thought? They drain what they can and release

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Amarthran t1_jcy59d5 wrote

And then it dies shortly after. Very few actually survive after being released

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Hello-There-GKenobi t1_jcy1ac1 wrote

Yeah. It’s more like my point is that the villagers just kill them off cause there’s no profit for them…

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TraitorMacbeth t1_jcz6pgb wrote

EDIT: apparently they are folded, not cut up in this picture. Maybe I should read articles that I post.

Wellllllll……..

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vhapcg/blue_gold_horseshoe_crabs_blood_is_worth_60000/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Based on that picture of how cut up they are……

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Keksmonster t1_jczb6us wrote

Apparently they aren't cut up, their back half is bent to their belly.

All available to read in the threat you posted but who checks anything on here anyways...

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TraitorMacbeth t1_jczf0nv wrote

Welp, guilty. That image sure is crazy then. I sure hope that isn’t extremely painful and damaging I guess?

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Keksmonster t1_jczr5xw wrote

I have no clue but if you look at the top picture the tail is a seperate segment of the body so I assume it's not an unnatural positition that damages the crab

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[deleted] t1_jcyc6zl wrote

That’s depressing as fuck.

I haven’t seen a wild horseshoe crab since I was a kid

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