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[Mate, Murder, or Mislead]

Railroad worm lateral lanterns
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication...
https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article...

Velvet worm slime jets
https://www.popsci.com/video-see-velv...
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...
https://www.mpg.de/11550818/velvet-wo...

House centipede leg lassos
https://arthropod.uark.edu/house-cent...
https://www.kqed.org/science/1931366/...

Barklice gynosome barbs
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-ev...
https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cu...


[Ask the Science Couch]

Brown recluse spider bite misdiagnosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...


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